You can bring a page into OmniPage by loading an image file
or scanning an image. You can load multiple pages into a single document
by selecting a number of image files (these can be single-page or multi-page
files), or by scanning a set of pages, with or without and ADF.
The Get Page drop-down
list contains the following options:
Load Image File
Select Load
Image File to load existing image files such as TIFF, PCX or PDF
files into OmniPage. The files enter the program as they are stored: black-and-white,
grayscale or color. See Loading image
files. You can load files more conveniently from different folders
using Easy Loader.
Scan Black and White
Select Scan
B&W to scan pages in black and white. This is not suitable
if you want color in your output document, nor if you want so-called ‘black-and-white’
photographs: they need grayscale scanning. For best OCR accuracy, use
this for crisp black texts on a white or light background. Black-and-white
images can be scanned and handled quicker than others and occupy less
disk space.
Scan Grayscale
Select Scan
Grayscale to scan a grayscale paper document into OmniPage. Choose
this to keep 'black-and-white’ photographs in the output document. For
best OCR accuracy, use this for pages with varying or low contrast (not
much difference between light and dark) and with text on colored or shaded
backgrounds.
Scan Color
Select Scan
Color to scan a color paper document into OmniPage. Available only
with color scanners. Choose this if you want colored graphics, texts or
backgrounds in the output document. For OCR accuracy, it offers no more
benefit than grayscale scanning (for a given resolution), but will require
much more time, memory resources and disk space.
The three scanning commands are available only if you have
a scanner installed with OmniPage. See Setting
up your scanner for more information.
The image made by the scanner or stored in an image file
is the original image. When
it enters OmniPage (maybe with pre-processing changes) it becomes the
primary image. A black-and-white
OCR image is also created.
Getting successful OCR from a scanner depends highly on image
quality. It's worth examining the quality of images being generated to
decide which settings for brightness
and contrast give best OCR results for different types of documents. If
you scan in grayscale or color, you can improve brightness for the OCR image
using the SET tools, without
needing to re-scan images.
When placing pages in your scanner, try to ensure they are
not sloped at an angle. Try to ensure pages pass evenly through a sheetfed
scanner, without being skewed or creased. Sometimes it is difficult to
get the pages straight, for instance when scanning a heavy book. This
may not matter too much, OmniPage examines every incoming image and will
automatically straighten the text on the page. Books can be scanned two
pages at a time, see Process settings.
Scanning longer documents can be a time consuming task. Check
out the following topics for advice:
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In OmniPage Professional, files can also be imported from
FTP locations, from ODMA
sources or from Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems: Microsoft
SharePoint, Hummingbird or iManage. |
Load from FTP
Select Load
from FTP to load image files from a central file server location.
Load from ODMA
Select Load
from ODMA to load image files from an ODMA-compliant Document Management
System. See ODMA support for more information.
Load from SharePoint
Select Load
from SharePoint to load image files from the Microsoft SharePoint
portal server.
When saving to SharePoint, the server, login
and password information must be provided only once per session, and it
is offered in each subsequent session.
Load from Hummingbird
Select Load
from Hummingbird to load files from the Hummingbird (Open Text)
ECM.
Load from iManage
Select Load
from iManage to load files from the iManage (Interwoven) ECM.
These items appear in
the Getting Pages drop-down list only if the systems are detected as deployed
on your computer.
