This dialog box serves for selecting OCR settings. It can
be displayed
To display this dialog box in OmniPage
To display this dialog box for Direct OCR (in Microsoft Office applications
and Word Perfect)
Click
the 
Acquire Text Settings
button in an OmniPage toolbar (or use the File menu) in WordPerfect or
in earlier Microsoft Office versions, or the Nuance OCR tab in a Microsoft
Office 2007 application, or from the File menu .
To display this dialog box in PaperPort
Right-click the Microsoft Word
icon in the PaperPort Send To bar and select Send
To Options.... The Send To Options dialog box appears.
Choose OmniPage 17 in the Convert image to text (OCR) with selection
box, then click the Settings...
button. The Options dialog appears with the OCR panel open.
The OCR panel offers the following settings:
Layout description
Use these settings to influence the auto-zoning process.
Automatic: In
most cases, Automatic is suitable, leaving the program to make all zoning
decisions. Choose Automatic if your document contains pages with different
layouts. Choose Automatic for a page with multiple columns and a table,
and for any pages with more than one table.
Single Column, no Table:
Choose this setting if your pages contain only one column of text and
no table. Business letters or pages from a book are normally like this.
Choose it also for a page with words or numbers arranged in columns if
you do not want these placed in a table or decolumnized or treated as
separate columns.
Multiple Columns, no Table:
Choose this setting if some of your pages contain text in columns and
you want this decolumnized or kept in separate columns.
Single Column with Table:
Choose this setting if your page contains only one column of text and
a table.
Spreadsheet: Choose
this setting if your whole page consists of a table which you want to
export to a spreadsheet program, or have treated as a table. No flowing
text zones will be detected.
Form: Choose this
setting if your pages contain forms.
Legal Pleading: Choose
this setting for legal documents.
Custom (User defined):
Choose
this to describe the layout of the pages in a document precisely. Then
click the Custom Layout button
to specify settings in the Custom
Layout dialog box to influence text flow, table detection and graphics
detection during auto-zoning.
Template: Use this
to have zoning performed by a template that you specify.
Optimize the OCR process
for...
Click Speed
to optimize recognition for speed. Using
'Speed' for good quality documents can still yield acceptable accuracy.
Click Accuracy to optimize recognition
for accuracy. When you choose 'Speed', advanced formatting such as colored
texts and backgrounds or inverted text cannot be retained.
Languages and dictionaries
Languages in document
Select the language(s) that appear in the
document you are going to process. These are the languages that OmniPage
looks for during OCR. For faster and more robust recognition and more
reliable proofing suggestions, select only the languages that are in the
document.
The languages at the top of the list are
your recent choices. Below that the languages are listed in alphabetical
order. Type a letter to jump to it.
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This icon denotes a language with dictionary support. The
dictionary is consulted to help in the OCR process. It can also offer
suggestions during proofing. |
Japanese, Korean and Chinese language settings
call up a dedicated recognition engine. Only one of these languages should
be selected at a time and not combined with any non-Asian language. Short
embedded texts in English can be recognized without English being selected
as a recognition language. See Asian
language recognition.
Verify Language Choices
Selecting this checkmark invokes
automatic language detection that warns of differences between a detected
language and the language setting. It works at page-level and identifies
four categories: Japanese, Chinese, Korean and non-Asian. It cannot distinguish
between Traditional and Simplified Chinese or between non-Asian languages.
The last category means Japanese, Chinese or Korean characters were not
detected. Verification takes place during image pre-processing, so the
required recognition language must be set before image loading. Detection
is more robust with at least several lines of text and a minimum of embedded
English text.
Professional dictionaries
Click the checkbox next to a dictionary
name to select it. Choices are: Dutch Legal, Dutch Medical, English Legal,
English Medical, English Financial (Professional only), French Legal and
French Medical, German Legal, German Medical. To deselect a professional dictionary
click it again.
User dictionary
Select a user
dictionary
if you wish. This is a personal dictionary to which you can add words.
It supplements the program's built-in dictionaries, both for assisting
the OCR process and for making suggestions during proofreading. A user
dictionary is useful to prevent the program suspecting proper names or
specialist terms in your documents. You can create and save as many user
dictionaries as you wish.
Click the button to the right of the selection
box to create, edit, add or remove a user
dictionary. Select [none] to unload a user dictionary.
You can browse to network or other locations
to load and save user dictionary.
Any Microsoft Word user dictionaries detected
on your system are also listed. A dictionary called Custom
may appear – it is your default Word dictionary.
User dictionaries cannot be used with Asian
recognition.
Fonts and characters
Font matching
Click the Font
Matching... button to
select which of the fonts on your system should be available for use in
matching or representing the fonts in your documents. Font matching has
no effect on Asian recognition; an Asian-enabled font is automatically
set in these cases.
Additional characters
Enter accented letters here that you want
validated for recognition in addition to those already validated by your
language choice. Enter characters from your keyboard or from the character
map.
Click 
to open the character
map.
Reject character
Unrecognizable characters are represented
in the Text Editor by a red reject character (a tilde: ~ by default) . For example, if OmniPage
could not recognize the J in REJECT,
and ~
is the reject character, the string RE~ECT would appear in your document.
Type the character you want to use in the
Reject character edit box. Try
to choose a character that will not appear in your documents.
Click to open the character
map.
Character Map
Use it to copy and paste accented letters
in the edit box. Grayed characters on the character map indicate that
they are not enabled for recognition, although they can be inserted into
the edit box. Right-click on an empty area below the character map and
use the context menu to display or hide character sets. Asian characters
are not supported.
