Look at the page image and ensure
that all text areas are enclosed by text zones. If an area is not enclosed
by a zone, it is generally ignored
during OCR.
Make sure text zones are identified
correctly. Reidentify zone types and contents, if necessary, and perform
OCR on the document again. See Zone types and
contents for more information.
Be sure you do not have an unsuitable
template loaded by mistake. If zone borders cut through text, recognition
is impaired.
Adjust the brightness and contrast
sliders in the Scanner panel of the
Options dialog box. You may need to experiment with different settings
combinations to get the desired results.
Check the resolution of the original
image. Hover the cursor over a page thumbnail for a popup display. If
the resolution is significantly above or below 300 dpi, recognition is
likely to suffer.
Make sure the correct document
languages are selected in the OCR panel of the Options dialog box. Only
languages included in the document should be selected. In particular,
setting an Asian language for non-Asian texts (and vice versa) is likely
to produce unusable results.
Recognition results in Japanese,
Korean and Chinese can be viewed and saved only if your system has East Asian language support.
Turn IntelliTrain on and make
some proofing corrections. This is most likely to help with stylized fonts
or uniformly degraded documents. If IntelliTrain was running, try turning
it off – on some types of degraded documents it may not be able to help.
Do some manual training, or edit
existing training to remove unsuccessful training.
If you use True Page as the Text
Editor formatting level or for export, recognized text is put into text
boxes or frames. Some text may be hidden if a text box is too small. To
view the text, place the cursor in the text box and use the arrow keys
on your keyboard to scroll to the top, bottom, left, or right of the box.
Check the glass, mirrors, and
lenses on your scanner for dust, smudges, or scratches. Clean if necessary.
