Using OCR in Other Applications

You can use OmniPage Pro's Direct OCR feature to process your documents in other applications. For example, you can scan, recognize, and paste text directly into a document without ever leaving your word-processing application.

You can use Direct OCR with applications that have been registered with OmniPage Pro. An application must be installed on your computer in order to use it with Direct OCR.

To start the OCR process outside OmniPage Pro:

  1. Align your document in your scanner if you plan to scan.

  2. Open the application in which you want to insert recognized text.

    The application must already be registered in OmniPage Pro to work with Direct OCR. Once the application is registered, you do not need to open OmniPage Pro to use Direct OCR.

  3. Place the cursor at the location in your document where you want to insert recognized text.

  4. Choose Acquire Text Settings... in the application's File menu if you want to check the current settings.

  5. Choose Acquire Text... in the application's File menu when you are ready to start the OCR process.

    OCR processing occurs according to the selected settings. Recognized text appears at the cursor location in your application. If no document is open, text is copied to the Clipboard.

NOTE: Text formatting, such as bold and italics, is retained if the application supports RTF information. Otherwise, only plain text will be pasted. Graphics are retained if the application supports bitmap images.