Working With Tables

OmniPage Pro has greatly improved the way it handles table formatting (information arranged in rows and columns) during OCR.

Selecting Table settings:

Open the Options dialog box and click the Tables tab to select Table settings.

Creating zones for a page-wide table:

Create zones automatically using the Spreadsheet Pages setting in the Original Layout drop-down list. OmniPage Pro will create one, large table zone around the page.

Creating zones for a page that contains a table among other text:

Make sure Look for tables when creating zones automatically is selected in the Table settings. Then create zones automatically using the setting that most closely matches your page in the Original Layout drop-down list. OmniPage Pro will look for tables on the page and create table zones around them.

NOTE: OmniPage Pro only detects tables among other text if they have clear boundaries marked with gridlines. If a table is not detected, you can draw a table zone around it manually. See Drawing Table Zones for more information.

Specifying line styles for tables:

The inside gridlines and outside border of a table can be formatted with single lines, double lines, or no lines. You can also set line styles to Automatic if you want OmniPage Pro to determine the formatting. Line styles must be specified before OCR takes place.

OmniPage Pro uses the default line styles selected in the Table settings when a table zone is created. For the easiest way to check and change line styles assigned to a table zone, right-click the zone and choose the desired line styles in its shortcut menu.

NOTE: Line styles are preserved when you save a recognized table zone as a table object. Table objects are only supported when you save your document to a Microsoft Word or WordPerfect file type.

Editing tables:

You can edit a table's structure in OmniPage Pro's image view before OCR.

You cannot edit a table's structure or text in OmniPage Pro's text view after OCR. Instead, edit tables in your target application.

Saving tables:

You can save recognized tables as table objects or as columns separated by tabs. OmniPage Pro uses the formatting option selected in the Table settings when you save your document.

NOTE: Table objects are only supported when you save your document to a Microsoft Word or WordPerfect file type. Otherwise, tables will always be saved as columns separated by tabs.