Modifying Table Zones

You can modify table zones by moving, resizing, reordering, extending, subtracting zones, and adding or removing table grids.

NOTE: Table zones are constrained to rectangular and square shapes. Attempting to modify the area of a table zone to an irregular shape is not allowed.

To move row or column dividers in a table zone:

  1. Click the Move Row or Column Dividers button in the Image toolbar.

  2. Place the mouse pointer within the table zone in the image view.

    The mouse pointer becomes a vertical- or horizontal-bar tool depending on which divider is being passed over.

  3. Hold the mouse button down and drag the row or column divider you want to move. Ctrl-clicking a column divider will move only a column divider for single cell. Row dividers, however, cannot be moved one cell at a time.

    The selected divider moves. The cell divider, however, cannot be moved beyond its own cell.

  4. Release the mouse button when you are done.

To insert column dividers in a table zone:

  1. Click the Insert Column Dividers button in the Image toolbar.

  2. Place the mouse pointer within the table zone where you want to insert a column divider.

    The mouse pointer becomes an upward-facing caret (^) with a dimmed vertical bar.

  3. Click the mouse button.

    A new column divider is inserted in the table. Hold down the Ctrl key to insert a column divider only for a single cell; the cell that contains the mouse pointer.

To insert row dividers in a table zone:

  1. Click the Insert Row Dividers button in the Image toolbar.

  2. Place the mouse pointer within the table zone where you want to insert a column divider.

    The mouse pointer becomes a right-facing caret ( > ) with a dimmed horizontal bar.

  3. Click the mouse button.

    A new row appears.

To remove row or column dividers from a table zone:

  1. Click the Remove Row or Column Dividers button in the Image toolbar.

    The mouse pointer in the image view becomes a deleting tool.

  2. Click the row or column divider you want to remove in the table zone.

    The row or column divider disappears.

  3. Click the Remove Row or Column Dividers button again to turn off the deleting tool.

To remove all row and column dividers from a table zone:

  1. Click the Remove/Replace All Row and Column Dividers button in the Image toolbar.

    The mouse pointer in the image view becomes a deleting tool.

  2. Click within the table zone.

    All row and column dividers disappear.

NOTE: If a table zone goes through OCR without any row or column dividers, all the contents within the zone will be formatted into one table cell.