You can have OmniPage Pro analyze an image and create zones automatically for you. Or, you can draw some zones manually and then let Omnipage Pro automatically find zones on the remainder of the image.
OmniPage Pro uses the selected settings in the Original Layout and Output Format drop-down lists to determine the text flow on a page and then break it into ordered zones.
Choose a setting in the Original Layout drop-down list of the AutoOCR toolbar that most closely matches the original format of your document.
You can choose Single-Column Pages, Multiple-Column Pages, Spreadsheet Pages, Mixed Pages, or a zone template that you have created.
Choose a setting in the Output Format drop-down list that most closely matches the way you want your finished document to look.
You can choose Remove Formatting, Retain Font & Paragraph, Retain Flowing Columns, or True Page.
Click the Start button or choose Start in the Process menu.
OmniPage Pro automatically loads the page and processes the image. Each zone has a number indicating its order and a letter indicating its zone type.
OmniPage Pro assigns a zone type and Alphanumeric contents to each zone when it processes documents automatically. This is true for all zones generated automatically, except graphic zone types. You do not need to change the zone properties unless you want to modify the way zones will be treated during OCR.
TIP: You can also generate zones automatically using the Manual OCR toolbar. Select the desired commands in the button drop-down lists and then click each button to process your document.
Click the Zone Properties button
in the Image toolbar and select the zone type and content for the
zone you are about to draw.
Draw the desired zones.
Click the Original Layout and Output Format button in the Manual OCR toolbar, or choose Recognize Current Page in the Process menu.
Click Keep current zones and find additional zones in the dialog box that appears.
OmniPage Pro will keep the current zones on the page and automatically draw zones on the remainder of the image.
TIP: When using a zone template, you can have OmniPage Pro look for zones on your document that are outside the zones contained in your template by selecting Automatically find zones in addition to template zones on the Process tab of the Options dialog box. This is helpful if you only want to process certain areas of a page. Manually draw zones around the areas you do not want processed and set the zone type to Ignore zone for those zones. OmniPage Pro will automatically look for zones on the rest of the document during OCR.