OmniPage Pro Release Notes
Version 12.0
Copyright © 2002 ScanSoft, Inc.
OmniPage Pro Version 12
Portions of this product copyright © 2000 Proximity Technology, Inc.
Portions of this product copyright © 2000 Stellent Corporation.
Portions of this product copyright © 1991-1998, Thomas G. Lane.
Portions of this product copyright © 1993, Vantage Research.
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Please read this document for up-to-date information about ScanSoft's OmniPage Pro. You can also find up-to-date information about OmniPage Pro on the OmniPage Pro Web site (http://www.scansoft.com/omnipage/support).
These release notes discuss the following topics:
· Windows 2000 & Windows XP Logo Certification Notes
· OmniPage Pro's Automation Interface
· Sample Image Files, Shipped with the Product
To install and run OmniPage Pro, your Windows-compatible PC must be equipped with the following:
· An Intel (or compatible) Pentium™ or higher processor.
· An SVGA monitor with 256 colors (16- bit color is recommended. This is sometimes called “High color” and called “Medium Color Quality” on WinXP) and 800x600 pixel resolution.
· A minimum of 64 megabytes (MB) of random access memory (RAM). We recommend 128 MB or more for the best performance.
· Microsoft Windows 98 SE (Second Edition), Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 SP6 (Service Pack 6), Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Your PC must be Y2K compliant. OmniPage will not run on Windows 3.1, Windows 98 First Edition, Windows NT 3.51, or OS/2.
· A hard disk with a minimum of 135MB of free space for the application files, plus 65MB working space on the system drive during installation, if the destination folder is not on the system drive.
· 5MB for the Microsoft Installer (MSI) (if it is not currently on your system). This program is present as part of the Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems. OmniPage Pro’s Installer will install this program if it is not currently on your system.
· A Windows-compatible pointing device.
· A CD-ROM drive for installation.
· A TWAIN or WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) compatible scanner if you plan to scan documents.
OmniPage Pro 12.0 is entitled to use the “Certified for Microsoft Windows 2000” and the "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP" logos. For more information on these Logos see Microsoft’s web pages.
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05
ScanSoft Product Registration
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InstallShield for Windows Installer 2.01
Note: ScanSoft RealSpeak, Stellent OIVT, and Correct Spell are part of the application.
MsiExec -jm "OmniPage Pro
12.0.msi" ISX_SERIALNUM="11111-222-33333", where the number 11111-222-33333
must be substituted with your product's unique serial
number.
The following operations can be accessed by keyboard as follows:
To open the Get Pages, Layout Description and Export Results drop-down lists on the OmniPage Toolbox, press the CTRL + SHIFT + 1, 2 or 3 keys. To leave the opened drop-down lists when finished, press F6.
To access the Change Reading Order function by keyboard, select it from the Text Editor shortcut menu. Then, open the shortcut menu again and select Define Reading Order. Once this is done, you can change the active zone using the CTRL + Tab and CTRL + SHIFT + Tab key combinations. To include the active zone to the reading order, press CTRL + Space bar. To finish the operation, select either the Apply Order or Cancel Order command from the Text Editor shortcut menu.
To get keyboard access to the pixel oriented operations of the Image toolbar, use the MouseKeys service of the Windows operating system accessible from the Control Panel, Accessibility Options, Mouse tab.
To access the Maximize and Restore functions of the active panel, press the CTRL + F6 key combination
The OmniPage scanning subsystem creates the following folders and modifies their security to let users working in a secure Windows environment use OmniPage:
Common Application Data\SSSCanAppDataDir
Common Application Data\SSSCanWizard
The following files are installed to the system folder during OmniPage setup:
| Install location | Files installed | Purpose |
| Windows | MaxLink.ini | Provide collaboration and compatibility with ScanSoft's PaperPort application |
| Windows\Inf | oem0.pnf, oem0.inf, spchapi.pnf, spchapi.inf | Text to speech files |
| Windows\speech | ctext.dll, vdict.dll, wrapsapi.dll, xtel.dll, xcommand.dll, xlisten.dll, xvoice.dll, spchtel.dll, speech.cnt, speech.dll, speech.hlp, vcauto.tlb, vcmd.exe, vcmshl.dll, vtxtauto.tlb | Text to speech files |
| Windows\system32 | fm20.dll, richtx32.ocx, fm20enu.dll | Microsoft Form control |
The following files are installed together with the OmniPage application and located outside the default OmniPage program files folders:
| Install location | Files installed | Purpose |
| Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\engine\6\Intel 32 | ikernel.exe, isuer.dll, knlwrap.exe, msihook.dll, objectps.dll, scpthdlr.dll | Installer core files |
| Program Files\Common Files\L&H Shared\PCMM RealSpeak V1 | rsenuc10.dll, rsenut10.dll, rsmgr10.dll, rssvr10.exe, rsenug10.dll, rssapi10.dll, rsdct10.dll, rsenu1f1.dll | Text to Speech core files |
| Program Files\Common Files\L&H Shared\PCMM RealSpeak V1\Data\Enu\Jennifer | jfr_1_11.cod, jfr_1_11.dat, jfr_1_11.ind, jfr_1_11.lkp, jfr_1_11.xpt, jfr_2_11.cod, jfr_2_11.dat, jfr_2_11.ind, jfr_2_11.lkp, jfr_2_11.xpt, jfr_3_11.cod, jfr_3_11.dat, jfr_3_11.ind, jfr_3_11.lkp, jfr_3_11.xpt, jfr_4_11.cod, jfr_4_11.dat, jfr_4_11.ind, jfr_4_11.lkp, jfr_4_11.xpt, jfr_5_11.cod, jfr_5_11.dat, jfr_5_11.ind, jfr_5_11.lkp, jfr_5_11.xpt, jfr_6_11.cod, jfr_6_11.dat, jfr_6_11.ind, jfr_6_11.lkp, jfr_6_11.xpt, jfr_7_11.cod, jfr_7_11.dat, jfr_7_11.ind, jfr_7_11.lkp, jfr_7_11.xpt, jfr_v_11.tab, .\ini\enu11.ini | Text to Speech voice files |
The OmniPage Pro User's Guide provides information about installing and setting up OmniPage Pro. Please refer to it for complete installation instructions.
Before you install or uninstall OmniPage Pro, exit from any open applications so that only Windows is running. There should be no applications listed in the task bar and no floating toolbars.
Install OmniPage Pro. If the OmniPage Pro Installer does not display the installation menu shortly after you insert the CD, use the following procedure to install this version:
1. Put CD in CD-ROM drive (D: or the letter assigned to your CD-ROM drive).
2. From the Start menu, select Run.
3. Type d:\Autorun.exe.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.
On Windows 2000, NT or XP systems, you should have administrator privileges to install OmniPage Pro. After installation, users with restricted rights will be able to use OmniPage Pro.
Network installation. You can read information on different ways of installing OmniPage Pro on a local area network in the document "Network Installation ENG.pdf". The file can be found on the OmniPage Pro product CD in the Guides folder.
Register OmniPage Pro. At the end of installation, you will be asked to fill out an electronic form to register your copy of OmniPage Pro. If you decide not to, you will be prompted again seven days later.
The installer may stop with the error code 1706. You may observe this behavior after installing OmniPage Pro in a multi-user environment. When a normal user without administrator privileges logs in and tries to launch OmniPage Pro by selecting its shortcut from the Windows Start menu, the Windows Installer starts completing the installation procedure for the user and aborts with the above error code, unless the "Enable user to use media source while elevated" policy is enabled. Use the following steps to enable it:
1. Logon as Administrator
2. Launch the Windows Group Policy editing application GPEDIT.MSC
3. Locate the policy to be modified. It is located in Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Installer. Its name is "Enable user to use media source while elevated".
4. Double click on it, select the "Enabled" option and also the checkbox labeled "Check to force setting on..."
5. Click Apply, then OK.
6. Close GPEDIT.MSC then logon as the initial user and click on the OmniPage Pro shortcut in the Windows Start menu to launch the installation for this user.
Uninstalling OmniPage Pro. OmniPage Pro can be uninstalled in the standard way using the Add/Remove tool in the Control Panel. Should the uninstallation of OmniPage Pro fail for any reason, you can clean up your system from all references to OmniPage Pro by using our Remover.exe application. This application can be found on the OmniPage Pro product CD in the OmniPage\Tools folder.
Launch OmniPage Pro. You should launch OmniPage Pro at least once after installation, before attempting to use it through integrated solutions, such as Direct OCR, the Shell Extension (recognizing from an image file’s shortcut menu) or applications like PaperPort.
OmniPage Pro 12 and OmniPage Pro’s earlier versions. If you have an earlier OmniPage version on your system that you will no longer need, we recommend you remove it before starting the installation of OmniPage Pro 12. If you do not, you will be asked during installation whether to keep it or remove it from your computer.
This section discusses a number of points related to using features in OmniPage Pro.
· The OmniPage Pro User’s Guide is available in PDF format. You can read and search documents in PDF format in Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher. Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 4.05 is included on the OmniPage Pro CD. You can install it by selecting the “Install Acrobat Reader” option on OmniPage Pro Installer’s starting screen. Access the User’s Guide by inserting the OmniPage Pro CD and selecting the User’s Guide PDF file in the Guides folder.
· You can get live updates to OmniPage Pro from the ScanSoft web site. ScanSoft is committed to provide high-quality, reliable software. We are constantly improving our products. Solutions may also have been developed for problems reported after product release. You can check if an update is available for your product on ScanSoft's web site by selecting Get Latest Update in the Help menu of OmniPage Pro. These updates can include new scanner support, software patches, and other updates.
· OmniPage Pro is delivered with Text-to-Speech support for the following languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish. Only one speech engine is installed with OmniPage Pro, its language is the same as the UI language selected at the beginning of the installation. If the selected UI language has no Text to Speech support, English is installed. Any SAPI-compliant speech systems on your system are supported.
· If you install OmniPage Pro on a computer on which an Internet connection has not been established yet, when you try to register, the Internet Connection Wizard is started. OmniPage may generate a message saying that the registration is not successful. Dismiss this message and work through the Internet Connection Wizard; when completed, ScanSoft's registration page will be opened where you can fill out an electronic form to register your copy of OmniPage Pro.
· The formatting level "Retain Flowing Columns", introduced in OmniPage Pro 11, has been further developed and renamed as "Flowing Page".
· Some PDF files cannot be opened by OmniPage Pro 12. You will receive a warning message explaining the possible reasons if you attempt to open such a file. These files are either encrypted in a way that is not supported by OmniPage Pro or are protected by a password.
· Headers and footers may be recognized on the first page of a document only when re-recognized after more pages are added to the document.
· The background color of a table is retained only if the whole table has the same background color. Retaining the background color of different colored cells within a table is not supported.
· OmniPage Pro can detect and retain the background color of the recognized text, if requested. If a page is recognized with the “Retain text and background color” setting selected and re-recognized with the option turned off, the originally recognized background colors remain on the page. To remove the background color, turn the option off, then delete the page, then add it to the document by re-scanning or re-loading the original image, and then perform OCR on the page.
· It may happen that the program is not able to detect the color of the text and its background. Detection fails if the colors are very pale or the color is not homogeneous, but is composed of tiny color pixels of different colors.
· The program is able to recognize special layout elements, such as bullets, leader dots, drop caps, e-mail addresses and URLs, but there might be special cases when these elements are not recognized correctly, depending on the quality and layout of the original document. However, most problems can be fixed using the OmniPage Pro Text Editor.
· A paragraph can never cross from one zone to another.
· OmniPage Pro can detect and retain frames and rule
lines from the original document. This
feature cannot be disabled. Unwanted rule lines and frames can be deleted in the
OmniPage Pro Text Editor or later, when
the document is opened in the target application. Rule lines and frames are
exported with the document in True Page and Flowing Page formatting levels.
Exporting rule lines can be turned off in the Converter Options dialog
box.
If you select Custom for your document’s layout and
detecting graphics is disabled in the Custom Layout panel of the Options dialog
box, frames
around graphics will be detected. You can remove them in the
OmniPage Pro Text Editor or in the target application, as described above.
· The PDF format provides a way to present documents in
their original layout. There are editing actions that can be done safely in the
OmniPage Pro Text Editor and others that may affect the layout of the output
document. Replacing characters and words does not impact the layout, but adding
completely new items such as words, lines and paragraphs may cause the lines
or paragraphs in the output document to be condensed to fit within the coordinates
of the original recognized text. Therefore, you should be careful when doing
such editing actions if you plan to save to PDF (Normal), 'PDF with image
substitutes' or 'PDF with image on text' (where searching may be disturbed).
OmniPage Pro 12 has a new export converter, named 'PDF - Edited',
which solves the problem of adding new items to the recognized text. This new
converter offers the True Page, No Formatting and Retain Fonts and Paragraphs
formatting levels. If you export your document using the last two formatting levels, the original layout of the document is not retained, allowing
the program to arrange the text so that the both the original and the
newly added text is displayed correctly. You can also use the True Page
formatting level, but with care. Use this level only if you
have enough space below the modified paragraphs to let them expand, otherwise
they may overlap other texts or pictures from the original page.
When using the PDF converters other than 'PDF - Edited',
paragraphs will be placed in their original locations on the page. This means
that changing paragraph attributes has no effect on the output.
When opening the output PDF
document in Acrobat Reader 4, some East European national characters may be
displayed incorrectly. This problem does not exist in Acrobat Reader 5.
The PDF export converter uses only fonts which
appear in the "Fonts for your document" list in the Font Matching dialog box. This means that if you format the text with a font
which is not on this list, the program will choose the closest substitute font from the
list.
· If a recognition process is started from another application, OmniPage Pro is run in automation mode with its user interface not visible. If it takes a long time for OmniPage Pro to process the pages before the calling application regains control, the “OLE server busy” message box may be displayed by the Windows system. Select “Retry” to let OmniPage Pro continue processing the document and allow the client application to wait for the completion of the processing.
· Right- clicking on a filename in the Windows Explorer displays a shortcut menu. OmniPage Pro adds the submenu item “Convert To” in the case of image files. The added menu item allows the image file’s text to be recognized and transferred to the following text formats:*.doc, *.txt, *.xls, *.pdf, *.rtf and *.wpd. Where appropriate, images, layout and styling are also transferred. The text documents will be created in the image file’s folder and will have the same name as the original image, with the appropriate text format’s extension. If the “Launch Application” option is enabled on the shortcut menu’s Properties/OCR Settings dialog, OmniPage Pro also tries to launch the application associated with the selected document format. If you do not have an associated application, you will get a system warning message informing you that there is no associated application for the given file type. However, conversion will be performed even in this situation.
· If you use OmniPage Pro from PaperPort, the message “Please finish any open dialogs so that the link can complete” may appear while the OmniPage Pro Options dialog is displayed or OmniPage Pro is processing. You can continue working normally after you close the message box. The message box may appear behind the PaperPort or OmniPage Pro window. You can switch to it by using the ALT+TAB key combination.
· After uninstalling OmniPage Pro, the “Acquire Text...” and “Acquire Text Settings...” menu items may remain in earlier versions of MS Office applications. If you select any of these menu items, you will get a warning message from the MS Office application saying that OmniPage Pro is not available. To remove the items from the File menu, use the Tools/Customize dialog box of the MS Office applications.
· If you try to register a running application in OmniPage Pro for Direct OCR using the Add button on the Options/Direct OCR dialog and the application does not get registered (that is, it does not appear on the Registered list after you re-open the dialog), use the Browse button to locate the application in its installation directory and add it again to the registered applications.
· Some applications that support multiple open documents may start with no open document. To make sure that the recognized text is inserted into your application, make sure you have an open document. Typically you do this by selecting “New” in the File menu.
· Graphics in the original document are usually identified by OmniPage Pro and if the appropriate option is enabled, will also be exported with the output document. This applies both to normal exporting and using Direct OCR. However, some applications will not accept graphics when used with Direct OCR. Microsoft Power Point and Excel are identified as such applications.
· When you are using Direct OCR in Microsoft PowerPoint and “True Page” or “Flowing Page” is selected as the output formatting level on the Format tab of the Acquire Text Settings dialog box, documents will be transferred to those applications in “Retain Font and Paragraph" formatting level and not in the level selected. This restriction is applied to avoid inserting documents with incorrect layout.
· Although these applications can be registered to be used with OmniPage Pro Direct OCR, and the "Acquire Text..." menu items appear in the File menu of these applications, recognized text is not transferred correctly into those applications.
· If the program is running out of memory while scanning and recognizing in parallel in automatic mode, it is better to use manual processing. Scan the pages first and recognize them afterwards, when scanning is complete.
· The recognition of special mathematical characters is not supported. The program will substitute these with other characters or the reject character.
· The orientation of the text on the original document must be all the same. The program can determine the dominant text orientation of the document. Text printed with a different orientation may be handled as graphics.
· Schedule OCR is designed to run unattended. Therefore Schedule OCR will not stop when it finds a file on the disk which has the same name as the file it is going to save. This means that you should prepare your jobs carefully, and copy your documents from the job's output folder to a safe location before a new job having the same output folder is started.
· OmniPage Pro is able to recover unsaved documents that might be the result of an unwanted event, such as a power cut or a system crash. Should such a problem interrupt the normal running of a Schedule OCR job, you may be able to recover the unsaved document by starting OmniPage Pro in the regular way. When you are prompted to recover the unsaved document, choose "Yes", and when the document is restored you will be able to save the document by choosing "Save As..." from the File menu.
· When
Schedule OCR is running for a longer period of time and is processing a large
number of files, it applies two safety techniques to protect itself from low
memory situations and to protect the created document from unwanted data
loss.
The program automatically restarts itself after each 100 processed pages. When
this restarting happens, it saves the current document to a temporary OPD file,
and after restarting it reloads the document, and continues processing.
When the number of processed images reaches 300, Schedule OCR saves the current
document as soon as the processing of the current image file is completed (in
other words, if a multi page file is being processed, it completes all pages in
that file before saving the document). This forced saving happens even if the
"One file for all pages" option was selected. After this, the program
automatically restarts itself and the processing continues. When the next saving
happens (either normal or forced), the program will generate a numerical suffix
to the output file to make sure that documents saved automatically earlier
will not be overwritten.
The two numbers (100 and 300) are stored in the registry and can be changed,
depending on the speed, memory and available disk space of your computer. First
make a backup of the following registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ScanSoft\OmniPagePro12.0,
then you can modify the threshold values in the two registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ScanSoft\OmniPagePro12.0\Schedule OCR\MagicRefresh
(default value is 100)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ScanSoft\OmniPagePro12.0\Schedule OCR\MagicClean
(default value is 300)
· OmniPage
Pro 12 can open OPD files created with versions 10 and 11. These files must not
be read-only when you want to open them with OmniPage Pro 12.
When opening an OmniPage Document created with version 10, the program loads
the images stored in that document, but the recognized text will not be loaded.
You should re-recognize those images to get the text of those images.
When opening an OmniPage Document created with version 11, the program loads
both the images, zones and the text stored in that document.
· JAWS may not read out the state of list items in dialog boxes that also have associated checkboxes. To fix this problem, turn on the “Rely on MSAA for Listviews” option in the advanced configuration dialog box of JAWS. An example of a list with checkboxes is the recognition language list on the OCR tab of the Options panel.
· A user dictionary is a list of words which are typically not native to a language, but from the user's point of view are normal words which should be treated by the recognition engine as dictionary words. OmniPage Pro lists not only its own user dictionaries, created by the user, but also the dictionaries belonging to Microsoft Office. While you are allowed to delete user dictionaries created in OmniPage Pro, you may not delete the dictionaries belonging to Microsoft Office. The default dictionary, shipped with Microsoft Office is "Custom". If you have Microsoft Office installed, you can find this name on OmniPage Pro's user dictionary list.
OmniPage Pro provides an automation interface for OLE clients to reach its functionality. This functionality covers almost all main features of OmniPage, including scanning, loading images, OCR, text and image export and setting several processing parameters. You can read detailed information about how to use OmniPage Pro's Automation interface in the document "Automation interface ENG.pdf". The file can be found on the OmniPage Pro product CD in the Guides folder.
OmniPage Pro supports scanners that are controlled by TWAIN or WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) scanner drivers. OmniPage Pro supports any fully TWAIN- or WIA-compliant scanner or other input device that can supply at least a binary (black and white) image in a supported resolution (200 to 600 dots per inch). Please note that the WIA standard is supported on Windows Me and Windows XP operating systems only.
TWAIN source drivers (.ds files) must be provided by the scanner manufacturer. When these are installed on your PC, they are located in the Windows folder in the TWAIN, TWAIN_32, or TWAIN32 folder. OmniPage Pro provides a TWAIN interface that communicates with these TWAIN source drivers.
Common scanners are tested and tuned for use with OmniPage Pro. Tuning is done with scanner hints that specify the best use and optimal settings. OmniPage Pro includes a Scanner Setup Wizard that will make an effort to automatically test and optimize your scanner for use with OmniPage Pro. You can find its shortcut next to that of OmniPage Pro in the Windows Start menu. You can also launch it at any time by selecting Setup in OmniPage Pro’s Options dialog box (Tools/Options/Scanner). The Scanner Setup Wizard is launched automatically after installation when you first attempt to scan a document or first open the Tools/Options/Scanner dialog box. This ensures that your scanner is optimized before you start scanning documents.
This section discusses a number of points on using scanners with OmniPage Pro. Since scanners change frequently, please refer to http://support.scansoft.com/compatibility for the most recent information about OmniPage Pro and scanner compatibility. If you are having problems with your scanner, please contact the scanner manufacturer for assistance. Often, scanner manufacturers provide web sites that provide the latest scanner drivers, answers to frequently asked questions, and other information about their products. Again, your scanner must be working independently of OmniPage Pro prior to connecting it to OmniPage Pro.
· For most OCR jobs, scanning should be done at 300 dpi resolution. This resolution is automatically set and used by OmniPage Pro. You can set a different resolution on the TWAIN driver user interface if it is enabled. You can enable the display of the TWAIN user interface in the Scanner Setup Wizard.
· Scanning in binary (black and white or line art) mode will provide you with the fastest processing. However, on most documents grayscale will provide more accurate results, especially on degraded or shaded background documents. Use color scanning only if you want to retain color information and/or color graphics in your document.
· Some TWAIN source drivers, when activated, may display their own user interface window behind OmniPage Pro's main window. To access the TWAIN interface, press ALT+TAB and tab to the TWAIN screen.
· Many flatbed scanners do not have a platen large enough for a legal page. These scanners will scan to their platen length if you select "Legal" page size. To scan legal size pages on scanners whose platens are smaller than legal page size, you must use an ADF (Automatic Document Feeder).
· TWAIN drivers may allow you to select legal page size in the Page Type tab of the Settings dialog box even when this size is not available.
· After you have installed OmniPage Pro 12, it is necessary to run the Scanner Setup Wizard all the way through to Finish at least once before you can use your scanner properly with OmniPage. For some scanners, it will be necessary to run the complete diagnostic test of the Scanner Setup Wizard to properly optimize the scanner for use with OmniPage Pro 12. Some scanners have been tested and optimized with OmniPage 12 already. For these scanners, it is still necessary to run the Scanner Setup Wizard to Finish for the optimization to take effect. When you run OmniPage for the first time, it will automatically run the Scanner Setup Wizard when you select any scanning function. Your scanner may or may not already be optimized for OmniPage. The following paragraphs describe the first few steps in either case:
· The first Wizard page has the Test and configure current scanning source button checked:
Your scanner needs to be optimized to run with OmniPage Pro 12. Leave this button checked and select "Next". Follow the instructions on the next Wizard pages to test and optimize your scanner for OmniPage Pro 12.
· The first Wizard page has Use current settings checked:
Your scanner has already been optimized for OmniPage but the Wizard still needs to be run to Finish before the optimization can take effect. Leave this button checked and select Next. Depending on the devices connected to your system or the driver you are using, you may see a screen asking you to select your scanner from a list. Please select your scanner or “Other” if it is not listed, then select Next. On the next Wizard page, select Finish.
NOTE: You should not cancel from within the Scanner Setup Wizard unless you have already run the Scanner Setup Wizard to Finish at least once with your scanner.
· If you have problems running the Scanner Setup Wizard from within OmniPage, do the following:
· If the scanner you wish to run is showing under Scanning source:, make sure Test and configure current scanning source is checked.
1. Select Next and follow the instructions on the following pages to optimize your scanner for OmniPage.
· If your scanner is not shown under Scanning source:, make sure Select scanning source is checked and Select "Next".
1. On the next page, make sure the scanner driver you wish to use is selected. On most systems, you will only see your scanner driver and No scanner in the list.
2. Select Next.
3. Depending on the devices connected to your system or the driver you are using, you may see a screen asking you to select your scanner from a list. Please select your scanner or “Other” if it is not listed, then select Next.
4. On the next page, make sure that Yes is checked.
5. Select Next and follow the instructions to optimize your scanner for use with OmniPage.
· Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows 2000 have built- in TWAIN drivers for a few scanners. You will get better results with OmniPage on these systems if you install the TWAIN software that came with the scanner. Before doing so, it is best to check the web site of the scanner manufacturer to see if an updated version of the TWAIN driver or a patch is available.
· Windows
Me and Windows XP support the Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) method of connecting to
scanners. A scanner must have a WIA driver to use this method. Windows Me and
Windows XP ship with a number of WIA drivers for some scanners. A list of
devices that have built-in WIA drivers can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/archive/WIA/WinME_WIAdrv.asp
and http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/WIA/XP_WIAdrvs.asp
respectively.
If your scanner is supported by a WIA diver, you do not have to install
a software driver to connect to the scanner. Some WIA drivers however do not
support the full functionality of the scanner. Some known problems include ADF
handling, problems with certain page sizes and canceling a scan in progress. If
you are having such problems, visit the web site of the scanner manufacturer to
see if a TWAIN scanner driver is available for download there. The manufacturer will
specify if the driver is meant to be used in Windows XP or Windows Me.
Once you have downloaded and installed this driver you will have to use the
Scanner Wizard in OmniPage to select this driver. You will have to select
“Select scanner or digital camera” on the first wizard page (you won’t see
this page if the wizard has been run at least once). On the second
page, select “Other drivers” and on the dialog that comes up
check TWAIN. Once you have a list of TWAIN drivers you must select your driver.
Be careful not to select the driver that begins in “(WIA-)”. If you have
installed a TWAIN driver from the manufacturer you should have a driver in the
list that does not begin with “(WIA-)”. If the Wizard recommends that you run
the scanner tests on this new driver, please do so. Be sure to complete all pages of
the Wizard until you reach a page with the “Finish” button. You must
select this button for the changes to take effect.
The HP scanner dialog has a Scan in color checkbox that must be checked before OmniPage Pro can scan in color with HP scanners that use any version of PrecisionScan LT. Some versions of HP’s Precisionscan drivers automatically segment the page which may produce poor images in OmniPage. Please consult your scanner documentation to turn this feature off. OmniPage will perform this step when you recognize the image.
OmniPage Pro 12 is supplied with sample files to demonstrate the program’s abilities, and provide a benchmark for the level of OCR accuracy you should expect. Files in your installation language will be placed in the folder My Pictures, if this exists on your system. All sample files have 300 x 300 dpi resolution.
| File name | Title | Pages, mode |
Format | Contents | Preparation |
| Sample1 | Camping | 1 Color |
TIFF | Illustrated brochure; table with inverted text header row. | Check Automatic is set as Layout Description. |
| Sample2 | Document Management |
3 Gray |
TIFF | Multi-column text with many subheadings, bullets and a main title straddling columns. | Use Automatic or Multiple Columns, no Table as Layout Description. |
| Sample3 | Health and Wellness |
3 Color |
Illustrated brochure with text wrapping round photos, with a frame, lists and a table. | Enable the English medical dictionary. (Tools/Options/OCR) | |
| Sample4 | Population Tables |
1 Color |
TIFF | Two tables with right-aligned numerical data. | Use Automatic or Spreadsheet as Layout Description. |
| Sample5 | Automotive Equipment |
2 Color |
TIFF | Tri-lingual illustrated brochure with text at a small point size and colored sub-headings. | Specify English, French and German as recognition languages. (Tools/Options/OCR) |
The following table summarizes which layout features are included in each sample file. Read the files repeatedly with different settings (for example, as advised below) to discover their practical effects.
| Sample, page |
text attributes |
text color |
text back- ground |
inverse text |
graphics | tables | frames | lines | columns | bullets | titles spanning columns |
super- scripts |
cell text alignment |
accented letters | specialized terms |
| Sample1 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Sample2/1 | · | · | · | ||||||||||||
| Sample2/2 | · | · | · | ||||||||||||
| Sample2/3 | · | · | · | ||||||||||||
| Sample3/1 | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||||||
| Sample3/2 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | |||||
| Sample3/3 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||
| Sample4 | · | · | · | · | |||||||||||
| Sample5/1 | · | · | · | · | · | ||||||||||
| Sample5/2 | · | · | · | · | · |
Text attributes: View the file alternately in No Formatting View and Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view to see which text attributes are retained or dropped.
Text and background color: Select to have these retained or dropped in the Process panel of the Options dialog box before recognition. Recognize the page twice with the setting on and off to see the difference.
Inverse text: Select to have this retained or converted to non-inverse text in the Process panel of the Options dialog box before recognition. Recognize the page twice with different settings to see the difference.
Graphics: These are always displayed; an export converter setting option allows you to retain or drop them when exporting.
Tables: These are displayed in grids. Format borders before or after recognition. Export converter settings let you define how the tables should be exported.
Frames and Lines: Select these in the Text Editor and use a shortcut menu to format lines, frame borders and shading. Choose in export converter settings how frames should be exported.
Column handling: Check column retention by viewing recognized pages in True Page view. Check decolumnization in the other views.
Specialized terms: Enable the English medical dictionary (Tools/Options/OCR) before recognizing sample 3, so that terms like ‘Fibromyalgia’ and ‘Craniosacral’ will not be flagged.