This document contains late-breaking information that supplements
the OmniPage Pro User's Manual and online Scanner Setup Notes.
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RETAINING OMNIPAGE PRO 8 FILES
You can reuse zone-template files (*.zon), training files (*.trn), and user-dictionary files (*.ud) from previous versions of OmniPage Pro. The installation of OmniPage Pro 9 will preserve OmniPage Pro 8 dictionaries, settings, templates, and training files if the same installation (OmniPage Pro 8) folder is selected during OmniPage Pro 9 installation. These files are not deleted if you uninstall your previous version. They will remain in the data folder within the old installation folder.
If you have created a new folder or selected another folder other than Caere, you can still use these files with this version of OmniPage Pro by moving them to the data folder within your new installation folder (by default, OmniPagePro90) after installation.
EXPORTING LARGE GRAPHICS INTO MICROSOFT WORD
Large colored images exported to Microsoft Word may not load properly. Try saving the files one page at a time, and then loading them into Word. You can then append the files within Word into one document. If you're unsure whether your document will encounter trouble, save it as an OmniPage file (.met) first. This will allow you to try saving your document in different ways without having to re-process it.
COMPUTER RESTART REQUIRED AFTER INSTALLATION OR DEINSTALLATION
OmniPage Pro 9 requires you to restart your computer after installation or removal of the application.
INSTALLATION AND OPERATION UNDER WINDOWS NT 4.0
To install OmniPage Pro on Windows NT 4.0, you need administrator privileges. You must also have administrator privileges to uninstall OmniPage Pro.
For optimum color-scanning performance under Windows NT 4.0, increase your computer's virtual-memory allotment to 100 MB or more. Windows NT will not allow you to set your vitural memory higher than the remaining empty-disk space you have.
PAGEKEEPER STANDARD
Do not install an earlier version of PageKeeper Standard than the one included with this version of OmniPage Pro. If you do have an earlier version and are experiencing problems, install the version of PageKeeper Standard that came on this CD-ROM.
ORDER OF OCR PROOFREADING
If you have performed OCR on pages of text with tables, the text before and after the tables will be proofread before the characters within the tables.
PROOFREADING OCR DURING AUTOMATIC PROCESSING
If you click AUTO to start automatic processing with Proofread OCR selected as the OCR command, the Proofread OCR dialog box will appear automatically after OCR. If you close the Proofread OCR dialog box before checking all the errors, you will be prompted to complete the proofreading process the next time you click AUTO. To cancel the proofreading process in this case, change the OCR command to Perform OCR.
RESIZING TABLES FRAMES IN MICROSOFT WORD
If you have selected True Page in OmniPage Pro Page Format settings, have performed OCR on a table, and exported the result to Microsoft Word with frames (as when using True Page), the frames can be resized horizontally, but not vertically, using the grab boxes. To resize the framed table in Microsoft Word on either axis, use the Property dialog box.
VISIONEER 3100USB AND 6100USB SCANNER USERS
Users of Visioneer 3100USB or 6100USB scanners will not be able to scan multiple pages in color using OmniPage Pro. Both grayscale and black and white scanning, however, will work correctly.
VISIONEER PAPERPORT DELUXE USERS
When dragging color or grayscale images from Visioneer PaperPort Deluxe 5.3.1 desktop to the OmniPage Pro icon, PaperPort will convert the image to black and white. This may result in poor-image quality and reduced OCR accuracy within OmniPage Pro.
WORKING WITH SPREADSHEET DOCUMENTS
If you perform OCR on a spreadsheet document using the Remove formatting output-format option, you may experience an Error 6 message when trying to save the document to Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet applications. To avoid this error, use any of the other output format options for spreadsheet documents.
WORKING WITH SPREADSHEET DOCUMENTS
If you perform OCR on a spreadsheet using the output-format option of Remove Formatting, you may experience an Error 6 message when trying to save the document to Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet applications. To avoid this error, use any other output-format options for spreadsheet documents.
If you are dissatisfied with the results when recognizing spreadsheet documents in OmniPage Pro's default mode (Mixed pages, OCR and Proof, and Retain Font and Paragraph formatting), select Spreadsheet in the AutoOCR Toolbar's zone button.
DRIVE CAPACITY
For optimal performance, we recommend your system have a large-capacity hard drive.
WORKING WITH COLOR DOCUMENTS
When handling color images that are large files, loading, and switching between pages may be slow. Also, when clicking on different colored thumbnail views, the image in the image viewer may be slow to load and display, especially if the color file is large and of high resolution. This is normal for color-image handling.
RECOVERING DOCUMENTS AFTER A CRASH
When OmniPage Pro offers to recover your last-opened document after a crash, it may not always succeed.
POSSIBLE MACRO VIRUS-ERROR MESSAGE
If you receive an message about a Possible Macro Virus, do not be concerned. It is a false detection associated with the file OPFOR70.DOT. The latest versions of McAfee Software does not flag the file as a problem. Older versions of McAfee virus-detection software have caused this message.
ATI TECHNOLOGIES GRAPHICS-ACCELLERATION CARD AND 256-BIT COLOR DEPTH
If you are seeing all-black images in your OmniPage Pro 9 image viewer while operating with Windows 98, have an ATI graphics card installed, and you are operating your monitor at 256-colors, your graphics card probably needs an updated software driver.
Visit http://support.atitech.ca/drivers/drivers.html/ , download and install the appropriate driver for your card.
SCANNING CLOSE TO THE EDGE OF A DOCUMENT
Most scanners are capable of scanning to the edge of a paper, however, if you export to Microsoft Word, or other similar word processors, and then print to a laser printer, a 1/4-inch (6.4 mm) edge border will not print. This is a common laser-printer limitation.
COREL QUATTRO PRO USERS
You will have to select, copy, and then paste acquired text into Quattro Pro rather than saving to a file format that can be imported to Quattro Pro.
WORDPERFECT 5 USERS
Some page-wide graphics when imported from OmniPage Pro will cause WordPerfect 5 to generate Cannot Write error messages. You may want to split the graphic using OmniPage's Subtract from Zone tools or turn off Retain Graphics in the Save As dialog box.
REGISTERING MICROSOFT OFFICE APPLICATIONS WITH OCR AWARE
If you register Microsoft Office 97 applications (such as Word 97 and Excel 97) with OmniPage Pro's OCR Aware feature while these applications are open, the Acquire Text... and Acquire Text Settings... commands will not appear until you restart those applications.
CONFLICT BETWEEN OCR AWARE AND WORDPERFECT 7.0
If you register WordPerfect 7.0 with OmniPage Pro's OCR Aware feature, you may have problems changing fonts in the WordPerfect application. If you experience such problems, unregister WordPerfect 7.0 with OCR Aware and save your file as WordPerfect for Windows. Please see OmniPage Pro's User's Manual for instructions.
GIF IMAGE FILES
The GIF image file format is not supported by this version of OmniPage Pro.
SAVING TEXT AND GRAPHICS IN HTML FORMAT
If you save recognized text in HTML format, any graphics on the page will be saved separately as JPEG files. You can insert the graphics back into the HTML file in your target application.
EXPORTING TO MICROSOFT POWERPOINT
OmniPage Pro uses a rich text file (*.RTF) format when you export documents to Microsoft PowerPoint. If a document is not in an outline structure (with indented formatting for various levels of information), a separate slide may be generated for every line in the document. Please see your PowerPoint documentation for information on making adjustments to the document.
LOSS OF SIDE-BY-SIDE COLUMNS WITH DRAG AND DROP PROCESSING
If you create zones on a multiple-column page image and then drag the page to an OLE-compliant application to convert it to text, the side-by-side column formatting will not be retained. Instead, the text will be displayed in one wide column.
To preserve side-by-side column formatting on a page, perform OCR within OmniPage Pro using the Retain Flowing Columns output setting and then save it to a file type that supports the formatting.
SHARING YOUR SCANNER WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS
You cannot scan in OmniPage Pro while you are scanning in another application. If the scanner is in use when you launch OmniPage Pro, the Scan Image command will not be available.
MESSAGE GENERATED BY A DISCONNECTED SCANNER
For some scanners, an error message may display when you launch OmniPage Pro while the scanner is disconnected or turned off. This message sometimes appears behind the OmniPage Pro desktop. You will not be able to work in OmniPage Pro until you dismiss the message. Press the Alt+Tab key combination or minimize all applications to locate and dismiss the message.
USING OMNIPAGE PRO WITH VISIONEER PAPERPORT LINKS
In most cases, when you install OmniPage Pro, Visioneer PaperPort software automatically uses OmniPage Pro's OCR engine. This means that OmniPage Pro OCR will be used to convert images to text when you drag them onto text-based application links in PaperPort. However, with some versions of PaperPort, you may have to manually change the OCR engine to OmniPage Pro.
To make sure OmniPage Pro OCR is used with text application links in PaperPort:
1. Open PaperPort and choose Link Preferences in the Edit menu.
The PaperPort Preferences dialog box appears.
2. Click the icon of any text-based application in the Category scroll list.
3. Make sure OmniPage Pro is selected in the OCR Package drop-down list.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for other text-based applications.
5. Click OK to accept the current selections and close the dialog box.
