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- OmniPage Professional 2.11 Release Notes
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- Use 300 dpi Resolution
- OmniPage is designed to be most accurate recognizing text scanned
- at 300 dpi. Only use 400 dpi resolution when scanning very small text
- characters: 4, 5, or 6 points.
- Using OmniPage to recognize text scanned at 400 dpi requires 8MB
- RAM.
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- Upside-down Recognition
- If OmniPage has difficulty recognizing a page, it will flip the image in
- software; it assumes that you may have placed the page upside-
- down in the scanner. You may wish to turn this feature off to
- recognize a poor-quality image that would generate many
- recognition errors such as a FAX or dot-matrix-printed page. To turn
- the feature off, click on System in the Defaults menu and de-select
- Enable upside-down recognition.
- Also, this feature doesn't work well with images that are mostly
- numbers; an upside-down 0, 1, 3, 6, 8, or 9 looks like a valid number or
- letter.
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- Windows 3.1 Installations - Creating a Swap File
- The method for creating a swap file with Windows 3.0 is different
- than the one used with Windows 3.1. Instructions for creating a
- Windows version 3.0 swap file are in Chapter 2 of the Owner's
- Manual. Use the following instructions if you install OmniPage under
- Windows version 3.1.
- Windows 3.1 automatically creates a temporary swap file at setup. It
- also allows you to change the size of your swap file through the
- Control Panel.
- 1. Start Windows in Enhanced mode by typing WIN at the DOS
- prompt.
- 2. Double-click the Control Panel icon in the Main window of the
- Program Manager.
- 3. Double-click the 386 Enhanced icon to display the 386 Enhanced
- dialog box.
- 4. Click the Virtual Memory button to display the Virtual Memory
- dialog box.
- This dialog box displays the location, size, and type of swap file. If the
- swap file is smaller than 4096KB, make it larger.
- 5. Click the Change button to expand the dialog box.
- 6. Select a new drive in the drive list if you want the swap file to be
- located somewhere other than on the default drive. For example, you
- could store the swap file on a second hard disk that is faster or has
- more space than the default.
- 7. Choose Permanent from the Type list.
- 8. Type 4096 in the New Size box.
- If you cannot find a drive with 4096KB of free, contiguous space, you
- will have to delete some files and optimize the disk again.
- 9. To turn 32-bit access on, select the Use 32-Bit Disk Access box. Not
- that this may be unreliable on some battery-powered portable
- computers with the computer's power-saving feature enabled.
- 10. Click the OK button in the Virtual Memory dialog box.
- 11. Click Yes when asked to verify changes to virtual menory.
- 12. Click Restart in the Virtual Memory dialog box. You must restart
- Windows to make the change. Do not press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart.
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- DDE Support - How to Run OmniPage Directly From an Application
- You can add the Scan Text... command to the File menu of Word for
- Windows, Excel for Windows 3.0, and Ami Professional 2.0, and to the
- Macro menu of WordPerfect for Windows. Clicking Scan Text... from
- within your application will open the OmniPage Scan Settings dialog
- box.
- This feature is available after you install OmniPage Professional and
- run a special macro. The macro is a short program, supplied by
- Caere, that you can start from within your Windows application. The
- macro tells your application how to communicate with the OmniPage
- program and adds the Scan Text... command to your application's File
- or Macro menu.
- If you install a macro under Windows 3.0, copy the file
- c:\opro\ddeml.dll to your Windows directory.
- Open, run, and close OmniPage at least once before running a macro.
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- Word for Windows
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- To set up OmniPage with this application:
- 1. Open the Word for Windows program.
- 2. Click Open in the File menu.
- 3. Open the file omniscan.doc in the OPRO directory.
- 4. Click Run in the Macro menu.
- 5. Run the InstallOmniScan macro.
- 6. Click Save All in the File menu.
- A prompt will appear asking Save global glossary and command
- changes?
- 7. Click Yes.
- If asked to Save large clipboard, click No.
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- Excel for Windows 3.0.
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- To set up OmniPage with this application:
- 1. Open the Excel for Windows program.
- 2. Click Open in the File menu.
- 3. Open the file omniscan.xlm in the OPRO directory.
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- WordPerfect for Windows
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- To set up OmniPage with this application:
- 1. Open the WordPerfect for Windows program.
- 2. Click Assign to Menu in the Macro menu.
- 3. Click Insert.
- The Insert dialog box will appear.
- 4. Enter the macro name c:\opro\omniscan.wcm. If you installed
- OmniPage in a different drive or directory, enter that path instead.
- 5. Enter the menu text: Scan Text... and click OK.
- After using the OmniPage macro to set up WordPerfect with
- OmniPage, the Scan Text... command appears in the WordPerfect
- Macro menu.
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- Ami Professional 2.0
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- To set up OmniPage with this application:
- 1. Copy the file c:\opro\omniscan.smm to your Ami Professional
- macros directory. If you installed OmniPage in a different drive or
- directory, enter that path instead.
- 2. Open the Ami Professional program.
- 3. Click User Setup in the Tools menu.
- The User Setup dialog box will appear.
- 4. Check the Program Load box.
- Enter the macro name omniscan.smm next to the Program Load box.
- 5. Exit and restart Ami Professional.
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- Appendix D - DDE Support
- This Appendix to the Owner's manual is out of date. However, hooks
- are available for system integrators to integrate OCR into
- applications with a DLL or with DDE messages. If you are interested
- in linking other applications to OmniPage Pro, call 1-800-535-SCAN
- and request the OmniPage Professional Developer's Toolkit.
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- Supported Scanners
- OmniPage now supports the Dest PC Scan, Apple OneScanner, and
- Fujitsu 3096G. OmniPage does not support an automatic document
- feeder on the Dest PC Scan 3000 or the Microtek 600G and 600Z.
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- Patch disk for Pro 2.1 to correct the following bugs:
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- 1. Verfication window is off center
- 2. Remove font information if selected output is WordPerfect
- 3. Lotus 1-2-3 converter is wrong
- 4. Missing Dbase III converter
- 5. Sorted DLL.LST for names in the saveas listbox
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- In addition to the above the following OPTIONAL switches may be set
- in the WIN.INI file within the [OmniPage] section.
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- RetainFont=YES/NO - this overrides the WordPerfect bug fix
- Mono=some_font_name - default is "Courier"
- PropSanSerif=some_font_name - default is "Helv"
- PropSerif=some_font_name - default is "Tmns Rmn"
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- By changing the above entries in WIN.INI the user can override the code
- within WFWLIB.DLL If no entries are found, default values are used.
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- The Graphic Editor
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- Compatible Monitors
- The Graphic Editor, OmniPage's image-editing software, requires a
- VGA or later type monitor. It is incompatible with EGA, CGA, and
- Hercules monochrome monitors. Your monitor type does not affect
- OmniPage text-recognition features.
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- Filename Extensions
- The Graphic Editor will only open image files that have a correct
- filename extension. For example, if you try to open a TIFF file, the
- filename must have the extension .TIF. if you try to open a PCX file,
- the filename must have the extension .PCX.
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- Resizing Feature
- You can resize a portion of an image as long as you do not change
- the image resolution. You can only change the resolution of an entire
- image.
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