Nuance omnipage pro 7 for macintosh User Manual

OCR Problems

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OCR Problems

For an overview of OCR, see page 6. This section contains information

and solutions for possible OCR problems. Topics include:

Crash During OCR

Try these solutions if a crash occurs during OCR or if processing takes a

very long time:

Check the quality of the image you are recognizing. See What is

information.
See Scanning Tips in the previous section for ways to improve

the quality of scanned images.

Break complex page images (lots of text and graphics or elaborate

formatting) into smaller jobs. Draw zones and perform OCR on

one page area at a time.

Resolve low memory problems. See Low Memory Problems on

page 121 for more information.

Resolve low disk space problems. See Low Disk Space

Restart your computer and test OmniPage Pro by performing

OCR on the Test TIFF.

Reinstall OmniPage Pro.

Text Does Not Get Recognized Properly

Try these solutions if any part of the original document is not converted

to text properly during OCR:

Look at the original page image and make sure that all text areas

are enclosed by Text or Automatic zones. See Specifying Zone

Make sure the zone contents files assigned to zones contain all