Nuance omnipage pro 7 for macintosh User Manual
Creating Zones on a Page
Processing Documents - 35
To draw a rectangular zone:
1 Click the Draw/Select Zones tool in the Tool palette if it is not
already selected.
The mouse pointer in the Image View becomes a drawing tool.
The mouse pointer in the Image View becomes a drawing tool.
2 Click the appropriate zone type in the Zone Info palette.
For example, click the Graphic type if you are going to draw the
zone around a graphic such as a photo. See Specifying Zone
Types on page 32 for more information.
3
Enclose an area of the image you want as a zone by holding
down the mouse button and dragging the drawing tool to form
a rectangular box.
4
Release the mouse button when you are done.
After drawing a zone, you can resize it by dragging its handles.
After drawing a zone, you can resize it by dragging its handles.
5
Repeat steps 24 until you have finished drawing zones around
each area that you want to process.
You can draw up to 64 separate zones. A number appears
You can draw up to 64 separate zones. A number appears
within each zone indicating the order in which it will be
recognized.
Overlapping Zones
When you draw a zone over an existing zone, the borders of the new
zone will wrap around the boundaries of the existing zone. The zones
will not be allowed to overlap.
To overlap zones, hold down the Control key when you draw or resize
them. Overlapping zones is generally not recommended unless you
want to make sure you have included the very edge of text in each zone.
You can also overlap zones to duplicate areas of text during OCR. For
example, if text is enclosed by a zone inside another zone, the text is
duplicated during OCR. The order of the recognized text in the Text
View depends on the order of the zones.
Text (use only for single
columns and tables)
Graphic
Automatic
Ignore