Nuance omnipage pro 7 for macintosh User Manual
Zone Settings
OmniPage Pro Settings - 75
Automatic
Select Automatic if you want OmniPage Pro to distinguish graphics from
text and detect the text flow of side-by-side columns (either tabbed or
flowing text). This setting works well with most types of documents.
Automatic is recommended for newspaper articles and magazine pages.
Automatic is recommended for newspaper articles and magazine pages.
It is also the best setting if you are automatically processing many
different types of documents at once.
To make sure graphics are retained during OCR, see Do you want to
retain graphics in your document? on page 94 for guidelines.
Single Column or Table
Select Single Column or Table if you want OmniPage Pro to treat adjacent
page areas as single blocks of text. This setting does not discern graphics
or the text flow of side-by-side columns. If OmniPage Pro detects five or
more spaces between columns, it assumes the page is in a spreadsheet
format and inserts tabs as delimiters between the columns to preserve
the format.
Single Column or Table is recommended for documents such as
Single Column or Table is recommended for documents such as
spreadsheets, tables, financial forms, and memos.
One Zone
Select One Zone if you want OmniPage Pro to draw one, big text zone
around the entire page. This setting is similar to Single Column or Table .
However, because it draws a text zone around the entire page,
OmniPage Pro tries to recognize everything on the page including any
stains or scribbles as text characters.
One Zone is only recommended for very clean page images that have no
One Zone is only recommended for very clean page images that have no
graphics.