Nuance omnipage direct 2 for windows User Manual

Direct is designed to run automatically, making text recognition easy and 
effortless. However, the automatic features take longer to work. De-
selecting Use Language Analyst, Auto Intensity, and manually setting other 
options will make Direct run much faster.

The Language Analyst automatically performs word and character 
analysis during recognition to check spelling and replace unknown words 
with words that are most likely to be correct. 

Speed up Direct by deselecting Use Language Analyst. The Language 
Analyst improves recognition accuracy but increases the processing time.

The Use Language Analyst selection is available by choosing Spelling... in 
the Direct icon Control menu (click once on the minimized Direct icon on 
the Windows desktop).

The Auto Intensity feature, available with grayscale scanners, improves 
accuracy considerably if your page is dirty, if text is printed on a colored 
background, or if the page has shading from a copy machine. 

However, if you scan high-quality documents with crisp, black letters 
printed on white paper, recognition is much faster with this setting turned 
off. Deselect Auto Intensity in the Options dialog box and use the manual 
Brightness

 control.

Select Fully formed when you scan conventionally printed text characters. 
Select Dot matrix when you scan characters printed in draft mode by a 9-
pin dot-matrix printer. Do not select Dot matrix for pages printed in near-
letter-quality mode or printed by a 24-pin dot-matrix printer. 

Select Single column/Tables when there is one column on a page, as with 
correspondence, or when scanning a table, financial form, or spreadsheet.

Select this if you want Direct to load the optical character recognition 
(OCR) program in your computer's memory when Direct is started. Direct 
will take a few seconds to load OCR, and then there will be no delay the 
first time you scan a page.