Nuance scansoft omnipage pro 14 User Manual

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Chapter 2
Introduction 
You probably use your computer for business correspondence, preparing 
reports, handling data and an ever-increasing number of other uses. The 
challenge is that, in spite of the digital revolution, certain sources of 
information still circulate in printed, paper form and cannot be used 
immediately in a computer.
For example, if you want to incorporate information from a magazine 
article in a report you are preparing, you somehow have to get the text 
from the article into your computer. Painstakingly retyping the article is 
not an appealing solution.
This chapter introduces you to the solution: optical character recognition 
(OCR). It describes how OmniPage Pro 14 uses OCR technology to 
transform text from scanned pages or image files into editable text for use 
in your favorite computer applications.
We present the following topics: