Nuance scansoft omnipage pro 14 User Manual

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Manual processing gives you more precise control over the way your 
pages are handled. You can process the document page-by-page with 
different settings for each page. The program also stops between each 
step: acquiring images, performing recognition, exporting. This lets you, 
for instance, change the page background and draw zones manually on 
each page. You start each step in the process by clicking the three 
numbered buttons on the OmniPage Toolbox.

1. Select 1-2-3 in the Workflow drop-down list. Click 

 in the 

Standard toolbar or Options in the Tools menu to check or make 
settings in the Options dialog box. See “Settings” on page 31.

2. Select the desired value for the Get Page button from the drop-down 

list. You define the document source, which can be from image files 
or from a scanner. When scanning with the OmniPage interface, 
select a scanning mode and use the Scanner and Process panels of the 
Options dialog box to select settings. See “Defining the source of 
page images” on page 48.

3. Click the Get Page button. This either brings up a dialog box 

allowing you to name images files, or initiates scanning. Thumbnail 
images of each page can appear in the Image Panel, along with the 
current page image. Use status bar buttons to show or hide either of 
these. Acquired pages are summarized in the Document Manager.

4. All page images enter the program with a process background. 

Provided you draw no zones on these pages, they will be auto-zoned 
when recognition is requested.

5. You can manually draw and modify zones on one or more images and 

assign zone properties. Status bar buttons let you move to other pages. 
As soon as you draw a zone on a page, it takes on an ignore 
background. You can specify auto-zoning on parts of a page by 
drawing process zones. See “Zones and backgrounds” on page 53.