Nuance scansoft omnipage pro 14 Manual Do Utilizador

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Automatically drawn zones and template zones have solid borders:

Manually drawn or modified zones have dotted borders:

Zones do not have a reading order. Reordering of recognized elements 
can be done in the Text Editor. See “Text and image editing” on page 73. 
On-the-fly zoning is described in chapter 4. See “On-the-fly editing” on 
page 75.

Each zone has a zone type. Zones containing text can also have a zone 
contents setting: alphanumeric or numeric. The zone type and zone 
contents together constitute the zone properties. Right-click in a zone for 
a shortcut menu allowing you to change the zone’s properties. Select 
multiple zones with Shift+clicks to change their properties in one move.

The Image toolbar provides five zone drawing tools, one for each type. A 
zone’s type is shown by an icon in its top left corner, and by the icon and 
zone border color. Here are the tools and the colors:

Process zone (blue)
Use this to draw a process zone, to define a page area where auto-zoning 
will run. After recognition, this zone will be replaced by one or more 
zones with automatically determined zone types. You normally draw 

1

Text zone

OCR runs and generates text.

2

Table zone

OCR runs, text is placed in a table grid.

3

Graphic zone

Image is embedded in recognized page.

4

Process zone

Auto-zoning creates one or more zones, 

decides their types and processes their 

contents.

5

Process background

6

Ignore zone

Nothing

7

Ignore background