Xerox M118i OmniPage SE User Guide - Page 37

Chapter 3 What you do: What happens: 1. Set up your scanner using the Scanner Wizard, if this is not already done. 2.   Select Start Programs ScanSoft  OmniPage SE 2.0 OmniPage SE 2.0 Configures OmniPage SE to work with your scanner. Opens OmniPage SE on your computer. 3. Place the document correctly in your scanner. 4. From the Get Page drop-down list, select a Allows you to determine how pictures or colored texts scan option for your document: and backgrounds will look in the exported document. black-and-white, grayscale or color. Color scanning needs a color scanner. 5. From the Layout Description drop-down list, check Automatic is selected. For a wide range of documents, this is the best choice. Configures the program how to place zones on the page and decide their properties automatically. 6. From the Export Results drop-down list, check that Save as File is selected. This means you will be able to name your export file after you have proofed the document. 7. Click the Start button. OmniPage SE will start to scan in your document. A thumbnail appears with a progress indicator. The OCR Proofreader appears. 8. Use the OCR Proofreader to modify words that the program suspects have not been recognized correctly. The OCR Proofreader operates like a spell checker in a word processing program, but with added OCR-specific features. It removes markings from words you proof. 9. Click in the Text Editor. Select Text Editor views one after another, to see how the page appears in each view. Each Text Editor view defines a formatting level. This guides you which level to choose at saving time. 10. Click Resume to restart proofing. When the message OCR Proofreading is complete appears, click on OK. This ends the OCR Proofreader process. The Save As dialog box will appear. 11. Choose a file name, file type, path and a formatting level to save your recognized document. Click on OK. By default, Save and Launch is enabled, so your document will be automatically opened in the word processing program associated with the file type that you selected. 12. Inspect the document in your word processing program. You have successfully used OmniPage SE to recognize your document and open it in your target application! If you succeeded in getting good results from the sample image files, but not from the scanned page, check your scanner installation and settings: in particular brightness and image resolution. See "Input from scanner" on page 51. This provides a model of optimum brightness. See also the online Help topics Setting up your scanner and Scanner troubleshooting. Quick Start Guide 37