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Glossary Terms
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frame A formatting box containing text or graphics that is used to
design page layout. For example, columns in a document may be
contained within a separate frame.
HP AccuPage® A technology developed and licensed by Hewlett-
Packard that improves the combined performance of HP scanners and
OmniPage Pro. While preserving the quality of grayscale images, HP
AccuPage technology retains the format of scanned pages, improves
the recognition of text printed on shaded backgrounds, and accurately
recognizes text printed at small point sizes.
image An electronic picture of text and/or graphics such as a scanned
paper document or an electronic fax file. Images do not have editable
text characters; they have many tiny dots (pixels) that together form a
picture of text.
image viewer The area on the OmniPage Pro desktop that displays the
original page image.
Zones
are created in the image viewer before OCR
takes place.
Language Analyst® A Caere technology that uses information about
language context and usage rules to evaluate text and correct likely
errors during OCR.
mapping See
font mapping
.
monospaced font Any font in which all characters have the same width.
For example, in Courier New (a monospaced font), the letter
0
is the
same width as the letter

. Thus,
00000
is the same width as

.
OCR See
optical character recognition
.
OCR Aware A feature that allows you to use OmniPage Pro OCR in
another application such as Microsoft Word. You can perform OCR on
an image and paste the resulting text directly into an open document.
OmniPage Document A file that is saved in OmniPage Pro’s
proprietary format (
PHW
). OmniPage Documents can consist of
original page images, zones, and recognized text.
optical character recognition (OCR) The process of turning an image,
such as a scanned paper document or an electronic fax file, into
computer-editable text so you do not have to retype the text manually.
point A typographic unit of measurement equal to 1/72 inch, measured
vertically. Points are used to describe font size.
proportional font Any font in which characters differ in width. For
example, in Palatino (a proportional font), the letter M is wider than
the letter l. Thus, MMMMM is wider than lllll.
recognition The OCR process. A page is
recognized
when OmniPage Pro
performs OCR on it.