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Creating Zones for OCR
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Creating Zones for OCR
Page images are displayed in OmniPage Pro’s image viewer where
zones
are created before OCR. Zones are borders that identify areas of an
image that will be recognized as text or retained as graphics. Any part of
an image not enclosed by a zone is ignored during OCR.
For information on drawing zones manually, modifying zones, deleting
unwanted zones, and using zone templates, please see “Customizing
Zones” on page 65.
Creating Zones Automatically
OmniPage Pro can analyze a page and create zones automatically for
you. It uses the selected setting in the Zone button to determine the text
flow on a page and breaks it into ordered zones.
To create zones automatically:
1 Choose a setting in the Zone button’s drop-down list that most
closely matches the format of your document.
You can choose
Single-Column Pages
,
Multiple-Column Pages
,
Tables
,
Mixed Pages
, or a template of your own. See “Zone
Button Commands” on page 45 for more information on these
settings.
This is a text zone. It
will be converted to
text during OCR.
This is a graphic zone. It
will be kept as a graphic
image during OCR.
All unzoned areas of the
page will be ignored
during OCR.