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MANUAL OMNIPAGE PRO 19
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Introduction
You probably use your computer for business correspondence, preparing
reports, handling data and an ever-increasing number of other uses. The
challenge is that, in spite of the digital revolution, certain sources of
information still circulate in printed, paper form and cannot be used
immediately in a computer.
For example, if you want to incorporate information from a magazine
article in a report you are preparing, you somehow have to get the text
from the article into your computer. Painstakingly retyping the article is
not an appealing solution.
This chapter introduces you to the solution: optical character recognition
(OCR). It describes how OmniPage Pro 11 uses OCR technology to
transform text from scanned pages or image files into editable text for use
in your favorite computer applications.
We address the following questions:
What is optical character recognition
What is a document in OmniPage Pro
Which are the main steps in processing a document
What are the functions and facilities in the main screen areas
How can documents be managed at page level
What is an OmniPage Document (OPD)