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How to use Direct OCR
1. Open your registered application and work in a document. To
acquire recognition results from scanned pages, place them correctly
in the scanner.
2. Use the target application’s File Menu item Acquire Text Settings... to
specify settings to be used during recognition. Any settings not
offered take their values from those last used in OmniPage Pro.
Settings changed for Direct OCR are also changed in OmniPage Pro.
3. Use the File Menu item Acquire Text to acquire images from scanner
or file.
4. If you selected Draw zones automatically in the Direct OCR panel of
the Options dialog box, or under Acquire Text Settings...,
recognition proceeds immediately.
5. If Draw zones automatically is not selected, each page image will be
presented to you, allowing you to draw zones manually. Click the
Perform OCR button to continue with recognition.
6. If proofing was specified, this follows recognition. Then the
recognized text is placed at the cursor position in your application,
with the formatting level specified by Acquire Text Settings... .
If OmniPage Pro is running when Direct OCR is called from a target application, a
second instance of OmniPage Pro is launched.
See the Direct OCR topics in online Help for more information. These include a
topic Direct OCR Questions and Answers. The Readme file and the ScanSoft web
site may present more recent information relating to specific target applications.