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dialog box, and define a pause value in seconds. Then the scanner
will make scanning passes automatically, pausing between each
scan by the defined number of seconds, giving you time to place the
next page.
Describing the layout of the document
Before starting recognition you are requested to describe the layout
of the incoming pages to assist the auto-zoning process. When you
do automatic processing, auto-zoning always runs unless you
specify a template that does not contain a process zone or
background. When you do manual processing, auto-zoning
sometimes runs. See online Help: When does auto-zoning run? Here are
your input description choices:
Automatic
Choose this to let the program make all auto-zoning
decisions. It decides whether text is in columns or not,
whether an item is a graphic or text to be recognized and
whether to place tables or not.
Document to document conversion
In OmniPage Professional 16 you can open not only
image files, but also documents created in word-
processing and similar applications. Supported file
types include .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf, .wpd and others. Click the Load
Files button in the OmniPage Toolbox or select the Load Files
command under Get Page, in the File menu. In the Load Files
dialog box, choose Documents.
When you are finished, you can choose from a wide variety of
document file types for saving.