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Process areas (in process zones or backgrounds) are auto-zoned
when they are sent to recognition.
Ignore areas (in ignore zones or backgrounds) are dropped from
processing. No text is recognized and no image is transferred.
Automatic zoning
Automatic zoning allows the program to detect blocks of text,
headings, pictures and other elements on a page and draw zones to
enclose them.
You can Auto-zone a whole page or a part of it. Automatically
drawn zones and template zones have solid borders. Manually
drawn or modified zones have dotted borders.
Auto-zone a page background
Acquire a page. It appears with a process background. Draw a
zone. The background changes to ignore. Draw text, table or
graphic zones to enclose areas you want manually zoned. Click the
Process background tool (shown) to set a process background.
Draw ignore zones over parts of the page you do not need. After
recognition the page will return with an ignore background and
new zones round all elements found on the background.
Zone types and properties
Each zone has a zone type. Zones containing text can also have a
zone contents setting: alphanumeric or numeric. The zone type and
zone contents together constitute the zone properties. Right-click
in a zone for a shortcut menu allowing you to change the zone’s
properties. Select multiple zones with Shift+clicks to change their
properties in one move.
The Image toolbar provides six zone drawing tools, one for each
type.