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The Form toolbars and the Mark Text toolbar (for details

see Chapter 4) appear only in OmniPage Professional 17.

Basic Processing Steps

There are three ways of handling documents: with automatic,

manual or workflow processing. The basic steps for all processing

methods are broadly the same:

1. Bring a set of images into OmniPage. You can scan

paper document with or without an Automatic

Docum

ent Feeder (ADF) or load one or more image

files.

2. Perform OCR to generate editable text. After OCR,

you can check and correct errors in the document using

the

OCR Proofread

er and edit the document in the

Text Editor.

3. Export the document to the desired location. You can

save your document

to a specified file name and type,

place it on the Clipboard, send

it as a mail attachment

or publish it. You can save the same document repeatedly to

different destinations, different file types, with different settings

and levels of formatting.

Using OmniPage, you can choose from the following processing

met

ds: Automatic, Manual, Combined, or Workflow. You can

start recognition from other applications, using Direct OCR and can

also schedule processing to run at a later time.

Processing methods are detailed in

the next chapter

and in Help.

Settings

The Options dialog box is the central location for OmniPage

settings. Access it from the Standard toolbar or the Tools

menu. Context-sensitive help provides

information on each setting.