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Use the OmniPage toolbar button Acquire Text or the

same item in the File menu (use the Nuance OCR tab in Office

2007) to acquire images from the specifie

d source.

4. If you selected Draw zones automatically in the Direct OCR panel

of the Options dialog box, 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 in the Output

Format panel under Acquire Text Settings.

Defining the source of page images

There are three possible image sources: from image files, from a

digital camera and from a scanner. There are two main types of

scanners: flatbed or sheetfed. A scanner may have a built-in or

added Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), which makes it easier to

scan multi-page documents. The images from scanned documents

can be input directly into OmniPage or may be saved with the

scanner’s own software to an image file, which OmniPage can later

open.

Input from image files

You can create image files from your own scanner, or receive them

by e-mail or as fax files. OmniPage 17 can open a wide range of image

file types. Select Load Files in the Get Pages drop-down list. Files are

specified in the Load Files dialog box. This appears when you start

automatic processing. In manual processing, click the Get Page