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Languages
The program can read over 120 languages with multiple alphabets:
Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. See the full
language list in the OCR panel of the Options dialog box. It shows
which languages have dictionary support. A listing is also provided
on the Nuance web site.
In addition to user dictionaries, specialized dictionaries
are
availa
ble for certain professions (currently medical, legal and
financial) for some languages. See the list and make selections in the
OCR panel of the Options dialog box.
Asian language recognition
Four languages with Asian alphabets are supported: Japanese,
Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. The ideal font
size for body text is 12 points, scanned at 300 dpi, resulting in
characters with around 48 x 48 pixels. Minimum is 30 x 30, that is
10.5 points at 300 dpi. For smaller characters, 400 dpi should be
used. Asian texts can be horizontal (left-to-right) or vertical (top-
to-bottom, right-to-left). Operating systems supported by
OmniPage 17 can handle Asian languages, but if East Asian language
support was not selected during system install, it must be added
from Control Panel / Regional and Language Settings / Languages /
Supplemental language support / Install files for East Asian
languages. You may be required to insert a Windows system disk.
The four Asian languages are listed alphabetically with the others in
the Options/OCR
panel. Yo
u should select only one of these
languages at a time and avoid a multiple selection with other
languages. Asian OCR can handle short embedded English texts
without English being explicitly set; this is not designed for longer
English texts or for texts in other Western languages. Vertical text
is typical in Japanese and Chinese - English may be embedded there