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Tech Notes
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commonly reported issues using OmniPage 17. Web pages may also
offer assistance on the installation process and troubleshooting.
New features in OmniPage 17
If you are upgrading from version 16, you benefit from the following
innovations. Click the links to for more information.
• Asian recognition: OCR serv
ices are provided for
Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional
Chinese, with support for both horizontal and vertical text
flow and embedded English texts. Results can be viewed
and verified in the Text Editor. See “Asian language
recognition” on page 61.
• Vertical non-Asian texts: Auto-detection of vertical texts
in two rotations functions inside
table cells and anywhere
on PDF or XPS pages, and in certain cases on other image
file types. New tools allow vertical text zones to be drawn
manually. Texts display vertically and can be edited in the
Text Editor, using the True Page
®
formatting level. In other
levels the texts are displayed horizontally. See “Automatic
zoning” on page 48. and See “Zone types and properties”
on page 49.
• Easy Loader: This provides a Windows Explorer-like
display of th
e file system in one of the OmniPage windows,
to keep files visible during your work and deliver full
Explorer functionality, yielding quick file selections; a
dialog box with a lock facility lets a file set be built up
before loading starts. With Quick Convert View it allows