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The default for manual processing is to have all entered pages automatically selected. This
way you can have all new pages recognized by a single mouse click. You can remove this
default in the Process panel of the Options dialog box.
Combined
You can process a document automatically and view results in the Text Editor. If most pages
are in order, but a few have not turned out as expected, you can switch to manual processing to
adjust settings and re-recognize just those problem pages. Alternatively, you can acquire
images with manual processing, draw zones on some or all of them, and then send all pages to
automatic processing by pressing the Start button and choosing to process existing pages.
Workflow
A workflow consists of a series of steps and their settings. Typically it will include
a recognition step, but it does not have to. It does not have to conform to the 1-2-3
pattern of traditional processing. Workflows are listed in the Workflow drop-down list –
sample workflows plus any you create. Workflows allow you to handle recurring tasks more
efficiently, because all the steps and their settings are pre-defined. You can choose to place the
OmniPage Agent icon on your taskbar. Its shortcut menu lists your workflows. Click a
workflow to launch OmniPage and have it run.
Let the Workflow Assistant guide you in creating new workflows. It provides a choice of steps
and the settings they need. Click Next after each step to add another one. You can use the
Assistant just to get more guidance when doing automatic processing. See “Workflow
Assistant” in Chapter 4, page 76.
At a later time
You can schedule OCR jobs or other processing jobs in OmniPage Batch Manager
to be performed automatically at a later time, when you may not even be present at
your computer. This is done through the Batch Manager. It does not matter if your
computer is turned off after the job is set up, so long as it is running at job start time. If you are
scanning pages, your scanner must be functioning at job start time, with the pages loaded in the
ADF.
When you choose New Job, first the Job Wizard, and then the Workflow Assistant appears -
the latter with a slightly modified set of choices and settings. In the first panel of the Job