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Describing the layout of the document
Before starting recognition you are requested to describe the layout of the incoming pages to
assist the auto-zoning process. When you do automatic processing, auto-zoning always runs
unless you specify a template that does not contain a process zone or background. When you
do manual processing, auto-zoning sometimes runs. See online Help: When does auto-zoning
run? Here are your input description choices:
Automatic
Choose this to let the program make all auto-zoning decisions. It decides whether
text is in columns or not, whether an item is a graphic or text to be recognized and
whether to place tables or not.
Single column, no table
Choose this setting if your pages contain only one column of text and no table.
Business letters or pages from a book are normally like this.
Multiple columns, no table
Choose this if some of your pages contain text in columns and you want this
decolumnized or kept in separate columns, similar to the original layout.
Single column with table
Choose this if your page contains only one column of text and a table.
Spreadsheet
Choose this if your whole page consists of a table which you want to export to a
spreadsheet program, or have treated as single table.
Form
Choose this if your whole page consists of a form and you want form elements
auto-recognized. After recognition, you can modify form element properties,
create new ones, or edit form layout. This option is available in OmniPage
Professional 18 only.
Legal pleading
Choose this to recognize legal documents. Legal headers are detected and
removed. Choose to have pleading numbers retained or dropped.
Custom
Choose this for maximum control over auto-zoning. You can prevent or encourage
the detection of columns, graphics and tables. Make your settings in the OCR
panel of the Options dialog box.