18.0

Welcome New features in OmniPage 17 8
• Better control over determining blank pages: A new sensitivity setting increases the
accuracy of detecting blank pages that may scan as light gray or colored pages by
allowing the threshold for blankness to be adjusted. This improves the use of two
controls within OmniPage: the new pre-processing option 'Drop blank pages' and the
existing saving option 'Create a new file at each blank page'.
• Automatic language detection: Let the program assign a single language for OCR to
each incoming page during unattended processing. See “Asian language recognition” on
page 54.
• Accept proofing suggestions by shortcuts: Suggestions in the Proofreader are
numbered. As an alternative to clicking a suggestion to select it and Change to accept it,
hold down the Ctrl key and enter the suggestion number. See “Proofing and editing” on
page 47.
• ISIS scanners: Scanners that support ISIS drivers can be used to scan directly into
OmniPage.
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 services 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 54.
• 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. 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 43.
and See “Zone types and properties” on page 44.
• Easy Loader: This provides a Windows Explorer-like display of the 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