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• Break complex page images (lots of text and graphics or elaborate formatting) into
smaller jobs. Draw zones manually or modify automatically created zones and
perform OCR on one page area at a time. See “Working with zones” in the Processing
documents Chapter.
• Restart Windows XP or Vista in safe mode and test OmniPage by performing OCR on
the included sample image files.
If you are performing multiple tasks at once, such as recognizing and printing, OCR may take
longer.
Supported file types
Supported image file formats for loading are TIFF, PCX, DCX, BMP, JPEG, JB2, JP2, GIF,
PNG, XIFF, MAX, PDF, XPS and HD Photo.
Supported file types for saving recognition results as text are:
• HTML 3.2, 4.0
• Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97
• Microsoft Publisher 98
• Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003 (WordML), 2007
• OmniPage Documents
• PDF (Normal), Edited, with image on text, with image substitutes
• RTF Word 6.0/95, RTF Word 97, RTF Word 2000, RTF 2000 ExactWord
• WordPad
• WordPerfect 12, X3
• Text, Text with line breaks, Text - Formatted, Text - Comma Separated
• Unicode Text, Unicode Text with line breaks, Unicode Text - Formatted, Unicode Text
- Comma Separated
• Wave Audio Converter (to save recognized text being read aloud).
In OmniPage Professional there is also support for:
• eBook, Microsoft InfoPath (for forms), Microsoft Reader, and XML.