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Settings Guidelines
OmniPage Pro Settings - 85
What is the quality of the original document?
Poor or not sure
Degraded copies, colored or
shaded backgrounds, run-together
or broken text characters
Recommendations for scanning:
 Try to scan original documents rather than
copies.
 Select Manual Brightness and Manual
Contrast in the Scanner section of the Settings
Panel if you have a color or grayscale
scanner, and the page has crisp text on
colored or shaded backgrounds.
 Experiment with the Brightness and Contrast
settings, depending on your scanner. Lighten
the setting for thick, run-together text
characters and/or dark backgrounds. Darken
the setting for thin, broken text characters.
Other recommendations:
 Select 3D OCR in the Scanner section of the
Settings Panel if you are loading a grayscale
image file that has run-together or broken text
characters.
 Modify zones to omit any smudges or
scribbles on the page. See Modifying Zones
on page 35.
Or, erase smudges from the image. See
Erasing Areas of an Image on page 53.
 Reverse white text on dark backgrounds. See
Inverting an Image on page 54.
 Select Use Language Analyst in the Spelling
section of the Settings Panel.
 Choose Proofread OCR... in the Edit menu to
locate possible errors after OCR.
 Ask senders to select Fine or Best mode when
they send faxes that you plan to recognize.
thick, run-together text
characters
thin, broken text
characters