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Scanning to OmniPage and workflows
Go to Tools / Options / Scanners to choose an action to be performed when a button on your
local scanner is pushed. This can be simple scanning resulting in images loaded into
OmniPage. It is also possible to select a scanner-based workflow from those you have created
or choose to be prompted to select a workflow whenever the button is pressed. Use the
Control Panel button to associate OmniPage with a scanner event (a scanner button being
pressed). Then a button press launches OmniPage, runs the workflow and sends the results to
the defined target, with or without interaction.
In OmniPage Ultimate this feature can also be used to initiate barcode-driven workflows (see
Chapter 4, page 73).
Document-to-document conversion
In OmniPage Ultimate you can open not only image files, but
also documents created in word-processing and similar
applications. Supported file types include .doc, .xls, .ppt, .rtf,
.wpd and others. Click the Load Files button in the OmniPage
T
oolbox or select the Load Files command under Get Page, in the File
menu. In the Load Files dialog box, choose Documents. When you are
finished, you can choose from a wide variety of document file types for
saving. These conversions require Nuance PDF Create to be installed.
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.