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Proofing and Editing User Dictionaries 47
User Dictionaries
The program has built-in dictionaries for many languages. These assist during recognition and
may offer suggestions during proofing. They can be supplemented by user dictionaries. You
can save any number of user dictionaries, but only one can be loaded at a time. A dictionary
called Custom is the default user dictionary for Microsoft Word.
Starting a user dictionary
Click Add in the OCR Proofreader dialog box with no user dictionary loaded or open the User
Dictionary Files dialog box from the Tools menu and click New.
Loading or unloading a user dictionary
Do this from the OCR panel of the Options dialog box or from the User Dictionary Files dialog
box.
Editing or removing a user dictionary
Add words by loading a user dictionary and then clicking Add in the OCR Proofreader dialog
box. You can add and delete words by clicking Edit in the User Dictionary Files dialog box. You
can also import words from OmniPage user dictionaries (*.ud). While editing a user dictionary,
you can import a word list from a plain text file to add words to the dictionary quickly. Each
word must be on a separate line with no punctuation at the start or end of the word. The Remove
button lets you remove the selected user dictionary from the list.
To embed a user dictionary in an OmniPage Document, load your input file, choose Tools >
User Dictionary; select the user dictionary you want to use, click Embed, and name it. Then
save to the file type OmniPage Document.
Languages
The program can read over 120 languages with multiple alphabets: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic,
Chinese, Japanese and Korean. See the full language list in the OCR panel of the Options
dialog box. It shows which languages have dictionary support. Select the language or
languages that will be in documents to be recognized. Selecting a large number of languages
may reduce OCR accuracy.
A language listing is also provided on the Nuance web site.
The option Detect single language automatically removes the need to select languages. It is
designed for unattended processing when documents or forms in different languages are
expected. OmniPage then examines each incoming page and assigns a single recognition