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Proofing and Editing Languages 48
language to the whole page. That means this feature is not suitable for pages containing
multiple languages.
The program chooses from the languages with dictionary support that use a Latin-based
alphabet (meaning Russian and Greek are excluded) plus optionally Asian languages. Choose
from three language groups:
• Latin-alphabet languages (choose it to see the enabled languages)
• Asian languages (Japanese, Korean and Chinese – Traditional and Simplified)
• Latin-alphabet and Asian languages.
When this feature is enabled, no manual language selection is possible and the option Ver if y
language choices (see below) is not available.
In addition to user dictionaries, specialized dictionaries are available for certain professions
(currently medical, legal and financial) for some languages. See the list and make selections in
the OCR panel of the Options dialog box.
Asian language recognition
Four languages with Asian alphabets are supported: Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese
and Simplified Chinese. The ideal font size for body text is 12 points, scanned at 300 dpi,
resulting in characters with around 48x48 pixels. Minimum is 30x30, that is 10.5 points at 300
dpi. For smaller characters, 400 dpi should be used. Asian texts can be horizontal (left-to-
right) or vertical (top-to-bottom, right-to-left). Operating systems supported by OmniPage
Ultimate can handle Asian languages, but if East Asian language support was not selected
during system install, it must be added from Control Panel / Regional and Language Settings /
Languages / Supplemental language support / Install files for East Asian languages. You may
be required to insert a Windows system disk.
The four Asian languages are listed alphabetically with the others in the Options/OCR panel.
You should select only one of these languages at a time and avoid a multiple selection with
other languages. Asian OCR can handle short embedded English texts without English being
explicitly set; this is not designed for longer English texts or for texts in other Western
languages. Vertical text is typical in Japanese and Chinese - English may be embedded there
in different orientations. The program can handle these; in the output they appear right-
rotated.
Beside the language list the option Verify language choices invokes automatic language
detection that warns of differences between a detected language and the language setting. It
works at page-level and identifies four categories: Japanese, Chinese, Korean and non-Asian.
It cannot distinguish between Traditional and Simplified Chinese or between non-Asian