Millennium

TextBridge Pro Millennium Business Edition User’s Guide 1–1
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INTRODUCTION TO
TEXTBRIDGE
Welcome to ScanSoft’s TextBridge Pro Millennium, optical
character recognition (OCR) software for Microsoft Windows
®
95,
98, 2000 and Windows NT
®
4.0.
This chapter provides an introduction to TextBridge including:
◆ Basic OCR concepts
◆ Features and benefits
◆ Characteristics of documents TextBridge can recognize
◆ Input image file formats
◆ Output text file formats
◆ Output image file formats
BASIC OCR CONCEPTS
OCR technology enables you to convert paper documents into
fully editable text with images on your computer. Originally, OCR
technology performed simple character recognition of text
characters, numbers, and symbols. Today, TextBridge OCR
includes full document recognition including recognizing text
plus formatting such as headlines, multiple columns, tables, and
running headers and footers and capturing photographs and line
drawings. TextBridge even retains the layout of the original
document as much as possible.
You can use TextBridge to scan and convert printed pages to
text documents for your word processor, spreadsheet program,
web browser, database program, or other text application. Pages
may be from most sources, including computer printers, fax
machines, photocopiers, magazines, and newspapers. Pages can be
black and white or color. TextBridge can also recognize standard
page image files from fax modems, image applications, and other
sources.