User manual SCANSOFT OMNIPAGE SE

[. . . ] L E G A L NO T I C E S Copyright © 2006 Nuance Communications, Inc. No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without prior written consent from Nuance Communications, Inc. , 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803-4609. The software described in this book is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. I M P O R T A N T NO T I C E Nuance Communications, Inc. provides this publication "As Is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] A page is marked with the proofed icon on its thumbnail and in the Document Manager if proofing ran to the end of the page. Speak the number of the suggestion you want to accept. Verifying text After performing OCR, you can compare any part of the recognized text against the corresponding part of the original image, to verify that the text was recognized correctly. Hover the cursor over a verifier display to obtain the verifier toolbar. · one word · three words (current + neighbors) · whole image line zoom in/out Verifying text 47 To turn the Verifier on, click the Verifier tool or press F9. To turn it off, click the Verifier tool again, press F9 again, or press Esc. A full list of verifier keyboard shortcuts is available in the Online Help. The Character Map The Character Map is a dockable tool giving you aid in proofing. It is used for essentially two purposes: to insert characters during proofing, and editing that are not or not easily accessible from your keyboard. to show all characters validated by the current recognition languages. (Not applicable to OmniPage SE. ) To access the Character Map, click its button in the Formatting Toolbar, or choose Character Map from the View menu and click Show. Under the Character Map menu item, you have additional options: Recent Characters Only: click this option to display only the 36 recently used characters in the formatting toolbar. This is useful if you work with a limited set of characters to be inserted. Character Sets: choose this, then select all the character sets that you want displayed in the character map. Click the Additional Characters button to select characters to be included in proofing. Similarly, you can modify the Reject Character by using the Character Map. The Character Map will display when you click the (. . . ) button beside the Correct field. Select Train Character from the shortcut menu of a suspect, or non-dictionary word in the Text Editor. You can access the Character Map in other ways, such as: 48 Chapter 4 The above three ways to access the Character Map are not available in OmniPage SE. User dictionaries The program has built-in dictionaries for many languages. These assist during recognition and may offer suggestions during proofing. 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. [. . . ] The above advice on training does not apply to OmniPage SE. 86 Chapter 7 If you use True Page as the Text Editor view or for export, recognized text is put into text boxes or frames. To view the text, place the cursor in the text box and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll to the top, bottom, left, or right of the box. Check the glass, mirrors, and lenses on your scanner for dust, smudges or scratches. Clean if necessary. Problems with fax recognition Try these solutions to improve OCR accuracy on fax images: Ask senders to use clean, original documents if possible. [. . . ]