OCR
Technical Information 232
True Page and WordPerfect for Windows 6.0
You can save a maximum of 12 pages of True Page output to WordPerfect
for Windows 6.0. If your document exceeds 12 pages, you can do one of
the following:
• Choose
Delete Current Page
in the Edit menu to delete excess pages.
• Select
Create One File per Page
under
Save Options
in the Save As
dialog box.
The first frame border in a True Page document may have its position and
size distorted when you open it in WordPerfect. You can edit this frame in
WordPerfect. This problem does not occur with the WordPerfect 6.0a
upgrade; please contact Novell/WordPerfect for upgrade information.
OCR and Wide Text Zones
Portrait pages recognized in OmniPage should not have a single text zone
wider than 7.5 inches or the right margin may be incorrect in your target
application. If your page has a multicolumn layout wider than 7.5 inches
across, separate it into zones of fewer multiple columns. If the page has
one zone wider than 7.5 inches, recognize it as a single zone. Adjust the
right margin in your target application as necessary.
Spreadsheet Applications
Spreadsheet-type documents may require a special OCR procedure if you
plan to save to a spreadsheet application such as Excel. If your document
has separate areas of information with different row and column
alignment, recognize each area individually and save to separate files. You
can later combine these files in your spreadsheet application.
For example, if you have a spreadsheet with two separate text areas
divided by a heading, follow this procedure:
1
Draw a single zone around the first text area.
The information within the zone should all be in the same row
and column alignment. Do not include headings, titles, footers,
and so forth.
2
Select
Single Column or Table
in the Zones settings panel and
Retain Font and Paragraph Formatting
in the OCR settings panel.
3
Perform OCR and then use the
Save As...
command to save the
recognized text to the desired spreadsheet file format.
4
Return to the zone window and delete the manual zone.
5
Repeat steps 1–3 for the other area of data in the page image that
you want to recognize.
