Create a Zone Contents File
Tutorials 60
Note that OmniPage preserves the table and other even spacing
with tabs.
The red tildes on the page mean OmniPage did not recognize
some of the specialized characters in the document. You can
double-click each tilde in the text window to open the
Verification window and see the original image. A later tutorial,
Train OCR, shows you how to teach OmniPage to recognize these
special characters and symbols.
10 Leave the document open for the next exercise.
Create a Zone Contents File
You can speed OCR and minimize potential recognition errors by creating
your own zone contents file. Depending on the font and image quality,
OmniPage may recognize a five (5) as an
S
or a zero (0) as an
O.
A zone
contents file prevents this by telling OmniPage exactly what to recognize
in a particular zone. You will create a zone contents file in this exercise.
Creating the File
1
Choose
Edit Zone Contents File...
in the Settings menu.
The Select File dialog box opens.
2
Click
New
.
The Edit Zone Content File dialog box opens with a string of
highlighted characters. This is the default Alphanumeric zone
contents set
