What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?
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Basic Steps of OmniPage Pro OCR
These are the basic steps of OmniPage Pro’s OCR process:
1
Bring a document image into OmniPage Pro.
You can scan a paper document or load an image file. The
resulting image appears in the Image View.
See “Bringing Document Images into OmniPage Pro” on page
27 for more information.
2
Create zones
to identify the parts of the document you want to
recognize as text or retain as graphics.
Zones are borders that enclose the parts of a document image
that will get processed. You can create zones manually,
automatically, or with a template. Any areas not enclosed by
zones are ignored during OCR.
See “Creating Zones on a Page” on page 29 for more
information.
3
Perform OCR
to convert image information into editable text
characters.
During OCR, OmniPage Pro defines text characters in an
image. After OCR, you can check for and edit any errors.
See “Converting Images to Text” on page 37 for more
information.
4
Export the document
to the desired location.
You can save your document to a specified file format or place
it on the Clipboard.
See “Exporting Documents” on page 57 for more information.
