Settings Guidelines
OmniPage Pro Settings - 85
What is the quality of the original document?
Poor or not sure
Degraded copies, colored or
shaded backgrounds, run-together
or broken text characters
Recommendations for scanning:
Try to scan original documents rather than
copies.
Select Manual Brightness and Manual
Contrast in the Scanner section of the Settings
Panel if you have a color or grayscale
scanner, and the page has crisp text on
colored or shaded backgrounds.
Experiment with the Brightness and Contrast
settings, depending on your scanner. Lighten
the setting for thick, run-together text
characters and/or dark backgrounds. Darken
the setting for thin, broken text characters.
Other recommendations:
Select 3D OCR in the Scanner section of the
Settings Panel if you are loading a grayscale
image file that has run-together or broken text
characters.
Modify zones to omit any smudges or
scribbles on the page. See Modifying Zones
on page 35.
Or, erase smudges from the image. See
Erasing Areas of an Image on page 53.
Reverse white text on dark backgrounds. See
Inverting an Image on page 54.
Select Use Language Analyst in the Spelling
section of the Settings Panel.
Choose Proofread OCR... in the Edit menu to
locate possible errors after OCR.
Ask senders to select Fine or Best mode when
they send faxes that you plan to recognize.
thick, run-together text
characters
thin, broken text
characters
