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Chapter 5
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edit box, or click a non-keyboard character in the scrolling
display to add it to the edit box.
In our example, the ‘H’ has been cleared and ‘//’ entered.
Click OK to accept the character specification.
The Training File dialog box reappears.
Repeat steps 5–7 to continue specifying characters.
The Delete button is not needed when you create a new training
file. Any untouched character is excluded from the training file.
Click Save... to save the characters whose solutions you changed to
a new training file which you will name.
Or, click
Append...
to add these characters to an existing training
file which you select. In this case, no new training file is created.
After saving or appending a file, you are asked if you want to make
this the current training file. Click OK to (re-)recognize the
current page using the training file you have just created. Click
Cancel to return to the image without recognizing it.
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To load a training file:
Choose Preferences... from the Application menu (OS 9: Edit).
Click the OCR icon to display the OCR panel.
Select a training file in the Training File pop-up menu.
This file remains loaded until you unload it or replace it with
another training file.
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To unload a training file:
Choose Preferences... from the Application menu (OS9: Edit).
Click the OCR icon to display the OCR panel.
Select None in the Training File pop-up menu.
Note
It is important to unload a training file when you finish processing pages for which
it was prepared. A training file is likely to lower accuracy if it remains loaded for
pages with different typestyles.