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Testing TextBridge Pro

Low memory problems

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Page 2: ...thout warranty of any kind either express or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose Some states or jurisdictions do not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties in certain transactions therefore this statement may not apply to you ScanSoft reserves the right to revise this publication and to make changes from time...

Page 3: ...ments 12 Installing TextBridge Pro 13 Setting up your scanner with TextBridge Pro 14 How to start the program 16 Registering your software 17 New features in TextBridge Pro 11 18 2 INTRODUCTION 19 What is optical character recognition 20 TextBridge Pro s OCR capabilities 20 Documents in TextBridge Pro 21 Basic processing steps 21 The TextBridge desktop 22 The Standard toolbar 23 The Menu bar 23 Th...

Page 4: ...S 33 Quick Start Guide 34 Loading and recognizing sample image files 34 Scanning and recognizing a single page 34 Processing documents using the OCR Wizard 37 Processing documents automatically 40 Command buttons 41 Processing documents manually 42 Processing a document automatically and finishing it manually 44 Processing from other applications 45 How to set up Direct OCR 45 How to use Direct OC...

Page 5: ... EDITING 59 Proofreading OCR results 60 Checking recognized text against original 62 User dictionaries 63 The editor display and views 63 Text and image editing 64 Page outline 66 5 SAVING AND EXPORTING 67 Preparing recognition results for export 68 Saving to file 69 Saving original images 69 Saving recognition results 70 Saving a document as you work 71 Copying a document to the Clipboard 72 Send...

Page 6: ...ems 78 Supported file types 79 File types for opening and saving images 79 File types for saving recognition results 80 OCR problems 81 Text does not get recognized properly 81 Problems with fax recognition 82 System or performance problems during OCR 82 Uninstalling the software 83 ...

Page 7: ... s online Help contains information on features settings and procedures The online Help is provided as HTML help and has been designed for quick and easy information retrieval Comprehensive context sensitive help aims to provide just enough assistance to let you keep working without delay Please see the section Getting online help Readme File The Readme file contains last minute information about ...

Page 8: ...er is installed and working correctly before it is setup with TextBridge Pro 11 Please refer to the scanner s own documentation as necessary The following conventions are used in this guide Bold Introduces new terms and presents sub headings Italic Names sections in this guide unless otherwise stated the section is located in the same chapter as the reference Names the main buttons used in automat...

Page 9: ...am to see an online help topic relating to the current screen area dialog box or warning message Context Sensitive Help You can get concise on the spot information in a popup window about a particular TextBridge Pro menu item toolbar button screen area or dialog box in the following ways Click the Help tool in the Standard toolbar to get the help icon Click this on any item on the desktop outside ...

Page 10: ...11 Web pages may also offer assistance on the installation process and troubleshooting Glossary This guide does not include a glossary The online Help has a comprehensive glossary with its own alphabetical index and a table of contents Please consult it if you want to find the meaning of a term used in this guide or in the program ...

Page 11: ...s information on installing and starting TextBridge Pro 11 It presents the following topics u System requirements u Installing TextBridge Pro u Setting up your scanner with TextBridge Pro u How to start the program u Registering your software u New features in TextBridge Pro 11 ...

Page 12: ...9MB for Microsoft Installer MSI if not present and 44MB for Internet Explorer if not present These are present as part of the operating system in Windows 98 Windows Me and Windows 2000 u SVGA monitor with 256 colors and 800 x 600 pixel resolution u Windows compatible pointing device u CD ROM drive for installation u A compatible scanner if you plan to scan documents Please see the Scanner Guide at...

Page 13: ...D ROM drive The installation program should start automatically If it does not start locate your CD ROM drive in Windows Explorer and double click the Autorun exe program at the top level of the CD ROM 2 Choose a language to use during installation The program interface language is used for displays such as menu items dialog boxes warning messages and so on You can change the interface language la...

Page 14: ...n in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box or choose a scan command in the Get Page drop down list in the TextBridge Toolbox u Choose Select scanning source then click Next u Click once on your scanner s TWAIN driver then click Next u Choose Yes to test your scanner configuration then click Next u The wizard will now test the connection from the computer to your scanner Click on Next u Inser...

Page 15: ...rectly in the window click on Next If your scanner cannot scan in color skip this step u Insert a photograph or a page containing a picture into your scanner Click on Next to begin a scan in grayscale mode If necessary click on Inverse Image or Missing Image and make the appropriate selections Once the image appears correctly in the window click on Next u You have successfully configured your scan...

Page 16: ...are several ways of running the program with a limited interface u Use the Schedule OCR program Click Start in the Windows taskbar and choose ProgramsÉScanSoft TextBridge Pro 11 0É Schedule OCR See Processing documents with Schedule OCR in chapter 3 u Click Acquire Text from the File menu of an application registered with the Direct OCR facility See Direct OCR in chapter 3 u Right click an image f...

Page 17: ...ccuracy especially on degraded documents u More file formats New image files formats for input are JPEG and PNG and for export BMP DCX JPEG PCX and PNG See page 79 Image saving is now done from the File menu instead of from the Tools menu See page 69 u Working areas Choose to display the Image and Text areas as alternatives as in previous TextBridge versions or to have both visible at once separat...

Page 18: ...ilities are replaced with others providing superior functionality u Instant AccessTM is replaced by Direct OCRTM This provides OCR services from the File menu of word processors and other applications See page 45 Register applications for Direct OCR with the Options panel accessed from the Tools menu u TextBridge Scheduler becomes Schedule OCR See page 47 u TextBridge Assistant Show me how is repl...

Page 19: ...cle in a report you are preparing you somehow have to get the text from the article into your computer Painstakingly retyping the article is not an appealing solution This chapter introduces you to the solution optical character recognition OCR It describes how TextBridge Pro 11 uses OCR technology to transform text from scanned pages or image files into editable text for use in your favorite comp...

Page 20: ... recognition TextBridge Pro can retain the following elements of a document through the OCR process Graphics Photos logos and drawings are examples of graphics Text formatting Font types sizes and styles such as bold italic and underlines are examples of character formatting Indents tabs margins and line spacing are examples of paragraph formatting Page formatting Column structure table formats an...

Page 21: ... TextBridge Pro You can scan a paper document with or without an Automatic Document Feeder ADF or load one or more image files The resulting images appear in miniature in the Document Manager s Thumbnail view and the pages are summarized in its Detail view The image of the current page is displayed in the Original Image area 2 Perform OCR to generate editable text During OCR TextBridge Pro creates...

Page 22: ...document The current page has a pale border This page has been recognized Page navigation buttons Buttons to show hide or rearrange the working areas Image toolbar Original Image area This displays the image of the current page together with any zones automatically or manually placed on the image Drag this splitter to left or right to resize the working areas The Text Editor view buttons offer fou...

Page 23: ...ul commands for that area The Standard toolbar The Standard toolbar contains buttons and a drop down list for performing standard tasks It can be floated and docked to any edge of the TextBridge desktop All these functions can also be accessed from menus The Menu bar For concise information on any menu item click the context sensitive help button and then click a menu item A popup text explains th...

Page 24: ...g Here we summarize the purpose of the buttons The Formatting toolbar always remains along the top of the Text Editor Draw rectangular zones Add to a zone or combine zones Reorder zones Move row or column dividers in a table Remove replace all row and column dividers Zoom in on page image Draw irregular zones Subtract from zone or separate zones Zone properties Insert column dividers in a table Re...

Page 25: ...sing documents automatically You can switch between automatic and manual processing any time the program is not busy with processing That means you can switch between them while you are working within a document You can automatically process some pages then add more pages with manual processing After processing a stack of pages automatically you can inspect the results and then go back to reproces...

Page 26: ...ushed in appearance A status icon appears at the bottom right of each page as described above Jump to a page Click the icon of the desired page Reorder a page Click the thumbnail of the page you want to move and drag it above the desired page number Pages are renumbered automatically Delete a page Select the thumbnail of the page you want to delete and press the Delete key Select multiple pages Ho...

Page 27: ...ges are renumbered automatically Delete a page Select the row of the page you want to delete and press the Delete key Select multiple pages Hold down the Shift key and click two page rows to select all pages between and including them Hold down the Ctrl key as you click rows to add pages to a selection one by one Then you can move or delete the selected pages as a group or send them to re recognit...

Page 28: ... page only with the item Delete Current Page in the Edit menu Delete all selected pages in the Document Manager either view by pressing the Delete key or using the shortcut menu command Clear Printing a document You can print the document with the Print item in the File menu Choose whether to print images or text that is recognition results as they appear in the Text Editor You can print all pages...

Page 29: ...placed on them After recognition the TXD also contains the recognition results Recognized characters are stored along with their coordinate and confidence data This preserves the links between image and text so that verification and proofing remain available when the TXD is reopened in future sessions When you save a TextBridge Document some settings are also saved When you open a TextBridge Docum...

Page 30: ...later save it to another format it is not automatically resaved as a TXD When you close the document or exit the program you will be prompted to save the document as a TXD SETTINGS The Options dialog box is the central location for TextBridge Pro settings It has seven panels Context sensitive help provides information on each setting In overview the settings panels are OCR Use this to specify reco...

Page 31: ...rvice You can also specify automatic or manual zoning and whether proofreading is desired or not Process Use this to define where new images should be placed in the document and set other preferences governing the behavior of the processing You can change the interface language here Proofing Use this to define whether proofreading should begin automatically after recognition Custom Layout Use this...

Page 32: ...future recognition Examples are the recognition languages a user dictionary and scanner brightness These settings should be correctly adjusted before you start processing To have changes in these settings applied to already recognized pages you will have to rerecognize them Other settings are implemented immediately in all existing pages Examples are Text Editor settings like word wrap and measure...

Page 33: ...cuments using the OCR Wizard u Processing documents automatically u Processing documents manually u Processing a document automatically and finishing it manually u Processing from other applications Direct OCR PaperPort u Processing documents with Schedule OCR The detailed topics are u Defining the source of page images u Describing the layout of the document u Manual zoning u Table grids in the i...

Page 34: ...should expect from your own files of comparable quality Next try scanning a page from your scanner Scanning and recognizing a single page Turn your scanner on and be sure it is working correctly Choose a page with good quality clear text for this test We assume TextBridge Pro s default settings are set and that your document is in the language you specified for interface language during installati...

Page 35: ...start to scan in your document 9 The OCR Proofreader appears and invites you to modify words that the program suspects have not been recognized correctly The OCR Proofreader operates like a spell checker in a word processing program but with added OCR specific features 10 Click in the Text Editor Select Text Editor views one after another to see how the page appears in each view Choose the view yo...

Page 36: ... page by page with different settings for each page The program also stops between each step acquiring images performing recognition exporting This lets you for instance draw zones manually or change recognition language s You start each step by clicking buttons on the Manual OCR toolbar Automatically with manual finishing You can process a document automatically and view results in the Text Edito...

Page 37: ...is no document open in TextBridge Pro Click the OCR Wizard tab in the TextBridge Toolbox and click the Wizard button to see the first wizard screen 1 The first panel lets you define your document source scanner or image file For more information see the section Defining the source of page images Answer the questions in the first screen and click Next 2 The second panel asks you to describe the lay...

Page 38: ...es you can also edit the text before saving 6 The last panel asks you to define the export choice saving to file or copying to Clipboard After setting the choice click Finish to close the Wizard and start the automatic processing 7 If you requested proofing and the text contains suspect words the OCR Proofreader dialog box will appear When proofing is finished or closed recognition results either ...

Page 39: ...ic or manual processing until you change them So if you have more documents for which your OCR Wizard settings are suitable just switch to the AutoOCR toolbar and click Start Note Applicable settings not offered by the OCR Wizard take the values last set in the program This concerns mainly scanner settings and a user dictionary Zone templates cannot be used with the OCR Wizard If a template file w...

Page 40: ...r For more detail see the section Defining the source of page images 3 Select a command from the Describe Original drop down list as shown above This guides the program in auto zoning the pages You describe the incoming pages or specify a zone template file For more information on the choices see the section Describing the layout of the document 4 Select a command from the Export Results drop down...

Page 41: ...u u Finish processing unfinished pages u Export the document dropping any unrecognized pages Additional This appears if all existing pages are processed and have been exported once It lets you u Export the document again maybe with changes to a different file type name or location or with a different formatting level u Add more pages from the same source or a different source with changed or uncha...

Page 42: ...make settings in the Options dialog box See Settings at the end of chapter 2 3 Select the desired value for the Get Page button You define the document source which can be from image files or from a scanner Access the scanner settings dialog box and make settings as desired For more detail see the section Defining the source of page images 4 Click the Get Page button This either brings up the Load...

Page 43: ...s you disabled it When you choose one of its options recognition starts 9 If you requested proofing the OCR Proofreader dialog box displays suspect words one after the other from the recognized page s You can proof and edit the recognized text See chapter 4 Proofreading OCR results 10 Continue loading pages performing OCR editing and proofing as desired 11 Select a value for the Export Results but...

Page 44: ...This is recommended even if it is not in its final form 3 Select a page needing rezoning or changed settings and click the Manual OCR tab at the left of the TextBridge Toolbox 4 Delete or modify the existing zones in the Original Image area You can also load a template to let its zones replace existing ones Draw new zones as desired See Manual zoning 5 Change other settings as required for the cur...

Page 45: ...ed application Select the process options as desired to function as preferences How to use Direct OCR 1 Open your registered application and work in a document To acquire recognition results from scanned pages place them correctly in the scanner 2 Use the File Menu item Acquire Text Settings to specify settings to be used during recognition Any settings not offered take their values from those las...

Page 46: ...rPort You can choose an OCR program by right clicking on a text applications PaperPort link selecting Preferences and then selecting TextBridge Pro 11 as the OCR package OCR settings can be specified as with Direct OCR Here TextBridge Pro 11 has been selected as the OCR package for MS Word 2000 Then you can drag page images from the PaperPort desktop onto the MS Word link on the PaperPort While th...

Page 47: ...ppears Click Add Job to get the Add Job Wizard It takes you through six panels similar to the OCR Wizard 3 In the first panel you define image source An additional feature lets you process all supported image files in a defined folder 4 The next three panels are similar to those in the OCR Wizard but you can also specify a user dictionary 5 The fifth panel lets you specify an export file name type...

Page 48: ...can open a wide range of image file types see a listing in chapter 6 File types for opening and saving images Image files are specified in the Load File dialog box This appears when you start automatic processing In manual processing click the Load File button or use the Process menu The lower part of the dialog box provides advanced settings and can be shown or hidden Here it is displayed This is...

Page 49: ...want color in your output document nor if you want pictures to look like so called black and white photographs they need grayscale scanning For best OCR accuracy use this for crisp black texts on a white or light background Black and white images can be scanned and handled quicker than others and occupy less disk space Scan grayscale Select this to use grayscale scanning Choose this to keep black ...

Page 50: ...Scanning with an ADF The best way to scan multi page documents is with an Automatic Document Feeder ADF Simply load pages in the correct order into the ADF Place blank pages if you want to save your document to multiple output files using the Create a new file at each blank page option See Saving to file in chapter 5 If you have a document longer than the capacity of your ADF select Automatically ...

Page 51: ...lace the next page A dialog box allows you finish the pause early or request a longer pause and to specify when the last page is scanned DESCRIBING THE LAYOUT OF THE DOCUMENT Before starting recognition you are requested to describe the layout of the incoming pages to assist the auto zoning process When you use the OCR Wizard auto zoning always runs When you do automatic processing auto zoning alw...

Page 52: ...le Auto zoning will not look for columns but will try to find a table and place it in a grid in the Text Editor You can later specify whether to export it in a grid or as tab separated text columns Graphics may be detected Spreadsheet Choose this if your whole page consists of a table which you want to export to a spreadsheet program or have treated as single table No flowing text or graphics zone...

Page 53: ... always selected When you no longer want the service of a tool click a different tool Normally this will be the Draw Rectangular Zones tool Draw rectangular zones Click this and drag the cursor to define rectangular zones The new zone takes its properties from the last drawn or selected zone You can also move or resize existing zones when this tool is active Draw irregular zones Click this for a t...

Page 54: ...has a zone type Zones containing text can also have a zone contents setting alphanumeric or numeric The zone type and zone contents together constitute the zone properties Right click in a zone for a shortcut menu allowing you to change the zone s properties Select multiple zones to change their properties in one move The zone properties button in the Image toolbar can be used for the same purpose...

Page 55: ...ansferred to the Text Editor as an embedded image and not as recognized text A graphics zone has a green border Embedded images can be exported with the document to target applications supporting graphics Ignore zone Use this to define a page area you do not want in the Text Editor Auto zoning will not place zones here To exclude a given page area from many pages for example a header or page numbe...

Page 56: ...ns a table type zone Use them as follows Move row or column dividers Click the tool and move the cursor to the divider to be moved It displays a double headed arrow Drag the border as desired You cannot drag it beyond its neighbor Avoid placing dividers so they overlap one another or cut through text Press the Ctrl key as you drag a column divider to move it in the current row only Insert column d...

Page 57: ...ages until the template is unloaded You can modify the template zones and add new zones before performing recognition When you load a template with the AutoOCR toolbar it does not affect the current or existing pages The template zones are placed on all further acquired pages until the template is unloaded The Process panel of the Options dialog box presents the option Find zones in addition to te...

Page 58: ...ting zones are changed and the new template is used for future processing When the Manual OCR toolbar is active zones from the new template are applied to the current page replacing any existing zones How to delete a template file Open the Zone Template Files dialog box Select a template and click the Delete button Zones already placed by this template are not removed Tip Templates accept ignore a...

Page 59: ...itor This newly developed WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get editor offers the following features detailed in this chapter u Proofreading OCR results u Checking recognized text against original Verifying text u User dictionaries u The editor display and views u Text and image editing u Page outline ...

Page 60: ...Page view except that the reading order of zones is shown by arrows This view s difference from True Page relates mainly to export as explained in the section Preparing recognition results for export in chapter 5 PROOFREADING OCR RESULTS After a page is recognized the recognition results appear in the Text Editor Proofreading starts automatically if that was requested in the Proofing panel of the ...

Page 61: ...ary and move to the next suspect word 5 Color markers are removed from words in the Text Editor as they are proofread You can switch to the Text Editor during proofing to make corrections there Use the Resume button to restart proofing Click Close to stop proofreading before the end of the document is reached This is what TextBridge Pro thought the word was The image of the suspect word is highlig...

Page 62: ...the word in the Text Editor as necessary 2 Click inside the window to enlarge or reduce the picture The picture is enlarged on the first two clicks and reduced on the next two clicks 3 Continue double clicking words that you want to verify and correcting them as necessary The display changes as you select new words 4 Click the Close button to close the verifier window Close button This is the word...

Page 63: ...ser Dictionary Files dialog box Select a dictionary file to load it or none to unload a user dictionary Editing a user dictionary Add words by loading a user dictionary and then clicking Add in the OCR Proofreader dialog box You can add and delete words in the User Dictionary Files dialog box THE EDITOR DISPLAY AND VIEWS The editor displays recognized texts and can mark words that were suspected d...

Page 64: ...ent as possible Character and paragraph styling is retained All page elements including columns are placed in frames It may be more difficult to verify and edit text in this view you may need to scroll within a frame to see all the frame contents A row of arrows denote contents extending beyond frame borders Retain Flowing Columns view This view is identical to True Page view except that the readi...

Page 65: ...Format menu Paragraph styles Paragraph styles are auto detected during recognition A list of styles is built up and presented in a selection box on the left of the Formatting toolbar Use this to assign a style to selected paragraphs Use the Style dialog box from the Format menu to rename or modify a style and to define a new style When you save a document to file you can choose whether to export t...

Page 66: ...h Retain Flowing Columns view Open the page outline window from the View menu The areas correspond to the zones used during recognition and also to frames used in the Text Editor Click and drag an item to the desired location Reordered paragraphs display immediately in the Text Editor and are exported Reordered areas display and are exported in No Formatting View and Retain Fonts and Paragraphs vi...

Page 67: ...g levels using different file types names or locations You can also add or rerecognize pages or modify the recognized text With automatic processing and using the OCR Wizard you specify the first saving destination before processing starts When the last available page is recognized or proofread if that was requested the exporting occurs You can specify export any time the program is not busy If yo...

Page 68: ...h extension TXT These file types cannot accept graphics or tables Of course you can export plain text to any file type and target application Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view This is suitable for all formats except those with the TXT extensions These formats can all handle graphics and tables True Page view This is suitable only for file types and target applications capable of handling frames or ...

Page 69: ...n have all images in a single multi page image file providing you set TIFF or DCX as file type Otherwise each image is placed in a separate file TextBridge Pro adds numerical suffixes to the file name you provide to generate unique file names 3 Click OK to save the image s as specified Zones and recognized text are not saved with the file If possible the file is saved as displayed that is black an...

Page 70: ...ed button to see all the saving options Select these as desired 5 Click OK The document is saved to disk as specified If Save and Launch is selected the exported file will appear in its target application that is the one associated with the selected file type in your Windows system Select this to automatically open the saved file in its target application Select this to have the paragraph styles f...

Page 71: ...xtBridge Pro in a later session save it as a TextBridge Document This is a special output file type It saves the original images together with the recognition results and some settings See the section TextBridge Documents in chapter 2 The Save As dialog box lists available file types in its Save as Type drop down list The TextBridge Document is the last format in the list Note Graphics and formatt...

Page 72: ...d The copying is reported by a progress monitor You can then paste the Clipboard contents into another application Text formatting such as bold and italics is retained when you paste into an application that supports RTF information Otherwise only plain text will be pasted Graphics are retained if the application supports insertion of images t To copy a document to the Clipboard With automatic pro...

Page 73: ...as soon as the last available page in the document is recognized or proofed With manual processing select Send as Mail as the command in the Export Results drop down list and then click its button on the Manual OCR toolbar The Send Mail dialog box appears immediately At any time the program is not busy choose Send as Mail in the File menu to call up the Send Mail dialog box 1 The Send Mail dialog ...

Page 74: ...mpty message Attachments take the name used for the last save of the document in TextBridge Pro or Untitled from TextBridge The suitable file extension is added and numerical suffixes for multiple attachments 4 Address your mail message add message text as desired and click the Send button ...

Page 75: ...e file contains last minute information relating to TextBridge Pro Access to the Readme file and to ScanSoft s web pages is provided in the Help menu This chapter contains the following information u Troubleshooting Solutions to try first Testing TextBridge Pro Low memory problems Low disk space problems u Supported file types File types for opening and saving images File types for saving recognit...

Page 76: ... at www scansoft com It contains Tech Notes on commonly reported issues using TextBridge Pro 11 Our web pages may also offer assistance on the installation process and troubleshooting u Turn off your computer and your scanner turn your scanner back on and then restart your computer Make sure other applications are functioning properly u Use the software that came with your scanner to verify that t...

Page 77: ...un properly in safe mode then there may be a problem with the installation Uninstall and reinstall TextBridge Pro see the end of this chapter and then run it in Windows safe mode If TextBridge Pro runs in safe mode then a device driver on your system may be interfering with TextBridge Pro operation Troubleshoot the problem by restarting Windows in Step by Step Confirmation mode See Windows online ...

Page 78: ... OCR performance See System requirements in chapter 1 for more information Low disk space problems Problems may occur if your system runs low on free disk space Try these solutions for low disk space problems u Empty the Windows Recycle Bin u Close all open applications and delete the tmp files in the Temp folder This folder is usually located in your Windows folder u Run ScanDisk for Windows 95 9...

Page 79: ...n but grayscale and color images are not usually saved above 150 dpi Hover the cursor over an image for a popup window showing the size and resolution of the original image File type Extension Multi page Open Save B W Grayscale Color BMP Bitmap bmp No Open and Save All DCX dcx Yes Open and Save All JPEG jpg No Open and Save Grayscale color PCX pcx No Open and Save All PNG png No Open and Save All ...

Page 80: ...ut will appear as Retain Fonts and Paragraphs RFP view this is without columns File type Exten sion Format levels Text Editor views Supports graphics ASCII text 1 txt csv No Formatting view NFV No Excel 3 0 to 7 0 97 2000 xls NFV RFP Spreadsheet Yes FrameMaker 5 5 3 mif All Yes Freelance Graphics txt No Formatting view NFV No Harvard Graphics txt No Formatting view NFV No HTML 3 2 2 htm All Yes 2 ...

Page 81: ...Zone properties in chapter 3 u Be sure you do not have an unsuitable template loaded by mistake If zone borders cut through text recognition is impaired u Adjust the brightness and contrast sliders in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box You may need to experiment with different settings combinations to get the desired results u Check the resolution of the original image Hover the cursor ov...

Page 82: ...ng time u Resolve low memory problems See Testing TextBridge Pro u Resolve low disk space problems See Testing TextBridge Pro u Minimize all applications or click Alt Tab to check for Windows error messages u Check the quality of the image you are recognizing u Consult your scanner documentation on ways to improve the quality of scanned images u Break complex page images lots of text and graphics ...

Page 83: ...solve a problem TextBridge Pro s Uninstall program will not remove any of the following user created files Zone templates zon User dictionaries ud TextBridge Documents txd To uninstall from Windows NT or Windows 2000 you must be logged into your computer with administrator privileges t To uninstall or reinstall TextBridge Pro u Close TextBridge Pro u Click Start in the Windows taskbar and choose S...

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Page 85: ... the order of areas 66 zone types 55 Character attributes 65 Checking OCR results 62 Clipboard 72 Closing a document 29 Color images 69 markers 61 scanning 49 Columns changing text flow 66 in tables 56 Command buttons forautomatic processing 41 Comparing recognized words with originals 62 Contents of TextBridge Documents 71 Context Sensitive Help ix 23 30 Contrast 50 81 Control over processing 42 ...

Page 86: ...rmatting levels for export 68 Formatting toolbar 22 24 Frames in export document 68 recognized text in 81 G Generating table dividers 57 Get Page button 40 42 Getting online Help ix Graphic zone 55 Graphics editing 65 in export 70 80 in JPEG files 80 Grayscale images 69 scanning 49 H Help Context Sensitive ix 23 30 online ix Hiding or showing markers 63 I Ignore zone 55 Image acquiring 21 42 black...

Page 87: ...gs for Direct OCR 45 Wizard 36 37 39 Online HTML Help ix registration 17 Opening image files 48 79 TextBridge Documents 16 48 Optical character recognition 20 Optimizing brightness 50 Options proofing 31 Options dialog box 30 Original Image area 22 saving 69 79 Overview of document 26 of processing steps 21 P Page acquired 26 adding to a document 41 deleting 26 28 Get Page button 40 42 moving betw...

Page 88: ...ed exporting 67 71 Replacing a zone template 57 Rerecognizing all pages 41 Resizing 24 Resizing zones 53 Resolution images 27 69 79 81 saved images 69 Restarting automatic processing 41 Retain Flowing Columns view 60 64 68 Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view 60 64 68 Retaining paragraph styles 70 Rotating images 24 Rows in tables 56 S Safe mode 77 Sample images files 77 Saving as TextBridge Document ...

Page 89: ...dge desktop 22 TextBridge Document contents of 71 definition 29 opening 16 48 opening from icon 16 purpose of TXD files 29 saving as 29 71 TextBridge Pro documents in 21 earlier version 13 installing 13 new features of 18 registering 17 reinstalling 83 starting 14 testing 77 uninstalling 83 TextBridge Toolbox 22 25 40 Thumbnail view 22 26 TIFF images files 79 Troubleshooting 75 76 True Page view 6...

Page 90: ...multiple column 54 numeric 54 on page 26 properties 24 54 rectangular 53 reordering 24 54 replacing a template 57 resizing 24 53 saving a template 57 setting types 56 single column 54 splitting 54 subtracting from 54 supplementing templates 57 table 24 55 56 table zone tools 24 templates 52 57 81 types 54 81 unloading a template 58 working with 53 Zoning Instructions 43 Zooming displays 23 ...

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