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Acquiring, Previewing, and Creating Zones
Chapter 2: WordScan Tutorial
Acquiring, Previewing, & Creating Zones
You will now acquire and preview a page, create zones in
the Preview area, OCR the image, and save the file in your
word processing format.
1.
Place the page you want to acquire into the scanner.
2.
Click on the
New Job
or
Acquire Image
button.
3.
Answer the questions in the Load Scanner dialog box
and click
Scan
.
The scanner starts moving and the image appears in
the Preview area.
If the image in the Preview area is sideways or upside-
down, click on the
Rotate
button until you have the
correct orientation.
4.
Click on the
Text Zone
button and create a zone.
Create a zone (an area to be OCR’d) by placing the
cursor in the upper-left corner of the Preview area,
pressing the left mouse button, dragging it to the
lower-right corner, and releasing the mouse button.
You have created a zone around the area you want to
process.
5.
Set the zone attributes by using one of the following
methods:
❑
Clicking on the
Text Zone
button with the
right
mouse button
before you draw the zone
.
❑
Selecting an existing zone in the Preview area
and clicking the
right mouse button
.
❑
Selecting
Text Attributes
in the Templates
menu.
6.
Create several new zones and change the attributes.
When you try to create another zone in WordScan, the
first zone you created will disappear. You can create up
to 100 zones in WordScan Plus.
Summary of Contents for WORDSCAN
Page 1: ...i WordScan User s Guide Serial Registration 802 0538 030A...
Page 8: ...vi Related Manuals About This Manual...
Page 88: ...80 Page Setup Chapter 4 WordScan Settings...
Page 102: ...94 Electronic Mail Options Appendix A Output Formats and Scanner Fax and E Mail Settings...
Page 107: ...iii V View menu 71 Virtual memory 82 W Windows 82 Z Zones creating 20 graphic 39 Zoom 72...
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