Xerox Documate 4790 User Guide
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Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide6-93 Additional options are available on the menu for the sPDF and nPDF text formats. The three image quality settings are: •Minimize Size—smallest file size, lowest image quality. •Normal—medium file size, some loss of image quality. •Maximize Quality—largest file size, no loss of image quality. The Use MRC option is a special processing procedure for documents scanned with the PDF format. •Use MRC—MRC stands for Mixed Raster Content. MRC is an advanced technique for optimizing the image quality of scanned documents. Without MRC, the scanned image is produced using a single process to capture and display the image on the computer screen, even if the document contains both text and graphics. With MRC, the image is produced using separate processes for text, graphics, and other elements on the document page. The result is clearer graphics and sharper text characters. Scans with Use MRC selected may take slightly longer to complete the processing. Select Use MRC for documents with harder-to- read text or lower-quality graphics to get the best possible scan output image. The Use MRC option is available for sPDF and PDF. Selecting OneTouch OmniPage OCR Options The software you installed for your scanner includes a set of advanced OCR options integrated with OneTouch. To select OCR options available from OneTouch: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Select a Destination Application that has one of the text format file types as the page format, such as Microsoft Word or WordPad. 3. Right-click on the page format icon to see the menu.Normal PDF—the.pdf file format used by Adobe Acrobat. This format converts scanned text into a PDF with the text ready for editing in a PDF editing program. Note: Documents scanned with nPDF and sPDF automatically include OCR processing. If the processing does not recognize a large number of the text characters in the document, change the image quality setting and re-scan the document. For example, change from Minimize Size to Normal to see if the text recognition improves. Note: the OCR options apply globally to all the OneTouch Destination Applications that perform OCR. For example, if you select the OCR options for Adobe Acrobat, they also apply to WordPad.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide 6-94 4. Choose OCR Options from the menu. The OCR Properties window opens with the OCR tab selected. The OCR Tab The options shown on the OCR tab window are for spellchecking scanned text, replacing missing or unrecognized characters, and setting the speed and quality levels of the OCR processing. 1. Choose the options you want from the OCR window. –Languages in Document—click on the language(s) in list that correspond to the languages in the documents to be scanned. You can click on multiple languages. These are the languages that will be recognized during the OCR process. For faster and more reliable language recognition, select only the languages in the documents. The languages are in alphabetical order. Type the first letter of a language’s name to jump to its section in the list.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide6-95 –Use languages and dictionaries to improve accuracy—select this option to automatically check the validity of the recognized words. An OCR engine looks at each letter or symbol on the page individually, then “guesses” what the letter or symbol is based on the shape. Therefore, the OCR engine may have more than one guess for a particular letter or symbol, a “best guess”, a “second-best guess”, and so on. This option tells the OCR engine to look through the dictionary to validate its best guess for the letters in that word; if its best guess is not in the dictionary, it checks for the second-best guess, and so on. For example, if the word “house” appears in the original document but the OCR engine is 75% sure that the “o” is actually an “a”, the finished document would have the word “hause”. Turning this option on tells the OCR engine to look at the other letters in the word, check to see which version of the word is in the dictionary, and output the correct word “house” in the final document. The OCR engine does not automatically correct misspelled words that were present in the original document. When dictionaries are selected, the terms in those dictionaries are used to check the spelling. If this is option is not selected, User Dictionaries and Professional Dictionaries cannot be selected. –User Dictionary—a user dictionary is your personal dictionary with words that you want the OCR engine to reference for better accuracy when converting the document into editable text. For example, if you scan documents with highly technical terms or acronyms not found in typical dictionaries, you can add them to your personal dictionary. You can also add names that you expect to be in the documents too. This way, as the OCR process recognizes each letter or symbol, there is a higher chance that the technical term or name will be correctly spelled in the final document. You can create multiple user dictionaries. See the section Creating Your Own Dictionaries on page 96. Click the menu arrow and select a user dictionary from the list. If you select [none] as the user dictionary, the text will be validated using the terms in the dictionaries for the selected languages, as well as any professional dictionaries if they are selected. The label [current] is next to the currently-select user dictionary. –Professional Dictionaries—these are legal and medical dictionaries containing highly specialized words and phrases. The options are: Dutch Legal, Dutch Medical, English Financial, English Legal, English Medical, French Legal, French Medical, German Legal, and German Medical. Select the appropriate dictionary for the OCR engine to use to validate the scanned text. –Reject Character—this is the character that the OCR process inserts for an unrecognizable text character. For example, if the OCR process cannot recognize the J in REJECT, and ~ is the reject character, the word would appear as RE~ECT in your document. The ~ is the default reject character. Type the character you want to use in the Reject Character box. Try to choose a character that will not appear in your documents. –Missing Character—this is the character that the OCR process inserts for a missing text character. A missing text character is one that the OCR process recognizes, but cannot represent because that character is not available for the selected language. For example, if the document contains the text symbol “Ç” but the OCR process cannot represent that character, then every place “Ç” appears, the OCR process substitutes the missing character symbol. The caret (^) is the default symbol for the missing character. Type the character you want to use in the Missing Character box. Try to choose a character that will not appear in your documents. –Recognition Quality—drag the slider to the left or right to set the degree of accuracy for the OCR process. The higher the accuracy, the longer the OCR process requires to complete. For clean, highly- legible documents, you can set the recognition quality to a lower level to produce results more quickly.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide 6-96 2. Click OK or Apply. These options will now apply to the OCR processing when you select any text format as the page format. Creating Your Own Dictionaries You can create multiple dictionaries for your personal use. For example, you might have different dictionaries for separate work projects, especially if each project uses different acronyms and terminology. To create a personal dictionary: 1. Open any word processing program, such as Microsoft Word, WordPad, or Notepad. 2. Create a new document in the word processing program. 3. Type each word you want in your new dictionary, followed by a carriage return. Make sure to spell the words correctly as they will be used for spellchecking. Here is an example of what the text file might look like: –Xerox –OneTouch –OmniPage – wysiwyg –jpeg –bmp –sPDF –nPDF The file does not have to include every word you want in the dictionary. You will be able to edit the list later. In fact, the file does not have to contain any text at all, and you could add the words using the editing options. However, if the list of words is long, it’s usually faster to type them in the word processing program. Note also that the words do not need to be alphabetized. 4. Save the document in the .txt format and give the file the name that you want for the dictionary. For example, give it the name USERDIC1. 5. Now open the OCR Options window. 6. On the OCR Options window, click the button next to the menu arrow.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide6-97 7. The User Dictionary Files window opens and shows the available dictionaries. MyDictionary is an example of a user dictionary. 8. Click Add New. The Add New User Dictionary window opens. 9. Click the drop-down arrow for Files of type and choose Text Files (.txt). 10. Select the file you just created for your user dictionary and click Open. In the example above, the file is named USERDIC1. 11. The text file now appears on the list of user dictionaries that you can use for spellchecking.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide 6-98 12. Select a dictionary and click Set As Current to set it as the current dictionary for spellchecking. The label [current] is added to the name. If you don’t want to use any user dictionaries for spellchecking, click [none] at the top of the list. To remove a dictionary from the list, select it and click Remove. This only removes the dictionary from the list. It does not affect the original text file you created with the list of words. Editing User Dictionaries Once a dictionary has been added to the list of user dictionaries, its list of words can be edited. To e d i t a u s e r d i c t i o n a r y : 1. On the Add New window, select the dictionary to edit and click Edit. The Edit User Dictionary window opens. It lists the words currently in the dictionary. The following example shows the words OmniPage and OneTouch are in the user dictionary named MyDictionary. 2. To add a new word to the list, type it in the box for User Word and click Add. If the word includes any spaces before or after it, those spaces are removed and the word is added to the list. To delete a word from the list, select it and click Delete. If a word in the list is misspelled, delete it, then re-type the word correctly in the User Word box and click Add. 3. To import a list of words from another text file, click Import. The Import Contents of User Dictionary window opens.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide6-99 4. Select the file that has the words you want to add to your user dictionary. Importing will add the entire list of words in a file to the user dictionary. 5. Click Import. The file’s words will be added to your user dictionary list. 6. To export a user dictionary so it can be used by another program, select the dictionary on the User Dictionary Files list and click Export. The Export User Dictionary window opens. 7. Select the dictionary file to export and click Save. The file is exported as a formatted dictionary with the .ud filename extension so it can be opened by other programs.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide 6-100 The Format Tab The options on the Fo r m a t tab window are for setting the input and output formats for the scanned documents. Click the Fo r m a t tab and choose the options you want for both the input and output formats. Input Format Options •Automatic—choose this option to let the OCR process determine the format of the pages. Typically you select this option when the document has different or unknown types of layouts, pages with multiple columns and a table, or pages containing more than one table. The OCR process will then determine if text is in columns, an item is a graphic or text, and tables are present. •Single column no table—choose this option if the document contains only one column of text and no tables. Business letters are normally in this form. You can also use this option for documents with words or numbers in columns if you do not want them placed in a table or decolumnized or treated as separate columns. •Multiple columns, no table—choose this option if some document pages contain text in columns and you want it kept in separate columns, similar to the original layout. If table-like data is encountered, it is placed in columns, not in a gridded table. •Single column with table—choose this option if your document contains only one column of text and a table. The table will be placed in a grid in the Destination Application you have selected. You can later specify whether to export it in a grid or as tab-separated text columns. •Spreadsheet—choose this option if the entire document consists of a table that you want to export to a spreadsheet program, or have treated as a table. No flowing text or graphics will be detected. Output Format Options •Automatic—the document will be formatted as close to its original as possible. The OneTouch software will adjust its settings to the most appropriate for the document being scanned in order to match your selected output format. The output quality will be maximized and the processing time minimized. •No formatting—the document will be plain text, one column, left-aligned in a single font and font size. You can then export the plain text to nearly all file types and target applications.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide6-101 •Retain fonts and paragraphs—this output format retains the font and paragraph styling, including graphics and tables without columnized text, but does not retain layout formatting. If the document is being scanned as an Excel spreadsheet, each detected table or spreadsheet becomes a separate worksheet, while other content is placed on the last worksheet. •Flowing page—this format preserves the original layout of the pages, including columns. This is done wherever possible with column and indent settings, but not with text boxes or frames. Text will then flow from one column to the other, which does not happen when text boxes are present. •True page—this output format uses absolute positioning on the page to keep the original layout of the pages, including columns. This is done with text, picture and table boxes and frames. True Page is the only choice for documents scanned with the PDF format. It is not available for the TXT, RTF, CSV, or XLS formats. •Spreadsheet—this output format produces results in a tabular form with each page becoming a separate worksheet. The worksheets can then be opened in a spreadsheet application. The Spreadsheet output option is only available for documents scanned with the XLS format. These options will now apply to the OCR processing when you select any text format as the page format. OneTouch with Visioneer Acuity Technology The OneTouch software you received with your Xerox scanner now includes the Visioneer Acuity technology. This application has a set of features for improving and enhancing the quality of scanned documents, especially documents that would usually produce poorer quality images. Scan configurations with Acuity options work with OneTouch scan settings to produce the best quality images. This section explains how to use the Visioneer Acuity features when choosing new scan settings for your scanner. The Acuity options appear on the Scan Configuration Properties window that you use to create a new scan configuration for your scanner. Click the Acuity Settings tab to see the new options available for your scanner.
Scanning and Configuring OneTouch Xerox ® DocuMate® 4790 User’s Guide 6-102 The Acuity Settings You select the Visioneer Acuity settings when creating or editing a scan configuration on the OneTouch Properties window. 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Click the New button to create a new configuration, or select one of your custom configurations you created earlier and click the Edit button. 3. Click the Acuity Settings tab to see the new Acuity settings. 4. Choose the Visioneer Acuity options for the scan configuration. 5. Click the drop-down arrow to choose the type of Acuity settings to use for the new scan configuration. The options are: –Do not use Acuity image processing—scanning will not use the Acuity processing. –Default settings—automatically selects the options your scanner can use with any scan mode (Black&White, Grayscale, and Color). 6. Select the options for scanning.