Xerox Travel Scanner 150 User Guide

Xerox Travel Scanner 150
User’s Guide111
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...

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User’s Guide 112–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...

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User’s Guide113 – Here is an example of what the text file might look like:
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One Touch
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...

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User’s Guide 114 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.
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...

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User’s Guide115 3. To import a list of words from another text file, click Import.
The Import Contents of User Dictionary window opens. 
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...

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User’s Guide 116 1. 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...

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User’s Guide117 –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 
fo r m a t s .
–Spreadsheet—this output format produces results in a tabular form with each page becoming a 
separate worksheet. The worksheets can then...

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User’s Guide 118
One Touch with Visioneer Acuity Technology
The One Touch 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 
One Touch scan settings to produce the best quality images.
This section explains how to use...

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User’s Guide119
The Acuity Settings
You select the Visioneer Acuity settings when creating or editing a scan configuration on the One Touch Properties 
window. 
1. Open the One Touch 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.
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User’s Guide 120–AutoCrop to original—Select this option to let the software automatically determine the size of the 
item being scanned.
–Straighten image—Select this option to have the software automatically determine if a page is skewed, 
then straighten its image. If the page is scanned at too great an angle, the image may not straighten 
correctly. In that case, re-scan the page.
–Auto detect color—Determines if a document contains color or not and produces the appropriate...