How is the best way to access OmniPage? Should I use the "aquire text on the
File menu in word, or use the program itself?
thanks
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> hi David and Others
> One of the issues with Omnipage Pro 9.0 is that, by default, it
> uses TWAIN drivers, instead of the ISIS drivers used by version
> 8.0. What this means in practice is that it will almost certainly
> take much longer to scan a page. I'm using an HP 5P scanner, and
> using the ISIS driver I can scan a page in 8 seconds. Using the
> TWAIN driver, it takes about 23. It is possible to use Omnipage 9
> with an ISIS driver, but it takes a bit of configuring. The TWAIN
> standard is (or, rather, has become) becoming the industry
> standard, for reasons that have as much to do with politics as
> anything else, and if you're only going to be scanning small
> quantities of material the increase in speed may not be as much
> of a problem as it is for those of us who scan lots of
> full-length books. (There is a big difference between 3 hours and
> 9).
>
> Another thing I've found is that Omnipage 9 sometimes completely
> ignores a page of ordinary text, interpreting it as a graphic.
> These same pages are recognised correctly by Omnipage 8, and the
> problem seems to be related to the autozoning algorithms used by
> Omnipage 9. That is, Omnipage looks at the page and figures out
> whether there are pictures on it or not; if it thinks that there
> are pictures (graphics), then it won't OCR that part of the page.
> For some reason, Omnipage 9 sometimes thinks that there are
> pictures when, in fact, there are not. Using the zone drawing
> tools that are part of Omnipage 9 it is possible to force
> Omnipage to treat a segment of a page (or the whole page) as
> text, but as far as I am aware it is impossible to do this with a
> screen reader because the page image is a graphic before it is
> OCR'd, and so cannot be accessed with speech or braille.
>
> I have been trying for several weeks now to get Caere Technical
> Support to acknowledge and investigate this problem, and I've
> sent them files illustrating the problem. However, there seem to
> be quite a few process issues that have prevented their response,
> and I have taken these up with Caere senior management. However,
> the situation so far is still unresolved. I therefore don't know
> if the problem is solvable within the context of the
> currently-released version.
>
> Again, unless you are scanning lots of material, you may not
> encounter this problem, but I have found that at least one page
> in every book that I have scanned with Omnipage 9 is ignored. For
> me this is a sufficiently serious problem to have led me to look
> at other OCR products, and I'm in the process of investigating
> Typereader, Finereader, Cuneiform OCR, Charactereyes
> Professional, and Readiris (I already use Textbridge as well as
> Omnipage).
>
> As for the specifics of using Omnipage 9 with screen readers,
> I've found that it works well with Jaws and braille (presumably
> also with speech), except that there seem to be some problems
> labelling the graphics on the zone toolbar (but you probably
> won't want to do this anyway).
>
> Cheers
> Bruce Maguire
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> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:49:37 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Hello listers:
> >
> >I just recievd a copy of OmniPage Pro V9.0 and wanted to know what issues
> >there are with the program. this is my first scanner with OCR. I have
> >successfully scanned a couple of files, but I wanted to know what to
> >watch for.
> >
> >any inco would help.
> >
> >
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