ScanSoft TEXTBRIDGE PRO 11 User manual

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TEXTBRIDGE PRO USER’SGUIDE iii

CONTENTS

WELCOME VII

Using this Guide viii

Getting online help ix

Online HTML Help ix

Context-Sensitive Help ix

Tech Notes x

Glossary x

1INSTALLATION AND SETUP 11

System requirements 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

2INTRODUCTION 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

The Image toolbar 24

iv CONTENTS

The Formatting toolbar 24

The TextBridge Toolbox 25

Managing documents 26

Thumbnail view 26

Detail view 27

Customizing columns in Detail view 28

Deleting pages from a document 28

Printing a document 28

Closing a document 29

TextBridge Documents 29

Why save to TXD 29

How to save to TXD 30

Settings 30

3 TUTORIAL: PROCESSING DOCUMENTS 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 OCR 45

How to use TextBridge Pro 11 with

your PaperPort software 46

Processing documents with Schedule OCR 47

Defining the source of page images 48

TEXTBRIDGE PRO USER’SGUIDE v

Input from image files 48

Input from scanner 49

Scanning with an ADF 50

Scanning long documents without an ADF 51

Describing the layout of the document 51

Manual zoning 53

Working with zones 53

Zone properties 54

Table grids in the image 56

Using zone templates 57

4 PROOFING AND 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

Sending a document as a mail attachment 73

6 TECHNICAL INFORMATION 75

Troubleshooting 76

Solutions to try first 76

vi CONTENTS

Testing TextBridge Pro 77

Low memory problems 78

Low disk space problems 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

TEXTBRIDGE PRO USER’SGUIDE vii

Welcome

Welcome to TextBridge Pro 11TM, and thank you for using our

software! The following documentation has been provided to help you

get started and give you an overview of the program.

This User’s Guide

This guide introduces you to using TextBridge Pro 11. It includes

installation and setup instructions, a description of the program’s

commands and working areas, task-oriented instructions, ways to

customize and control processing, and technical information. The

guide is presented in PDF format, allowing you to use hyperlink

jumps on cross-references and other navigation tools in your PDF

viewer.

Online Help

TextBridge Pro’s online Help contains information on features,

settings, and procedures. The online Help is provided as HTMLhelp,

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 the software.

Please read it before using TextBridge Pro. To open this HTML file,

choose Readme in the TextBridge Pro Installer or afterwards in the

Help menu.

Scanning and other information

ScanSoft’s web site at www.scansoft.com provides timely information

on the program. The Scanner Guide contains up-dated information

about supported scanners and related issues. Access ScanSoft’s web site

from the TextBridge Pro Installer or afterwards from the Help menu.

viii WELCOME

USING THIS GUIDE

This guide is written with the assumption that you know how to work

intheMicrosoftWindowsenvironment.PleaserefertoyourWindows

documentation if you have questions about how to use dialog boxes,

menu commands, scroll bars, drag and drop functionality, shortcut

menus, and so on.

We also assume you are familiar with your scanner and its supporting

software, and that the scanner 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 automatic processing:

Start, Stop, Finish, Additional.

Non-serif Presents file names: sample.tif

Note Presents an item of additional information.

Tip Presentsideasforusingprogramfeaturestoaccomplish

specific tasks.

TEXTBRIDGE PRO USER’SGUIDE ix

GETTING ONLINE HELP

In addition to using this guide, you can use TextBridge Pro’s online

Help to learn about features, settings, and procedures. Online Help is

available after you install TextBridge Pro.

Online HTML Help

Open TextBridge Pro’s online Help at its top level by choosing

TextBridge Pro Help Topics at the top of the Help menu. This allows

you to see topics arranged in a Table of Contents, search an

alphabetical list of keywords or make full-text searches through the

topics. Other items in the Help menu provide access to useful topics

or web pages.

Press F1 as you are working with the program 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 a dialog box or warning

message.

Press Shift + F1 to get the same help icon.

Click the question mark button in the upper right corner of a dialog

box and then click an item in the dialog box to see the popup window.

Some dialog boxes or warning messages have their own Help button,

or a help text. Click the button or the text to get information on the

dialog or message box.

Click anywhere to remove a context-sensitive popup Help window.

xWELCOME

Tech Notes

ScanSoft’s web site at www.scansoft.com contains Tech Notes on

commonly reported issues using TextBridge Pro 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.

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