Nuance OMNIPAGE PRO 7 FOR VISIONEER PAPERPORT User Manual

OmniPage Pro for

Visioneer PaperPort

Version 7.0

Release Notes

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About This Software

OmniPage Pro for Visioneer PaperPort is specially designed to
work with scanners that support Visioneer PaperPort. It includes
all the advanced OCR capabilities of OmniPage Pro plus special
integration with PaperPort software.

These Release Notes are a supplement to the manual included in
your package. Before installation, please read the following
topics contained within this booklet:

• Working With Visioneer PaperPort

• Documentation Notes

• General Notes on Using OmniPage Pro

• OCR Aware Notes

• Windows NT Support

• Image-Editing Applications

• True Page Formatting

Working With Visioneer PaperPort

Recommended Scanners

OmniPage Pro for Visioneer PaperPort is recommended for the
following PaperPort-ready scanners:

• Visioneer PaperPort Vx

• Visioneer PaperPort ix

• Visioneer PaperPort

• Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4s

• Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 4Si

• Compaq Scanner Keyboard

Linking to OmniPage Pro

During installation, OmniPage Pro automatically integrates with
your Visioneer PaperPort software. An OmniPage Pro icon is
automatically added to the Link Bar at the bottom of the
PaperPort Desktop. This allows you to open PaperPort images in
OmniPage Pro.

OmniPage Pro icon

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To open PaperPort images in OmniPage Pro:

1 Select the images on the PaperPort Desktop.

2 Drag the images onto the OmniPage Pro icon in the

PaperPort Link Bar.
OmniPage Pro launches if it is not already open. The

images are displayed in the image viewer.

Please see OmniPage Pro’s online help for information on
creating zones and performing OCR on images.

Using OmniPage Pro OCR with Other Application Links

During installation, OmniPage Pro is set up as the default OCR
engine in PaperPort. OmniPage Pro OCR is used when you drag
PaperPort images onto text-based application icons — such as
Microsoft Word — in the Link Bar.

To make sure OmniPage Pro OCR is used:

1 Open PaperPort and choose Link Preferences... in the Edit

menu. (The command is Preferences... in earlier versions
of PaperPort.)

Make sure

OmniPage Pro for
Visioneer PaperPort

is selected.

Click the icon of
the application
you want to check.

2 Click the icon in the Category scroll list of the text-based

3 Make sure OmniPage Pro for Visioneer PaperPort is selected

4 Repeat steps 2 and 3 for other text-based applications

5 Click OK to accept the current selections and close the

Select the format in
which you want
OmniPage Pro to
save a document
after text recognition.

application that you want to check.

as the OCR Package.

you want to check.

dialog box.

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