Kofax OmniPage Ultimate User's Guide Version: 19.2 Date: 2019-10-11 © 2010 - 2019 Kofax. All rights reserved. Kofax is a trademark of Kofax, Inc., registered in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without the prior written permission of Kofax. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Welcome....................................................................................................................................6 Key features........................................................................................................................................7 Chapter 2: Installation and setup..............................................................................................................9 System requirements..........................................................................................................................9 Install OmniPage.............................................................................................................................. 10 Install Kofax Power PDF Create........................................................................................... 10 Register OmniPage................................................................................................................11 Activate OmniPage................................................................................................................ 11 Set up your scanner with OmniPage...............................................................................................11 Start the program............................................................................................................................. 13 Uninstall the software.......................................................................................................................15 Chapter 3: Using OmniPage.................................................................................................................... 16 OmniPage documents...................................................................................................................... 16 OmniPage desktop and views......................................................................................................... 16 Program panels......................................................................................................................17 Classic View...........................................................................................................................17 Flexible Views........................................................................................................................ 19 Quick Convert View............................................................................................................... 21 Toolbars..................................................................................................................................22 Basic processing steps.....................................................................................................................23 Settings.................................................................................................................................. 23 Use OmniPage with Kofax PaperPort..............................................................................................23 Chapter 4: Processing documents..........................................................................................................25 Processing methods......................................................................................................................... 25 Processing from other applications....................................................................................... 26 How to set up Direct OCR.................................................................................................... 27 How to use Direct OCR........................................................................................................ 27 Defining the source of page images................................................................................................27 Input from image files............................................................................................................28 Input from the Cloud..............................................................................................................28 Input from digital camera.......................................................................................................28 Input via Easy Loader........................................................................................................... 28 Input from scanner.................................................................................................................29 Brightness and contrast.........................................................................................................30 3 Kofax OmniPage Ultimate User's Guide Scan with an ADF................................................................................................................. 30 Scan without an ADF............................................................................................................ 30 Scan to OmniPage and workflows........................................................................................ 30 Describe the layout of the document...............................................................................................31 Preprocess images...........................................................................................................................31 Image Enhancement tools.....................................................................................................33 Using Image Enhancement history....................................................................................... 37 Save and apply templates.....................................................................................................37 Image Enhancement in workflows.........................................................................................37 Zones and backgrounds........................................................................................................38 Automatic zoning................................................................................................................... 38 Zone types and properties............................................................................................................... 39 Working with zones............................................................................................................... 40 Table grids in the image........................................................................................................41 Using zone templates............................................................................................................41 Chapter 5: Proofing and editing..............................................................................................................43 The Text Editor display and formatting levels..................................................................................43 Proofread OCR results..................................................................................................................... 44 Verify text..........................................................................................................................................44 Character Map..................................................................................................................................45 User dictionaries...............................................................................................................................45 Languages........................................................................................................................................ 46 Asian language recognition................................................................................................... 46 Training............................................................................................................................................. 47 Text and image editing.....................................................................................................................48 On-the-fly editing.............................................................................................................................. 49 Marking and redacting......................................................................................................................50 Reading text aloud........................................................................................................................... 50 Creating and editing forms...............................................................................................................52 Form Drawing toolbar............................................................................................................52 Form Arrangement toolbar.................................................................................................... 53 Editing Form object properties.............................................................................................. 53 Form data extraction..............................................................................................................53 Chapter 6: