You can use a variety of software at the Digital Arts Workstation in the Redwood Room to accomplish your OCR scanning project. OmniPage, OmniForm and Adobe Acrobat Professional are installed on the HP scanners located there.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition; it converts hardcopy print text into electronic format for editing or storage.
OmniPage provides many options including the ability to learn new characters, scan only parts of documents ("Manual Zones"), spell check, recognize European character sets, and to save the resulting text in a word-processing format.
1. Open HP Precision scan Pro 3.1 by clicking the icon on the desktop
2. Place your document on top of the scanner and follow the Guided Steps on the left panel of HP Precision scan Pro:
a) Start a new scan
b) Select an area wanted from the preview
c) Use "Grayscale" as your text output type
d) Click "Scan to..."
3. Choose OmniPage Pro if you need to transfer your scanning text into an editable text. Choose OmniForm for editable form. The OCR Wizard will guide you through the scanning process step-by-step.
4. Scan Image
5. Click "Finish"
6. Save your document
, October 1, 2009