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OmniPage Power!
Copyright ©2002 Myra Jay Fox, Michael Read, and OmniPage
Training
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About the Authors
Myra Fox and Michael Read, originally from New Zealand, have lived in Sydney, Australia for
twenty years. Michael has been involved in computers for over thirty years. He first started
servicing punch card machines and valve card sorters in the early 70s. He has had a number of
roles in technical support, management, consulting, business analysis, and training. Myra
started her own computer training company in 1984, using some of the first PCs: twin floppy
drive machines with 64 K of memory and the CPM operating system. She set up one of the
first multimedia-training centers in Australia using accelerated learning techniques. They
have been training, supporting, and selling OmniPage products since 1995. The vast size of
Australia and the demand for OmniPage training led them to create several interactive training
CDs for OmniPage (visit www.omnipagetraining.biz for more information). To balance the
computer side of life, Myra holds diplomas in Marketing, NLP (Neuro Linguistic
Programming), life counseling, and coaching, and she studies natural therapies. Michael also
renovates and build houses and enjoys scuba diving, water skiing, and sailing.
Acknowledgments
We would like thank our editor, Mark Garvey, of Muska & Lipman for his eye for detail, for
capturing the essence of what we were saying, and for his patience. We thank all our friends
and family for their enthusiasm, and ScanSoft for supporting this book.
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What You Will Find in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Who This Book Is For . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
How This Book Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 1—Document Scanning and OCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What Is Document Scanning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Scanning and OCR with OmniPage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Sample Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Basic OCR Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
How Your Computer Works with Your Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing and Setting Up Your Scanner Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing OmniPage 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Registration of OmniPage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Setting Up Your Scanner with the OmniPage Scanner Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 2—Navigating OmniPage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
OmniPage Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Document Manager View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Original Image View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Text Editor View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
OmniPage Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
The Standard Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Create a New Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Open a Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Save Changes in the Current Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Proofread OCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Cut, Copy, and Paste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
AB Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The OmniPage Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Auto OCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Manual OCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
OCR Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
The Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 3—Basic Document Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
The Scanning Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Before You Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Scanning a Plain Text Document with No Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Additional Tools for Proofing Recognized Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
The Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Verifying Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Converting Text to Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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Introduction 1
Introduction
Welcome to OmniPage Power! Document Scanning Made Easy with OmniPage Pro. This is
the only book available that covers OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scanning with
OmniPage, apart from our other classroom training manuals. Many books and magazines
show how scanners work. There are numerous books on how to manage and manipulate
pictures. However, none of them covers OmniPage in detail. The primary use for OmniPage
is to scan and recognize text and photos for editing, printing, or archiving. OmniPage Power!
is an instructional training manual with exercises. The exercises are for beginners,
intermediate, advanced, and frequent users. It teaches a process for scanning rather than
discussing each function separately. Whether you are just beginning to scan documents or
have been using OmniPage for some time, this book clearly and simply explains all the ins
and outs of scanning a single page text document, as well as complex pages with graphics,
photos, logos, signatures, columns, and tables.
A scanner is not like a photocopier. Getting a perfect copy every time you push the scanner
button just doesn’t happen. The software controls how your scanned documents look, and
understanding how and why to set up your options in OmniPage prior to scanning will lead
you to become an OmniPage power user, saving you hours of wasted time. This book will get
you there.
We have worked with end users of OmniPage and ScanSoft/Caere products for six years. We
have supported and conducted training courses on OmniPage for thousands of users—from
corporations, governments, universities, and schools to small businesses, home users, and
retirees. This book has been written from the contents of our training courses and from
listening to and solving end-user issues. We have written step-by-step training manuals for
OmniPage since Version 6. We design, develop, and produce interactive multimedia training
CD-ROMs for OmniPage, and ScanSoft, Inc. recommends this book. For full details on our
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Introduction 5
䊳 Chapter 12: “Form Scanning With OmniForm.” Just as we use a hammer to
knock in a nail and a spade to dig a hole, computer applications are also
specific tools meant for specific tasks. Different jobs call for different tools.
This chapter introduces OmniForm, an application specifically designed to
handle the job of scanning and recognizing forms such as tenders, legal forms,
credit applications, surveys, questionnaires, enrollment forms, a variety of in-
house forms, bank forms, employment forms, and more. You’ll learn about
optimizing your form-scanning results with OmniForm’s Form Designer and
Form Filler. You’ll learn how to transfer data from OmniForm to an external
database, and you’ll learn all about e-mailing a form.
䊳 Chapter 13: “OmniPage Advanced Configuration Options.” Make the most of
OmniPage by learning how to fine-tune the option settings to match the type
of documents you are scanning in order to get the results you’re after.
OmniPage’s advanced configuration options allow you full control over a
wide variety of parameters, including language and proofing options, scanner
options, layout, processing, and saving.
䊳 Chapter 14: “Troubleshooting.” This chapter is a list of Frequently Asked
Questions from OmniPage users. If you’re having trouble with a particular
function, feature, or process, refer to this chapter for quick answers.
䊳 Appendix. Sample documents with the appropriate settings, plus the
exercises for this book. You can also download these exercises, plus
additional documents to practice with, at http://www.omnipagetraining.biz
and at http://www.muskalipman.com.
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Document Scanning
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and OCR
In this chapter, you’ll discover how to get a document from the scanner into OmniPage.
We’ll discuss different types of documents you can scan with OmniPage and show you
some examples. We’ll look at basic OCR (Optical Character Recognition) principles and how
OmniPage interprets the document you are scanning. Plus, we’ll discuss the importance of
starting out with a good-quality document. As a result, you’ll understand what is meant by
document and OCR scanning, you’ll know the important steps involved in installing your
scanner to work with OmniPage, and you’ll learn the correct procedure for installing
OmniPage and how to register your software.
Documents are scanned for a wide variety of purposes, from simple home use to high-speed
image and document management systems. The home user may scan photos for use in image-
editing programs, or use the scanner for the occasional OCR—the process of turning the
scanned image of a paper-based document into editable text—of text for invoices, school
assignments, and other projects. Small businesses may use OCR document scanning for
administration and for scanning parts and price lists, reports, and many different business
documents. Those scanned documents can then be saved as Excel spreadsheets and imported
into databases. OCR programs can also be used to create electronic forms.
Larger organizations may use document scanning with sophisticated programs that can read
hand printing, bar codes, and checkboxes. You may often see surveys, exam questions, or
application forms that have registration marks on the sides. Document scanning also
encompasses image archiving of documents. Large organizations, municipal councils, freight
companies, and other organizations use scanning to archive masses of documents that need
to be kept for future reference.
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Document scanning should begin with a clear goal in mind for the end purpose of the
scanned image. Most people think document scanning is nothing more than putting a
document or page in a scanner and pressing the button to have it miraculously appear in
their PC. But there’s more to it than that.
NOTE
We are often asked, “How do I scan my document?” Our standard reply is,
“What do you want to do with it?” Scanning must begin with the end result in
mind. Do you want to fax your document, edit it in Word, save it into a
spreadsheet so you can edit it, keep it as a high-resolution image for archiving,
e-mail it . . . ?”
Sample Documents
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Figure 1.1
Example of document that has
multiple columns, a table, and photo
Figure 1.2
Example of a contract
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Figure 1.3
Example of a signature
Figure 1.4
Example of a phone bill
Figure 1.5
Example of a color
photo (shown here in
black and white)
Figure 1.6
Example of a logo
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Figure 1.7
Example of a
newspaper article
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Figure 1.8
Example of a letter
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Figure 1.9
Characters are made up
of a pattern of dots
OCR
However, to the PC it is just a page of different-colored dots. OmniPage recognizes the text by
using “maps” or “templates” of what each character looks like. It compares these character
maps to find the matching pattern. When it finds a match, OmniPage places the text
character in that location on the page. It does this very quickly—sometimes at a rate of up to
8,000 words per minute. OmniPage also uses intelligent built-in spelling dictionaries and
training files. OmniPage uses several “recognition engines” to achieve an amazing level of
accuracy. Sometimes, OmniPage may mistake what looks to us like a graphic or a smudge for
text, and it will produce stray characters. This is easily fixed.
During OCR, OmniPage uses specific settings to determine how the page is evaluated. The
settings also create ordered zones around areas of a page. These zones identify what will be
recognized as text or retained as a graphic. The recognized text and graphics are then placed
in the new text document based on settings you select in the Text window.
OmniPage identifies words by looking at the average spacing between characters and the font
size. When it sees a larger-than-average space, it assumes this must be the end of a word. It
then starts looking for the beginning of the next word. OmniPage applies this same principle
to line and paragraph spacing. For columns and tables, OmniPage looks for similar word
spacing and larger gaps on consecutive lines. It also looks for grid lines of tables and
graphics. OmniPage uses this information to determine where and what type of zones to
draw. See Figure 1.10.
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Character space Characters on a page
–the gap between each
character is of the same
or similar size.
Word space
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–the gap between
each word is larger
than the character
space, therefore, it
must be a word space.
Line space
–the gap between
each line is of the
same or similar size.
Paragraph space
–the gap is larger
than a line space,
therefore it must be
a paragraph space.
Column or table
–there is consistent or
similar word spacing
on consecutive lines.
Figure 1.10
The characteristics of a page—OmniPage uses these characteristics to
determine how and where to break words, lines, and paragraphs and
where to create columns
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If you have headings, titles, or text in a very large, bold font, or if there is more than normal
space between characters, OmniPage may recognize groups of letters within words as
separate words. For example, the word “SCAN” written in a large font with wide spacing
between letters may end up, after the OCR process, as two “words”: “SC” and “AN.”
Figure 1.11
The difference in
character size between
10 points and 10.5
points
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If the document contains a script font, where the characters are joined together (Figure 1.12),
no OCR program, including OmniPage, will be able to recognize the text, as there is no gap or
clear separation between the characters.
Figure 1.12
Script font
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A similar problem is when characters in documents are unintentionally joined together. This
is called bleeding, meaning that one character “bleeds” into the one beside it. This can
happen with third- or fourth-generation (or worse) photocopies. Bleeding can typically be
seen in photocopies of newspaper articles, documents with shaded backgrounds, documents
with poorly formed or broken characters, or poor-quality faxes. Serif characters are more
prone to bleeding than are sans because of the “tails” on the characters.
Figure 1.13 shows an example of a word from a poor-quality document. The word is “dog,”
but, as you can see, the scanned image is missing some of the dots that make up the
characters. Since OmniPage is looking for gaps between characters to define each one, and
since there are dots missing in the “d,” OmniPage will interpret the “d” as two separate
characters: “c” and “l.” The OmniPage recognition engines and spell checkers will produce
the word “clog.” A valid result; however, the sentence “I took my clog for a walk” is very
different from “I took my dog for a walk.”
Figure 1.13
Clog or dog?
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It pays to shop around and look at what software is included with scanners you are
considering purchasing. The OCR program that often comes bundled with scanners is
OmniPage Limited Edition. Some Scanners come with OmniPage Version 9, which lets you
scan tables, spreadsheets, and color pictures. Some of the higher-range HP scanners come
with OmniForm, for scanning forms, or PaperPort. PaperPort is an excellent document
manager with OCR capabilities. Now, if you want the full cappuccino with froth and
powdered chocolate on top, you need to purchase OmniPage 11 for OCR.
CAUTION
If you buy the latest scanner and it has OmniPage 9 bundled with it, remember
that OmniPage 9 came out many years prior to the release of your new scanner.
If you are not getting the accuracy you are expecting, it’s most likely that you
have not completed two important tasks.
1. You have not set up your scanner to talk to OmniPage. Because
OmniPage 9 does not have a Scanner Wizard to set up your scanner to
talk to OmniPage as does Pro 11, you must select the scanner driver
through Scan Manager 5.0. To do this, go to Start > Settings > Control
Panel > Scan Manager 5.0. Click Add Scanner. Click Generic and then
TWAIN Scanner. Click Next, name this driver TWAIN (and then the
name of your scanner, i.e., Canon). All you are doing here is setting up
another scanner driver to use. Click Next and select your Scanner Twain
Driver from the list. If it is not in the list, you haven’t installed your
scanner driver. Click Finish. You will see the new Generic Twain Driver
icon in the Caere Scan Manager Window. Now, OmniPage Pro 9 is set up
to talk to your scanner. If you have more than one scanner, this is where
you will need to select which scanner to use before launching OmniPage.
You can download Scan Manager 5.0 from ScanSoft’s Support Web site at
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2. You are not actually using OmniPage to scan the document, but rather
using the OCR engine built into the new scanner driver.
Some scanner driver menus—Canoscan and Epson Smart Panel, for example—
give you the option to select the OCR program to use. Often, these OCR
programs are the limited versions that are embedded in the scanner program.
They are not the same as the full OmniPage product. If you are scanning this
way and not launching OmniPage correctly as indicated below, accuracy will
suffer and the layout of the document may be all over the place.
You do not start OmniPage through your scanner driver menu—i.e., through
CanoScan or Epson Smart Panel. For OmniPage 9, you access OmniPage by
launching OmniPage from Start > Programs > Caere > OmniPage. For OmniPage
11, click Start > Programs > Scansoft OmniPage Pro 11 > OmniPage Pro 11.
Telling your scanner how to talk to OmniPage and launching it correctly will
improve your scanning accuracy.
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Table 1.1
A comparison of OCR speeds using the document “test” on computers with varying specifications
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If you have an old scanner and are using the drivers that came with it, you may
have some accuracy problems. If this is the case, you will need the latest driver
for your scanner. Go to the Web site of your scanner manufacturer and
download the latest drivers.
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As there are many scanner manufacturers, each installation process will be different. There
are too many to list step-by-step instructions for installing every kind of driver. It is self-
explanatory once you start the installation process.
1. Make sure your scanner is connected to your PC and switched on.
2. After placing the scanner software CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive, the
installation process should start. Follow the on-screen prompts for your
scanner installation.
NOTE
The installation program should start automatically. If it does not, go to
Windows Explorer. Locate your CD-ROM drive and click it. There in the top-
level directory will be a program named Setup.exe or Install.exe or
Autorun.exe. Double-click to start the program and the installation process.
The scanner driver installation will create a program folder in the Programs menu. For
example, HP scanners create an HP DeskScanII or HP Precision Scan folder. Canon scanners
create the CanoScan folder. Epson Scanner creates the Epson Smart Panel for its software.
After you have installed your scanner and scanner drivers, conduct a test using the TWAIN
interface you have just installed. We have used the Epson TWAIN interface (Figure 1.14).
Every scanner manufacturer’s TWAIN interface will be different. To test the Epson TWAIN
interface, we selected Start > Programs > Epson Smart Panel, then clicked on Preview. When
you click Preview, and most TWAIN interfaces have a preview button, it does a quick scan. If it
Figure 1.14
A simple way to do a
test scan
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doesn’t, there could be something wrong with the scanner or the cable, or the TWAIN drivers
may not have been installed correctly. Consult the manual that comes with your scanner.
CAUTION
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OmniPage supports scanners capable of scanning from 200 dpi to 600 dpi and
is controlled by TWAIN or WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) scanner drivers.
Scanners, scanner drivers, and programs are all made and released on the
market at different times. It is important to ensure your scanner, scanner driver,
scanning program, and application programs are compatible.
Please see the Scanner Guide at ScanSoft’s Web site http://www.scansoft.com
for a list of supported scanners.
Installing OmniPage 11
Make sure your scanner is connected to your PC and switched on. Have you done a test scan
to make sure your PC can talk to the scanner? If not, do this first.
For Windows 98 users, make sure you have only Systray and Explorer running. Check this by
holding down CTL+ALT keys and then press the Delete key once to select the Task Manager.
There, you will see what programs are running. Close all but these two files. Always make
sure you switch off your virus checker. It is important to do this; otherwise, you may get an
incomplete installation.
All OmniPage files are copied automatically during installation. Follow these steps.
1. Make sure you’ve closed your anti-virus programs. This will avoid any
possible conflicts when installing drivers and programs.
2. If you are installing on Windows 2000, Windows NT, or Windows XP, log on
to your computer with administrator privileges.
3. Place the OmniPage 11 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM Drive. The installation
program should start automatically.
NOTE
If the installation does not begin, go to Windows Explorer. Locate your CD-
ROM drive and double-click it. In the top-level is Autorun.exe. Double-click
this program. It starts the installation process.
4. The first screen asks you to choose a language. This language will be used for
the Text-to-Speech system and as the program’s interface language. The
program interface language is used for displays such as menu items, dialog
boxes, and warning messages. You can change the interface language later in
Tools Options. Your choice determines which Text-to-Speech system will be
installed with the program.
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OmniPage 11’s CD-ROM is in a paper sleeve. At the back of the cover, you will
find the serial number on several removable sticky labels. To avoid losing your
serial number, remove the label and place on the OmniPage Software CD-ROM.
You will need this serial number when installing or reinstalling OmniPage 11.
Figure 1.15
Serial number on back
of CD-ROM sleeve
Follow the self-explanatory instructions on each screen to install the software. Next, you will
be asked to register OmniPage. If you have an earlier version of OmniPage, register your
software at http://www.mylearningsystems.com.
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