Drawing zones manually

You draw zones on the current page image in the Page Image panel using tools in the Image toolbar. Rectangular zones are the most common. You can create irregular-shaped zones for all zone types except for tables and for vertical text zones. You can make irregular zones by addition or by subtraction. You can join and split zones, resize or delete zones. Expanding and replacing one or more zones are also allowed.

To draw a regular zone

  • Select the zone drawing tool of the desired type. Click and drag the cursor.

Omnipage zone text Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor text Drawing zones manually

for text

Omnipage zone vertical left text Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor text Drawing zones manually

for vertical left-rotated text

Omnipage zone vertical right text Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor text Drawing zones manually

for vertical right-rotated text

Omnipage zone asian vertical Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor text Drawing zones manually

for vertical Asian text

Omnipage zone table Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor table Drawing zones manually

for table

Omnipage zone graphics Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor graphic Drawing zones manually

for graphics

Omnipage zone form Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor drawform Drawing zones manually

for form

Omnipage zone process Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor process Drawing zones manually

for process zones

Omnipage zone ignore Drawing zones manually

Omnipage cursor ignore Drawing zones manually

for ignore zones

 

  • Form zones are available only in OmniPage Professional. They must be manually drawn.

 

In the following examples, a red arrow pointing from A to B indicates the newly-drawn zone.

To create an irregular zone by addition

  • Draw a partly overlapping zone of the same type.

existing zone + new zone

resulting zone

Omnipage zone plus1 Drawing zones manually

Omnipage zone plus2 Drawing zones manually

 

To create an irregular zone by subtraction

  • Draw an overlapping zone of the same type as the background.

existing zone
on an ignore background

resulting zone

Omnipage zone minus1 Drawing zones manually

new
ignore

zone

 

Omnipage zone minus2 Drawing zones manually

 

To join two zones of the same zone type

  • Draw a joining zone with the same Draw zone tool (in our example, the Graphic zone tool).

two existing
graphic zones

 

resulting zone

Omnipage zone join1 Drawing zones manually

new
graphic
zone

 

 

 

 

Omnipage zone join2 Drawing zones manually

 

To split a zone

  • Draw a splitting zone of the same type as the background.

existing text zone
on a process
background

 

resulting zones

Omnipage zone split1 Drawing zones manually

new
process

zone

 

 

 

Omnipage zone split2 Drawing zones manually

 

Expanding and replacing one or more zones

  • Draw a new zone to completely enclose the existing zone(s).

In this example, the larger graphic zone will replace the existing smaller one.

Omnipage zone bigger1 Drawing zones manually

In this example, all smaller zones will be replaced by one large process zone drawn to enclose them completely.

Omnipage zone bigger2 Drawing zones manually

To replace a zone part

  • Draw an overlapping zone of a different type.

 

existing zone

 

new zone remains,

 

existing zone is reshaped

Omnipage zone overlap1 Drawing zones manually

new zone
with a different
zone type

 

 

Omnipage zone overlap2 Drawing zones manually

 

A zone drawn over part of a zone of a different type seems to overlap it, but in fact the new zone replaces the overlapped part of the existing zone. You can see this is so if you move the newly drawn zone aside.

To resize a zone

  1. Select a zone by clicking either with a zone drawing tool or with the Select zone tool Omnipage tb im select zone Drawing zones manually

  2. Move the cursor to a side or corner, catch a handle and drag it to the desired location.

To delete a zone

  1. Select a zone by clicking either with a zone drawing tool or with Omnipage tb im select zone Drawing zones manually

  2. Click the Del button or choose Clear from the Edit menu or from the shortcut menu.

 

  • Shift-click to select additional zones. To delete all the zones in one step, choose Select All in the Edit menu and press the Delete key or choose Clear.

 

  • Certain zone shapes are not permitted. These are U-shaped zones, inverse-U zones and zones completely inside an existing zone. Table zones and vertical text zones must remain rectangular.

Zoning vertical text

Asian text is usually best left to auto-zoning, but if you need to zone it manually, use the following:

Omnipage zone text Drawing zones manually  Simple horizontal text zone for horizontal Asian text

Omnipage zone asian vertical Drawing zones manually  Vertical Asian text zone for vertical Asian text

Non-Asian vertical text can in many cases be auto-detected, but if you need to zone it manually, use the following:

Omnipage zone vertical left text Drawing zones manually  For vertical left-rotated text

Omnipage zone vertical right text Drawing zones manually For vertical right-rotated text

Here are examples of these:

Omnipage eng vertical%20text Drawing zones manually

Vertical text inside table cells cannot be zoned manually; use auto-zoning for this. Auto-zoning cannot detect multiple lines of vertical text in scanned pages or those coming from image files – use manual zoning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawing zones manually