How To Use OmniPage Pro 15

Washburn University School of Law has two scanners available for your scanning needs in the Washburn Law Library. The scanners are located on the second floor of the library in the same area as the Wireless printer 2.

OmniPage Pro 15 will help you reach new levels of productivity by eliminating retyping. Precision OCR technology, advanced layout analysis and powerful editing tools allow you to quickly turn paper and PDF files into editable electronic documents that look just like the original - complete with text, tables and graphics.

Scanning Procedure

  1. Click on the folder on the desktop labeled “Scanning.”
  2. Next, click on the icon labeled OmniPage. The below screen will appear. Choose the document feeder if you are scanning more than one page, or the flatbed scanner, if you prefer. With the flatbed, you will have to load each page one at a time.
    1. Document feeder: put your documents between the guides, print side up, top side first, into the feeder.
    2. Flatbed: Place your document in the flatbed face down with the top at the corner marked on the scanner.
  3. Choose all four of the options below when scanning a text or image document:
    1. Choose 1-2-3 in the first drop down box;
    2. Choose Scan B&W, Scan Grayscale, or Scan Color from the second drop down box;
    3. Choose Automatic from the third drop down box; and
    4. Choose Save to File in the fourth drop down box.
  4. Then click the top 1-2-3 button, just above the 1-2-3 drop down box.
  5. Add more pages or stop. (SEE NOTE1 BELOW) Choose Add More Pages if there are more. If you used the document feeder, wait for the program to scan them. If you used the flatbed, load them in the scanner before you click Add More Pages, one at a time, until you are finished. When you have finished adding all the pages, or if there is only one page of your document, click Stop Loading Pages.
    • NOTE1: The proofreader screen will pop up after the first page is scanned when scanning text. Do not proofread until all the pages are all loaded. Drag it off to the side to get back to the Add More Pages screen. Continue to add pages until you are finished. See the below screen.
    • ADDITIONAL IMAGES NOTE: The proofreader will not pop up if the document is an image only. The program will pop up the Save To File screen instead.
  6. Once the pages are loaded, click Stop Loading Pages. Click on and drag the proofreader screen back to the middle of the screen. You are now ready to proofread. This is a great program and works a lot like most word processing programs, which finds a word it does not recognize, offers suggestions to fix it, or allows you to ignore it.
  7. Using the proofreader you will choose either:
    1. To correct the word that is highlighted.
      1. Choose from one of the suggestions,
      2. then click change, and the program goes on to the next word.
      3. Choose change all if you want to change every instance of that word in your document.
    2. To leave the word alone that is highlighted.
      1. Choose Ignore, or Ignore All. (Do not choose “Add.”)
    3. If you have more than one page, it will go through each page in the order they were scanned in. When you are finished the proofreader screen will disappear, and the Save To File screen will appear.
  8. This gets a bit tricky. Don't blow by the Save To File screen. If you do, and you try to save your document by using the "File" button from the tool menu up top, you will be presented with only two choices for where to save the files. With this screen that automatically pops up after the proofreading, you can choose Word, etc.
  9. Choose where to save the document. The screen below appears.
    1. In the Look in drop down box at the top, choose either the “P” drive, or the disk or thumb drive you have in the computer. Remember, the “P” drive is public.
    2. In the File name drop down box name your document.
    3. In the Files of type drop down box choose the application that you wish to save the document as, such as Word, pdf, gif, etc.
    4. Click OK.
  10. Your file is now saved in the application you chose, in the place you chose. Close the application, take your disk or thumb drive.