OmniPage Lite 5.0 - Canon FB310

[Franc Zabkar]

I have an old Canon FB310 scanner that works fine except that I can't
get the bundled OmniPage Lite 5.0 software to correctly scan my
documents. Specifically, OmniPage generates inverted scans, usually a
very bright white outline of the document on a dark black background.
The document area usually contains no discernible image, just
occasional dot noise, if you know what I mean. If I cut and paste a
scanned image into OmniPage from another application (eg the bundled
Ulead iPhoto Express), then the OCR works correctly. AFAICS, OmniPage
communicates directly with the scanner driver - it does not allow the
user to play with the scan parameters via Canon's driver GUI, only via
an "oplimit.ini" file, or a rudimentary "scanner settings" dialogue
box. I'm using Win98se. I used to have OCR issues in Win95, but these
were resolved, for the most part, after some tinkering. Needless to
say, I can't remember what I did. :-(

Does anyone have a solution? Failing that, can anyone recommend OCR
software that has an "OCR Aware" feature which adds an "acquire text"
facility to selected applications?


- Franc Zabkar

 

[CSM1]

I have an old Canon FB310 scanner that works fine except that I can't
get the bundled OmniPage Lite 5.0 software to correctly scan my
documents. Specifically, OmniPage generates inverted scans, usually a
very bright white outline of the document on a dark black background.
The document area usually contains no discernible image, just
occasional dot noise, if you know what I mean. If I cut and paste a
scanned image into OmniPage from another application (eg the bundled
Ulead iPhoto Express), then the OCR works correctly. AFAICS, OmniPage
communicates directly with the scanner driver - it does not allow the
user to play with the scan parameters via Canon's driver GUI, only via
an "oplimit.ini" file, or a rudimentary "scanner settings" dialogue
box. I'm using Win98se. I used to have OCR issues in Win95, but these
were resolved, for the most part, after some tinkering. Needless to
say, I can't remember what I did. :-(

Does anyone have a solution? Failing that, can anyone recommend OCR
software that has an "OCR Aware" feature which adds an "acquire text"
facility to selected applications?


- Franc Zabkar

Run the OmniPage Scanner setup utility.

In the testing of the scanner interface there is an option to invert the
Black and White scans.