Ross Sheppard High School
Web Page Design and Construction
Student Learning Guide
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

1. Create a folder called OCR
   
   
2. There is a more detail instruction P.P.I. (Programmed Pictorial Instruction) available at the Digital Imaging Center it is called ( How To Begin Using OmniPage Pro. Ver.10)

3. The purpose of this project is to introduce you to the use of the scanner and how to convert a previously typed document to a word processor document without re-typing it.
   
   
4. You will need a previously typed document in order to proceed. Your teacher has some documents that you can use for this purpose, or you can supply one of your own. Keep in mind that copyright laws apply.
   
   
5. Log on to the Scanner work station.
   
   
6. Place the typed document face down in the upper right hand conrner of the scanner.
   
   
   
   
7. Close the scanner cover.
   
   
8. Start the OCR program: from the desktop by double clicking on the OmniPage Pro OCR Icon
   
   
   
   
9. Make sure the settings are the same as pictured here.
   
   
   
   
10. Once the document has been scanned, click the Start button.
    
    
    
    
11. After the OCR has processed the document, save it on your personal drive space.
    
    
12. Open Word and make any corrections necessary.
    
    
13. Save the document as OCR.
    
    
14. Once the text has been processed with the OCR software and saved as a Word document, it can be copied into Visual Page or used in the word processor.
    
    
15. Create a new Web page and add the text from the OCR document to it.
    
    
16. Click here to see the marking guide for this project.
    
    
17. Save the project folder in your "Hand In" folder on your personal disk space so that this project can be graded..