Deciding When to Use Multiple Columns or Single Column Only
Depending on the content of the page, you can organize the actual flow of the text
in different ways.
In particular, does the text flow like a newspaper article (top to bottom first, and
then left to right), or does it flow like a form (left to right first, and then top to
bottom):
When you look at a page like this, if you understand its contents, you know which
organization is the right one for the page:
■ Use the Multiple Columns locating method on pages with ordinary
paragraphs, pages with mixed text and graphics, and on multi-column pages
of text such as in newspapers and magazines. This method also works on
most pages that have tables or tabular data.
■ Use Single Columns Only on pages that have side-by-side blocks of text that
you want Pro OCR to read from left to right across the page. When you use
Single Columns Only, Pro OCR always creates text regions that go from the
left margin to the right margin of the page, regardless of the spacing of
groups of words.
Because every page is different, you must experiment with using the different
locating methods, so that you can understand which locating method is most
appropriate for the kinds of pages that you’re processing.
NOTE: You cannot define numeric regions or tables using the Multiple Columns
or Single Column locating method. You can define a numeric region or a table
manually. You can change a selected text region to a numeric region using the Style
menu or Style ribbon, and you can group several locate regions together into a table
with the Make Table command. You can also save and use a template that contains
numeric regions and tables.
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