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between the two upper or lower corners, the application will cut the right

block corner (upper or lower) regardless. It will also forbid certain opera

tions if they involve moving the segments forming the block borders.

To select a block or a group of blocks:

z Select the tool and click on the desired block or press the left mouse

button and draw a rectangle around all the blocks you wish to select.

Note: You can select one or more blocks using the usual block drawing tools. To select sev

eral blocks at once hold down

SHIFT or CTRL with one of the tools activated: , , or

and drag the arrow over the blocks you want to select. To invert the selection (i.e. to select

an unselected block or vice versa), hold down the

CTRL key with one of the tools activated:

, , or and drag the arrow over the desired blocks.

To move blocks:

z Hold down ALT with one of the tools activated: , , , or and

move the blocks.

To renumber blocks:

1. Select the tool.

2. Click the blocks in the order of your choice. The contents of blocks will be

displayed in the output text in the same order.

Note: If you renumber blocks on a previously recognized image, the recognized text in the

draft mode of the

Text window will be rearranged to reflect the new numbering.

To delete a block:

z Select the tool and click the block you wish to delete, or

z Select the blocks you wish to delete and press

DEL.

Note: If you delete a previously recognized block, its text in the Text window will be delet

ed too.

To delete all image blocks:

z Select the Delete blocks and text item in the Batch menu.

Note: If you delete blocks on an image that has already been recognized, the recognized

text in the

Text window will also be deleted

Chapter 5. Page Layout Analysis