Archive for September, 2010

Obtain a 15-day DISCUS Evaluation

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
  1. Access the DISCUS download page:http://www.discussoftware.com/try-buy/downloads.html
  2. Create an account, if you have not done so already.
  3. Download DISCUS FAI or Planner.
  4. Launch DISCUS and click the button to request an evaluation license.
  5. DISCUS Sales will contact you about scheduling the license to best meet your needs.
  6. As soon as you receive your license, the 15-day evaluation starts.
  7. You can evaluate, Basic, OCR, Results. Or you can request a Planner evaluation.
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Move Grid/Zone Easily

Monday, September 27th, 2010
  1. Click Zone/Grid Properties and apply the Grid.
  2. Reopen the Zone/Grid Properties and deselect Equidistant.
  3. On the Drawing, click the corner of the grid and move the entire grid to the proper grid marks on the drawing.
  4. This way you won’t have to move each line (horizontal or vertical) at a time. You move the entire grid at once to the correct location.
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Hidden PDF Text Can Affect OCR Result

Monday, September 20th, 2010
  1. If you are capturing the text from your PDF drawing and you have very different data from what you have captured, the PDF may have hidden digital information.
  2. Be sure to select Tools | OCR Settings and click OCR rather than PDF.
  3. To see the difference between the hidden and actual text, click Let User Choose and you will have two presentations of the data and you can choose which one to use.
  4. Typically, you will want to select OCR.
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