General Preferences

General preferences affect every image edited with GEDI. These preferences are specific to each user, and can be found under the "Options" tab of the preferences menu. Changes can be applied without leaving the preferences menu by pressing the "Apply" button. Pressing "OK" will apply changes and close the preferences menu, and "Cancel" will close the preferences menu without applying new the new preferences.

Auto save file changes

When this option is selected, GEDI will automatically save the results of your actions to the xml file for the image you are editing, without asking for confirmation. While this allows you to edit numerous files more quickly, if you make any unintended changes they will be saved without you noticing. If you are browsing images without intending to make many edits, we suggest turning this option off.

Auto create config file

When this option is selected, GEDI will automatically create a configuration file for any new directories that you open. The configuration file is used to store the zone and page preferences, which are specific to each directory.

Show content window on DLTextLine draw

When this option is selected, GEDI will automatically open a text input window every time you draw a new DL_TEXTLINEGT zone. This allows you to type in the contents of the zone faster.

Show only the selected text line

When this option is selected, contents of non-selected zones will not be displayed.

Show zone type within zone

When this option is selected, the name of each zone type will be printed in the center of each zone of that type. The font size for the zone type names can be increased with Ctrl + '+' and decreased with Ctrl + '-'.

Enable Parent/Child related toolbar buttons

If this option is not selected, the parent/child toolbar buttons are disabled.

Document Capture to default file

If this option is not selected, the screenshot resulting from document capture will be saved automatically to filename_dump.bmp, where filename is the name of the current image file, without a prompt.

Text Box Opacity (%):

This slide bar allows you to adjust the opacity of selected zones.

Use Electronic Text Window

When this option is selected, a text window with the contents of the directoryname.txt or the filename.txt file (see option described below) will be displayed in the lower left corner of GEDI's main window. If you do not see the text window, try resizing the menus on in the left panel. Lines of text from this text window can be copied directly to the selected DL_TEXTLINEGT zone by pressing Ctrl + Space.

Use Directory name for input .txt file

This option is directly related to the previous option (described above). When this option is selected, the contents of the electronic text window will be loaded from the directoryname.txt file. When it is not selected, the contents of the window will be loaded from the filename.txt file.

Network Options

Accept navigation commands from network: When this option is selected, GEDI listens on a local TCP port for incoming HTTP-formatted requests. This allows you to use a web browser to go through generated HTML error logs and immediately load the corresponding image/zone in GEDI rather than having to look for the file manually. You can leave this option off if you are not using html links to load zones in GEDI.

Listener Port: Changes the port on which GEDI listens for navigational commands. Unless you are instructed to do so by technical support personnel, do not change this port from the default port 8000, as it will probably make navigational commands from a web browser not work.

Root Path: All network operations can use filenames relative to this path. If you need to adjust this path, you will be told how to do so by technical support personnel.

Auto Zone Adjustment Options

GEDI can use a script to automatically adjust Normal zones to fit around connected components (text and graphical elements) on the page.

No Auto Zone Adjustment

When this option is selected, zones remain exactly as drawn.

Auto Zone Adjustment (shrink only)

When this option is selected, GEDI will use a script to automatically shrink Normal zones to fit around connected components. If this option is enabled, you should make sure that every part of the text is included in the zones you are drawing.

Auto Zone Adjustment (shrink and expand)
When this option is selected, GEDI will automatically adjust Normal zones to fit around connected components. Use this option only on clean pages with a solid-color background, or the zone will expand to include the entire page.

Filter Size

This is the smallest amount of pixels that will be recognized by the auto adjustment script as an connected components. If zone that you are drawing are "catching" on background noise and not properly fitting what you want to select, try increasing the filter size. If zones that you are drawing are shrinking too much and not including parts that you wish to include, try decreasing the filter size. By default, the filter size is 5.