6.0

ABBYY FineReader 6.0 User’s Guide

How to Input a Document in Less than a Minute

1. Turn on the scanner if it has a separate power source to your PC.

Note: Many scanner models have to be turned on before you turn on the computer.

2. Turn on the computer and start FineReader (

Start/Programs/ABBYY FineReader

Professional 6.0 or Corporate Edition 6.0). The FineReader main window will appear on

your screen.

3. Place the page you want read onto the scanner.

4. Click the arrow to the right of the Scan&Read button. Select the

Scan&Read Wizard item

in the local menu.

The

Scan&Read Wizard is a special scan&read/open&read mode

during which you are guided through each step of the scanning

process. A sample image file is contained in the

Demo folder, which,

in turn, is located in the folder containing FineReader.

5. Follow the

Scan&Read Wizard instructions.

The document input process is made up of four steps: scanning, reading, spellcheck and saving the rec-

ognized text.

Once scanning is complete, a "photograph" of the source page will appear in the

Image window. The

application then asks you to set the recognition parameters. Once this has been done, it starts recogniz-

ing the image, analyzing its layout at the same time. Image areas already recognized are highlighted in

blue.

Recognized text is displayed in the

Text window, where it can be checked and edited. Once you have

checked the document, the

Scan&Read Wizard will prompt you to either send the recognized text to

the application of your choice, save it to file, or go on processing more images.

The ABBYY FineReader Main Window

FineReader performs all document processing in batch mode. A batch is a folder containing images,

recognized text files and other FineReader information files. Each scanned image is converted into a

separate batch page. If there are several images in a single image file (for example, if you are dealing

with a multipage TIFF), each file image will be converted into a separate batch page.

When you start FineReader for the first time, the default batch is opened. You can choose to work with

the default batch or create a new batch of your own. See General Information on Working with Batches

for more information.