6.0

ABBYY FineReader 6.0 User’s Guide

Tips on Brightness Tuning

The scanned image has to be legible. To check its legibility, view the image in the Zoom window.

- an example of a good image (from an OCR point of view)

If you see that the scanned image is far from perfect (characters are glued or torn), consult the table

below to find out how you can improve image quality.

Your image looks like this: Possible remedy:

characters are "torn" ● Try lowering the brightness

or very light (this will make the image darker)

● Try scanning it in gray mode

(brightness autotuning will then be used).

characters are distorted,

● Try increasing the brightness

glued, or filled (this will make the image brighter)

● Try scanning it in gray mode

(brightness autotuning will then be used)

Scanning Multi-Page Documents

FineReader features a special scanning mode for convenient multi-page document scanning: Scan Mul-

tiple Images. You may scan as many pages as you wish in this mode, however, note the following:

● If you scan your images using the FineReader TWAIN interface, scanning will be

continuous. Once the application has completed scanning one page, it will automatically

start scanning the next.

● If you scan your images using the TWAIN-Source interface, the TWAIN-dialog of the

scanner will not close once a page has been scanned, and the next page can be placed

onto the scanner immediately.

If you have a large number of pages to scan, there are two ways in which you can do this: using a scan-

ner with an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) or one without!

ADF Scanning:

1. If you are using the FineReader interface, select the Use ADF option in the Scanner

Settings dialog (menu Tools>Scanner Settings) and then select File>Scan Multiple

Images to start scanning multiple images.

2. If you are using the

TWAIN-Source interface, select the Use ADF option in the TWAIN-

dialog of your scanner (keep in mind that this option may be named differently depending

on the scanner model used; consult your scanner documentation for the exact procedure)

and then select

File>Scan Multiple Images to start scanning.

Non-ADF Scanning:

1. If you are using the FineReader interface

● Select the Scan Multiple Images item in the File menu.

If you are using a flatbed scanner without an ADF, to increase productivity try using one of

the following two methods. Set a pause value i.e. the time that is to elapse between the

scanning of one page and the next. Select the

Pause between pages option and then set the