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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide
Network Document Processing
ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition is especially designed for network document processing. Each computer involved in network
processing must have a separate copy of FineReader installed. ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition allows you to do the following:
1. Work with the same batch over a network
The Corporate Edition allows you to increase the speed at which documents are processed. In addition, the whole
process is tracked, so that the logins and computer i.d. numbers of all those involved in opening, scanning,
recognizing, and checking batch pages are noted. Changes made by a user are not user–specific and apply to all
users of the same batch.
2. Group work with the same user languages and user dictionaries
ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition allows users to work with and expand (e.g. while running a spelling
checker) the same user languages and dictionaries simultaneously.
3. Group work with customized dictionaries for languages with dictionary support
ABBYY FineReader provides built–in dictionaries for languages that have dictionary support. These dictionaries
contain the most commonly encountered words, but might not include proper names, specialized technical terms,
acronyms, etc. Adding the latter to customized dictionaries increases recognition quality and speeds up the
spelling check. This is because ABBYY FineReader searches for a dictionary entry for each word it encounters. In
addition, ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition allows users to work simultaneously with the same customized
dictionary.
Working with the Same Batch over a Network
1. Create/Open a batch and set up the necessary scanning and recognition options.
Run ABBYY FineReader and open the batch to be processed on all computers that will process it.
2. Run Background recognition (Process>Start Background Recognition) on all computers that will be
recognizing the batch.
3. Start the scanning on the computer with an ADF scanner.
Tip: If your high–speed scanner doesn't support TWAIN, you may scan your pages directly into ABBYY
FineReader batch folder. To do this, scan the images with any scanning application supplied with your high–speed
scanner on the computer to which the scanner is attached and specify the ABBYY FineReader batch folder as the
saving folder for these images. The only thing you have to do is to name the scanned images according to the
following rule: the files must be named (in the order they are scanned) 0001.tif, 0002.tif, 0003.tif... etc.
ABBYY FineReader will automatically detect and process all images you scan.
4. You may edit the recognized text and save it to a file or send it to an application you select.
You may monitor the page status in the Batch window (for example, whether the page has been scanned, recognized, edited or
exported, and by what user etc.). All this information is displayed in the corresponding columns in the Details batch page view. To set
up the Details page view:
● Click
on the Standard toolbar, or
● Right–click the Batch window and select the Batch Window>Details item in the local menu.
You may customize the Details page view: specify the columns you want to be displayed in the Batch window or select the column to
sort the pages by:
● Right–click the Batch window and select the View>Customize. Set the necessary options on the Details tab of
the Batch View Settings dialog.
If the batch pages are processed on several computers, ABBYY FineReader will distribute the workload automatically between them:
each new scanned page is "picked up" by the first free workstation on which the background recognition is running. This page
becomes locked for all other computers. At the same time any other workstation (or the same workstation) may open already
recognized pages for checking, editing and saving. Changes made by a user are available for all other users of the same batch.
Note: You will notice the increased recognition speed on multiprocessor systems in the "Background mode" if your batch contains a
lot of pages.
Group Work with the Same User Languages and Dictionaries
Create a batch and set up the necessary scanning and recognition options.
All the user languages and dictionaries you attach will be stored in one folder. By default it is the batch folder. Before you may create a
user language that uses a user dictionary, you have to specify the folder in which to store the user languages together with user
dictionaries. To specify the folder:
● Click the Change button in the Language Editor dialog (Tools>Language Editor) and select the folder in the
dialog that will open.
All the user languages and dictionaries you attach will be stored in this folder.
After the setup is complete, save the batch settings in a options set file (*.fbt):
● Click the Save Options... button on the General tab of the Options dialog (Tools>Options). In the Save
Options As dialog select the folder and enter the file name.
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