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ABBYY FineReader 10 Home Edition User’s Guide
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1. Start ABBYY FineReader 10 Home Edition.
The main window will open, together with a New Task window, where you can quickly select and start a task.
2. There are four tabs in the New Task window:
Scan – This tab lists the image processing tasks for images obtained directly from a scanner. These tasks
require a scanner to be properly connected to your computer. The scanner must support the WIA or TWAIN
scanning interface.
Open – This tab lists the image processing tasks for images stored on your hard disk, on a removable
storage medium, or on a network drive.
Photo – This tab lists the image processing tasks for images contained directly from a digital camera or
digital photos stored on your computer. To get images from a camera, the camera must be connected to your
computer and must support the WIA interface.
Want more? – This tab provides information about ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition. You may want
to consider buying this application if you need to OCR large numbers of complex documents.
Click the tab that contains the task you need to perform.
3. In the Document Language list, select the language of your document
See the section named "If there are too many errors in the converted text" for additional information on
selecting the right language.
4. Click the button of the desired task.
5. Feed the images to the program (i.e. either scan paper documents or select document images already stored
on your computer).
Note: If you select the Photo task, the Photo Editor will be launched. See the "Editing Document Photos"
section for instructions on editing document photos.
6. The selected images will appear in the main window and will then be converted into the format of your
choice.
Note: Selecting the Scan… or Open Photo… task will not convert your images into a text format. The
images will appear in the main window with the various areas marked on them. For more about areas, see
the section named "If document formatting has not been retained."
Note:
1. You can use the tools on the main window toolbar to change the conversion settings. You can also save an
image in another image format (see the "Saving Page Images" section for details).
2. If you find the resulting document unsatisfactory, follow the recommendations provided in the "Improving
Conversion Quality" section.
3. The tasks available in the New Task window may vary depending on your version of the program and on
other software installed on your computer.
4. When you are converting mages in ABBYY FineReader 10 Home Edition, the application will display tips and
advice on document recognition, as well as news from ABBYY. You may disable this feature by clearing the
check box next to the corresponding item in the Help menu. With some types of license, you may not be able
to urn off this feature.
Scanner Interfaces
By default, ABBYY FineReader 10 Home Edition uses a built–in scanning dialog box named ABBYY FineReader
Scanning. If this dialog box is incompatible with your scanner, the dialog box provided by the driver of your scanner
will be used.
1. ABBYY FineReader Scanningdialog box
In this dialog box, you can make the following settings:
• Image resolution, scanning mode (grayscale, black and white, or color), and brightness.
• Paper size (you can select one of the standard sizes or specify a custom size).
• Scanning options for multi–page documents:
a. Use automatic document feeder (ADF)
b. Enable duplex scanning (if supported by your scanner)