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Table Of Contents
- Introducing ABBYY FineReader
- The ABBYY FineReader 11 Interface
- Working with ABBYY FineReader
- ABBYY FineReader Tasks
- Managing Automated Tasks
- ABBYY FineReader Step–by–Step
- Splitting an ABBYY FineReader Document
- Taking Into Account Some of the Features of Your Paper Document
- Image Acquisition Tips
- Scanning Tips
- Taking Photos of Documents
- Camera Requirements
- Lighting
- Taking Photos
- When you need to take another photo
- Automatic Image Preprocessing
- Editing Images Manually
- OCR Options
- If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced in the electronic document
- Adjusting Area Shapes and Area Borders
- Picture Not Detected
- Barcode Not Detected
- Table Not Detected
- Table Cells Detected Incorrectly
- Adjusting Text Area Properties
- Vertical or Inverted Text Not Recognized Properly
- Paper Document Contains Decorative (Non–Standard) Fonts
- Incorrect Font in Recognized Text or Some Characters Are Replaced with "?" or "□"
- Checking and Editing the Recognized Text
- Working with Complex–Script Languages
- Recommended Fonts
- Saving the Results
- Advanced Features
- Appendix
- Font
- Language
- How to Buy an ABBYY Product
- Activating and Registering ABBYY FineReader
- Technical Support
ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide
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To begin the OCR process, ABBYY FineReader needs to retrieve an image of your document. There
are several ways to create an image, including:
• Scanning your paper document
• Opening an existing image file or PDF document
• Taking a picture of your text
Scanning paper documents
1. Make sure that your scanner is connected and turned on.
Consult your scanner's documentation to ensure it is set up correctly. Be sure to install the
software provided with your scanner. Some scanner models must be turned on before the
computer is turned on.
2. Put the page to be scanned into the scanner. If the scanner is equipped with an automatic
document feeder, you can put multiple pages into the scanner if you need to process a multi–page
document.
3. Click Scan, or select Scan Pages… from the File menu.
The scanning dialog box will open. Select the appropriate settings and start scanning. The
scanned pages will be added to the Pages window in ABBYY FineReader.
Tip. Typical printed office documents are best scanned in grayscale at 300 dpi.
The quality of OCR results depends on the quality of the source document quality and the selected
scanning options. Low image quality may affect recognition results. That's why it is important to
correctly customize scanning settings and account for the features of the input document.
Opening image files and PDF documents
You can open files in PDF format and recognize finished image files (for details, see Supported
Image Formats).
How to open an image or PDF file:
• In ABBYY FineReader, click Open, or select Open PDF File/Image… from the File menu.
In the dialog box, select Open image:
1. Select one or more images.
2. Specify the page range for a multi–page document.
3. Enable the Detect page orientation option to automatically detect the page layout when
opening images.
4. Activate the Split facing pages option to automatically split dual pages into separate
images when opening images.
5. Enable the Enable image preprocessing option to perform automated image
preprocessing when images are opened.
Note: When page images are opened or scanned for the first time, they are added to a new
FineReader document displayed in the Pages window. Later, when the page images are
opened or scanned, they will be added to the bottom of the open FineReader document.
• In Windows Explorer, right–click the appropriate image file and select Open in ABBYY
FineReader from the shortcut menu.