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ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide
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Important! Any program setting changes made in the Options dialog box require re–scanning or
re–opening the image. These steps are required to processyour image under the new settings.
The following settings are available on the Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog box:
• Launching automatic analysis and recognition of the retrieved images
ABBYY FineReader is by default set to analyze and recognize documents automatically.
These settings can be modified as needed. The following options are available:
• Automatically read acquired page images
Document analysis and recognition will be performed automatically.
• Automatically analyze acquired page images
Document analysis will be performed automatically, and recognition will require the user's
attention.
• Do not read and analyze acquired page images automatically
The scanned or opened images will be added to the FineReader document. The user will
have to initiate document analysis and recognition manually. This mode is used for
processing documents with a complex structure.
• Image processing methods
• Enable image preprocessing
Enable image preprocessing if you need to OCR a book or a digital photo of a text
document. When activated, this feature automatically decides what action to take depending
on the input image type and applies the correction. Adjustments include removing noise
from digital photos, deskewing, removing motion blur, straightening text lines, and
correcting trapezium distortions.
• Detect page orientation
Enable this feature to automatically detect the orientation of pages added to the FineReader
document.
• Split facing pages
Enable this feature when scanning a facing or opening dual pages. It will automatically split
pages before adding them to the FineReader document.
Note: The image preprocessing features are only available in the Image Editor dialog box
(Page>Edit Page Image...) to process the images opened in FineReader, and are not
available while scanning or opening document pages. For details, see "Editing Images".
• The scanner interface to be used while scanning
Selecting the Scanning Interface
By default, ABBYY FineReader uses its own scanning dialog box to adjust scanning options. If, for
some reason, the ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box is incompatible with your scanner model,
the scanner's dialog box is used.
1. ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box
In this case, the ABBYY FineReader interface is used to set up scanning mode. The following
settings are available:
• Resolution, Brightness, and Scanning Mode
• Image preprocessing options:
a. Detect page orientation (enable this feature to automatically detect page orientation
while scanning)