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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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• Shortcut menu commands available by right–clicking the selected area in the Image window or the
Zoom window.
• Commands in the main Areas menu.
Restart the OCR process after making the desired adjustments.
Adjusting Area Shapes and Area Borders
Before recognition, the program analyzes and highlights different area types, such as: Text,
Image, Table and Barcode. Different types of border areas are distinguished by different colors.
ABBYY FineReader relies on this analysis to identify areas and the recognition order. This
information helps recreate the original page formatting.
The highlighted area is active. Click an area to make it active. You can use the Tab key to navigate
through the areas. Each area is numbered. These numbers determine the order of navigation. By
default, the ordinal numbers of the areas are not displayed in the Image window — this feature is
activated by selecting the area re–numbering function.
If the text of an area does not fit within its borders (this may happen, for example, if you edit the
recognized text), the text outside the borders of a non–active area may not be visible on the
screen. Red markers that appear on the borders of the area will alert you to this. Once an area
becomes active, its borders will expand to fit the entire text to the screen.
The tools for marking and editing the areas manually can be found in the Image window and on
the pop–up toolbars for the Text, Image, Background Picture, and Table areas (pop–up
toolbars appear next to the active area).
Important! After you have finished adjusting the areas, re–launch the OCR process.
Creating a new area
1. Select a tool from the Image window:
draws a Recognition area
draws a Text area
draws a Picture area
draws a Background Picture area
draws a Table area
2. Use the mouse to draw an area.
New areas can be drawn without selecting a tool from the Image window toolbar. You can simply
draw an area on the image using one of the the following key combinations:
• CTRL+SHIFT draws a Text area
• ALT+SHIFT draws an Image area
• CTRL+ALT draws a Table area
• CTRL+SHIFT+ALT draws a Barcode area
You can change the area type. Right–click the selected area to choose Change Area Type from
the shortcut menu, and then select the desired area type.
Adjusting area borders