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ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide
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• Split Cells, Merge Cells, and Merge Rows correct of the rows and columns that were
automatically detected in the table.
• Use the pop–up toolbar for the selected table to:
Add a horizontal or vertical separator, delete table separators, analyze table structure, split
table cells, or merge table cells or rows.
Click the Table area and select the appropriate tool from the pop–up toolbar:
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Tip. To toggle separators on or off, select the
on the pop–up toolbar.
Notes:
1. The cell splitting command can only be applied to table cells that were previously merged.
2. To merge or split table cells or rows, select them on the image and then choose the appropriate tool
or menu command.
3. If the table contains vertical text cells, you may need to change the text properties first.
4. If the table cells only contain an image, check the Treat selected cells as picture option on the
Area Properties panel (the >Area Properties shortcut menu).
If the cell contains a combination of image and text, select the image to turn it into a dedicated area
inside the cell.
Adjusting Text Area Properties
When performing automatic document analysis, ABBYY FineReader detects different area types
on document pages (such as tables, images, text and barcodes). The program also analyzes the
document structure and identifies headings and other layout elements such as headers and footers,
images and diagram captions, etc.
You can manually change incorrectly defined properties in some Text and Table areas.
1. Select the area in the Image window or the Zoom window and adjust the properties in the Area
Properties panel of the Image window.
The Area Properties panel lets you set the following properties:
• Language — For details, see Document languages.
• Function displays the function of the text, i.e. header or footer, heading, etc. (applies only
to Text areas).
• Orientation — For details, see Vertical or Horizontal Text Not Recognized Properly.
• Print type — For details, see Print Type.
• Inversion — For details, see Vertical or Horizontal Text Not Recognized Properly.
• Direction of hieroglyphic text — For details, see Recognizing Documents in More Than
One Language.
Notes:
a. Use
/ buttons to navigate left and right along the properties panel if the Image window
is not wide enough to display the entire properties panel.
b. Some of the text properties can be modified using the shortcut menu that becomes available
when you right–click a Text area.
2. Re–launch the OCR process after making the necessary changes.