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ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide
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• Regular expression
You can use a regular expression to create a new language.
e. Advanced… — Opens the Advanced Language Properties dialog box, where you can
specify more advanced properties for your language:
• Non–letter characters that may occur at the beginning or at the end of words
• Standalone non–letter characters (punctuation marks, etc.)
• Characters to be ignored if they occur inside words
• Prohibited characters that may never occur in texts written in this language
• All the characters of the language to be recognized
• Allow Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, and abbreviations
5. Once you have finished creating your new language, select it as the recognition language for your
document.
By default, user languages are saved in the ABBYY FineReader document folder. You can alsosave
all your user languages and patterns to one file: Select Tools>Options…, click the Read tab, and
then click the Save to File… button.
Creating a Language Group
If you are going to use a particular language combination regularly, you may wish to group the
languages together for convenience.
1. On the Tools menu, click Language Editor….
2. In the Language Editor dialog box, click New….
3. In the New Language or Group dialog box, select Create a new group of languages and click
OK.
4. In the Language Group Properties dialog box, type a name for your new group and select the
desired languages.
Note: If you know that your text will not contain certain characters, you may wish to
explicitly specify these so–called prohibited characters. Specifying prohibited characters can
increase both recognition speed and quality. To specify prohibited characters, click the
Advanced… button in the Language Group Properties dialog box. In the Advanced
Language Group Properties dialog box, type the prohibited characters in the Prohibited
characters field.
5. Click OK.