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ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide
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To make user dictionaries and languages available to multiple users:
1. Create/open an ABBYY FineReader document and select desired scanning and OCR options for the
document.
2. Specify a folder where user dictionaries will be stored. This folder should be accessible to all network
users.
Note: By default, user dictionaries are stored in %Userprofile%\Application
Data\ABBYY\FineReader\11.00\UserDictionaries if your computer is running Windows
XP and in
%Userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\ABBYY\FineReader\11.00\UserDictionaries if your
computer is running Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7.
To specify the folder:
1. Select Tools>Options… and on the Advanced tab of the Options dialog box click the
User Dictionaries… button.
2. Click Browse… and select the folder.
3. Save your user patterns and languages to an *.fbt file:
1. Select Tools>Options… and click the Read tab in the Options dialog box.
2. Under User patterns and languages, click the Save to File… button.
3. In the Save Options dialog box, specify a name for the *.fbt file and a folder where the file
will be stored. This folder should be accessible to all network users.
4. Now when a user creates a new ABBYY FineReader document, they must load the user patterns and
languages from the *.fbt file saved at step 3 and specify the path to the folder created at step 2,
where the user dictionaries are stored.
Important! To be able to access the user dictionaries, patterns, and languages, users must
have read/write permissions for the folders where they are stored.
To view the list of available user languages in the Language Editor dialog box (select
Tools>Language Editor… and scroll to User languages).
When a user language is being used by several users, it is available as "read–only," and users will
not be able to change user language properties. However, words can be added to and deleted
from a user dictionary that is being used on several LAN computers.
When a dictionary is being edited by a user, it is available as "read–only" to other users, i.e. users
can use this dictionary to perform OCR and check spelling, but they cannot add or remove words.
Any changes a user makes to a user dictionary will become available to all users who have selected
the folder where this dictionary is stored. For the changes to come into effect, users will need to
restart ABBYY FineReader.
ABBYY Hot Folder
(ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition only)
ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Hot Folder, a scheduling agent which allows you to select a
folder with images and set the time for ABBYY FineReader to process the images contained in the
folder. For example, you can schedule your computer to recognize images overnight.
To process images in a folder automatically, create a processing task for that folder and specify the
image opening, OCR, and saving options. You must also specify how often ABBYY FineReader