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ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide
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Group
[ty]ell — denotes "tell" and "yell"
Character not
from Group
[^]
[^y]ell — denotes "dell," "cell," "tell," but
forbids "yell"
[^n–s]ell — denotes "bell," "cell," but forbids
"nell," "oell," "pell," "qell," "rell," and "sell"
Or
|
c(a|u)t — denotes "cat" and "cut"
0 or More
Matches
*
10* — denotes numbers 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc.
1 or More
Matches
+
10+ — allows numbers 10, 100, 1000, etc., but
forbids 1
Letter or Digit
[0–9a–zA–Zа–яА–Я]
[0–9a–zA–Zа–яА–Я] — allows any single
character
[0–9a–zA–Zа–яА–Я]+ — allows any word
Capital Latin
Letter
[A–Z]
Small Latin
Letter
[a–z]
Capital Cyrillic
letter
[А–Я]
Small Cyrillic
letter
[а–я]
Digit
[0–9]
Space
\s
@
Reserved.
Note:
1. To use a regular expression symbol as a normal character, precede it with a backslash. For
example, [t–v]x+ stands for tx, txx, txx, etc., ux, uxx, etc., but \[t–v\]x+ stands for [t–v]x, [t–v]xx,
[t–v]xxx, etc.