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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide
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1. In the Task window, click a tab on the left:
o Quick Start contains the most common ABBYY FineReader tasks
o Microsoft Word contains tasks that automate conversion of documents to Microsoft
Word
o Microsoft Excel contains tasks that automate conversion of documents to Microsoft
Excel
o Adobe PDF contains tasks that automate conversion of documents to PDF
o Other contains tasks that automate conversion of documents to other formats
o My Tasks contains your custom tasks (ABBYY FineReaderВ Corporate only)
2. From the Document language drop–down list, select the languages of your document.
3. From the Color mode drop–down list, select a color mode:
o Full color preserves the colors of the document;
o Black and white converts the document to black and white, which reduces its size
and speeds up the processing.
Important! Once the document is converted to black and white, you will not be able to restore the
colors. To obtain a color document, either scan a paper document in color or open a file that
contains color images.
4. If you are going to run a Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or PDF task, specify additional
document options in the right–hand part of the window.
5. Start the task by clicking its button in the Task window.
When you start a task, it will use the options currently selected in the Options dialog box (click
Tools > Options… to open the dialog box).
While a task is running, a task progress window is displayed, showing the list of steps and alerts
issued by the program.
Once the task is executed, the images will be added to a FineReader document, recognized, and
saved in the format of your choice. You can adjust the areas detected by the program, verify the
recognized text, and save the results in any other supported format.
Document conversion steps
You can set up and start any of the processing steps from the ABBYY FineReader main window.