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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

 Correct image resolution

ABBYY FineReader 12 will automatically determine the best resolution for images, and will

change the resolution of images when necessary.

Photo correction

 Detect page edges

Sometimes digital photographs have borders that do not contain any useful data. The

program will detect such borders and delete them.

 Whiten background

ABBYY FineReader will whiten backgrounds and select the best brightness for images.

 Reduce ISO noise

Noise will be automatically removed from photographs.

 Remove motion blur

The sharpness of blurry digital photos will be increased.

Note: You can disable all of these options when scanning or opening document pages and still

apply any desired preprocessing in the Image Editor. For details, see "Preprocessing Images."

Scanning interfaces

By default, ABBYY FineReader uses its own scanning interface. The scanning dialog box contains

the following options:

 Resolution, Scanning mode, and Brightness

 Paper Settings

 Image Processing

Tip: You can choose which preprocessing features to enable, which defects to remove, and

whether the document should be automatically analyzed and recognized. To do so, enable

the Automatically process pages as they are added option and click the Options…

button.

 Multi–page Scanning:

a. Use automatic document feeder (ADF)

b. Duplex scanning

c. Set the page scanning delay in seconds

If the scanning interface of ABBYY FineReader 12 is incompatible with your scanner, you can use

your scanner's native interface. The scanner's documentation should contain descriptions of this

dialog box and its elements.

Image Preprocessing

Distorted text lines, skew, noise, and other defects commonly found in scanned images and digital

photos can lower recognition quality. ABBYY FineReader can remove these defects automatically,

and also lets you remove them manually.

Automatic image preprocessing

ABBYY FineReader has several image preprocessing features. If these features are enabled, the

program automatically determines how an image can be improved based on its type and applies any

necessary enhancements: removes noise, corrects skew, straightens text lines, and corrects

trapezoidal distortions.

Note: These operations may take a significant amount of time.