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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

Recognizing Documents

ABBYY FineReader uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technologies to convert document

images into editable text. Prior to OCR, the program analyzes the structure of the entire document

and detects the areas that contain text, barcodes, images, and tables. OCR quality can be improved

by selecting the correct document language, reading mode and print type prior to recognition.

By default, FineReader documents are recognized automatically. The current program settings are

used for automatic recognition.

Tip: You can disable automatic analysis and OCR for newly added images on the Scan/Open tab

of the Options dialog box (Tools > Options…).

In some cases, the OCR process can be started manually. For example, if you disabled automatic

recognition, selected areas on an image manually, or changed the following settings in the Options

dialog box (Tools > Options…):

 the recognition language on the Document tab

 the document type on the Document tab

 the color mode on the Document tab

 the recognition options on the Read tab

 the fonts to use on the Read tab

To launch the OCR process manually:

 Click the Read button on the main toolbar, or

 Click Read Document on the Document menu

Tip: To recognize the selected area or page, use the appropriate options on the Page and Area

menus, or use the shortcut menu.

What Is a FineReader Document?

While working with the program, you can save your interim results in a Fi neReader document so

that you can resume your work where you left off. A FineReader document contains the source

images, the text that has been recognized on the images, your program settings, and any user

patterns, languages or language groups that you ha ve created in order to recognize the text on the

images.

Working with an FineReader document:

 Opening a FineReader document

 Adding images to a FineReader document

 Removing a page from a document

 Saving documents

 Closing a document

 Splitting FineReader documents

 Ordering pages in a FineReader document

 Document properties

 Patterns and languages