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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

 Texts with special symbols (e.g. uncommon mathematical symbols)

 Large volumes of text from low–quality images (over 100 pages)

The Read with training option is disabled by default. Enable this option to train ABBYY

FineReader when recognizing text.

You can use built–in or custom patterns for recognition. Select one of the options under Training

to choose which patterns you want to use.

User patterns and languages

You can save and load user pattern and language settings.

Fonts

Here you can select the fonts to be used when saving recognized text.

 To select fonts:

1. Click the Fonts… button.

2. Select the desired fonts and click OK.

Barcodes

If your document contains barcodes and you wish them to be converted into strings of letters and

digits rather than saved as pictures, select Look for barcodes. This feature is disabled by default.

Working with Complex–Script Languages

With ABBYY FineReader, you can recognize documents in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese,

Japanese, and Korean. Some additional considerations must be taken into account when working

with documents in Chinese, Japanese or Korean and documents in which a combinati on of CJK and

European languages is used.

 Installing language support

 Recommended fonts

 Disabling automatic image processing

 Recognizing documents written in more than one language

 If non–European characters are not displayed in the Text window

 Changing the direction of recognized text

Installing language support

To be able to recognize texts written in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and

Korean, you may need to install these languages.

Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista support these languages by default.

To install new languages in Microsoft Windows XP:

1. Click Start on the taskbar.

2. Click Control Panel > Regional and Language Options.

3. Click the Languages tab and select the following options:

o Install files for complex script and right–to–left languages (including

Thai)

to enable support for Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Thai

o Install files for East Asian languages

to enable support for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean

4. Click OK.