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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

Note: To split facing pages in Arabic, Hebrew, or Yiddish, be sure to select the corresponding

recognition language first and only then select the Split facing pages option. This will ensure that

the pages are arranged in the correct order. You can also restore the original page numbering by

selecting the Swap book pages option. For details, see "What Is a FineReader Document?"

If your document has a complex structure, we recommend disabling automatic analysis and OCR for

images and performing these operations manually.

To disable automatic analysis and OCR:

1. Open the Options dialog box (Tools > Options…).

2. Clear the Automatically process pages as they are added option on the Scan/Open

tab.

3. Click OK.

Recognizing documents written in more than one language

The instructions below are provided as an example and explain how to recognize a document that

contains both English and Chinese text. Documents that contain other languages can be recognized

in a similar manner.

1. On the main toolbar, select More languages… from the Document Languages drop–

down list. Select Specify languages manually from the Language Editor dialog box

and select Chinese and English from the language list.

2. Scan or open the images.

3. If the program fails to detect all of the areas on an image:

o Specify areas manually using area editing tools.

o Specify any areas that only contain one language. To do so, select them and specify

their language in the Area Properties pane.

Important! The language can only be specified for areas of the same type. If you

selected areas of different types, such as Text and Table, you will not be able to

specify a language.

o If necessary, select the text direction from the Orientation drop–down list (for

details, see If Vertical or Inverted Text Is Not Recognized).

o For texts in CJK languages, the program provides a selection of the text directions

in the Direction of CJK text drop–down list (for details, see If Vertical or Inverted

Text Is Not Recognized).

4. Click the Read button on the main toolbar.

If non–European characters are not displayed in the Text

window

If text in a CJK language is displayed incorrectly in the Text window, you may have selected the

Plain text mode.

To change the font used in Plain text mode:

1. Open the Options options dialog box (Tools > Options…).

2. Click the View tab.

3. Select Arial Unicode MS from the Font used to display plain text drop–down list.

4. Click OK.

If this did not help and text in the Text window is still displayed incorrectly, see "Incorrect Font Is

Used or Some Characters Are Replaced with "?" or "□"."