12.0

ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

Changing text orientation

 Right–click an area, click Properties on its shortcut menu to open the Area Properties

pane, and then select the desired text orientation from the Orientation drop–down list.

For more information about editing the text properties of text areas, see "Adjusting

Text Area Properties."

Changing area border colors

1. Open the Options dialog box (Tools > Options…) and then click the View tab.

2. Select the area type under Appearance and choose a color on the Color palette.

If You Are Processing a Large Number of Documents with

Identical Layouts

If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts (e.g. forms or

questionnaires), analyzing the layout of every page will be very time consuming. To save time, you

can analyze only one document in a set of similar documents and save the detected areas as a

template. Then you can use this template for the other documents in the set.

To create an area template:

1. Open an image and either let the program analyze the layout automatically or draw the

areas manually.

2. On the Area menu, click Save Area Template… In the saving dialog box, provide a

name for your template and click Save.

Important! To be able to use an area template, you must scan all the documents in the set using

the same resolution value.

Applying an area template:

1. In the Pages window, select the pages to which you wish to apply an area template.

2. On the Area menu, click Load Area Template…

3. In the Open Area Template dialog box, select the desired area template (area template

files have the *.blk extension).

4. In the same dialog box, next to Apply to, select Selected pages to apply the template to

the selected pages.

Note: Select All pages to apply the template to all the pages in the current FineReader document.

5. Click the Open button.

If a Table Is Not Detected

Table areas mark tables or text fragments arranged in a tabular form. If the program fails to detect

a table automatically, use the Table tool to draw a table area around the table.

1. Select the tool on the toolbar at the top of the Image window and use the mouse to

draw a rectangle around the table on your image.