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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

If there is text printed over a picture in your document, draw a Background Picture area around

the picture.

1. In the Image window, select the tool on the toolbar and draw a frame around the

picture.

Note: If you do not see this tool on the toolbar, add it. See Toolbars for detailed

instructions.

2. Start the OCR process.

You can change an existing area to Picture or Background Picture. Right–click the area and then

click Change Area Type To > Picture or Change Area Type To > Background Picture.

If a Barcode Is Not Detected

Barcode areas mark the barcodes contained in a document. If your document contains a barcode

that you would like to render as a sequence of letters and digits rather than as an image, select the

barcode and change the area type to Barcode.

Note: Barcode recognition is disabled by default. To enable barco de recognition, click Tools >

Options…, click the Read tab, and select the Look for barcodes option.

To draw a barcode area and recognize it:

1. Hold Ctrl+Shift+Alt and use the mouse to select a barcode in the Image window or in

the Zoom window.

2. Run the OCR process.

Supported barcode types:

 Code 3 of 9

 Check Code 3 of 9

 Code 3 of 9 without asterisk

 Codabar

 Code 93

 Code 128

 EAN 8

 EAN 13

 IATA 2 of 5

 Interleaved 2 of 5

 Check Interleaved 2 of 5

 Matrix 2 of 5

 Postnet

 Industrial 2 of 5

 UCC–128

 UPC–A

 UPC–E

 PDF417

 Aztec Code

 Data Matrix

 QR code

 Patch code

Note: The default barcode type is Autodetect, which means that barcode types are to be detected

automatically. However, not all barcode types can be detected automatically, and sometimes you