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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

Important! If a FineReader document was recognized or edited on another computer, the text in

the document may be displayed incorrectly on your computer. If this is the case, make sure that all

the fonts used in this document are installed on your machine.

If Your Printed Document Contains Non–Standard Fonts

The Training mode improves OCR quality on documents with decorative fonts or documents

containing special characters (e.g. mathematical symbols).

Note: It is not advisable to use the training mode in other cases, as the gains in recognition quality

will be insignificant compared to the time and effort you will spend on training.

In Training mode, a user pattern is created, which can be used when performing OCR on the entire

text.

 Using user patterns

 Creating and training a user pattern

 Selecting a user pattern

 Editing a user pattern

Using user patterns

To use a pattern to recognize a document:

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

2. Under Training, select the Use only user pattern option.

Note: If you select Use built–in and user patterns, ABBYY FineReader 12 will use both the user

patterns and its factory preset patterns for OCR.

3. Click the Pattern Editor… button.

4. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, select the desired pattern and then click OK.

5. In the ABBYY FineReader main window, click the Read button.

Creating and training a user pattern

To train a user pattern to recognize new characters and ligatures:

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

2. Under Training, select Use built–in and user patterns or Use only user pattern.

3. Select the Read with training option.

4. Click the Pattern Editor… button.

Note: Pattern training is not supported for Asian languages.

5. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, click New…

6. The Create Pattern dialog box will open. Type the name of the user pattern and click OK.

7. Close the Pattern Editor and the Options dialog box by clicking the OK button in each.

8. On the toolbar at the top of the Image window, click Read.

Now if ABBYY FineReader encounters an unknown character, this character will be

displayed in a Pattern Training dialog box.