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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide
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Automating and Scheduling OCR
 Automatic document processing
Processing multiple documents often involves repeating the same actions multiple times.
ABBYY FineReader includes built–in automated tasks that let you perform common
operations with just one click. If you need more flexibility, you can create custom
automated tasks from a wide range of available processing steps.
 Scheduled processing
ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Hot Folder, a scheduling application that lets you
process documents when your computer is not in use, e.g. at night. Scheduled tasks can
be created for specific folders and have all the necessary image opening, recognition, and
saving settings.
Automated Tasks
(ABBYY FineReader Corporate only)
In ABBYY FineReader, you can use built–in and custom automated tasks to process your documents.
You can organize your tasks in the Task Manager… dialog box.
 To open the Task Manager, select Tools > Task Manager… or press Ctrl+T.
The toolbar at the top of the Task Manager contains buttons for creating, modifying, copying,
deleting, importing, and exporting tasks.
To process a document using a particular automated task, start the task on the My Tasks tab of
the Task window.