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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide
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Status
Description
Running…
The images in the folder are being processed.
Scheduled
You chose to check the hot folder for images only once at start time. The start
time is indicated in the Next Start Time column.
Stopped
Processing has been stopped by the user.
Completed
Finished processing images in this folder.
Error (see
log)
An error occurred when processing images in this folder. ABBYY FineReader did
not complete the processing tasks. To find out the cause of th e error, select the
failed folder and click the View Log button on the toolbar.
You can save any task for future use:
1. Click the button on the toolbar and select Export…
2. Specify the name of the task and the path to the task.
3. Click Save.
To load a previously saved task:
1. Click the button on the toolbar and click Import…
2. Select the desired task and click Open.
Creating a new task for a folder
1. click the New button on the ABBYY Hot Folder toolbar,
2. In the Task name field, type a name for your task.
3. In the Hot Folder dialog box, select how often the task should be launched:
o Run once (the task will be launched once at the time you specify)
o Recurring (the task will be launched multiple times)
4. Specify the folder or document that contains the images to be processed.
o File from folder allows you to process images in local and network folders.
o File from FTP allows you to process images in folders on an FTP server.
If login and password are required in order to access the FTP folder, enter them in
the User name and Password fields respectively. If no login and password are
required, select the Anonymous user option.
o File from Outlook allows you to process images in your mail box..
o FineReader document opens images stored in a FineReader document.
If you do not need to preserve the original colors, you can set up the program to process images in
black–and–white mode. To do this, select the Convert images to black and white option under
Color mode.
Under Original files, specify whether original files should be kept, deleted or moved.
5. In the Analyze and read step, configure the document analysis and recognition options.
a. From the Document language drop–down list, select the language of the texts to
be recognized.