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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide
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Options Dialog Box
In the Options dialog box, you can select document processing options and customize the
appearance of the program.
Important! To open the Options dialog box, click Tools > Options…. This dialog box can also be
opened by clicking the wrench button on the toolbar, by right–clicking the toolbar and then clicking
Options..., or by clicking the Options button in the saving or opening dialog boxes.
The Options dialog box has 6 tabs, each of which contains settings specific to certain areas of
ABBYY FineReader's functionality.
Document
On this tab, you can select:
 Document languages (i.e. the languages of the text to be recognized)
 Document type
 Color mode
 Document properties (name, author, keywords)
This tab also displays the path to the current FineReader document.
Scan/Open
On this tab you can enable or disable automatic processing of newly added pages. If automatic
processing is enabled, you can select general document processing options and image
preprocessing options to be used when scanning and opening images:
 Read page images
When this option is enabled, the program automatically recognizes the text.
 Analyze page images
When this option is enabled, the program automatically detects areas and their types.
 Preprocess page images
When this option is enabled, the program automatically preprocesses page images. You
can specify which tools will be used during preprocessing.
Also on this tab you can select a scanner driver and a scann ing interface.
Read
On this tab, you can select recognition options:
 Thorough reading or Fast reading
 Detect structural elements (lets you choose which elements to preserve when
exporting results to Microsoft Word)
 Training (lets you use user patterns when recognizing texts)
 User patterns and languages
 Fonts (lets you choose the fonts to be used in recognized texts)
 Look for barcodes
Save
On this tab, you can select the output format in which to save recognition results. For details, see
"Saving OCR Results."
View
On this tab, you can: