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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide
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Inverted image is an image with white characters printed against a dark background.
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License Manager is a utility used for managing ABBYY FineReader licenses and activating ABBYY
FineReader 12 Corporate.
Ligature is a combination of two or more characters which are "stuck" together (e.g. fi, fl, ffi).
Such characters are difficult for ABBYY FineReader to separate. Treating them as one character
improves OCR accuracy.
Low–confidence characters are characters that may have been recognized by the program
incorrectly.
Low–confidence words are words that contain one or more low–confidence characters.
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Monospaced font is a font (such as Courier New) in which all characters are equally spaced. For
better OCR results on monospaced fonts, select Tools > Options..., click the Document tab, and
select Typewriter under Document type.
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Omnifont system is a recognition system that recognizes characters set in any font without prior
training.
Optional hyphen is a hyphen (¬) that indicates exactly where a word or word combination should
be split if it occurs at the end of a line (e.g. "autoformat" should be split into "auto" and
"format"). ABBYY FineReader replaces all hyphens found in dictionary words with optional hyphens.
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Page layout is the arrangement of text, tables, pictures, paragraphs, and columns on a page. The
fonts, font sizes, font colors, text background, and text orientation are also part of the page layout.
Paradigm is the set of all grammatical forms of a word.
Pattern is a set of associations between averaged character images and their respective names.
Patterns are created when you train ABBYY FineReader on a specific text.
PDF security settings are restrictions that prevent a PDF document from being opened, edited,
copied or printed. These settings include Document Open passwords, Permissions passwords, and
encryption levels.
Permissions password is a password which prevents other users from printing and editing a PDF
document unless they type the password specified by the author. If certain security settings are
specified for a PDF document, other users will not be able to change these s ettings until they type
the Permissions password.
Picture area is an image area that contains a picture. This type of area may enclose an actual
picture or any other object (e.g. a text fragment) that should be displayed as a picture.
Primary form is the "dictionary" form of a word (headwords of dictionary entries are usually given
in their primary forms).
Product ID is automatically generated on the basis of the hardware configuration when activating
ABBYY FineReader on a given computer.