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Table Of Contents
- Introducing ABBYY FineReader
- The New Task window
- PDF Editor
- OCR Editor
- Launching the OCR Editor
- OCR Editor interface
- Obtaining documents
- Recognizing documents
- Improving OCR results
- If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low
- If areas are detected incorrectly
- If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced
- If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts
- If tables and pictures are not detected
- If a barcode is not detected
- If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?" or "□"
- If your printed document contains non-standard fonts
- If your document contains many specialized terms
- If the program fails to recognize certain characters
- If vertical or inverted text was not recognized
- Checking and editing texts
- Copying content from documents
- Saving OCR results
- Integration with other applications
- Automating and scheduling OCR
- ABBYY Compare Documents
- Reference
- Types of PDF documents
- Scanning tips
- Taking photos of documents
- Options dialog box
- Format settings
- Supported OCR and document comparison languages
- Supported document formats
- Document features to consider prior to OCR
- Image processing options
- OCR options
- Working with complex-script languages
- Supported interface languages
- Current date and time on stamps and in Bates numbers
- Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages
- Regular expressions
- Installing, activating and, registering ABBYY FineReader 14
- ABBYY Screenshot Reader
- Appendix
- Technical support
- Copyrights
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ABBYY® FineReader 14 User’s Guide
Obtaining documents
After you launch the OCR Editor, you need to open an image file or PDF. This chapter provides
instructions on how you can obtain images and PDF documents for subsequent processing in the OCR
Editor.
Chapter contents
· Opening images and PDF documents
· Scanning paper documents
The quality of OCR depends on the quality of images and PDF documents that you open with ABBYY
FineReader. For information on scanning and taking photos of documents and on how to remove
common defects from scans and photographs, see Image processing options and Editing images
manually .
Opening images and PDFs
ABBYY FineReader allows you to open PDF and image files in any of the supported formats .
Complete the following steps to open an image or PDF file:
1. In the OCR Editor, click on the main toolbar or click File > Open Image....
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more image or PDF files.
3. If you select a file that contains multiple pages, you can specify a range of pages to open.
4. Select Automatically process page images as they are added if you want the image to be
processed automatically.
Tip. You can specify which manipulations the program should perform on the image, e.g. what image
defects should be rectified or whether the document should be analyzed and recognized automatically.
To specify image processing options, click the Options... button. See Image processing options for
details.
If an OCR project is already open when you open new pages, the selected pages will be appended to
the end of this project. If no OCR project is currently open, a new one will be created from the selected
pages.
For more information on working with pages and OCR projects, see OCR projects .
Access to some PDF files may be restricted by their authors. Such restrictions include password
protection and restrictions on opening the document or copying its content. When opening such files,
ABBYY FineReader will request a password.
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