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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
Scanning paper documents
To scan a document:
1. In the OCR Editor, click on the main toolbar or click File >Scan Pages....
2. Select a scanning device and specify scanning settings .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If it is not satisfactory, change the scanning settings and click the Preview
button again.
5. Click Settings... and specify image processing options .
These options determine the appearance and properties of the output document.
6. Click Scan.
7. Once the scanning is completed, a dialog box will appear, offering the following two choices:
· Click Scan more if you want to scan more pages using the current scanning settings.
· Click Preview if you want to see the scanned page.
· Click to close the dialog box.
8. If an OCR project is already open when you scan new pages, the scanned 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 scanned pages
See Scanning tips for some tips on selecting the optimal scanning settings.
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