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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
· You can use commands on the Area menu and the shortcut menu of a table area to:
—Analyze Table Structure (automatically analyzes the structure of a table and saves you the
trouble of drawing vertical and horizontal separators manually).
—Split Cells, Merge Cells, Merge Rows (allow you to correct any wrongly identified rows or
columns).
· Use the pop-up toolbar of the selected table area to add a horizontal or vertical separator, delete
table separators, analyze table structure, split table cells, or merge table cells or rows. To do this,
click the table area and then click the appropriate tool on the pop-up toolbar:
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Tip. Click the tool on the pop-up toolbar to select objects.
Note:
1. The cell splitting command can only be applied to table cells that were previously merged.
2. To merge or split table cells or rows, select them on the image and then click the appropriate tool
or menu command.
3. If the table contains vertical text cells, you may need to change the text properties first.
4. If a table cell only contains an image, select the Treat selected cells as picture option on the
Area Properties pane (to open this pane, right-click an area and click Properties on the shortcut
menu).
If a cell contains a combination of images and text, select the image to turn it into a dedicated area
inside the cell.
See also: :
· If vertical or inverted text was not recognized
· Editing areas
· Editing area properties
If a picture is not detected
Picture areas contain pictures. You can also use picture areas for text fragments that you don't want
to be recognized. If the program fails to correctly draw a picture area around a picture, use the Picture
tool to draw the area manually.
1. Select the tool on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane and use the mouse pointer to
draw a picture area around the picture.
2. Run the OCR process again.
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