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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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Types of PDF documents
The features of a PDF document depend on the program in which it was created. Some PDF
documents are searchable and have text you can copy, while in other documents this only becomes
possible when you open them in special applications like ABBYY FineReader. There are three types of
PDF documents.
Image-only PDF documents
Image-only PDF documents are created from scans of hard-copy documents. They only contain the
images of pages and don't have a text layer. Image-only PDFs are not searchable, and the text they
contain cannot be modified or marked up in PDF viewing applications.
ABBYY FineReader 14 uses a special background OCR process that creates a temporary text layer
in image-only documents, making it possible to search and copy their text and even edit page images
. Moreover, ABBYY FineReader 14 lets you save this text layer in the document so that the text in the
document can be searched and copied into other applications. See also: PDF settings .
Searchable PDF documents
Searchable PDF documents consist of the images of pages with an invisible text layer placed
underneath. Documents of this type are usually created by scanning a paper document, recognizing it,
and saving the recognized text into a text layer.
When you open a PDF document in ABBYY FineReader, it will analyze the document to determine if it
contains a usable text layer. See also: OCR options . If a text layer is present, the text in the
document can be searched and copied in any PDF application. Unlike many other PDF applications,
ABBYY FineReader also lets you edit the text in searchable PDF documents.
In ABBYY FineReader, searchable PDF documents can be created by:
1. Adding a text layer to an image-only PDF document.
2. Converting PDF documents and image files to the searchable PDF format. To do this, enable the
Text under the page image option in the Searchable PDF settings group of options in the PDF
format settings. See also: PDF settings .
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