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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 tips
You can set the scanning settings in the ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box.
· Make sure that the scanner is properly connected to your computer and turn it on.
Consult your scanner documentation to ensure it is set up correctly. Be sure to install the software
provided with your scanner. Some scanners have to be turned on before turning on the computer
they are connected to.
· Try to make sure that the pages in the scanner are positioned as straight as possible. Place your
documents face down on the scanner, making sure they are properly adjusted. Skewed images
may be converted incorrectly.
· If you need to scan documents that were printed with a regular printer, use the grayscale mode and
a resolution of 300 dpi for best results.
Recognition quality depends on the quality of the hard-copy document and on the settings used for
scanning the document. Poor image quality may have an adverse effect on the quality of
conversion. Be sure to select the scanning parameters appropriate for your document .
There are several ways to open the scanning interface:
· Open the New Task screen, click the Scan tab, and then click Scan to OCR Editor or
another task on this tab.
· In the OCR Editor, click the Scan button on the main toolbar.
· In the PDF Editor, click the button on the main toolbar and then click Add
from Scanner... on the menu shown below.
You can specify the following scanning settings:
Color mode
Lets you select the scanning mode: color, grayscale (the best mode for OCR) or black-and-white.
Brightness
Changes the scanning brightness.
ABBYY FineReader will display a warning message during scanning if the brightness setting is too
low or too high. You may also need to adjust the brightness setting when scanning in black-and-white
mode.
The 50% setting works well in most cases.
If the resulting image contains too many "sketchy" or "thick" letters, troubleshoot using the table below.
Image defect
Recommendations
This image is suitable for text recognition.
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