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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
If you do not want the images you add to be automatically processed, clear the Automatically
process page images as they are added to the OCR Editor option.
This lets you quickly open large documents, recognize only select pages in a document, and save
documents as images .
Image preprocessing settings
ABBYY FineReader lets you automatically correct common defects on scan and digital photos.
By default, this dialog box displays three recommended options:
· Split facing pages
Split facing pages The program will automatically split images that contain facing pages into two
images containing one page each.
· Correct page orientation
The orientation of pages that are added to an OCR project will be automatically detected and
corrected if necessary.
· Use recommended settings for better OCR
The program will automatically choose and apply the required preprocessing settings.
To display all the settings, click Show Advanced Settings:
· Deskew images
The program will automatically detect skewed pages and correct skew if necessary.
· Straighten text lines
The program will automatically detect uneven text lines on images and straighten them without
correcting trapezoid distortions.
· Correct image resolution
The program will automatically detect will automatically determine the best resolution for images
and will change the resolution of images when necessary.
· Detect page edges *
The program will automatically detect and crop image edges.
· Whiten background *
The program will automatically whiten backgrounds and select the best brightness setting.
· Reduce ISO noise *
The program will automatically remove noise from photographs.
· Remove motion blur *
The sharpness of blurry digital photos will be increased.
· Correct trapezoid distortions *
The program will automatically detect trapezoid distortions and uneven text lines on digital
photographs and scans of books.
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