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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
Working with complex-script languages
With ABBYY FineReader, you can recognize documents in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean. Some additional factors must be taken into account when working with
documents in Chinese, Japanese or Korean and with documents in which a combination of CJK and
European languages is used.
· Installing language support files
· Recommended fonts
· Disabling automatic image processing
· Recognizing documents written in more than one language
· If non-European characters are not displayed in the Text window
· Changing the direction of recognized text
Installing language support
To be able to recognize texts written in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean,
you may need to install these languages.
Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista support these languages by default.
To install new languages in Microsoft Windows XP:
1. Click Start on Control Panel.
2. Click Control Panel > Region and Language.
3. Click the Languages tab and select the following options:
· Install files for complex-script and right-to-left languages
to enable support for Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, and Thai
· Install files for East Asian languages
to enable support for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean
4. Click OK.
Recommended fonts
Recognition of text in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean may require
additional fonts to be installed. The table below lists the recommended fonts for texts in these
languages.
OCR languages
Recommended font
Arabic
Arial™ Unicode™ MS*
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