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ABBYY® FineReader 14 User’s Guide
Making screenshots and recognizing text
ABBYY Screenshot Reader can create screenshots of selected areas on the screen of your computer
and save them to a file, copy them to the Clipboard, or send them to the OCR Editor .
When you launch ABBYY Screenshot Reader, the ABBYY Screenshot Reader window appears on
the screen of your computer.
The ABBYY Screenshot Reader window contains tools for recognizing text and tables on the screen
of your computer, for creating screenshots of selected screen areas, and for setting up the application.
To make a screenshot or to recognize a text fragment:
1. Select a screen capture method from the Capture drop-down list.
· Area
Lets you select an area to capture.
· Window
Captures a specific part of the screen (e.g. a window, a part of a window, or a toolbar).
· Screen
Captures the entire screen.
· Timed Screen
Captures the entire screen after a 5-second delay.
2. Select the language of the text you want to recognize from the Language drop-down list.
3. In the Send drop-down list, select the application to which you want to send the image or
recognized text.
The text and screenshots will be:
- Copied to the clipboard (when you select Text to Clipboard, Table to Clipboard, or Image to
Clipboard from the Send drop-down list).
- Placed in a new document (when you select Text to Microsoft Word[1] or Table to Microsoft
Excel[2] from the Send drop-down list).
- Saved as a file (when you select Text to File, Table to File or Image to File from the Send
drop-down list). The Save As dialog box will open and you will need to specify the name and
format of the file.
- Opened in the OCR Editor of ABBYY FineReader 14 (when you select Image to OCR Editor[3]
from the Send drop-down list). Select this item if the screen area contains both text and pictures.
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