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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 to PDF
The Scan to PDF task in the New Task window lets you create PDF documents from images obtained
from a scanner or a digital camera.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click Scan to PDF.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change the scanning
settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of the
output document.
5.1.Image quality This option determines the quality of images and pictures, which affects the
size of the resulting output file. The following quality settings are available:
· Best quality
Select this option to retain the quality of the pictures and the page image. The original
resolution will be preserved.
· Balanced
Select this option to reduce the size of the output PDF file without too much loss in picture
quality.
· Compact size
Select this option to obtain a small-sized PDF file at the expense of picture quality.
· Custom...
Select this option to customize picture saving. In the Custom Settings dialog box, specify
the desired values and click OK.
5.2.Create PDF/A documents
Select this option to create a PDF/A-compliant document.
5.3.Use MRC compression
Select this option to apply Mixed Raster Content (MRC) compression to reduce file size
without noticeable loss in image quality..
5.4.Recognize text on images
Select this option if you want OCR to start automatically.
5.5.OCR languages
Use this option to specify the languages of the document. See also: OCR languages .
5.6.Image preprocessing settings...
Use this option to specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of page orientation
and automatic preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly improve source
images, resulting in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing options .
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