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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
About ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader 14 is a one-stop solution for working with paper documents and all types of PDF
documents, combining powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and PDF viewing and editing
functionality.
ABBYY FineReader 14 features
· Scan and convert documents Scan and convert paper and PDF documents into editable
formats (including Microsoft® Word, Microsoft Excel®, searchable PDF, and many more) for
further editing and re-use.
o The OCR technology used in ABBYY FineReader quickly and accurately recognizes text
and retains the original formatting of any document. ABBYY FineReader retains the
structure of original documents, including their formatting, hyperlinks, e-mail addresses,
headers, footers, captions, page numbers, and footnotes.
o ABBYY FineReader offers a built-in text editor, which allows you to compare recognized
texts against their original images and make any necessary changes to the content or
formatting. If you are not satisfied with the results of automatic processing, you can
manually specify image areas to capture and train the program to recognize less
common or unusual fonts.
o ABBYY FineReader can recognize photos of text documents obtained with a digital
camera or a mobile phone. You can use additional image preprocessing settings to
improve the quality of your photos and get even more accurate OCR results.
· Work with any type of PDF documents, including document scans.
With ABBYY FineReader, you can:
o Edit text and pictures
o Carry out searches in the body text and in comments, bookmarks and metadata
o Rearrange pages in PDF documents
o Copy text, tables, and pictures from scans or photos
o Add comments and annotations to documents
o Sign documents with a digital signature
o Protect PDF documents with passwords
o Remove sensitive information from documents
o Create PDF documents specifically adapted for long-term storage (e.g. in digital
archives)
o Fill out PDF forms
· Compare texts to identify differences between two versions of the same document.*
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