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ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Contents Introducing ABBYY FineReader ............................................................................................................... 8 About ABBYY FineReader ................................................................................................................................................ 9 What's New in ABBYY FineReader 15 .......................................................................................................................
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Contents Working with pages ............................................................................................................................................. 87 Adding bookmarks ............................................................................................................................................... 91 Adding headers and footers .................................................................................................................
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Contents If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts ................................ 141 If tables and pictures are not detected ...................................................................................................... 142 If a barcode is not detected ............................................................................................................................
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Contents ABBYY Screenshot Reader ................................................................................................................... 197 Reference ............................................................................................................................................... 201 How to set ABBYY FineReader 15 as your default PDF viewer .................................................................... 202 Types of PDF documents ............
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Contents Third-party software ............................................................................................................................
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Introducing ABBYY FineReader This chapter provides an overview of ABBYY FineReader and its features.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide About ABBYY FineReader ABBYY FineReader 15 is a universal PDF tool for managing documents in the digital workplace. Powered by ABBYY’s AI-based OCR and document-conversion technologies, FineReader unlocks the information contained within a document to increase business productivity. FineReader makes it easy and efficient to digitize, retrieve, edit, convert, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of PDF and paper documents in the modern working world.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide o Convert paper documents, document images, and PDFs quickly and accurately - while retaining their original layout, formatting, and structure - with the advanced OCR Editor. o Improve quality and correct distortions in the digital images of documents (scans/photographs) before converting them, either automatically or manually.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide What's New in ABBYY FineReader 15 Editing PDFs · Editing text within paragraphs Now, editing text in PDFs of any kind – including scanned documents – can be done within a whole block of text. When you add or delete text, it automatically flows from line to line, which provides you with a convenience and freedom similar to editing in a word processor like Microsoft Word.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Comparing documents · Export in Track Changes mode Now, you can export the comparison results as a Microsoft Word document highlighting the differences in Track Changes mode, the mode commonly used in organizations, particularly in the legal field. · Even more accurate comparisons Thanks to the improvements in converting digital PDFs, you can compare such documents with any other type of supported format even more precisely than before.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The New Task window When you launch ABBYY FineReader, a New Task window opens, where you can easily open, scan, create, or compare documents. If you don’t see the New Task window (e.g. if you closed it or if you initiated an ABBYY FineReader task by right-clicking a file in Windows Explorer), you can always open it by clicking the button on the main toolbar. To start processing a document, select a task: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. In the right-hand pane, select the appropriate task. For your convenience, when you hover the mouse cursor over a task, a pop-up window appears listing the most common scenarios covered by that task. The settings for all ABBYY FineReader tasks are specified in the Options 212 dialog box. To open this dialog box, click Options at the bottom of the left-hand pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Viewing and editing PDFs With ABBYY FineReader, you can easily view, edit, comment, and search inside any type of PDF documents, even those that were obtained by simply scanning a paper document and so do not contain any searchable or editable text. Viewing PDF documents and adding your comments On the New Task screen, click the Open tab and then click Open PDF Document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If you don't see the commenting tools, click the button. Editing PDF documents ABBYY FineReader offers the following editing tools: See also: Editing text 75 , Inserting and editing pictures Protecting PDF documents 83 . 105 With ABBYY FineReader, you can: See also: Digital signatures and permissions 106 Filling out forms 102 , Removing confidential information from PDF documents 107 , Passwords .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Quick conversion You can use the built-in tasks on the Open tab of the New Task screen to convert PDF documents or images or create a new PDF from files in various formats. Converting one or more files 1. Click the Open tab and then click a desired task: · Convert to PDF creates PDF documents from *.docx, *.html, *.jpeg, and other files. You can also use this task to combine multiple files into one PDF document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert. 3. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of the output document. 4. Add or remove files if necessary. 5. Click the Convert to button. 6. Specify a destination folder for the output file. When the task is completed, the resulting file will be placed into the folder that you specified. Combining files 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 4. Add or remove files if necessary. 5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document option. 6. Click the Convert to button. 7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file. When the task is completed, the resulting file will be placed into the folder that you specified. Use advanced conversion 26 for large documents with complicated layouts.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Creating PDF documents In the New Task window, you can: · Create PDF documents from files in various formats. · Convert multiple files to PDF. · Combine multiple files into one PDF. · Create searchable PDF documents. · Create PDF/A-compliant documents. Converting one or more files 1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to PDF. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert. 3. Specify conversion settings.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Disable full-text search The document will be converted to image-only PDF. Users will not be able to search inside the output document. 3.3.Create PDF/A documents Select this option to create a PDF/A-compliant document. A PDF/A-2b document will be created by default. Click More options... to select another version of PDF/A. 3.4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Creating Microsoft Word documents In the New Task window, you can create Microsoft Word documents from PDF documents and images and from files in any of the supported formats 237 . You can also convert and combine multiple files into one Microsoft Word document. Converting one or more files 1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to Microsoft Word. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert. 3. Specify conversion settings.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 6. Specify a destination folder for the output file. When the task is completed, the resulting Microsoft Word document will be placed into the folder that you specified. Combining files 1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to Microsoft Word. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select the files that you want to convert. 3. Specify conversion settings 22 . 4. Add or remove files if necessary. 5.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets In the New Task window, you can create Microsoft Excel documents from PDF documents and images and from files in any of the supported formats 237 . You can also convert and combine multiple files into one Excel document. Converting one or more files 1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to Microsoft Excel. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert. 3. Specify conversion settings.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document option. 6. Click the Convert to Excel button. 7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file. When the task is completed, the resulting Microsoft Excel document will be placed into the folder that you specified.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Other formats In the New Task window, you can convert PDF documents and images into popular formats (*.pptx, *.odt, *.html, *.epub, *.fb2, *.rtf, *.txt, *.csv, *.djvu) and combine multiple files into one document. Converting one or more files 1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to other formats. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert. 3. Specify conversion settings.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide order to improve OCR accuracy, and much more.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The OCR Editor also offer powerful features for fine-tuning OCR and conversion to get the best possible results. For example, you can edit recognition areas 135 , check recognized text 155 , and train 147 ABBYY FineReader to recognize non-standard characters and fonts. 1. There are several ways to open the OCR Editor: · Open the New Task 13 window by clicking File > New Task, click the Open tab, and then click the Open in OCR Editor task.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY FineReader analyzes documents to detect areas that contain text, pictures, tables, and barcodes. Sometimes, areas in complex documents may be detected incorrectly. In most cases it is easier to correct automatically detected areas than to draw all areas manually. You can find tools for drawing and editing areas on the toolbar above the Image pane and on the toolbars that appear above text, picture, background picture, and table areas when you select them.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Comparing documents (This functionality is not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader 15. See also: http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader.) ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Compare Documents, an application that lets you compare two versions of a document, even if these versions are in different formats.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Open ABBYY Compare Documents, open one of the versions that you want to compare in the left-hand pane and the other one in the right-hand pane. 2. In the COMPARE pane, select the languages of the document from the drop-down list.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 3. Click the Compare button to compare the documents. 4. Review the differences detected by ABBYY Compare Documents. The differences between the two versions will be highlighted in each version and listed in the right-hand pane, providing you with a clear picture of the changes made to the document. This makes it easy to see which text was added, removed or edited in each version.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning and saving documents You can use the tasks on the Scan tab of the New Task window to create digital documents in various formats. You will need a scanner or a digital camera to obtain document images. 1. Click the Scan tab and then click a task: · Scan to OCR Editor opens scans in the OCR Editor 116 . · Scan to PDF creates PDF documents from images obtained from a scanner or digital camera.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Scan to Other Formats creates documents in popular formats, such as *.odt, *.pptx, *.epub, and *.html, from images obtained from a scanner or digital camera. 2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 206 . 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.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide See also: : · Scanning to the OCR Editor · Scanning to PDF 36 38 · Scanning to Microsoft Word 40 · Scanning to Microsoft Excel 42 · Scanning to image files 44 · Scanning to other formats 46 35
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning to the OCR Editor You can open images from a scanner or camera in the OCR Editor, where you will be able to: · Draw and edit recognition areas manually · Check recognized text · Train ABBYY FineReader to recognize non-standard characters and fonts · Use other advanced tools to ensure the best possible OCR result. 1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to OCR Editor task. 2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 206 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 5.3.Image preprocessing settings... Opens the Preprocessing Settings dialog box where you can 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 244 . 5.4.More options... Opens the Image Processing 213 tab of the Options dialog box.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 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 206 . 3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image. 4. Review the image.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 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 244 . 5.7.More options...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning to Microsoft Word The Scan to Microsoft Word task in the New Task window lets you create Microsoft Word documents from images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera. 1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Microsoft Word task. 2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 206 . 3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image. 4. Review the image.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 5.5.Image preprocessing settings... 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 244 . 5.6.More options...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning to Microsoft Excel The Scan to Microsoft Excel task in the New Task window lets you create Microsoft Excel documents from images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera. 1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Microsoft Excel task. 2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 206 . 3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image. 4. Review the image.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 6. Click Scan to Excel. 7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips. 8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next will appear. Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning to close the dialog box. 9. Specify the folder where you want to save your Microsoft Excel document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning to image files The Scan to Image Files task in the New Task window lets you create image-only documents from images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera. 1. Click the Scan tab and then click the Scan to Image Files task. 2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 206 . 3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image. 4. Review the image.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 6. Click Scan to . 7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips. 8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next will appear. Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning to close the dialog box. 9. Specify the folder where you want to save your output file.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning to other formats The Scan to Other Formats task in the New Task window lets you create documents in popular formats (*.pptx, *.odt, *.html, *.epub, *.fb2, *.rtf, *.txt, *.csv, and *.djvu) from images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera. 1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Other Formats task. 2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 206 . 3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image. 4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide PDF Editor The PDF Editor is an easy-to-use tool that lets you view and search PDF documents, rearrange, add or delete pages, copy text and pictures, edit text, and add comments to documents. You don't need to convert your PDF to an editable format, even if it only contains scans without a text layer.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Viewing PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to view and search PDF documents and copy text, pictures, and tables inside them. To open a PDF document in the PDF Editor: · Open the New Task 13 window, click the Open tab and then click the Open PDF Document task. · Open the New Task window and click File > Open PDF Document.... The document will be displayed in the PDF Editor. To customize the way the document is displayed, use the following settings.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · The zoom feature lets you zoom in to and out of the document. · Actual Size displays the page at a scale of 100%. · Fit to Width changes the scale at which the document is displayed so that the width of the document fits to the width of the screen. · Best Fit changes the scale at which the document is displayed so that the height of the document fits to the height of the screen. · Zoom Out/Zoom In lets you adjust the scale manually.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If you want to display even pages on the left and odd pages on the right in one of the two-page viewing modes, click View > View mode > Odd Pages on the Right. There are several ways to change the viewing mode: · Click one of the buttons on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen: · Click View > View mode and select one of the viewing modes. · Use the following keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, and Ctrl+4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Hiding toolbars and panes when reading PDF documents When reading a document in the PDF Editor, you may want to hide some or all of the toolbars and panes in order to leave as much screen space for the document as possible. The menu bar, the main toolbar, and the toolbar at the bottom of the screen can't be hidden separately, but you can use the full-screen mode if you want to hide all toolbars and panes.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Navigating PDF documents The PDF Editor offers a number of tools for navigating PDF documents. · The Pages pane lets you navigate pages quickly, change the order of pages, add pages to the document, or delete them. · The Bookmarks pane contains tools for creating, editing, and navigating bookmarks. · The Search pane lets you search and highlight text. · The Attachments pane lets you view and edit attachments.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Use the buttons on the main toolbar. · Click View > Go to Page and then click Next Page, Previous Page, First Page or Last Page. To quickly open a specific page: · Type the number of the desired page in the box on the main toolbar and press Enter. · Click View > Go to Page > Page Number..., type the number of the desired page, and click OK. Navigating pages in the full-screen view To open a specific page in full-screen view, do the following: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Background recognition The PDF Editor allows you to search and copy text and pictures in PDF documents without a text layer, such as scanned documents and documents created from image files. This is possible thanks to an OCR process that runs in the background. Background recognition is enabled by default and starts automatically when you open a PDF document. The background recognition process does not change the contents of the PDF file.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Keyword search The PDF Editor allows you to find and highlight information in PDF files. Comments, metadata, and bookmarks will be searched along with the text in the document itself, and the results will be displayed in a separate panel. Search results will also be highlighted in the document, and you will be able to apply various effects to these results. 1. Click the tab in the pane on the left or click View > Search to open the Search pane. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide By default, the markup tools in the Search pane use the same colors as the markup tools on the PDF Tools toolbar. To navigate to the next/previous search hit, use the buttons. You can also select the next search result by pressing F3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Copying content from PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to copy text, pictures, and tables from PDF documents to other applications. These features can be used in PDF documents of any type, even those that contain only scans. Complete the following steps to copy text: 1. Select the text that you want to copy. 2. Right-click the selected text and click Copy Text on the shortcut menu or click one of the icons on the pop-up toolbar that appears above the text. 3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · If the document does not have a text layer, check that the right OCR languages 240 are selected. · If the page with the content you want to copy has a poor quality text layer, replace the text layer with a new one. Now try copying the content again. Complete the following steps to copy a page fragment as an image: 1. Select the area you wish to copy. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Reviewing PDF documents The PDF Editor includes a number of features for reviewing PDF documents. While reading a document, you can add comments, highlight important fragments, make notes, draw shapes to highlight specific areas, and place stamps on pages.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Marking up text The PDF Editor allows you to indicate what changes should be made to a document. Any editing marks that you add will not alter the text itself but merely indicate what changes must be made and where. Annotations related to editing text are only available in documents with a text layer or documents that have been recognized by the background recognition process.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Open the Search pane. 2. Type the word or phrase you want to find. 3. In the Search pane, select the search hits you want to mark up and click the desired markup tool. If you want to choose a different color, click the arrow next to the markup tool instead of clicking the tool itself and then click the desired color on the color palette that appears. By default, the markup tools in the Search pane use the same colors as the markup tools on the PDF Tools toolbar.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Drawing shapes The PDF Editor allows you to draw various markings on the page of a PDF document. You can also add comments to the various shapes that you have drawn. 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click . 2. Select the appropriate drawing tool from the drop-down menu. · Ink Draws a line when you hold down the left mouse button, letting you draw any shape.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Line Draws a straight line. If you want to draw a vertical, horizontal or diagonal (sloped at an angle of 45°) line, hold down the Shift key. · Arrow Draws an arrow. If you want to draw a vertical, horizontal or diagonal (sloped at an angle of 45°) line, hold down the Shift key. · Rectangle Draws a rectangle. If you want to draw a square, hold down the Shift key. · Oval Draws an oval. If you want to draw a circle, hold down the Shift key. · Polygon Draws a polygon.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 4. Drawing tools have several settings you can change. To change these options: · Right-click a shape you drew on the page and use the commands on its shortcut menu. · Selecting the desired settings on the PDF Tools toolbar before drawing a shape. For more on using and editing comments, see Collaborating on PDF documents 66 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Adding a Text block annotation to a PDF document The PDF Editor allows to add blocks of text to any type of PDF . A text block is an annotation. Text in a text block is not the body text of a PDF document. For more information about adding body text to a PDF document, see Inserting and editing text 75 . To add a text block to a PDF document, do the following: 1. Click the icon on the toolbar and select from the drop-down list.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Collaborating on PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to see and reply to comments made by other reviewers, even if they were created in applications other than ABBYY FineReader. You can also change the status of a comment to inform a reviewer that you have accepted or rejected their suggestion. To view a list of all comments in the document, open the Comments pane by clicking the button on the main toolbar.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Double-click the annotation to which you want to add a comment, or · Right-click the annotation and select the Add Comment command on the shortcut menu. If the Comments pane is hidden, a comment box where you can type the comment will appear. If the Comments pane is visible, the comment box associated with the annotation will be highlighted. Opening a comment · Select the annotation that contains the comment you want to see.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To delete an annotation: · Select the annotation you want to delete and press Del or right-click the annotation and click Delete on the shortcut menu. The comment associated with the annotation will also be deleted. · Select a comment box in the Comments pane and press Del or right-click the comment box and click Delete. The annotation associated with the comment will also be deleted.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide In the Properties... dialog box of an annotation or comment, you can change the author or the subject and see how the status of the annotation or comment changed over time. If you have changed the name of the author, you can click the Set Default button to use the new name for any annotations and comments you make in the future. To open the Properties dialog box of an annotation or comment: · Right-click the annotation, stamp or comment and click Properties...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The Comments pane displays all annotations added to the document, with or without comments, and all text blocks, stamps, and editorial marks. · To navigate the comments, use the buttons. · You can search for a specific comment, reply or author using the search box at the top of the Comments pane. To sort the comments: · On the Comments pane, click and then select the desired sorting option from the menu.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Adding stamps The PDF Editor allows you to stamp PDF documents in the same manner as you stamp paper documents. You can select a stamp from the list of available stamps or create your own, adding any desired text, the date and time of stamping, or an image. To stamp a page: 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click and select the desired stamp. If the stamp you want to use is not available in the menu, click Other stamp. 2. Stamp the page. 3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The PDF Editor allows you to create textual stamps and stamps from images. To create a stamp from an image: 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click > Create Stamp from Image.... 2. In the dialog box that opens, type a name for your stamp in the Name field. 3. Click Open Image to open an image from your hard disk or click Paste Image from Clipboard if you have previously copied an image to the Clipboard. 4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click > Manage Stamps.... 2. In the dialog box that opens, select a stamp and click Edit.... 3. Specify the desired settings and click Use. How to delete a stamp To remove a stamp from your document, do one of the following: · Select the stamp in the document and press Del. · Right-click the stamp in the document and select Delete... on the shortcut menu. · Select the comment for the stamp in the Comments pane and press Del.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Working with PDF content The PDF Editor allows you to modify the contents of PDF documents without the need to convert PDF documents to editable formats.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Inserting and editing text The PDF Editor in ABBYY FineReader 15 allows you to insert and edit text in any* PDF document: 75
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · PDF documents created using other applications · scanned documents · searchable PDF documents The following features are available: · adding new text · deleting text · correcting typos · copying and pasting text from the clipboard · editing the formatting of text inside existing text blocks · changing the text block size · moving text blocks on a page · correcting page orientation, skewing, distorted text, and other defects found in scanned documents * except PDF docum
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To add a new text block to a PDF document: 1. Click the button to enter the text editing mode. Alternatively, you can select Tools > Edit Text and Pictures, or use the Ctrl + E hotkey. Tip: if the toolbar is not visible, click in the upper-right corner. Note: you might have to wait some time for the program to prepare the document for editing. During this time, a page preparation indicator will be displayed in the left part of the Text pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 3. Place the cursor in the particular spot where you want a new text block to be added and mark out a rectangular shape of the appropriate size for your new text block or left-click once for a text block of a default shape. Note: the size of the new text block cannot be larger than the page itself. Note: you can create new text blocks over other objects. 4. Enter your text into the text block that you have just created.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Click the button on the toolbar to enter the text editing mode. Alternatively, click Tools > Edit Text and Pictures or use the Ctrl + E hotkey. Tip: if the toolbar is not visible, click the button in the upper-right part of the PDF Editor window. Note: you might have to wait some time for the program to prepare the text for editing. During this time, a page preparation indicator will be displayed in the left part of the Text pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Add new text to an existing text block To do this, place the cursor where you want the text block to be created and type the appropriate text or paste the text from the clipboard. The program will pick a suitable font automatically. Note: to use a built-in font, it must first be installed on your system. Built-in fonts are denoted in the list by a pair of square brackets.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Place the cursor on top of one of the square icons. When the cursor's appearance changes to , hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor so that the text block’s size changes to the size that you want. Note: when changing a text block’s size, take care to not go over the edges of the page. · Move text blocks around on a page To do this, hold down the Ctrl button and place the mouse cursor on top of a text block.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Correct the page orientation, skew, distorted text, and other defects To make cosmetic changes to the appearance of a scanned document, click the Correct Skew and Page Orientation button in the Text toolbar and choose Correct Skew and Orientation for Current Page (for a particular page or for the whole document). Note: the Correct Skew and Page Orientation button appears in the Text pane only for those pages, where the program has detected text skewing.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Inserting and editing pictures The PDF Editor allows you to insert pictures into PDF documents of any type. 1. Click the button on the PDF Tools toolbar. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select a picture and click Open. 3. Move the picture to the desired location on the page. You can move, rotate, delete, and resize pictures. When you move a picture, it may overlap with other objects on the page.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Inserting and editing hyperlinks ABBYY FineReader allows you to insert hyperlinks into PDF documents of any type and edit existing hyperlinks. When you point the mouse cursor to a hyperlink, its address is shown in a pop-up box. To follow the link, simply click it. To insert a hyperlink into a PDF document: 1. Type the text to be used as a hyperlink. 2. Either click Edit > Add Link... or select the text, right-click it, and then clickAdd Link... on the shortcut menu.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Select the hyperlink you want to edit. 2. Right-click the selected link and click Edit Link... on the shortcut menu. 3. In the Link Editor, do one of the following: · Change the number of the page that the link should open · Click Select specific destination... and place the mouse cursor where you want to direct users who click the link · Change the URL, e-mail address, or path to a file or other resource .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Recognizing text Background recognition 54 is a process that adds a temporary text layer to a document, enabling you to mark up, copy, and search its text. You can make these capabilities available to other users by adding a permanent text layer to PDF documents. Documents with text layers are practically indistinguishable from their originals. You can also replace an existing text layer in a searchable PDF document. 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Working with pages The PDF Editor allows you to delete or add pages to a PDF document, change their order, and insert blank pages. Adding pages from a file... 1. On the main toolbar, click the button. 2. Click Add from File.... Alternatively, click Add Pages from File... in the shortcut menu of the Pages pane or from the drop-down menu that appears if you click the button. 3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. In the Pages pane, select the page before or after which you want to insert a blank page. 2. Right-click the page, click Add Blank Page on the shortcut menu, and then click Before Current Page or After Current Page. Alternatively, click > Add Blank Page. A blank page will be added after the currently selected page. Changing the order of pages... · In the Pages pane, select one or more pages and drag them to the desired place in the document. Replacing pages... 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. In the Pages pane, select one or several pages. 2. Select Crop Pages... on the main toolbar, in the Edit menu, in the context menu of the page or by pressing the button of the Pages pane. 3. On the cropping frame pane: · Select the cropping mode: Separate frame for each page or Single frame for all pages · Select the size of the cropping frame · Use the option that lets the program automatically determine the size of the cropping frame.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide o Best quality Select this item to preserve the quality of the page images and pictures. The original resolution of the source images will be preserved. o Balanced Select this option to reduce the size of the PDF file while keeping the quality of the page images and pictures at a reasonably high level. o Compact size Select this option to obtain a small-sized PDF file. This may adversely affect the quality of the page images and pictures. o Custom...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Adding bookmarks The PDF Editor allows you to add bookmarks to PDF documents of any type. You can create a bookmark in the Bookmarks pane or using a shortcut menu. 1. To create a bookmark in the Bookmarks pane: a. Click the button on the vertical bar to the left or click View > Bookmarks. The Bookmarks pane will open. b. Click and type a name for your bookmark. c. By default, the newly created bookmark will point to the start of the current page. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Select a bookmark in the Bookmarks pane. 2. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the bookmark to a desired location. To create a nested bookmark, drag it onto an existing parent bookmark, wait for the icon of the parent bookmark to change, and release the left mouse button. Alternatively, right-click a bookmark and use the Move one level left and Move one level right commands on the shortcut menu.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Adding headers and footers The PDF Editor allows you to add headers and footers to pages in PDF documents. Headers and footers are recurrent text at the top or bottom of the pages where you can put page numbers, the name of the author, the date or time of creation, or Bates numbers to be used for document indexing. To add a header or footer to your document: 1. Click the button. 2. Select the desired type of header or footer from the drop-down menu.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Click the button and then click Create Header and Footer... 2. In the dialog box that opens, choose one of the six possible locations on the page. For greater precision, enter the exact distance between the header or footer and the corresponding edge of the page. You can select the units used for measuring the distance between the header/footer and he edge of the page from the Measurement units drop-down list below the preview pane. 3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Select All if you want your header/footer to appear on all of the pages, or select Page range and specify a specific range of pages. · You can put headers/footers only on odd or even pages. To do this, create a header/footer and select Odd Pages or Even Pages from the Apply to drop-down list. 7. Click Save and Add to save your changes and add the newly created header/footer to your document. You can create a new header/footer from an existing one.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Adding watermarks The PDF Editor allows you to add watermarks into PDF documents. A watermark is some text placed above or beneath the page content. You can use watermarks, for example, to indicate the author of a text or to identify pages containing confidential information. To add a watermark: 1. Click and then click the Add Watermark... item. 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one of the nine possible locations on the page.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To delete watermarks from a document, click and then click the Delete Watermark item. This command deletes all of the watermarks from the document. Adding file attachments Files of any format can be attached to a PDF document. To view attached files: · Click the button in the pane to the left, or click View > Attachments. You can open, save, rename or delete attached files. In the Attachments pane: · Select a file.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Viewing metadata The PDF Editor allows you to view the title and author of a PDF document and some other information. This information is called metadata. Some of the metadata are specified by the author and some are generated automatically. You can also search documents by metadata. To view metadata, click File > Document Properties... to open the Document Properties dialog box.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY FineReader allows you to view, edit, find 55 and delete 107 metadata. Enhancing page images The PDF Editor can enhance the quality of PDF documents created from image files. Depending on the type of an input image, the program will select the appropriate image enhancement algorithms.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Filling out forms The PDF Editor allows you to view, fill out, save, and print interactive forms. 1. If a document contains a form, the following message is displayed: You can disable field highlighting by clearing the Highlight fields check box in this message. If no fields are highlighted on a PDF form, you can still fill out such a form using the Export tool. See also: Adding text to a PDF document 65 . 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Signing PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to sign documents digitally and to validate any digital signature in a document. You can also add text and picture signatures.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Digital signature The PDF Editor allows you to sign documents digitally and to validate any digital signature in a document. A digital signature is used to establish the identity of the person that signed the document. Additionally, a digital signature can be used to make sure that a signed document has not been altered. To sign a document: 1. On the main toolbar, click > Add Digital Signature.... 2. Select the certificate to be used from the Sign as drop-down list.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide You can only delete a signature from a document if you have the corresponding digital certificate. You can add more than one digital signature to a document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Text signature The PDF Editor allows you to add text signatures to your PDF documents. 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click > Create Text Signature.... If you have already created some text signatures, select a signature from the list of available signatures. Alternatively, click Other Signature > Create Text Signature.... 2. In the Create Text Signature dialog box that opens, enter some text for the signature. 3. Change the style of the signature, if required. 4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. In the dialog box that opens, select the signature you want to delete and click Delete.... You can delete both text and picture signatures 105 . You can add more than one signature to a document. Picture signature ABBYY FineReader allows you to add picture signatures to your PDF documents. 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click > Create Signature from Image.... If you have already created some signatures, select a signature from the list of available signatures.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Passwords and permissions When you create a PDF document 108 , you can set passwords to protect it from unauthorized access, editing, and printing. A PDF document can be protected with a Document Open password and/or Permissions Password. If a PDF document is protected from unauthorized access, it can only be opened after entering the Document Open Password that was specified by the document's author.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Deleting confidential information from PDF documents You can use the PDF Editor to remove confidential information from PDF documents before publishing them. Both text and images can be redacted. 1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click or click the arrow next to this tool and select Redaction Mode. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Creating PDF documents Chapter contents · Creating PDF documents from selected pages 108 · Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents For detailed instructions on creating PDF documents from files, scans, or digital photos, see: Creating PDF documents 20 and Scanning to PDF 38 . Creating PDF documents from selected pages The PDF Editor allows you to create PDF documents from selected pages. 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving and exporting PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to save, print, and e-mail PDF documents or send them to the OCR Editor for further processing.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to save entire PDF documents or only selected pages. Various saving options are available. · To save the changes you have made to your current PDF document, click File > Save. Alternatively, click on the main toolbar. · To save your current PDF document under a different name or to a different folder, click File > Save As > PDF Document.... Alternatively, click on the main toolbar and then click PDF Document....
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving in PDF/A The PDF Editor allows you to save documents in PDF/A, a format intended for long-term storage. PDF/A documents contain all the information required for their correct display: · All fonts are embedded into the document (except for non-visible text). · Only embeddable fonts are used. · Colors are displayed correctly irrespective of the device. · The metadata used in the document comply with the applicable standards.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide o A – accessible – additional document requirements (tags) o B – basic – basic compliance level ISO 19005-1:2005 (Cor 1: 2007, Cor 2: 2011). · 2011: PDF/A-2 is based on PDF 1.7 and supports additional features: o U - Unicode o JPEG2000 compression o transparency o PDF/A attachments o digital signatures ISO 19005-2:2011. · 2012: PDF/A-3 supports additional features: o file attachments in any format ISO 19005-3:2012.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving in other formats The PDF Editor allows you to save entire PDF documents or individual pages in various formats: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, HTML, images formats, and many more. 1. Click File > Save As and then click a desired format. Alternatively, click and then click a desired format. 2. In the dialog box that opens, specify a name and location for your document. 3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor The PDF Editor allows you to send PDF documents to the OCR Editor 116 , where you can draw recognition areas, check recognized text, train the program to recognize non-standard fonts and characters, and use other advanced features offered by ABBYY FineReader. · To send a PDF document to the OCR Editor, click the arrow next to the button and then click Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Printing PDF documents The PDF Editor allows you to print PDF documents. Before printing, please make sure your computer has a local or network printer connected to it and that the drivers for the printer are installed. 1. Click the button on the main toolbar or click File > Print.... 2. In the dialog box that opens, specify desired printing settings: · Printer - Select one of the available printing devices. · Copies - Specify the number of copies to be printed.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide OCR Editor The OCR Editor uses Optical Character Recognition technology for advanced conversion of document scans, PDF documents, and image files (including digital photos) into editable formats. In the OCR Editor, you can draw recognition areas, check recognized text, train the program to recognize non-standard characters and fonts, and use some other advanced features to achieve maximum OCR quality.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide OCR Editor interface The OCR Editor window displays your current OCR project. For more information on working with OCR projects, see OCR proj ects 125 . · The Pages pane shows the pages contained in the OCR project. Two page views modes are available: thumbnails (shown above) and details, which shows a list of document pages and their properties.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · The Zoom pane displays an enlarged image of the current line of text or any other image area you are currently working on. In the Image pane you see the entire page, whereas in the Zoom pane you can examine certain image fragments in greater detail, e.g. compare the image of a character with its recognized counterpart in the Text window. To scale the image up or down, use the controls at the bottom of the pane. Toolbars There are several toolbars in the OCR Editor.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The Warnings pane displays warnings and error messages.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide or click the button in the lower left-hand corner of the OCR Editor window. Warnings and errors are displayed for the page that is currently selected in the Pages pane. To scroll through the warnings and errors and delete unwanted messages, use the buttons. Customizing the OCR Editor workspace · You can temporarily hide the panes that you do not need. To show/hide panes, use the View menu or the following keyboard shortcuts: · F5 — shows or hides the Pages pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To open a page, double-click its thumbnail in the Pages pane (in Thumbnails view) or double-click its number (in Details view). The image of the selected page will be shown in the Image pane. If OCR has already been performed on this page, the recognized text will appear in the Text pane. Obtaining documents After you launch the OCR Editor, you need to open an image file or PDF.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Opening images and PDFs ABBYY FineReader allows you to open PDF and image files in any of the supported formats 237 . Complete the following steps to open an image or PDF file: 1. In the OCR Editor, click on the main toolbar or click File > Open Image.... 2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more image or PDF files. 3. If you select a file that contains multiple pages, you can specify a range of pages to open. 4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning paper documents To scan a document: 1. In the OCR Editor, click on the main toolbar or click File > Scan Pages.... 2. Select a scanning device and specify scanning settings 206 . 3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image. 4. Review the image. If it is not satisfactory, change the scanning settings and click the Preview button again. 5. Click Settings... and specify image processing options 213 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Recognizing documents ABBYY FineReader uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert document images into editable text. Prior to OCR, the program analyzes the structure of the entire document and detects the areas that contain text, barcodes, pictures, and tables. For best OCR results, be sure to select the right OCR language 240 , recognition mode 246 , and print type 241 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide OCR projects While working with the program, you can save your interim results in an OCR project 267 so that you can resume your work where you left off. An OCR project contains the source images, the text that has been recognized on the images, your program settings, and any user patterns 267 , languages or language groups that you have created.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide You can also right-click an OCR project in Windows Explorer and select Open OCR project in ABBYY FineReader 15. OCR projects are marked with the icon. Using settings from earlier versions of ABBYY FineReader ABBYY FineReader lets you import user dictionaries and program settings from files created in earlier versions of the program. To use dictionaries created in ABBYY FineReader 10, 11, 12 or 14: 1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries.... 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Closing an OCR project · To close an OCR project, click File > Close. Splitting an OCR project into several projects When processing large numbers of multi-page documents, it is often more practical to scan all the documents first and only then analyze and recognize them. However, to preserve the original formatting of each paper document correctly, ABBYY FineReader must process each of them as a separate OCR project.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Restore original page order after duplex scanning This option restores the original page numbering of a document with double-sided pages. This option is useful if you use a scanner with an automatic feeder to first scan all the oddnumbered pages and then all the even-numbered pages. You can choose between the normal and the reverse order for the even-numbered pages. This option will only work if three or more consecutively numbered pages are selected.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Open the Recognition Languages tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box). 2. Click the Save Patterns and Languages... 3. In the dialog box that opens, type a name for your file and click Save. This file will contain the path to the folder where your user languages, language groups, dictionaries, and patterns are stored. To load patterns and languages: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Group work with OCR projects ABBYY FineReader provides tools for working on documents together with other users over a network. Multiple users can share the same user languages and dictionaries created for these languages. To make user dictionaries and languages available to multiple users: 1. Create/open an OCR project and select desired scanning and OCR options for the project. 2. Specify a folder where user dictionaries will be stored.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Improving OCR results Contents: · If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low · If areas are not detected properly 132 135 · If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced 140 · 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 141 142 145 · If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?" or "□" · If your printed docu
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low Distorted text lines, skew, noise, and other defects commonly found in scanned images and digital photos can lower OCR quality. ABBYY FineReader provides a variety of automated 243 and manual 132 tools for removing these defects. How to edit images manually If you disabled automatic preprocessing features or want to preprocess specific pages, you can use the Image Editor to manually edit page images.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 5. Click the tool you want to use and apply it to the image. The resulting changes will be displayed in the Image pane. Most of the tools can be applied both to specific pages and to all of the pages in the document. You can specify which pages you want to edit using the Selection drop-down list of the tool, where you can select all odd/even pages, the current page or the selected pages if multiple pages are selected in the Pages pane. 6.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Resolution Changes the resolution of the image. · Brightness & Contrast Changes the brightness and contrast of the image. · Levels This tool lets you adjust the color levels of the images by changing the intensity of shadows, light, and halftones. To increase the contrast of an image, move the left and right sliders on the Input levels histogram. The range of colors between lightest and darkest is divided into 255 increments.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If areas are detected incorrectly ABBYY FineReader analyzes page images prior to OCR and detects different types of areas on these images, specifically text, picture, background picture, table, and barcode areas. This analysis determines which areas will be recognized and in what order. In the user interface, different area types are distinguished by the colors of their borders. If you click on an area, it will be highlighted and will become active 267 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Select one of the tools on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane: draws a recognition area draws a text area 267 267 . . draws a picture area 267 . draws a background picture area draws a table area 267 267 . . 2. Hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to draw an area. Tip. New areas can be drawn without selecting a tool from the Image pane toolbar.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. Area borders can also be adjusted by using sizing handles. The resulting segments can be dragged in any direction using the mouse. To add a new sizing handle, place the mouse pointer on the desired point on the border while holding down Ctrl+Shift (this switches the pointer to crosshairs) and click the border. A new sizing handle will appear on the area border.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Right-click an area and click Properties on the shortcut menu to display its properties in the Area Properties pane. In this dialog box, select the desired text orientation from the Orientation drop-down list. Fore more information about editing text properties in text areas, see Editing area properties 139 . To change the colors of area borders: 1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and click the Areas and Text tab. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Editing area properties When performing automatic document analysis, ABBYY FineReader detects different area types on document pages, such as table, picture, text, and barcode areas. The program also analyzes the document structure and identifies headings and other layout elements, such as headers, footers, and captions. You can manually change incorrectly defined properties in some text and table areas. 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced Before running the OCR process, ABBYY FineReader 15 analyzes of the logical structure of the document and detects areas containing text, pictures, tables, and barcodes. The program then relies on this analysis to identify which parts of the image need to be recognized and the order in which they should be recognized. This information helps recreate the formatting of the original document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts (e.g. forms or questionnaires), analyzing the layout of every page will be very time consuming. To save time, you can analyze only one document in a set of similar documents and save the detected areas as a template. Then you can use this template for the other documents in the set. To create an area template: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If tables and pictures are not detected If a table is not detected Table areas 267 contain tables and text that is arranged in a table-like manner. If the program fails to correctly draw a table area around a table, use the Table tool to draw the area manually. 1. Click on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane and use the mouse pointer to draw a table area around the table. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · You can use commands on the Area menu and the shortcut menu of a table area to: o Analyze Table Structure (automatically analyzes the structure of a table and saves you the trouble of drawing vertical and horizontal separators manually). o Split Cells, Merge Cells, Merge Rows (allow you to correct any wrongly identified rows or columns).
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. Run the OCR process again. If there is text printed over a picture in your document, draw a background picture 267 area around the picture. 1. Select the tool on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane and use the mouse pointer to draw a background picture area around the background picture. 2. Run the OCR process again. You can also assign the Picture or Background Picture type to an area of a different type that was detected automatically.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If a barcode is not detected Barcode areas 267 contain barcodes. If your document contains a barcode that you would like to render as a sequence of letters and digits rather than as an image, select the barcode and change the area type to Barcode. Barcode recognition is disabled by default. To enable it, click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box, click the Recognition Languages tab, and select the Convert barcodes into strings option.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · UPC-E · PDF417 · Aztec Code · Data Matrix · QR code · Patch code The default barcode type is Autodetect, which means that barcode types are to be detected automatically. However, not all barcode types can be detected automatically, and sometimes you may need to select the appropriate type manually on the Area Properties 120 pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If your printed document contains non-standard fonts If a document you want to recognize contains decorative fonts or special characters (e.g. mathematical symbols), we recommend using the training mode to improve OCR accuracy. It is not advisable to use the training mode in other cases, as the gains in OCR quality will be insignificant compared to the time and effort you will spend on training.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 3. Click the Pattern Editor... button. Pattern training is not supported for Asian languages. 4. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, click the New... button. 5. In the Create Pattern dialog box, specify a name for the new pattern and click OK. 6. Click OK in the Pattern Editor dialog box and then click OK in the Options dialog box. 7. Click the button in the toolbar at the top of the Image pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · You can only train ABBYY FineReader 15 to read the characters included in the alphabet of the OCR language. To train the program to read characters that cannot be entered from the keyboard, use a combination of two characters to denote these non-existent characters or copy the desired character from the Insert Character dialog box (click to open this dialog box). · Each pattern may contain up to 1,000 new characters.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Click Tools > Pattern Editor.... 2. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, select the pattern you want to edit and click the Edit... button. 3. In the User Pattern dialog box, select a character and click the Properties... button. In the dialog box that opens: · In the Character field, enter the letter that corresponds to the character. · In the Effects field, specify the desired font effect (bold, italic, superscript or subscript).
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If the program fails to recognize certain characters ABBYY FineReader 15 uses data about the document language 240 when recognizing text. The program may fail to recognize some characters in documents with uncommon elements (e.g. code numbers) because the document language might not contain these characters. To recognize such documents, you can create a custom language that has all of the necessary characters.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Word in the Words that will not be considered misspelled dictionary during a spelling check abc abc, Abc, ABC Abc abc, Abc, ABC ABC abc, Abc, ABC Abc aBc, abc, Abc, ABC · The Regular expression allows you to create a user dictionary using regular expressions. See also: Regular expressions 259 . e. Languages can have several additional properties. To change these properties, click the Advanced...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 3. In the New Language or Group dialog box, select the Create a new group of languages option, and click OK. 4. The Language Group Properties dialog box will open. In this dialog box, specify a name for the language group and select the languages you want to include in the group. If you know that your text will not contain certain characters, you may wish to explicitly specify these so-called prohibited characters. Doing this can increase the speed and accuracy of OCR.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Checking and editing texts Once the OCR process is completed, the recognized text appears in the Text pane. The characters recognized with low confidence are highlighted, so that you can easily spot any OCR errors and correct them. You can edit recognized text either directly in the Text pane or in the Verification dialog box (click Recognize > Verify Text... to open this dialog box).
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Checking recognized text You can edit recognized text either directly in the Text 155 pane or in the Verification 155 dialog box (click Recognize > Verify Text... to open this dialog box). In the Verification dialog box, you can review low-confidence words, correct spelling errors, and add new words to the user dictionary. Checking texts in the Text pane You can check, edit, and format OCR results in the Text pane.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY FineReader offers a Verification dialog box, where you can check and correct words that contain low-confidence characters. To open the Verification dialog box, click on the main toolbar or click Recognize > Verify Text.... In the Verification dialog box, you can: · Skip a highlighted word without making any changes. When you click Skip, the highlighting is removed. Replace the highlighted word with one of the suggested variants.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Working with user dictionaries When recognizing a text, ABBYY FineReader checks recognized words against its dictionaries. If your text contains too many specialized terms, abbreviations or proper names, you can improve OCR quality by adding them to a user dictionary. User dictionaries may not be available for some of the supported languages 230 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Using styles When recognizing a text, ABBYY FineReader detects the styles and formatting used in the original document. These styles and formatting are reproduced in the output document. You can review and edit the document styles and create new styles in the Text pane. To apply a style to a text fragment: 1. Select the desired text fragment in the Text pane. 2. Right-click the selected fragment and click Properties on the shortcut menu. 3.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Editing hyperlinks ABBYY FineReader detects hyperlinks and recreates their destination addresses in the output document. Detected hyperlinks are underlined and displayed in blue. When viewing the recognized document in the Text pane, rest the mouse pointer on a hyperlink to view its address. To follow a hyperlink, right-click it and click the Open Hyperlink command on its shortcut menu, or click the hyperlink while holding down the Ctrl key.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Editing tables You can edit recognized tables in the Text pane. The following commands are available: · Merge table cells Use the mouse to select the table cells to be merged and click Area > Merge Table Cells. · Split table cells Click a table cell to split and click Area > Split Table Cells. This command can only be applied to table cells that have been previously merged.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Copying content from documents ABBYY FineReader allows you to copy text, pictures, and tables from documents and paste them to other applications. You can copy content from scanned pages and images without recognizing the entire document or converting it to an editable format. The selected content will be copied to the Clipboard. You can then paste it into any application that supports pasting from the Clipboard. To copy content: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving OCR results OCR results can be saved to a file, sent to another application or to the PDF Editor, copied to the Clipboard, or e-mailed. You can also send OCR results to Kindle.com, where they will be converted to the Kindle format and become available for download onto your Kindle device. You can save either the entire document, or selected pages only. Be sure to select the appropriate saving options before clicking Save. To save recognized text: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 (16.0), 2013 (15.0), 2010 (14.0), 2007 (12.0) · Apache OpenOffice Writer 4.1 · LibreOffice Writer 5.1 · Adobe Acrobat/Reader (8.0 and later) To ensure the best compatibility between ABBYY FineReader and the applications listed above, make sure you install the latest available updates for these applications.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving in PDF ABBYY FineReader allows you to save entire PDF documents or selected pages. Various saving options are available. · To save a PDF document that will allow users to select, copy, and edit its content, click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 118 and select Searchable PDF Document. Alternatively, click File > Save As > Save as Searchable PDF Document.... The document will be saved as a searchable PDF.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving editable documents ABBYY FineReader allows you to save OCR results in editable formats. When choosing a format, consider how you intend to use the document. · Saving documents in DOC(X)/RTF/ODT · Saving documents in PPTX 165 165 · Saving plain text (TXT) DOC(X)/RTF/ODT To save your text in DOCX/RTF/ODT: · Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 118 and select Microsoft Word Document, RTF Document or ODT Document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To save your text in TXT: · Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 118 and select TXT Document. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File > Save As > TXT Document. The document will be saved in the TXT format. To change the saving options, click the Options...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving tables ABBYY FineReader allows you to save tables in the XLS, XLSX, and CSV formats. XLS and XLSX To save your text in XLS or XLSX: · Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 118 and select Microsoft Excel Workbook. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File > Save As > Microsoft Excel Workbook.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving e-books ABBYY FineReader 15 allows you to scan paper books and convert them into the EPUB, FB2, and DjVu formats. You will be able to read the resulting e-books on tablets (including iPads), and on other mobile devices and upload 173 them to your Kindle.com account. You can also save an e-book in the HTML format. For details, see Saving in HTML 169 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving in HTML To save your text in HTML: · Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 118 and select HTML Document. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File > Save As > HTML Document. The document will be saved in the format that you specified. To change the saving options, click the Options...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Saving images ABBYY FineReader allows you to save both recognized text and page images, including scans. To save one or more images: 1. In the Pages pane, select the pages you want to save. 2. Click File > Save As > Page Images.... 3. In the dialog box that opens, select the disk and folder to save the file to. 4. Select an image format you want to save the image in.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Sending OCR results to the PDF Editor ABBYY FineReader allows you to send OCR results from the OCR Editor to the PDF Editor 47 , where you can add notes and comments to the document and use other features offered by ABBYY FineReader for working with PDF documents. To send OCR results to the PDF Editor: · On the toolbar, click the arrow next to the button and select Send to PDF Editor · Click File > Send To > PDF Editor...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide E-mailing OCR results ABBYY FineReader allows you to e-mail OCR results in any of the supported formats 237 with the exception of HTML. To e-mail a document: 1. Click File > E-mail > Document.... 2. In the dialog box that opens, select: · A saving format · One of the three saving options: save all pages to one file, save each page to a separate file, or split the document into files based on blank pages 3. Click OK. An e-mail message with an attachment will be created.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Sending OCR results to Kindle ABBYY FineReader allows you to send OCR results to the Kindle.com server, where they will be converted into the Kindle format and made available for download onto your Kindle device. To use this feature, you need a Kindle account on Kindle.com. 1. Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 118 and then click Send to Amazon Kindle.... 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Integration with Windows Explorer ABBYY FineReader integrates with Windows Explorer. As a result, ABBYY FineReader commands will appear when you right-click a file in any of the supported formats 237 , enabling you to open and edit PDF documents, perform OCR on image files, convert files, combine multiple files into one PDF, and compare files. To open and process a PDF directly from Windows Explorer: 1. In Windows Explorer, select one or more PDF files. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Convert to PDF... converts files to PDF. When creating PDF documents from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files, ABBYY FineReader will preserve the structure of the original document, and any bookmarks and hyperlinks. · Convert to PDF and send... converts files to PDF and attaches them to an e-mail message. · Compare with... opens files in the ABBYY Compare Documents application. · Combine into one PDF... combines multiple files into one PDF.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If you can't see the ABBYY FineReader commands on the Windows Explorer shortcut menu, this means that you chose not to integrate ABBYY FineReader with Windows Explorer when installing the program. To integrate ABBYY FineReader with Windows Explorer: 1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel (or click Start > Settings > System > Apps & features in Windows 10) and then click Programs and Features. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Integration with Microsoft SharePoint ABBYY FineReader allows you to open, edit, and save files stored in Microsoft SharePoint document libraries. To process a PDF document stored on a Microsoft SharePoint server: 1. Open the PDF document in the ABBYY FineReader PDF Editor. 2. Check out the document to prevent other users from changing it. To do this, click File > SharePoint® > Check Out.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Automating and scheduling OCR · Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader 179 Processing multiple documents often involves repeating the same actions multiple times. ABBYY FineReader includes built-in automated tasks 13 . If you need more flexibility, you can create custom automated tasks from a wide range of available processing steps.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader (Not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader 15. See also: http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader) In ABBYY FineReader, you can use built-in and custom automated tasks to process your documents. You can organize your tasks in the Automated Tasks... 267 dialog box. · To open the Automated Tasks dialog box, click Tools > Automated Tasks.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Select existing OCR project Select this option if you want the task to process images from an existing OCR project. · Use current OCR project Select this option if you want the task to process images from the current OCR project. 3. Choose how you will obtain images: · Open image or PDF Select this option if you want the task to process images or PDF documents from a particular folder (you will need to specify the folder in this case).
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Save document Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, file options and the folder where the file should be saved. To avoid specifying a new folder each time the task is started, select Create a timestamped subfolder. · Send document Here you can select the application in which to open the resulting document. · E-mail document Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, file options, and the e-mail address to which the file should be sent.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY Hot Folder (Not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader 15. See also: http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader) ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Hot Folder, a scheduling agent that allows you to select a folder with images that ABBYY FineReader should process automatically. You can schedule ABBYY FineReader to process documents when you don’t use your computer, e.g. overnight.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Use the toolbar buttons at the top of the window to set up, copy, and delete tasks, to initiate processing, and to view reports. The set-up tasks are displayed in the ABBYY Hot Folder main window. For each task, the complete path to its folder, its status, and the time of the next processing session are displayed. A task may have one of the following statuses: Status Description Running... The images in the folder are being processed.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To load a previously saved task: 1. Click > Import.... 2. In the dialog box that opens, select a task and click Open. To create a new task: 1. On the ABBYY Hot Folder toolbar, click the New button. 2. In the Task name field, type a name for the task. 3. Specify a schedule for the task: · Run once (the task will be run once at the time you specify) · Recurring (the task will be run every minute, once a day, once week or once a month at the specified time). 4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 6. From the Save results drop-down list, select how documents should be saved. a. From the Save as drop-down list, select a destination format. Tip. Click Options... if you want to specify additional saving options. When saving to PDF, specify whether the text on the images should be recognized or whether the images should be converted to image-only PDF documents. b. In the Folder field, specify a folder where documents should be saved after processing. c.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The log file contains the following information: · The name of the task and its settings · Errors and warnings (if any) · Statistics (number of processed pages, number of errors and warnings, number of uncertain characters) To enable logging, click on the toolbar. The log will be saved as a TXT file in the same folder that contains the files with recognized text. To view a log: 1. In the ABBYY Hot Folder main window, select the task you wish to inspect. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY Compare Documents ABBYY Compare Documents is a universal software solution that allows you to compare two different versions of the same document in different formats. ABBYY Compare Documents lets you detect significant inconsistencies in the text and helps prevent the approval or publication of the wrong version of a document. Main features · Compare documents that are in different formats.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Launching ABBYY Compare Documents There are many ways to launch ABBYY Compare Documents: · Open the New Task 13 window, click the Compare tab and then click the Open ABBYY Compare Documents task. · In the New Task window, click Tools > Compare Documents (similarly, ABBYY Compare Documents can be launched from the PDF Editor 47 and the OCR Editor 116 ). · Click Start > ABBYY FineReader 15 > ABBYY Compare Documents.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Comparing documents To compare two versions of a document, complete these steps: 1. Launch ABBYY Compare Documents. See also: Launching ABBYY Compare Documents 188 . 2. Open the documents in ABBYY Compare Documents. The documents have to be in one of the supported formats 237 . To open a document, do one of the following: · Drag and drop a document onto one of the two of the display areas. · Click anywhere on a display area and browse to the file location.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide You can Save the Comparison Results: · As a Microsoft Word file where the differences will be shown using the Track Changes feature. Note: a saved document is a recognized version of the original document, meaning that there can be visual differences and recognition errors. Hence, a document of this type should be used for viewing differences. · As a PDF document with comments. · As a Microsoft Word table containing the differences.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The main window When you launch 188 ABBYY Compare Documents, its main window opens. Display Area 1 shows the first document. Display Area 2 shows the second document. Tip. You can change the way the documents are displayed: · Zoom in by pressing Ctrl+=, zoom out by pressing Ctrl+-, or press Ctrl+0 to reset the zoom level. You can also do this using the commands on the shortcut menu of the document and the buttons above the document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · The DIFFERENCES tab of the rightmost pane contains a list of differences between the documents (the list only appears after you compare the documents). For more about the types of differences that can be detected and how to navigate them, see Viewing comparison results 194 . Improving comparison results ABBYY Compare Documents offers a number of additional options to achieve more accurate document comparison.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide This tab contains the following settings: · Find differences in punctuation Select this option to detect differences in punctuation and hyphenation. · Find one-letter differences Select this option to detect differences in spelling. Advanced options The following advanced options are available: · PDF recognition mode Selecting the right recognition mode is crucial for accurate comparison of PDF documents.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Viewing comparison results The differences that the program has detected are highlighted in the two texts and are also listed separately in the pane on the right. ABBYY Compare Documents can find the following types of differences: · · · Each item in the list of differences contains a deleted, inserted or edited text fragment and the numbers of the pages where this text occurs in each document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide When you select a difference on the DIFFERENCES tab, the differing text will be displayed in both documents side-by-side. To navigate the differences, do one of the following: · Click a difference in one of the two documents. · Use keyboard shortcuts · Use the and 273 : Ctrl+Right Arrow/Ctrl+Left Arrow. buttons on the DIFFERENCES tab. · Click Compare and then click Next Difference or Previous Difference.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To ignore all identical differences, choose the Ignore Identical Differences command in the shortcut menu. Any differences that you have removed from the list will not be shown in the comparison report. Saving comparison results You can save: 1. One of the documents as a Microsoft Word file where the differences will be shown using the Track Changes feature. To do this, click the Save...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY Screenshot Reader ABBYY Screenshot Reader is an easy-to-use application for creating screenshots and capturing text from the screen. ABBYY Screenshot Reader features: · Create screenshots · Turn screenshots into editable text · All the benefits of ABBYY OCR technology ABBYY Screenshot Reader has a straightforward and intuitive interface, which means that you do not need any specialist knowledge to be able to make screenshots and recognize text in them.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 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 116 . When you launch ABBYY Screenshot Reader, the ABBYY Screenshot Reader window appears on the screen of your computer.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Opened in the OCR Editor of ABBYY FineReader 15 (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. · Attached to a newly created e-mail message as a *.bmp file (when you select Image to E- mail from the Send drop-down list). This item requires: [1] Microsoft Word [2] Microsoft Excel [3] ABBYY FineReader 15 4. Click the button.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Run at Startup Launches ABBYY Screenshot Reader each time you start your computer. · Enable Sounds Plays a sound notification when ABBYY Screenshot Reader copies a screen area to the Clipboard. Tips 1. Working with texts written in several languages Select a text fragment written entirely in one language. Before starting the recognition process, make sure that the language you selected from the Language drop-down list is the same as the language of the text fragment.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Reference This chapter provides answers to some frequently asked questions.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide How to set ABBYY FineReader 15 as your default PDF viewer To set ABBYY FineReader 15 as your default PDF viewer: 1. Right-click any PDF file in Windows Explorer and click Properties in the shortcut menu. The Properties dialog box will open.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. On the General tab click the Change button to change the application that you use to open PDF files. A list of applications will open. 3. In the list of applications, select ABBYY FineReader 15. Note. If you don't see ABBYY FineReader 15 in the list, try scrolling down. To see more applications, click More apps. 4. Click OK.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Types of PDF documents The features of a PDF document depend on the program in which it was created. Some PDF documents are searchable and have text you can copy, while in other documents this only becomes possible when you open them in special applications like ABBYY FineReader. There are three types of PDF documents. Image-only PDF documents Image-only PDF documents are created from scans of hard-copy documents.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide PDF documents that were created in other applications Searchable PDF documents can be created from documents in various editable formats (such as DOCX). Documents of this type contain a text layer and pictures, but do not contain page images. These documents are searchable and their text and pictures can be copied and edited, provided that such actions do not require entering a password or that the user knows the password. PDF documents if this type can be created by: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Scanning tips You can set the scanning settings in the ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box. · Make sure that the scanner is properly connected to your computer and turn it on. Consult your scanner documentation to ensure it is set up correctly. Be sure to install the software provided with your scanner. Some scanners have to be turned on before turning on the computer they are connected to.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Brightness Changes the scanning brightness. ABBYY FineReader will display a warning message during scanning if the brightness 267 setting is too low or too high. You may also need to adjust the brightness setting when scanning in black-and-white mode. The 50% setting works well in most cases. If the resulting image contains too many "sketchy" or "thick" letters, troubleshoot using the table below.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Multi-page document scanning options: Specify settings for scanning multi-page documents if your scanner supports the following features: duplex scanning, automatic document feeding (ADF), delays between automatic scans, etc. Scanning facing pages When you scan a book, a scanned image will typically contain two facing pages. To improve OCR quality, images with facing pages need to be split into two separate images.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Taking photos of documents Scanning isn't the only way to acquire images of your documents. You can photograph documents with a camera or a mobile phone and then open the photographs in ABBYY FineReader 15 122 and recognize them. When taking pictures of documents, a number of factors should be kept in mind to make the photo better suited for OCR.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Using a flash and additional lighting sources · When using artificial lighting, use two light sources positioned so as to avoid shadows or glare. · If there is enough light, turn the flash off to prevent sharp highlights and shadows. When using the flash in poor lighting conditions, be sure to take photos from a distance of approximately 50 cm. We advise against using the flash when taking pictures of documents printed on glossy paper.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · The lens should be positioned parallel to the page. The distance between the camera and the document should be selected so that the entire page fits within the frame when you zoom in. In most cases, this distance will be between 50 and 60 cm. · Even out the paper document or book pages (especially in the case of thick books). The text lines should not be skewed by more than 20 degrees, otherwise the text may not be converted properly.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Options dialog box The Options dialog box contains a variety of options that let you decide how documents will be scanned, opened, recognized, and saved into various formats, as well as change OCR languages, the language of the interface, the print type of input documents, and some other options. There are several ways to open the Options dialog box: · In the New Task screen, click the Options button in the lower-left corner.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Image Processing This tab contains three groups of options: · Enable background recognition in the PDF Editor When this option is enabled, all pages that are opened in the PDF Editor will be recognized automatically. This process runs in the background and adds a temporary text layer to PDF documents, making it possible to search them and copy their text. Use the link at the bottom of this group to specify the language(s) of your document.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Whether the program should detect structural elements (lets you choose which elements to preserve when exporting results to Microsoft Word) · Whether the program should recognize barcodes · Training (lets you use user patterns when recognizing texts) · Fonts (lets you choose the fonts to be used in recognized texts) See also: OCR options 246 , If the printed document contains non-standard fonts 147 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Choose a font for displaying plain text. · Choose the color and thickness of frames of different area types in the Image window, the highlight color for low-confidence characters, and other display options. See also: Checking recognized text area properties 139 155 , If the program fails to recognize certain characters 151 , Editing . * This tab is only available in the OCR Editor.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide If your text contains a lot of pictures or if you choose to save the page image together with the recognized text, the resulting PDF file may be quite large. The quality of the pictures and the size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Image quality drop-down list: · Best quality Select this option to retain the quality of the pictures or the page image. The original resolution of the source image will be preserved.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide This option allows you to protect your PDF document with a password to prevent unauthorized opening, printing, or editing. Click the Settings... button and specify protection settings in the dialog box that opens: · Document Open password If your document has a Document Open password, users will be able to open it only after entering the password you specify. To set a password for your document: 1. Enable the Restrict access with a Document Open password option. 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Select one of the options from the Encrypt drop-down list. All document contents encrypts the entire document, while All document contents except metadata leaves the document's data unencrypted and readable. Delete objects and data Enable this option if you don't want to preserve various objects contained in the PDF document, then click the Select...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Enable this option if you want to use the ABBYY PreciseScan technology to smooth out the characters in the document. As a result, characters will not look pixelated even when you zoom in on the page. Searchable PDF settings This group of options lets you decide what elements of your PDF document you want to save.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Select this option to add PDF tags to the output PDF document. Apart from text and pictures, PDF files can contain information about the document structure, such as logical parts, pictures, and tables. This information is stored in PDF tags. A PDF file equipped with PDF tags may be reflowed to fit different screen sizes and will display well on handheld devices. Fonts When saving texts in PDF, you can use either Adobe fonts or the Windows fonts installed on your computer.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document. 1. Exact copy Preserves the formatting of the original document. This setting is recommended for documents with complex layouts, such as promotion booklets. Note, however, that it limits your ability to change the text and formatting in the output document. 2. Editable copy Produces a document in which the formatting may differ slightly from that of the original.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide You can select the paper size to be used for saving in RTF, DOC, DOCX, or ODT format from the Default paper size drop-down list. Picture settings Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures and the size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list. Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default. If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make the desired changes, and click OK. XLS(X) settings The following settings are available: Document layout Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document. 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default. If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make the desired changes, and click OK. PPTX settings The following settings are available: Picture settings Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY FineReader detects the code page 267 automatically. To change the code page, select the desired code page from the Encoding drop-down list. Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default. If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make the desired changes, and click OK.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide HTML settings The following settings are available: Document layout Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document. · Flexible layout Preserves the formatting of the original. The output HTML document can be easily edited. · Formatted text Retains the fonts, font sizes, font styles, and paragraphs, but does not retain the exact line spacing or locations of the objects on the page. The text produced will be left-aligned.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide ABBYY FineReader detects the code page 267 automatically. To change the code page, select the desired code page from the Encoding drop-down list. Book settings If you are converting a hard-copy book to HTML, enable the Generate a table of contents and use it to divide the document into files option.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Enable the Use the first page as the e-book cover option if you want to use the first page in the document as its cover. Picture settings Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures and the size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list. Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom.... In the Custom Settings dialog box, select the desired settings and click OK.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The DjVu format uses a special compression technique which separates a page image into layers and applies different compression methods to each of them. By default, ABBYY FineReader will automatically determine whether multi-layer compression must be used on a page (i.e. the Multiple layers option is set to Automatic).
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Supported OCR and document comparison languages ABBYY FineReader 15 supports 195 OCR languages: · Natural languages · Artificial languages 230 236 · Formal languages Supported languages may vary in different versions of the product.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Breton · Bugotu · Buryat · Welsh · Hungarian*, ** · Wolof · Vietnamese*, ** · Hawaiian · Gagauz · Galician · Ganda · Greek* · Guarani · Kawa · Scottish Gaelic · Dakota · Dargwa · Danish*, ** · Tun · Dungan · Zulu · Hebrew* · Yiddish · Ingush · Indonesian*, ** · Irish · Icelandic 231
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Spanish*, ** · Italian*, ** · Kabardian · Kazakh · Kalmyk · Karakalpak · Karachay-balkar · Catalan*, ** · Kashubian · Quechua (Bolivia) · Kikuyu · Kirghiz · Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional · Kongo · Korean, Korean (Hangul) · Corsican · Koryak · Xhosa · Kpelle · Crow · Crimean Tatar · Kumyk · Kurdish · Lak · Latin* · Latvian*, ** · Lezgi 232
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Lithuanian*, ** · Luba · Sorbian · Maya · Macedonian · Malagasy · Malay (Malaysian) · Malinke · Maltese · Mansi · Maori · Mari · Minangkabau · Mohawk · Romanian (Moldova) · Mongol · Mordvin · Miao · German (Luxembourg) · German**, German (New Spelling)*, ** · Nenets · Nivkh · Dutch**, Dutch (Belgian)*, ** · Nogay · Norwegian (Nynorsk)**, Norwegian (Bokmal)*, ** · Nyanja · Ojibway 233
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Ossetian · Papiamento · Polish*, ** · Portuguese**, Portuguese (Brazilian)*, ** · Occitan · Rhaeto-Romanic · Rwanda · Romanian*, ** · Rundi · Russian*, ** · Russian (Old Spelling) · Russian with accent · Sami (Lappish) · Samoan · Zapotec · Swazi · Cebuano · Selkup · Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin) · Slovak*, ** · Slovenian*, ** · Somali · Swahili · Sunda · Tabasaran · Tagalog · Tajik 234
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Tahitian · Thai* · Tatar*, ** · Tok Pisin · Tongan · Tswana · Tuvinian · Turkish*, ** · Turkmen (Cyrillic), Turkmen (Latin) · Udmurt · Uighur (Cyrillic), Uighur (Latin) · Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin) · Ukrainian*, ** · Faroese · Fijian · Finnish*, ** · French*, ** · Frisian · Friulian · Khakass · Hani · Khanty · Hausa · Croatian*, ** · Jingpo · Romany · Chamorro 235
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Chechen · Czech*, ** · Chuvash · Chukchee · Swedish*, ** · Shona · Evenki · Even · Eskimo (Cyrillic), Eskimo (Latin) · Estonian*, ** · Sotho · Yakut · Japanese Artificial languages · Ido · Interlingua · Occidental · Esperanto Formal languages · Basic · C/C++ · COBOL · Fortran · Java · Pascal · Simple math formulas · Digits 236
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide To find out which fonts are required to display the characters of a specific language, see Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages 257 . *Dictionaries are available for this language, enabling ABBYY FineReader to identify unreliably recognized characters and detect spelling errors in texts written in this language. **Document comparison language. ABBYY FineReader can compare documents written in 35 languages.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Microsoft Office *.csv - - + *.odt - + + *.ods - + - *.odp - + - *.fb2 - - + *.epub - - + *.xps + + - *.djvu, *.djv + + + *.jpg, *.jpeg + + + *.jp2, *.j2k, *.jpf, + + + Excel CommaSeparated Values File OpenDocument Text FB2 Document EPUB Document Non-editable formats XPS (requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4) DjVu Document Images JPEG JPEG 2000 *.jpx, *.jpc PNG *.png + + + TIFF *.tiff, *.tif + + + BMP *.bmp, *.dib, *.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · PDF document (*.pdf) To view PDF files, you must have a PDF viewing application installed on your computer. To see the list of differences, open the Comments pane. · Microsoft Word Document (*.docx) If the metadata of a document contain information about the compliance with the PDF/A or PDF/UA standard, this will be displayed in the Document Properties window.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Document features to consider prior to OCR The quality of images has a significant impact on OCR quality. This section explains what factors you should take into account before recognizing images. · OCR languages · Print type 240 241 · Print quality 241 · Color mode OCR languages ABBYY FineReader can recognize both single- and multi-language documents (e.g. written in two or more languages). For multi-language documents, you need to select several OCR languages.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Print type Documents may be printed using various devices such as typewriters and fax machines. OCR quality may vary depending on how a document was printed. You can improve OCR quality by selecting the correct print type in the Options 212 dialog box. For most documents, the program will detect their print type automatically.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide The grayscale scanning mode retains more information about the letters in the scanned text to achieve better OCR results when recognizing documents of medium to poor quality. You can also correct some of the defects manually using the image editing tools available in the Image Editor. See also: If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low 132 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Image processing options To customize the scanning and opening of pages in ABBYY FineReader, you can: · enable/disable background recognition in the PDF Editor · enable/disable automatic analysis and recognition 243 243 of pages when they are added into the OCR Editor · specify image preprocessing settings 244 You can select desired options either when opening a PDF document, images or scans in the New Task Window or on the Image Processing tab of the Options dialog
ABBYY® FineReader 15 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 170 . Image preprocessing settings ABBYY FineReader lets you automatically correct common defects on scan and digital photos.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Correct trapezoid distortions * The program will automatically detect trapezoid distortions and uneven text lines on digital photographs and scans of books. · Fix inverted colors on image When appropriate, the program will invert the colors of an image so that dark text is printed on a light background. · Convert to black and white The program will convert color images to black-and white This will greatly reduce the size of the resulting OCR project and speed up OCR.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide OCR options Selecting the right OCR options is important if you want fast and accurate results. When deciding which options you want to use, you should consider not only the type and complexity of your document, but also how you intend to use the results.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Use Only Text from PDF This is the default mode for PDF documents with text layers. The program will use the original text layer without running OCR.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Fast recognition This mode is recommended for processing large documents with simple layouts and good quality images. Print type Specifies the type of device that was used for printing the document. See also: Document features to consider prior to OCR 241 . Detect structural elements Select the structural elements you want the program to detect: headers and footers, footnotes, tables of contents, and lists.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 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.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Chinese (Simplified) Arial™ Unicode™ MS Chinese (Traditional) SimSun fonts such as: Japanese, Korean Example SimSun (Founder Extended), Korean (Hangul) SimSun-18030, NSimSun. Simhei YouYuan PMingLiU MingLiU Ming(for-ISO10646) STSong The sections below contain advice on improving recognition accuracy. Disabling automatic image processing By default, any pages you add to an OCR project 125 are automatically recognized.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Recognizing documents written in more than one language The instructions below are provided as an example and explain how to recognize a document that contains both English and Chinese text. Documents that contain other languages can be recognized in a similar manner. 1. On the main toolbar, select More languages... from the list of languages. In the Language Editor dialog box, select Specify OCR languages manually and select Chinese and English from the list of languages.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 2. Select one or more paragraphs. 3. Click the button on the toolbar in the Text pane. You can use the Direction of CJK text drop-down list in the Image pane to specify the direction of text prior to OCR. See also: Editing area properties 139 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Supported interface languages The interface language is selected when ABBYY FineReader is installed. This language will be used for all the messages, dialog boxes, buttons, and menu items. To change the interface language, follow the instructions below: 1. Click Options... on the Tools menu to open the Options dialog box and then select the Other tab. 2. Select the desired language from the Interface language drop-down menu. 3. Click OK. 4. Restart ABBYY FineReader.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Ukrainian · French · Czech · Swedish · Japanese Current date and time on stamps and in headers and footers You can create stamps and Bates numbers that display the current date. Use the following tags in the stamp manager or Bates number manager. Tag Example Date in short format 07.02.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 07/02/201 3 07/02/201 3 07.02.2013 07.02.2013 7. 2. 2013 You can specify custom date and time formats. Click here to see some examples Friday February, 2013 09h 22m You can specify date and time formats using the and tags.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide %B Full names of the months February %m The month as a number from 01 to 12 (with leading zeros) 02 %#m The month as a number from 1 to 12 (no leading zeros) 2 Day of month %d The day as a number from 01 to 31 (with leading zeros) 07 %#d The day as a number from 1 to 31 (no leading zeros) 7 %a Abbreviated names of the days Tu %A Full names of the months Tuesday Day of week parameters Example Hours %H Hours in 24-hour format (from 00 to 23, w
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide 1. Click Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options 2. On the Formats tab, select a format to be used for date and time, or click Options to create your own date and time format. In Windows 10, click Start > PC Settings > Time and Language > Region and language. ______________________ * Available only for the USA, ENG, HUN, and CZ regions.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Arial Unicode MS(*) 259 , SimSun fonts Example SimSun (Founder Extended), SimSun-18030, NSimSun. Simhei, YouYuan, PMingLiU, MingLiU, Ming(forISO10646), STSong Korean, Korean (Hangul) Arial Unicode MS(*) 259 , SimSun fonts Example SimSun (Founder Extended), SimSun-18030, NSimSun.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Yakut Arial Unicode MS(*) 259 Japanese Arial Unicode MS(*) 259 , SimSun fonts Example SimSun (Founder Extended), SimSun-18030, NSimSun. Simhei, YouYuan, PMingLiU, MingLiU, Ming(forISO10646), STSong Where to find/supplied with (*) Microsoft Office 2000 or later Regular expressions The table below lists the regular expressions that can be used to create a dictionary for a custom language 151 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Small Cyrillic letter [а-я] Digit [0-9] @ Reserved. Note: 1. To use a regular expression symbol as a normal character, precede it with a back slash. For example,[t-v]x+ stands for tx, txx, etc., ux, uxx, etc., and vx, vxx, etc., but \[t-v\]x+ stands for [tv]x, [t-v]xx, [t-v]xxx, etc. 2. To group regular expression elements, use brackets. For example, (a|b)+|c stands for c or any combinations like abbbaaabbb, ababab, etc.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Installing, activating, and registering ABBYY FineReader Software piracy hurts software manufacturers and end users alike - using an illegal product is never safe. Legal software ensures that a third party cannot introduce detrimental code changes. ABBYY makes every effort to protect its intellectual property rights and the security of its customers.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide System requirements 1. Operating system: · Microsoft Windows 10 / 8.1 / 8 / 7 · Microsoft Windows Server 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2008 R2 The operating system must support the language you select for the user interface. 2. 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor with the SSE2 instruction set. 3. 1 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) An additional 512 MB of RAM is required for each additional processor in a multi-processor system. 4. 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Installing and starting ABBYY FineReader Installing ABBYY FineReader on one computer 1. Double-click the Setup.exe file on the installation disk or other distribution media. 2. Follow the on-screen instructions in the Installation Wizard. Deploying ABBYY FineReader 15 in a LAN ABBYY FineReader can be installed and used on a local area network*.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Activating ABBYY FineReader After you install ABBYY FineReader 15, you will need to activate the program to be able to run it in full mode. Unless you activate ABBYY FineReader 15, the program will run in trial mode, which lets you try out the program but limits the number of pages you can save and stops working after a certain period of time. To activate ABBYY FineReader 15: 1. In the New Task window, click Help > Activate.... 2.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide · Activation by e-mail from another computer 1. Select this activation method if you can't activate ABBYY FineReader 15 on the computer on which it is installed (e.g. if it does not have an Internet connection or cannot send email messages). 2. Save the licensing information to a text file. 3. Create a new e-mail message on a computer that can send e-mail messages. Specify Activation request in the Subject field and FineReader-activation@abbyy.com 264 in the To field. 4.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Registering ABBYY FineReader We invite you to register your copy of ABBYY FineReader 15 and receive special benefits available to registered users. Registration is optional. You can register your copy of ABBYY FineReader: · By providing your contact information when activating your copy of the product. If you choose not activate ABBYY FineReader during the activation process, you will be able to register it later at any convenient time. · By clicking Help > Register...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Glossary А Abbreviation A shortened form of a word or phrase (e.g. MS-DOS for Microsoft Disk Operating System, UN for United Nations, etc.). ABBYY FineReader task A set of consecutive steps the program needs to perform in order to process a document. ABBYY FineReader 15 includes a number of built-in tasks for the most common document processing needs. Users can also create their own custom tasks. Built-in tasks can be launched in the New Task window.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide background picture area An image area that contains a picture with text printed over it. barcode area An image area that contains a barcode. base form The form of a word to which endings, prefixes or suffixes are added. brightness An image parameter that reflects the amount of white in an image. Increasing brightness makes the image "whiter". Specifying a suitable brightness value increases recognition quality. See also: Scanning tips 207 .
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide headers and footers Images or text in the top or bottom margin of a page. Headers are located at the top of the page and footers are located at the bottom. I ignored characters Any non-letter characters found in words (e.g. syllable characters or stress marks). These characters are ignored during the spell check. inverted image An image with white characters printed against a dark background.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide L License Manager A utility used for managing ABBYY FineReader licenses and activating ABBYY FineReader 15. ligature A combination of two or more characters that are "stuck" together (e.g. fi, fl, ffi). Such characters are difficult for ABBYY FineReader to separate. Treating them as one character improves OCR accuracy. low-confidence characters Characters that may have been recognized by the program incorrectly.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide pattern A set of associations between averaged character images and their respective names. Patterns are created when you train ABBYY FineReader on a specific text. PDF (Portable Document Format) A commonly used document format. A PDF file looks the same no matter what computer it is displayed on thanks to the detailed descriptions of text, fonts, and graphics it contains.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide shortcut menu The menu that appears when you right-click something, such as an area or another part of a document. support ID The unique identifier of a serial number that contains information about the license and the computer on which it is used. A Support ID provides additional protection and is checked by the technical support staff before providing technical support. Т table area An image area that contains data in tabular form.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Keyboard shortcuts ABBYY FineReader offers the following keyboard shortcuts for the most commonly used commands. · New Task window · OCR Editor · PDF Editor 273 274 279 · ABBYY Compare Documents 282 New Task window · File · Edit menu 273 273 · Tools · Help menu 273 menu 274 274 273 menu 274 274 File menu Command Shortcut New PDF Document Ctrl+N Open PDF Document... Ctrl+O Open in OCR Editor...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Remove Del Select All Ctrl+A Find Recent Documents Ctrl+F Tools menu Command Shortcut Options... Ctrl+> Help menu Command Shortcut Help F1 OCR Editor · File menu 274 · Edit 275 · View menu 275 276 menu · Recognize · Area 277 · Tools · Help 274 277 278 276 menu 276 menu menu menu 276 277 277 278 · General File menu Command Shortcut New Task... Ctrl+N Open Image... Ctrl+O Scan Pages...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Save Page Images As... Ctrl+Alt+S Close Ctrl+W New OCR Project Ctrl+Shift+N Open OCR Project... Ctrl+Shift+O Save OCR Project...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Rotate Pages Left Ctrl+Shift+< Edit Page Images... Ctrl+I Find... Ctrl+F Find Next F3 Replace... Ctrl+H View menu Command Shortcut Show Navigation Pane F5 Show Zoom Pane Ctrl+F5 Image Pane Only F6 Image and Text Panes F7 Text Pane Only F8 Next Pane Ctrl+Tab Previous Pane Ctrl+Shift+Tab Zoom In Ctrl++ Zoom Out Ctrl+- Best Fit Ctrl+0 Go to Page Number...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Recognize All Pages Ctrl+Shift+R Recognize Page Ctrl+R Analyze All Pages Ctrl+Shift+E Analyze Page Ctrl+E Verify Text...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Help menu Command Shortcut Help F1 General Command Shortcut Make the selected text fragment bold Ctrl+B Make the selected text fragment italic Ctrl+I Underline the selected text fragment Ctrl+U Go to table cell Arrow keys Switch to Pages pane Alt+1 Switch to Image pane Alt+2 Switch to Text pane Alt+3 Switch to Zoom pane Alt+4 You can also create your own keyboard shortcuts in the OCR Editor 116 . To create a shortcut in the OCR Editor: 1.
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide PDF Editor · File · Edit menu 279 279 · View · Tools · Help 279 menu 279 280 281 282 menu menu menu 280 281 282 File menu Command Shortcut New Task... Ctrl+N Open... Ctrl+O Save Ctrl+S Save as PDF Document... Ctrl+Shift+S Close Document Ctrl+W Recognize Document Ctrl+Shift+R Print...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Copy Area as Text Ctrl+Shift+C Copy Area as Table Ctrl+Alt+C Paste Ctrl+V Delete Del Select All Ctrl+A Add Pages from File... Ctrl+Shift+O Add Pages from Scanner... Ctrl+Shift+A Rotate Pages Right Ctrl+Shift+> Rotate Pages Left Ctrl+Shift+< Delete Pages... Ctrl+Backspace Add Bookmark...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Fit to Width Ctrl+9 Go to Page Number...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Options... Ctrl+> ***Back to Top Help menu Command Shortcut Help F1 ABBYY Compare Documents · File · Edit 282 menu 282 · View menu 282 283 menu · Compare · Help 282 283 283 283 menu menu 283 283 File menu Command Shortcut New Comparison Ctrl+N Open Document... Ctrl+O Close Document Ctrl+W Save Document with Differences as PDF...
ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide Select All Differences Ctrl+A ***Back to Top View menu Command Shortcut Zoom In Ctrl++ Zoom Out Ctrl+- Fit to Width Ctrl+0 Next Page Ctrl+↓ Previous Page Ctrl+↑ Compare menu Command Shortcut Compare Documents Ctrl+R Next Difference Ctrl+→ Previous Difference Ctrl+← Ignore Difference Del Help menu Command Shortcut Help F1 ***Back to Top 273 283
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