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Table Of Contents
- Introducing ABBYY FineReader
- The New Task window
- PDF Editor
- OCR Editor
- Launching the OCR Editor
- OCR Editor interface
- Obtaining documents
- Recognizing documents
- Improving OCR results
- If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low
- If areas are detected incorrectly
- If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced
- If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts
- If tables and pictures are not detected
- If a barcode is not detected
- If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?" or "□"
- If your printed document contains non-standard fonts
- If your document contains many specialized terms
- If the program fails to recognize certain characters
- If vertical or inverted text was not recognized
- Checking and editing texts
- Copying content from documents
- Saving OCR results
- Integration with other applications
- Automating and scheduling OCR
- ABBYY Compare Documents
- ABBYY Screenshot Reader
- Reference
- How to set ABBYY FineReader 15 as your default PDF viewer
- Types of PDF documents
- Scanning tips
- Taking photos of documents
- Options dialog box
- Format settings
- Supported OCR and document comparison languages
- Supported document formats
- Document features to consider prior to OCR
- Image processing options
- OCR options
- Working with complex-script languages
- Supported interface languages
- Current date and time on stamps and in headers and footers
- Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages
- Regular expressions
- Installing, activating, and registering ABBYY FineReader
- Appendix
- Technical support
- Third-party software
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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 and manual
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.
Follow the instructions below to edit an image manually:
1. Open the OCR Editor and then open the Image Editor:
2. Click on the toolbar of the Image pane, or
3. Click Edit > Edit Page Images....
4. The IMAGE EDITOR will open and display the currently selected page. The rightmost panel of
the Image Editor contains tools for editing images.
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