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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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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:
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In the Character field, enter the letter that corresponds to the character.
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In the Effects field, specify the desired font effect (bold, italic, superscript or subscript).
To delete a character that has been trained incorrectly, click the Delete button in the User Pattern
dialog box.
If your document contains many specialized terms
ABBYY FineReader 15 checks recognized words against its internal dictionary. If your text contains too
many specialized terms, abbreviations or proper names, you can improve OCR quality by adding them
to a user dictionary.
1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries....
2. In the User Dictionaries dialog box, select the appropriate language and click View....
3. In the dialog box that opens, type the word you want to add and click the Add word button
(or select a word you want to delete and click the Delete button).
If the dictionary already contains the word you are trying to add, a warning message will be displayed.
You can import user dictionaries created in ABBYY FineReader 9.0, 10, 11, 12 and 14:
1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries... button.
2. In the User Dictionaries dialog box, select the appropriate language and click the View....
3. In the dialog box that opens, click the Import... button and select the user dictionary you
want to import (it will have the *.pmd, *.txt or *.dic extension).










