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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
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Select existing OCR project
Select this option if you want the task to process images from an existing OCR project.
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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:
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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).
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Scan
Select this option if you are going to scan some pages (the current scanning settings will
be used).
Note:
a. This step is optional if earlier you chose the Select existing OCR project or Use
current OCR project command.
b. If images are added to an OCR project that already contains images, only the newly
added images will be processed.
c. If an OCR project to be processed contains some pages that have already been
recognized and some pages that have already been analyzed, the recognized pages will
not be processed again and the analyzed pages will be recognized.
4. Add the Analyze step to detect areas on the images and configure this step:
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Analyze the layout automatically
ABBYY FineReader will analyze the images and identify the areas based on their content.
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Draw areas manually
ABBYY FineReader will ask you to draw the appropriate areas manually.
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Use an area template
Select this option if you want an existing area template , to be used when the program
analyzes the document. You will need to either specify a template or choose to have the
program prompt you to select one every time the task starts. For details, see If you are
processing a large number of documents with identical layouts .
5. Add an OCR step if you need the images to be recognized. The program will use the OCR
options you selected in the OCR project step.
When you add an OCR, step the Analyze step is added automatically.
6. Add an OCR step to save the recognized text in a format of your choice, e-mail the text or
images, or create a copy of the OCR project. A task may include multiple saving steps:
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