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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
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:
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Run once (the task will be run once at the time you specify)
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Recurring (the task will be run every minute, once a day, once week or once a month
at the specified time).
4. Specify the folder or OCR project that contains the images to be processed.
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File from folder allows you to process images in local and network folders.
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File from FTP allows you to process images in folders on an FTP server.
If login and password are required in order to access the FTP folder, enter them in the
User name and Password fields respectively. If no login and password are required,
select the Anonymous user option.
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File from Outlook allows you to process images in your mail box.
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OCR project opens images stored in an OCR project.
For more about document colors, see Document features to consider prior to OCR .
Under Original files specify whether original files should be kept, deleted or moved.
5. In the Analyze and recognize images step, configure the document analysis and OCR
options.
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From the Document language drop-down list, select the language of the texts to be
recognized.
You can select more than one OCR language.
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Under Document processing settings, specify whether a document should be
recognized or analyzed or whether its page images should be preprocessed. If required,
specify additional OCR and image preprocessing options by clicking Recognition
Options... or Preprocessing Options... respectively.
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Specify whether the program should detect areas automatically or use an area template
for the purpose.
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