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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
Scanning tips
You can set the scanning settings in the ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box.
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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.
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Try to make sure that the pages in the scanner are positioned as straight as possible. Place
your documents face down on the scanner, making sure they are properly adjusted. Skewed
images may be converted incorrectly.
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If you need to scan documents that were printed with a regular printer, use the grayscale
mode and a resolution of 300 dpi for best results.
Recognition quality depends on the quality of the hard-copy document and on the settings
used for scanning the document. Poor image quality may have an adverse effect on the quality
of conversion. Be sure to select the scanning parameters appropriate for your document .
There are several ways to open the scanning interface:
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Open the New Task screen, click the Scan tab, and then click Scan to OCR Editor or another
task on this tab.
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In the OCR Editor, click the Scan button on the main toolbar.
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In the PDF Editor, click the button on the main toolbar and then click Add
from Scanner... on the menu shown below.
You can specify the following scanning settings:
Color mode
Lets you select the scanning mode: color, grayscale (the best mode for OCR) or black-and-white.
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