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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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The grayscale scanning mode retains more information about the letters in the scanned text to achieve
better OCR results when recognizing documents of medium to poor quality. You can also correct some
of the defects manually using the image editing tools available in the Image Editor. See also: If your
document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low .
Color mode
If you do not need to preserve the original colors of a full-color document, you can process the
document in black-and-white mode. This will greatly reduce the size of the resulting OCR project and
speed up the OCR process. However, processing low-contrast images in black-and-white may result in
poor OCR quality. We also do not recommend black-and-white processing for photos, magazine pages,
and texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Tip. You can also speed up the OCR of color and black-and-white documents by selecting Fast
recognition on the Recognition Languages tab of the Options dialog box. For more about the
recognition modes, see OCR Options .
For some additional recommendations on selecting the right color mode, see Scanning tips .
Once the document is converted to black-and-white, you will not be able to restore the colors. To
get a color document, open a file with color images or scan the paper document in color mode.
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