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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
Glossary
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Abbreviation A shortened form of a word or phrase (e.g. MS-DOS for Microsoft Disk Operating
System, UN for United Nations, etc.).
ABBYY FineReader task A set of consecutive steps the program needs to perform in order to process a
document. ABBYY FineReader 15 includes a number of built-in tasks for the most common document
processing needs. Users can also create their own custom tasks. Built-in tasks can be launched in the
New Task window.
ABBYY Hot Folder A scheduling agent that allows users to select a folder with images and specify the
time for processing the images in this folder. ABBYY FineReader will automatically process the images
from the selected folder.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader An application that enables users to create screenshots and recognize texts
on them.
activation The process of obtaining a special code from ABBYY allowing the user to use his/her copy of
the product in full mode on a given computer.
active area The currently selected area on an image. An active area can be deleted, moved or modified.
To make an area active, click it. The frame enclosing an active area is bold and has sizing handles that
can be dragged to change its size.
ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) A device that automatically feeds documents to a scanner. A
scanner with an ADF can scan multiple pages without manual intervention.ABBYY FineReader can work
with multi-page documents.
ADRT (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) A technology that increases the quality of
conversion of multi-page documents. For example, it can recognize such elements as headings, headers
and footers, footnotes, page numbering, and signatures.
area A section of an image enclosed by a frame and containing a certain type of data. Before
performing OCR, ABBYY FineReader detects text, picture, table, and barcode areas in order to determine
which sections of the image should be recognized and in what order.
area template A template that contains information about the size and locations of the areas in similar-
looking documents.
Automated Tasks A task managing component of ABBYY FineReader 15 that allows you to create, set
up, and launch ABBYY FineReader tasks.
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