15.0
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
Contents
Introducing ABBYY FineReader ............................................................................................................... 8
About ABBYY FineReader ................................................................................................................................................ 9
What's New in ABBYY FineReader 15 ....................................................................................................................... 11
The New Task window ............................................................................................................................ 13
Viewing and editing PDFs ............................................................................................................................................. 15
Quick conversion .............................................................................................................................................................. 17
Creating PDF documents ................................................................................................................................... 20
Creating Microsoft Word documents ............................................................................................................ 22
Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets ......................................................................................................... 24
Other formats ......................................................................................................................................................... 26
Advanced conversion ..................................................................................................................................................... 26
Comparing documents .................................................................................................................................................. 30
Scanning and saving documents ............................................................................................................................... 33
Scanning to the OCR Editor .............................................................................................................................. 36
Scanning to PDF .................................................................................................................................................... 38
Scanning to Microsoft Word ............................................................................................................................. 40
Scanning to Microsoft Excel .............................................................................................................................. 42
Scanning to image files ....................................................................................................................................... 44
Scanning to other formats ................................................................................................................................. 46
PDF Editor ................................................................................................................................................ 47
Viewing PDF documents ............................................................................................................................................... 48
Viewing modes ....................................................................................................................................................... 49
Navigating PDF documents .............................................................................................................................. 52
Background recognition ..................................................................................................................................... 54
Keyword search ...................................................................................................................................................... 55
Copying content from PDF documents ........................................................................................................ 57
PDF security features ........................................................................................................................................... 58
Reviewing PDF documents ........................................................................................................................................... 59
Comments ................................................................................................................................................................ 59
Marking up text ..................................................................................................................................................... 60
Drawing shapes ...................................................................................................................................................... 62
Adding a Text block annotation to a PDF document .............................................................................. 65
Collaborating on PDF documents ................................................................................................................... 66
Adding stamps ....................................................................................................................................................... 71
Working with PDF content ........................................................................................................................................... 74
Inserting and editing text ................................................................................................................................... 75
Inserting and editing pictures .......................................................................................................................... 83
Inserting and editing hyperlinks ...................................................................................................................... 84
Recognizing text .................................................................................................................................................... 86