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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 to the OCR Editor
You can open images from a scanner or camera in the OCR Editor, where you will be able to:
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Draw and edit recognition areas manually
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Check recognized text
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Train ABBYY FineReader to recognize non-standard characters and fonts
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Use other advanced tools to ensure the best possible OCR result.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to OCR Editor task.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisified with the quality of the image, change the scanning
settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify preprocessing and automation settings.
5.1.Automatically process page images as they are added
This option enables or disables automatic processing of newly added pages. If automatic
processing is enabled, you can select general document processing options and image
preprocessing settings to be used when scanning and opening images:
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Recognize page images
Enable this option if you want FineReader to automatically preprocess newly added
images using the settings specified in the Preprocessing Settings dialog box (click the
Image preprocessing settings (apply to conversion and OCR) link below to open
this dialog box). Analysis and OCR will also be performed automatically.
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Analyze page images
Performs image preprocessing and document analysis automatically, but OCR has to be
started manually.
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Preprocess page images
Preprocesses images automatically. Analysis and OCR have to be started manually.
5.2.OCR languages
Use this option to specify the languages of the document. See also: OCR languages .
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