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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 image files
The Scan to Image Files task in the New Task window lets you create image-only documents from
images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera.
1. Click the Scan tab and then click the Scan to Image Files 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 satisfied with the quality of the image, change the scanning
settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of the
output document.
5.1.Select image format
Use this setting to select the desired image file format.
5.2.Compression
If you selected the TIFF format, you will be able to compress scanned images. Image
compression reduces file size.
Using different compression methods results in different data compression rates and may
result in data loss (loss of image quality). There are two factors you should consider when
choosing a compression method: the quality of images in the output file and its size.
ABBYY FineReader lets you use the following compression methods:
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PACKBITS
Does not cause data loss and is well suited for compressing black-and-white scans.
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JPEG (JFIF format)
This method is used to compress grayscale and color images such as photographs. It
compresses images significantly, but at the cost of some data loss. This leads to
reduced image quality (blurriness and loss of color saturation).
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ZIP
Does not cause data loss and works best on images that contain large single-color
areas such as screenshots and black-and-white images.
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LZW
Does not cause data loss and works best on images with vector graphics and grayscale
images.
5.3.Image preprocessing settings...
Specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of page orientation and automatic
preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly improve source images, resulting in
greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing options .
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