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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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Scanning to other formats
The Scan to Other Formats task in the New Task window lets you create documents in popular
formats (*.pptx, *.odt, *.html, *.epub, *.fb2, *.rtf, *.txt, *.csv, and *.djvu) from images obtained from a
scanner or a digital camera.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Other Formats
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 output format
Use this option to select the desired format for the output file.
5.2.OCR languages
Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages .
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 .
5.4.More options...
Opens the section with the settings of the selected format on the Format Settings tab
of the Options dialog box, where you can specify additional settings (you can also open
this dialog box by clicking Options... on the Tools menu).
6. Click Scan to <format>.
7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next will
appear.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning to
close the dialog box.
9. Specify the folder where you want to save your output file.
When the task is completed, output files in the specified format will be created in the folder that you
specified. All of the document's images will also be opened in the OCR Editor.
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