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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
1. Click the button on the toolbar to enter the text editing mode. Alternatively, click
Tools > Edit Text and Pictures or use the Ctrl + E hotkey.
Tip: if the toolbar is not visible, click the button in the upper-right part of the
PDF Editor window.
Note: you might have to wait some time for the program to prepare the text for editing.
During this time, a page preparation indicator will be displayed in the left part of the Text
pane.
The Text pane will appear under the toolbar, and text and images on the page will be marked
as separate blocks:
Note: when working with scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, it is important
to specify the correct languages, especially when background recognition is disabled. For
more details, see Document features to consider prior to OCR .
Tip: before starting your work with scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, it is
sometimes best to correct the page orientation, skew, distorted text, and other defects .
2. Edit the text in the PDF document.
You can:
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