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To add a text layer to the selected pages, do the following:
1. Select one or several pages that you want to recognize.
2. On the toolbar, click the arrow next to the button and then select Recognize
Selected Pages from the drop-down list. Alternatively, select Recognize > Recognize Selected
Pages from the context menu.
3. In the dialog box that will appear, specify the recognition languages. For more information, see
Document features to consider prior to OCR .
4. To improve the recognition quality, enable image processing.
Enabling image processing may change the visual appearance of the document.
· Correct page orientation - automatically detects page orientation and corrects it if
required.
· Deskew images and correct image resolution - automatically detects and corrects
any skewing, selects the appropriate image resolution, and makes some other changes
to improve the images.
5. Click Recognize.
This will add a text layer to the selected pages.
To send a PDF document from the PDF Editor to the OCR Editor , select the appropriate pages,
click the arrow next to the button on the toolbar, and select Send Selected Pages to
OCR Editor from the drop-down list. This will open the selected pages in the window of the OCR
Editor, where you can mark out recognition areas, verify recognized text, "teach" the program to
recognize non-standard characters and fonts, as well as use other advanced ABBYY FineReader
features to maximize the quality of the recognition results.
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