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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 PDF 16 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
- Recognition of text written using a Gothic script
- 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
- Using the command line
- Installing, activating, and registering ABBYY FineReader PDF 16
- Appendix
- Technical support
- Third-party software
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF User’s Guide
Viewing metadata
The PDF Editor allows you to view the title and author of a PDF document and some other
information. This information is called metadata. Some of the metadata are specified by the author
and some are generated automatically. You can also search documents by metadata.
To view metadata, in the main menu, select File and click Document Properties... to open the
Document Properties dialog box.
You can change or save any metadata created by the author, provided that the PDF document is not
password-protected:
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Title contains the title of the document.
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Author contains the author of the document.
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Subject contains the subject of the document.
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Keywords contains keywords that you can use when searching documents.
The original metadata are preserved when you convert files in various formats to PDF, provided that
you have not chosen to delete the metadata and have not specified new export options that will
override the existing options.
The metadata of a document also contain the following information about the document and the file:
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File name contains the name of the file.
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Location contains the path to the folder where the document is stored.
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File size contains the size of the file.
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Page size contains the size of the current page.
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Pages contains the number of pages in the document.
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PDF producer contains the name of the application where the document was created
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Application contains the name of the application where the document content was created.
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PDF version contains the version of PDF.
If the metadata of a document contain information about the compliance with the PDF/A
or PDF/UA standard, this will be displayed in the Document Properties window.
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Tagged PDF contains information about document tags.
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Fast Web View specifies if the document supports Fast Web View technology, which speeds
up loading documents online.
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Created contains the date and time when the document was created.