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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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Creating PDF documents
Video: How to Create and Merge PDF
Chapter contents
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Creating PDF documents from selected pages
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Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents
For detailed instructions on creating PDF documents from files, scans, or digital photos, see:
Creating PDF documents and Scanning to PDF .
Creating PDF documents from selected pages
The PDF Editor allows you to create PDF documents from selected pages by doing one of the
following:
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In the Pages pane, select the appropriate pages and click Create PDF from Selected Pages
in the context menu.
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Navigate to the Organize Pages tab, select the appropriate pages, and click Create PDF
from Selected Pages in the context menu.
This will create a new PDF document using the selected pages and open it in a new PDF Editor
window in ABBYY FineReader.
Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents
You can create PDF documents from any applications that allow you to select a printer. PDF-XChange
for ABBYY FineReader PDF 16 will be used.
1. Open a document from which you want to create a PDF.
2. Open the printing options dialog box.
3. In the list of available printers, select PDF-XChange for ABBYY FineReader PDF 16.
4. If required, click Printer Settings... and adjust the PDF creation settings.
5. Click Print to start creating a PDF document.
6. In the dialog box that opens, you can change the name and location of your file, open the
document for viewing after it is saved, or e-mail the document. You can also choose to add
the PDF document that is being created to an existing PDF document by selecting Add Files
to PDF.
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