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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
You can also right-click an OCR project in Windows Explorer and select Open OCR project in ABBYY
FineReader PDF. OCR projects are marked with the icon.
Using settings from earlier versions of ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader lets you import user dictionaries and program settings from files created in earlier
versions of the program.
To use dictionaries created in ABBYY FineReader 10, 11, 12 or 14:
1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries....
2. In the User Dictionaries dialog box, select the language of the dictionary and click View....
3. In the Dictionary for... dialog box, click Import... and specify the path to the dictionary.
4. Select the dictionary file and click Open.
Adding images to an OCR project
1. Click File > Open Image....
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more images and click Open. The images will be
appended to the end of the open OCR project, and their copies will be saved in the OCR
project folder.
You can also right-click images in Windows Explorer and select Convert with ABBYY FineReader
PDF > Open in OCR Editor on the shortcut menu. The selected files will be added to a new OCR
project.
You can alsoadd document scans. See also: Scanning paper documents .
Removing pages from an OCR project
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In the Pages pane, select a page and click Delete, or
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Click Edit > Delete Pages..., or
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Right-click a page in the Pages pane and select Delete... on the shortcut menu
You can select and delete more than one page in the Pages pane.
Saving an OCR project
1. Click File > Save OCR Project....
2. In the dialog box that opens, enter a name for your OCR project and specify a folder where
it should be stored.
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