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ABBYY® FineReader PDF User’s Guide
If your printed document contains non-standard fonts
If a document you want to recognize contains decorative fonts or special characters (e.g.
mathematical symbols), we recommend using the training mode to improve OCR accuracy.
It is not advisable to use the training mode in other cases, as the gains in OCR quality will be
insignificant compared to the time and effort you will spend on training.
In training mode, a user pattern is created, which can be used when performing OCR on the entire
text.
· Using user patterns
· Creating and training a user pattern
· Selecting a user pattern
· Editing a user pattern
Using user patterns
To use a user pattern to recognize a document:
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and click the OCR tab.
2. Select the Use user patterns option.
If the Also use built-in patterns option underneath the Use user patterns option is
selected, ABBYY FineReader will use its built-in patterns in addition to any user patterns you
create.
3. Click the Pattern Editor... button.
4. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, select a pattern and click OK.
5. Click the button on the main toolbar at the top of the OCR Editor window.
Creating and training a user pattern
To train a user pattern to recognize new characters and ligatures:
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and click the OCR tab.
2. Select the Use training to recognize new characters and ligatures option.
If the Also use built-in patterns option underneath the Use training to recognize new
characters and ligatures option is selected, ABBYY FineReader will use its built-in patterns
in addition to any user patterns you create.
3. Click the Pattern Editor... button.
Pattern training is not supported for Asian languages.
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