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4. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, click the New... button.
5. In the Create Pattern dialog box, specify a name for the new pattern and click OK.
6. Click OK in the Pattern Editor dialog box and then click OK in the Options dialog box.
7. Click the button in the toolbar at the top of the Image pane.
If the program encounters a character it does not recognize, the Pattern Training dialog
will open and display this character.
8. Teach the program to read new characters and ligatures.
A ligature is a combination of two or three characters that are "glued together" (for
example, fi, fl, ffi, etc.) and are difficult for the program to separate. In fact, better results
can be obtained by treating them as single compound characters.
Words printed in bold or italic type or words in superscript/subscript may be retained in
the recognized text by selecting the corresponding options under Effects.
To go back to a previously trained character, click the Back button. The frame will jump to
its previous location and the latest trained "character image - keyboard character" pairing
will be removed from the pattern. The Back button navigates between the characters of one
word and will not navigate between words.
Important!
· You can only train ABBYY FineReader PDF to read the characters included in the alphabet of
the OCR language. To train the program to read characters that cannot be entered from the
keyboard, use a combination of two characters to denote these non-existent characters or
copy the desired character from the Insert Character dialog box (click to open this
dialog box).