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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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Integration with Microsoft Outlook
Video: How to save emails as PDF
With Microsoft Outlook integration, you can easily use e-mails, e-mail folders, and e-mail
attachments to create a PDF document directly from Microsoft Outlook.
How to use the body of an e-mail to create a PDF document
To create a PDF document using the body of an e-mail, do the following:
1. In Microsoft Outlook, select an e-mail that will be used to create your PDF document.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF toolbar, click Convert to PDF.
If you want to use several e-mails to create a PDF document, select all of them at once.
3. In the dialog box that will appear, specify a name and folder for the output PDF document
and select Open document, if you need to open the output document in a PDF viewer.
You can also specify relevant commands in the context menu of the selected e-mail or e-
mails.
If required, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF toolbar and specify the PDF creation
settings .
This will save the output PDF document in the specified folder and open it in a PDF viewer if specified.
All e-mail attachments will be saved in the output PDF document as PDF attachments.
How to use an e-mail folder to create a PDF document
To create a PDF document using an e-mail folder, do the following:
1. In Microsoft Outlook, specify the e-mail folder that will be used to create the PDF
document.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF toolbar, click Create PDF from folder or select the
appropriate command in the folder context menu.
3. Specify a name and location for the output PDF document.
4. Select Open document if you need to open the resulting document in a PDF viewer.
If required, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF toolbar and specify the PDF creation
settings .
This will save the output PDF document in the specified folder and open it in a PDF viewer if specified.
All e-mail attachments will be saved in the output PDF document as PDF attachments.
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