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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
Contents
Introducing ABBYY FineReader .............................................................................................................. 9
About ABBYY FineReader...................................................................................................................................................... 10
What's New in ABBYY FineReader PDF 16 ................................................................................................................... 12
The New Task window ........................................................................................................................... 13
Viewing and editing PDFs ..................................................................................................................................................... 15
Quick conversion ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18
Creating PDF documents............................................................................................................................................ 21
Creating Microsoft Word documents .................................................................................................................. 23
Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets .............................................................................................................. 25
Other formats ................................................................................................................................................................... 27
Advanced conversion .............................................................................................................................................................. 28
Comparing documents ........................................................................................................................................................... 32
Mobile application documents.......................................................................................................................................... 35
Scanning and saving documents....................................................................................................................................... 36
Scanning to the OCR Editor ...................................................................................................................................... 39
Scanning to PDF .............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Scanning to Microsoft Word .................................................................................................................................... 43
Scanning to Microsoft Excel ..................................................................................................................................... 45
Scanning to image files .............................................................................................................................................. 47
Scanning to other formats......................................................................................................................................... 49
PDF Editor ................................................................................................................................................ 50
Viewing PDF documents ........................................................................................................................................................ 51
Viewing modes ................................................................................................................................................................ 53
Navigating PDF documents ...................................................................................................................................... 56
Background recognition ............................................................................................................................................. 58
PDF security features .................................................................................................................................................... 59
Searching PDF documents .................................................................................................................................................... 60
Keyword search ............................................................................................................................................................... 61
Search and replace ........................................................................................................................................................ 63
Search and redact .......................................................................................................................................................... 65
Copying data from PDF documents ................................................................................................................................ 67
Copying an area as an image .................................................................................................................................. 68
Copying an area as text .............................................................................................................................................. 69
Copying an area as a table ....................................................................................................................................... 71
Reviewing PDF documents ................................................................................................................................................... 73
Comments .......................................................................................................................................................................... 74
Marking up text ............................................................................................................................................................... 75
Drawing shapes ............................................................................................................................................................... 77
Adding a Text block annotation to a PDF document ................................................................................. 79