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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 select the paper size to be used for saving in RTF, DOC, DOCX, or ODT format from the
Default paper size drop-down list.
Picture settings
Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures and
the size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom..., specify the desired settings in the Custom
Settings dialog box, and click OK.
Text settings
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Keep headers, footers, and page numbers
Retains the headers, footers, and page numbers in the output text.
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Keep line breaks and hyphens
Retains the original arrangement of text lines in the output text.
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Keep page breaks
Retains the original page arrangement.
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Keep line numbers
Retains the original line numbering (if any). The line numbers will be saved in a separate
field that remains unchanged when you edit the text.
This feature is available only if the Editable copy option is selected in the Document
layout drop-down list.
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Keep text and background colors
Select this option to retain the font color and background color.
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Keep bold, italic, and underlined text styles in plain text
Retains font styles when the Plain text option is selected in the Document layout drop-
down list.
If you disable the detection of headers, footers, the table of contents, numbered lists, and footnotes
on the OCR tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box), these
elements will be saved as body text.
Low-confidence characters
Enable the Highlight low-confidence characters option if you plan to edit the document in
Microsoft Word and not in the Text pane of the OCR Editor. When this option is selected, all low-
confidence characters will be highlighted in the Microsoft Word document.
Tip. You can change the color use for low-confidence characters on the Areas and Text tab of the
Options dialog box (click Tools>Options... to open this dialog box).
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords










