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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
Document features to consider prior to OCR
The quality of images has a significant impact on OCR quality. This section explains what factors you
should take into account before recognizing images.
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OCR languages
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Print type
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Print quality
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Color mode
OCR languages
ABBYY FineReader can recognize both single- and multi-language documents (e.g. written in two or
more languages). For multi-language documents, you need to select several OCR languages.
To select OCR languages, click Options > Languages and select one of the following options:
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Automatically select OCR languages from the following list
ABBYY FineReader will automatically select the appropriate languages from the user-
defined list of languages. To edit the list of languages:
1. Make sure the Automatically select OCR languages from the following list option is
selected.
2. Click the Specify... button.
3. In the Languages dialog box, select the desired languages and click OK.
4. In the Options dialog box, click OK.
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Specify OCR languages manually
Select this option if the language you need is not in the list.
In the dialog box below, specify one or more languages. If you often use a particular language
combination, you can create a new group for these languages.
If a language is not in the list, it is either:
1. Not supported by ABBYY FineReader, or
For a complete list of supported languages, see Supported OCR languages .
2. Not supported by your version of the product.
The complete list of languages available in your version of the product can be found in
the Licenses dialog box (click Help > About > License Info to open this dialog box).
In addition to using built-in languages and language groups, you can create your own languages and
groups.See also: If the program fails to recognize certain characters .
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