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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
Activating ABBYY FineReader
After you install ABBYY FineReader PDF, you will need to activate the program to be able to run it in
full mode. Unless you activate ABBYY FineReader PDF, the program will run in trial mode, which lets
you try out the program but limits the number of pages you can save and stops working after a
certain period of time.
To activate ABBYY FineReader PDF:
1. In the New Task window, click Help > Activate....
2. Enter your serial number or load a license file if you have one.
Select one of the four activation options displayed in the Activation Wizard:
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Activation over the Internet
Activation is carried out automatically and takes only seconds to complete. An active
Internet connection is required for this method.
·
Activation via the ABBYY website
1. Click the link in the Activation Wizard to open the activation page.
2. Copy the Product ID in the Activation Wizard and paste it to the corresponding field
on the page.
3. Copy the serial number in the Activation Wizard and paste it to the corresponding field
on the page.
4. Save the license file to your hard disk.
5. Click Next in the Activation Wizard and specify the path to the license file.
6. Click Next.
ABBYY FineReader PDF will be activated and will run in full mode from now on.
·
Activation by e-mail
1. The program will generate an e-mail message with all of the information required for
activation.
2. Send the e-mail message without changing its body text and subject. You will receive a
reply message containing a license file.
3. Save the license file to your hard disk.
4. Specify the path to the license file in the Activation Wizard.
ABBYY FineReader PDF will be activated and will run in full mode from now on.
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