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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
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License Manager A utility used for managing ABBYY FineReader licenses and activating ABBYY
FineReader PDF.
ligature A combination of two or more characters that are "stuck" together (e.g. fi, fl, ffi). Such
characters are difficult for ABBYY FineReader to separate. Treating them as one character improves
OCR accuracy.
low-confidence characters Characters that may have been recognized by the program incorrectly.
low-confidence words Words that contain one or more low-confidence characters.
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monospaced font A font (such as Courier New) in which all characters are equally spaced. For better
OCR results on monospaced fonts, on the OCR tab of the Options dialog box, select Typewriter in
the Document type group of options.
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) A technology that enables computers to read text, detect
pictures, tables, and other formatting elements.
OCR project A project created by ABBYY FineReader to process a document. It contains the images of
the document pages, their recognized text (if any), and the program settings.
OCR project options The set of options that can be selected in the Options dialog box (click
Tools>Options... to open this dialog box). These options also include user languages and patterns.
OCR project options can be saved and then used in other OCR projects.
omnifont system A recognition system that recognizes characters set in any font without prior
training.
optional hyphen An optional hyphen (¬) indicates exactly where a word or word combination should
be split if it occurs at the end of a line (e.g. "autoformat" should be split into "auto" and "format").
ABBYY FineReader replaces all hyphens found in dictionary words with optional hyphens.
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page layout The arrangement of text, tables, pictures, paragraphs, and columns on a page. The fonts,
font sizes, font colors, text background, and text orientation are also part of the page layout.
paradigm All grammatical forms of a word.
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