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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
Collaborating on PDF documents ......................................................................................................................... 80
Adding stamps ................................................................................................................................................................. 85
Working with PDF content .................................................................................................................................................... 88
Inserting and editing text ........................................................................................................................................... 88
Inserting and editing pictures.................................................................................................................................. 96
Inserting and editing hyperlinks ............................................................................................................................. 97
Recognizing text ............................................................................................................................................................. 99
Working with pages ................................................................................................................................................... 100
Adding bookmarks ..................................................................................................................................................... 114
Adding headers and footers .................................................................................................................................. 116
Adding watermarks .................................................................................................................................................... 119
Adding file attachments .......................................................................................................................................... 120
Viewing metadata ....................................................................................................................................................... 121
Enhancing page images ........................................................................................................................................... 122
Working with interactive PDF forms ............................................................................................................................. 123
Filling out forms ........................................................................................................................................................... 124
Creating forms............................................................................................................................................................... 126
Editing forms.................................................................................................................................................................. 128
Text field ................................................................................................................................................................... 134
Drop-down list ...................................................................................................................................................... 139
Check box ................................................................................................................................................................. 144
Radio button .......................................................................................................................................................... 147
Button......................................................................................................................................................................... 150
Signature field ....................................................................................................................................................... 160
List box ...................................................................................................................................................................... 163
Signing PDF documents ...................................................................................................................................................... 167
Digital signature ........................................................................................................................................................... 168
Time Stamp Server Settings ........................................................................................................................... 169
Text signature ................................................................................................................................................................ 170
Picture signature ........................................................................................................................................................... 171
Protecting PDF documents with passwords ............................................................................................................. 171
Passwords and permissions .................................................................................................................................... 172
Deleting confidential information from PDF documents...................................................................... 173
Creating PDF documents .................................................................................................................................................... 174
Creating PDF documents from selected pages ........................................................................................... 174
Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents ....................................................................................... 174
Saving and exporting PDF documents ........................................................................................................................ 175
Saving PDF documents ............................................................................................................................................. 176
Saving in PDF/A ............................................................................................................................................................ 177
Saving in other formats ............................................................................................................................................ 179