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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
Background recognition
The PDF Editor allows you to search and copy text and pictures in PDF documents without a text layer,
such as scanned documents and documents created from image files. This is possible thanks to an
OCR process that runs in the background.
Background recognition is enabled by default and starts automatically when you open a PDF
document.
The background recognition process does not change the contents of the PDF file. Instead, it adds a
temporary text layer that will not be available when you open the document in other applications.
If you want to make the document searchable in other applications, you will need to save the text
layer created by the background recognition process. To do this, click the button on the toolbar
in the Document tab and select Recognize Document... from the drop-down list. See also:
Recognizing text .
Important! If the search or copy functions don't work properly, check that the right OCR
languages are selected for the document. See also: Document features to consider prior to OCR .
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