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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
Recognizing text
Background recognition is a process that adds a temporary text layer to a document, enabling you
to mark up, copy, and search its text. You can make these capabilities available to other users by
adding a permanent text layer to PDF documents. Documents with text layers are practically
indistinguishable from their originals. You can also replace an existing text layer in a searchable PDF
document.
1. On the toolbar in the Document tab, click the button and select Recognize
Document... from the drop-down list. Alternatively, select Document > Recognize
Document > Recognize Document... in the main menu or use the CTRL+SHIFT+R hotkey.
2. In the dialog box that opens, specify the appropriate OCR languages. See also: Document
features to consider prior to OCR .
3. To improve the quality of OCR, enable image processing. Image processing may change the
appearance of your document.
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Correct page orientation - The program will detect text orientation and correct if
necessary.
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Deskew images and correct image resolution - The program will detect and correct
any skew, select the appropriate image resolution, and make some other changes to
improve the images.
4. Click the Recognize button.
5. As a result, the output document will contain a searchable text layer.
You can also add a text layer when adding pages to a PDF document from a file or when scanning
paper documents. To do this, select the Recognize text on images option in the Image Processing
Settings dialog box ( navigate to the Organize Pages tab, click the button on the
toolbar and select Image Processing Settings) and specify the languages of the document. See also:
Working with pages .
If you want to check recognized text, train the program to recognize non-standard fonts and
characters, or use some other advanced features of ABBYY FineReader, on the toolbar in the
Document tab, click the button and select Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor from the drop-
down list. Alternatively, select Document in the main menu and click Recognize Document >
Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor. See also: Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor .
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