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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 User’s Guide
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Note: Once you have completed recognition of typewritten texts or dot matrix printouts, remember to re–enable the Autodetect
item to recognize normal texts once again.
Other Recognition Options
Recognition mode
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 allows you to choose speed or quality during the recognition process. Two recognition modes are available:
● Thorough
In this mode, ABBYY FineReader will analyze and recognize both simple documents and documents with complex
layouts, in particular documents with text on a color or raster background and documents with complex tables
(including tables with white grid lines and tables with color cells).
Note: As compared to the Fast mode, the Thorough mode consumes more time but ensures better recognition
quality.
● Fast
This mode is recommended for processing large amounts of documents with simple layouts and good image
quality.
You can set up the recognition mode on the the Read tab in the Options dialog (menu Tools>Options).
PDF recognition
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 extracts text data from PDF files and uses these data for recognizing PDF documents. Text data extraction
speeds up the recognition process up to 2 – 3 times. However, PDF files may have non–standard encoding. In this case text content
can only be recovered with OCR. If you are not satisfied with the recognition quality of a PDF document:
● On the Read tab in the Options dialog (menu Tools>Options), select the Recognize PDF files as images
option in the PDF recognition group and re–read the document.
Barcode recognition
If you want ABBYY FineReader to recognize barcodes on your documents automatically, make sure that the Look for barcode option
is selected in the Read group of the Legacy Options dialog. ABBYY FineReader will create separate barcode type blocks for them;
barcodes will be displayed as a series of letters and numbers in the recognized text. The full list of the barcode types supported by
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 see in “Block Types”.
Note: To open the Legacy Options dialog, click the Legacy Options button on the General tab in the Options dialog
(Tools>Options).
Show image during recognition
When processing large numbers of pages, recognition is invariably faster if the processed image is not displayed on–screen. To run
recognition without displaying the image:
● Clear the Show image during recognition item in the Legacy Options dialog (to open the Legacy Options
dialog, click the Legacy Options... button on the General tab in the Options dialog).
Text orientation
If the application incorrectly recognizes blocks containing vertical text (a text block or a table cell):
● Right–click on the block with vertical text and select the Properties item in the local menu. The Block
properties dialog will open. Select the relevant item in the Text orientation list in the dialog and re–recognize
the image.
Inverted or flipped block
If the application incorrectly recognizes blocks containing inverted or flipped text (a text block, a table cell, or a whole table):
● Right–click on the block concerned and select the Properties item in the local menu. The Block properties
dialog will open. Select the Inverted or Flipped item in the dialog and re–recognize the image.
Background Recognition
If you wish to edit previously recognized pages and run recognition at the same time, you may find background recognition mode
useful. To start background recognition:
● Select the Start Background Recognition item in the Process menu.
The sign will appear in the status line at the bottom of ABBYY FineReader's main window. If Details view
mode is active in the Batch window (to activate Details view mode, right–click on the Batch window and select
Batch Window>Details in the local menu), the page currently being recognized will have the
icon
displayed in the Opened by column.
When background recognition mode is activated, recognition will resume automatically if an unrecognized page is added to the batch.
Note: Running Background mode in the case of multiprocessor systems leads to an increase in recognition speed if the batch being
processed contains a large number of pages.
To stop Background Recognition:
● Select the Stop Background Recognition item in the Process menu.