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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 User’s Guide
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1. Select the Pattern Editor item in the Tool s menu. The Pattern Editor dialog will open.
2. Select the necessary pattern and click the Edit button in the dialog. The User Pattern dialog will open.
3. Select a character and click the Properties button to edit the character caption and set the correct typeface:
italic, bold, subscript or superscript. You may also click the Delete button to remove incorrectly trained
characters from the batch.
User Languages and Language Groups
In addition to the built–in languages and language groups, you may also create a new language or make up a new language group
(from languages supported by ABBYY FineReader) and use it for recognition.
You may want to create a new language if you need:
1. To connect a user dictionary.
● For example, you need to recognize an English text containing many abbreviations. You may create an
abbreviation dictionary, create a new language and connect the dictionary to the language. Then you
may make up a new language group consisting of the English language (with the system dictionary) and
your new language (with the abbreviations dictionary) and use this language group to recognize your
texts.
2. To recognize documents of certain special types, for example:
● supermarket product lists where there are only product codes. Such codes usually contain only numbers
and probably several letters. You may then create a new language consisting of the necessary characters
only and use it for recognizing these documents.
● documents set in capitals only. You may increase the recognition quality if you create a language in
which all lowercase letters are prohibited.
You should create a language group if you use a particular language combination often.
To create a new language or language group, open the Language Editor dialog (Too ls menu, Language Editor item).
How to Create a New Language
To create a new recognition language:
1. Select the Language Editor item in the Tools menu.
2. Click the New button and in the resulting dialog select the Create a Copy of the Language button, then select
your preferred source language.
3. The Simple Language Properties dialog will open.
Set the following language parameters for the new language (all parameters are entered in the Simple Language Properties dialog):
1. The new language name.
2. The basic alphabet to be used by the new language. This parameter is set in the Alphabet field. If necessary, edit
the alphabet by clicking the
button.
3. The dictionary to be used by the application (for both recognition and spelling check purposes). You may choose
one of the following:
● None (no dictionary to be used)
● Built–in (the dictionary supplied with ABBYY FineReader)
● User dictionary
To add words to the dictionary or to use an existing user dictionary or text file in Windows (ANSI) or Unicode encoding (the only
requirement is that words be separated by spaces or other non–alphabetic characters) click the Edit Dictionary button.