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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 User’s Guide
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● Click the Ignore button to leave the word unchanged.
● Click the Ignore All button to leave all such words in the text unchanged.
Note. When you click the Ignore or Ignore All button, the "uncertain" flag is removed from the word,
i.e. the system assumes that the word no longer contains any unrecognized or uncertain characters and
no longer needs to be highlighted. As a result, when you export such words in PDF format and select
the Replace uncertain words with images mode, the words for which the "uncertain" flag has been
removed will not be replaced with images.
● Select a replacement suggestion and then click the Replace or Replace All button to replace the
current word or all such words in the text. If no correct suggestion has been made for the word in the
Suggestions window, you can enter one yourself in the middle window. (Important: when you
switch to edit mode, certain buttons may change function and adopt new captions.) Click the Confirm
(Confirm All) button to change the current word (or all such words) in the text and move to the next
uncertainly recognized word.
● Click Add... to add the word to the dictionary. Once a word is added, the application will consider all
subsequent occurrences of this word in any of its word forms to be correct.
● Click Options... to set the spelling check options.
● Click Close to close the dialog window.
Moving between uncertain words
To check the recognition results quickly, you can use the
button and button to move to the next or previous uncertain
word, respectively.
You can also use the F4 (SHIFT F4) hotkey to navigate between uncertain words.
Check and Edit Text Options
These options are set on the Check Spelling tab (Tools>Options menu).
Error display level
Note: This option must be set before you start recognition.
In the Error display level list, you may select the following values:
● None – recognition errors are not highlighted.
● Standard – unrecognized and uncertainly recognized characters are highlighted.
● Thorough – the same as Standard, words not found in the dictionary are highlighted too.
Note: The number of errors displayed in the Tex t window will change after you re–recognize the page.
Stop at words with uncertain characters
If you set this option, the spelling checker will stop at words with uncertain characters.
Stop at words not found in the dictionary
If you set this option, the spelling checker will stop at words not found in the dictionary. If a word is not found in the dictionary, it may
have been recognized incorrectly.
Stop at compound words
If you set this option, the spelling checker will stop at those words not in dictionary which can be either made up according to the
available morphology models or from the words in the dictionary.
Note: This option is set in the Legacy Options dialog. To open this dialog box, click the Legacy Options... button on the General
tab in the Options dialog.
Ignore words with digits and other non–alphabetic characters
If you set this option, the spelling checker will treat all words with digits and other characters not included in recognition language as
correct, unless they contain uncertain characters.
Correct spaces before and after punctuation marks
If you set this option, the spelling checker won't stop if it finds incorrect spaces before or after punctuation marks; it will just correct
the spaces automatically.
Note: This option is set in the Legacy Options dialog. To open this dialog box, click the Legacy Options... button on the General
tab in the Options dialog.
Adding and Deleting Words to/from the User Dictionary
Adding words to the user dictionary
Enlarging the dictionary is a good way of increasing recognition quality. During recognition, ABBYY FineReader checks all words it
comes across for possible dictionary entries. Therefore it makes sense to add new words that are likely to come up frequently (e.g.
specialized terms, abbreviations, names etc.) to the user dictionary.
A distinctive feature of ABBYY FineReader's spelling checker is that a word is not only added to the dictionary in its original form, but
its paradigm (i.e. the set of all its forms) is also added. This feature results in ABBYY FineReader being able to recognize a word in all its
forms once it has been entered.
To add a word to the dictionary during the spelling check:
● Click the Add button in the Check Spelling dialog.