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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 User’s Guide
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Set the following parameters in the Primary Form dialog:
1. Part of speech (Noun, Adjective, Verb, Uninflected).
2. If the word is to always begin with a capital letter, select the Proper name item.
If you add an abbreviation, select the Abbreviation item.
3. The primary form of the word.
Click OK. The Create Paradigm dialog will open. ABBYY FineReader will ask you questions about the word forms in order to be able
to construct the paradigm of the word you wish to add. Click Ye s or No to answer these questions. If you make a mistake, click the a
New button to have ABBYY FineReader ask the question again. The constructed paradigm will be displayed in the Paradigm dialog.
Note:
1. If you do not wish paradigms to be created for the words you add, and want them to be entered uninflected
instead, select the Skip prompting for word forms option (English dictionary only) on the Check Spelling
tab (Tools>Options menu).
2. You may also add words when you view the list of added words. To do this, select the View Dictionaries item in
the Too ls menu. The Select Dictionary dialog will open. Select the language of your choice in the Select
Language dialog and click View. The dictionary with the list of the added words will open. Add words by clicking
on the Add button.
3. Paradigms can only be constructed for words added in the following languages: English, Italian, French, German
(Old and New spelling), Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
If the word you wish to add is already present in the dictionary, a notice to this effect will be issued. You may then wish to view its
paradigm. If you think the existing paradigm is incorrect (this is often the case with homonymous words, for example), construct
another one (click the Add button in the Add Word dialog).
Tip:
1. ABBYY FineReader allows you to import user dictionaries created by previous versions (5.0, 6.0 and 7.0).
2. ABBYY FineReader also allows you to import user dictionaries (*.dic) created using Microsoft Word 6.0, 7.0, 97,
2000 or later.
To import a dictionary:
1. Select the View Dictionaries item in the Tools menu, then select the dictionary language, and click the View
button.
2. Click the Import button in the opened dialog and select files with *.pmd, *.txt or *.dic extensions.
To delete a word from the dictionary:
1. Select the View Dictionaries item in the Tools menu. Select the language of your choice and click the OK
button. A dialog will open.
2. Select the word you wish to delete and click the Delete button.
Editing Text in ABBYY FineReader
Note: If the ABBYY FineReader Text window does not display characters correctly (i.e. "?" or "?" can be seen in place of some or all of
the letters), this means that your current font does not support your recognition language alphabet in full. Select a font that supports
your entire recognition set (for example, Arial Unicode or Bitstream Cyberbit) on the Save tab (Tools>Options menu) in the Fonts
group, and recognize the document again. See “Fonts for Recognition Languages that may be Displayed in Text Editor Incorrectly”.
After a page is recognized, its text is displayed in the Te xt window. When you send your text to an external application, the text layout
is retained according to the layout retention options chosen. Set these options on the Save tab (Tools>Options menu) and in the
dialogs of the respective formats.
Uncertainly recognized characters are highlighted. To cancel this feature, unselect the Highlight uncertain characters item on the
View tab (Tools>Options menu).
ABBYY FineReader editor features two document viewing modes: full mode (the full layout is displayed) and draft mode.
In full mode blocks with recognized text, tables and pictures are displayed exactly as they are to be found on the original image. The
complete original layout, therefore, is retained: columns, tables, pictures, and dropped capitals (oversized letters that take up several
lines of space in a paragraph). The block in which the pointer is currently located is the active block. If the pointer is moved using the
arrow keys, the order of navigation between blocks is determined by their numbering on the original image. If the amount of text
inside a particular block becomes too large for the block concerned (e.g. following editing), parts of other inactive blocks may become
invisible. If this is the case, the borders of the block(s) concerned will be displayed with red markers. When a block is active, its borders
are enlarged so as to display the entire block text.
The following text features are not displayed in draft mode: left indent; paragraph alignment (all paragraphs are aligned to the left);
text and background color. A same–size font (12pt by default) is used throughout to display text in draft mode. Effects (bold, italic,
underlined, superscript and subscript) are all retained.
Switch between draft and full modes by clicking the
(full mode) or (draft mode) buttons in the Text window.