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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 User’s Guide
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Step 2. Read All Images
Here you need to select recognition options.
Options available at step 2
1. In the Recognition language drop–down list, select the language of the texts on the images.
Note: You can select more than one recognition language.
2. Under Recognition mode, select:
● Thorough (in this mode, ABBYY FineReader will read even poor quality images), or
● Fast (this mode is only recommended for images with good quality and simple layouts).
3. Under PDF Recognition, select:
● Extract text from PDF (in this mode, ABBYY FineReader will extract text data from PDF files and use
it for recognition), or
● Recognize PDF files as images (this option is useful for PDF files with non–standard encoding. In
this case text content can only be recovered with OCR).
4. In the Hyperlinks group:
● Select the Highlight hyperlinks option if you wish ABBYY FineReader to highlight hyperlinks found
in the recognized text with the color selected in the Color field. To select or change the color, click the
Color button to the right of the option and select the color in the dialog that appears.
5. Under Training, select if you wish to user patterns to be used.
● Do not use user patterns. This option is selected by default.
● Select Use user patterns if you wish ABBYY FineReader to use user patterns for OCR. For details, see .
6. Under Use block template, provide the path to a block template if you wish ABBYY FineReader to use a block
template when analyzing the layout of the images.
Step 3. Save Document
Here you need to select a folder where the resulting documents will be stored and select a file format for the documents.
Options available at step 3
1. Under Specify output folder, provide the path to the folder where the recognition results are to be stored.
2. Under Saving options:
● In the Save as type drop–down list, select the file format in which you wish to save the results. Click
the Format Settings button to the right to select additional options for the format.
3. If you have selected the Check once at start time mode at Step 1, select the following options in the Specify
output file(s) group:
● File options
Create a separate file for each page saves each page into a separate file;
Name files as source images saves each page into a separate file with the same name as that of the
original image;
Create a new file at each blank page treats the whole batch as a set of page groups, each group
ending with a blank page. The pages from different groups are saved into different files with names that
are formed from a user–specified name with an index appended: –1, –2, –3 and so on;
Create a single file for all pages saves all pages to a single file.
● In the Name field, provide a name for the file to which recognized text will be saved.
Note: If you have selected the Continually watch folder for incoming images mode, the Specify output
file(s) group indicates that output files with recognized text will be named as source images as the file
and naming options are not available in this mode.
4. Check the Save batch option if you wish to save the ABBYY FineReader batch. Click Browse... to select a folder
where the batch is to be stored.
Note: The Save batch option is not available for the Continually watch folder for incoming images mode (see Step 1).
Tip. You can add several saving steps to save recognition results in multiple formats. In the Save as type drop–down list, click (Select
multiple formats) and in the dialog that opens select the formats in which you wish to save recognition results.
Hot Folder Log File
Images in a hot folder are processed automatically and the entire process is logged.
The log file contains the following information:
● The name of the task and its settings
● Errors and warnings (if any)
● Statistics (number of processed pages, number of errors and warnings, number of uncertainly recognized
characters)