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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 User’s Guide
Note: The author of a PDF file may choose to restrict access to it. For example, the author may create a password or restrict certain
features, such as the ability to extract text and graphics. To adhere to copyright guidelines, ABBYY FineReader will ask you for a
password to open such files.
Photographing Documents with a Digital Camera
ABBYY FineReader can perform OCR on images created with a digital camera.
1. Take a picture of your document.
Note: For the OCR process to be successful, good quality photos are required.
2. Save the photo to your hard disk.
3. In ABBYY FineReader, click the Open button or select Open PDF File/Image… from the File menu.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
ABBYY FineReader uses Optical Character Recognition technologies to convert document images into editable text. Before performing
OCR, the program analyzes the image and detects areas that contain text, pictures, tables, and barcodes.
When you add new pages to an ABBYY FineReader document, the program automatically performs OCR on the new content using the
current document settings.
Tip: You can turn off automatic analysis and OCR of newly added images from the 1. Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog box
(Tools>Options…).
For best OCR quality, select the optimal OCR options: recognition languages, print type, and reading mode.
Launch the OCR process manually if you have drawn areas on the image manually or if you have changed any of the following options
in the Options dialog box (Tools>Options…):
● document languages on the Document tab
● document print type on the Document tab
● any option on the 2. Read tab
● font matching on the Advanced tab
To launch the OCR process manually:
● Click the Read button in the Image window or
● Select Read Document on the Document menu
Tip: Clicking the Read button launches OCR for the selected image. To perform OCR on all document pages, click the arrow to the
right of the button and select Read Document.
Checking and Editing the Recognized Text
Recognized text is displayed in the Text window with uncertain characters highlighted. You can make corrections either in the Text
window or in the Check Spelling dialog box.
To view an uncertain character:
1. In the Text window, click the desired uncertain character.
ABBYY FineReader will automatically scroll the Image window to that location in the original document. In the Zoom window,
the corresponding fragment will be displayed and the uncertain character identified with a rectangular cursor.
2. Make any necessary changes in the Text window.
This method is particularly convenient when comparing the recognized text with the original document.
ABBYY FineReader provides a built–in spell checker to help correct uncertain characters (Tools>Check Spelling…).
ABBYY FineReader also allows you to adjust the formatting of the recognized text.
Use the buttons on the toolbar at the top of the Text window to perform basic formatting operations. To change the document styles,
right–click anywhere in the Text window and then select Properties from the shortcut menu.
Note: As ABBYY FineReader performs OCR, it automatically detects the styles used throughout the document. All the detected styles
are displayed on the Text Properties panel (to make the panel visible, right–click anywhere in the Text window and then select
Properties from the shortcut menu). Adjustments to the styles are applied to the formatting of the entire text. When saving in RTF,
DOC, WordML, and DOCX formats, ABBYY FineReader preserves all the styles.
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