9.0

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 User’s Guide
To create an area template:
1. Open an image and either let the program analyze the layout automatically or draw the desired areas manually.
2. From the Areas menu, select the Save Area Template… command. In the saving dialog box, provide a name for your template
and click Save.
Important! To be able to use an area template, you must scan all the documents in the set using the same resolution value.
Applying an area template:
1. In the Document window, select the pages you wish to apply an area template to.
2. From the Areas menu, select the Load Area Template…
3. In the Open Area Template dialog box, select the desired area template (area template files have the *.blk extension).
4. In the same dialog box, next to Apply to, select Selected pages to apply the template to the selected pages.
Note: Select All pages to apply the template to all the pages in the current ABBYY FineReader document.
5. Click the Open button.
User Languages and Language Groups
You can create and use your own recognition languages and language groups in addition to the predefined languages and groups
included with the program.
● Creating an OCR Language
● Creating a Language Group
Creating an OCR Language
When performing OCR on a document, ABBYY FineReader uses some information about the language of the document (this language
should be selected from the Document Languages drop–down list in the Document window). If there are too many unusual
abbreviations or words in the text, the program may fail to recognize them correctly. If this is the case, you may wish to create your
own recognition language for this document.
1. From the Tools menu, select Language Editor….
2. In the Language Editor dialog box, click New….
3. In the New Language or Group dialog box, select Create a new language based on an existing one and from the drop–
down list below, select the desired language. Click OK.
4. In the Language Properties dialog box, specify the properties of the new OCR language.
● Language name  Type a name for your OCR language in this field.
● Source language  The language on which your new OCR language will be based. (Displays the language you selected in the
New Language or Group dialog box. Click the arrow to the right to select a different language.)
● Alphabet  Lists the characters of the alphabet of the source language. Click
to add or remove characters.
● Dictionary  The dictionary that ABBYY FineReader will use to perform OCR on your document and to check the recognized
text. The following options are available:
● None
No dictionary will be used.
● Builtin dictionary
The dictionary supplied with ABBYY FineReader will be used.
● User dictionary
A user dictionary will be used. Click the Edit… button to add words to the dictionary or to import an existing user
dictionary or text file in Windows (ANSI) or Unicode encoding. The words in the text file you wish to import must be
separated by spaces or other nonalphabetic characters.
Note: The words from the user dictionary may occur in the recognized text in the following capitalizations: 1) lowercase
only, 2) uppercase only, 3) first letter capitalized, 4) as spelt in the user dictionary. The four possibilities are summed up in
the table below.
Word as spelt in the user
dictionary
Possible occurrences of the word
in the text
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