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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 User’s Guide
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● Regular expression
You can use a regular expression to create new language.
● Advanced…  Opens the Advanced Language Properties dialog box, where you can specify more advanced properties for
your language:
● nonletter characters that may occur at the beginning or at the end of words
● standalone nonletter characters (punctuation marks, etc.)
● characters to be ignored if they occur inside words
● prohibited characters that may never occur in texts written in this language
● all the characters of the language that will be recognized
5. Once you have finished creating your new language, select it as the recognition language for your document.
By default, user languages are saved in the ABBYY FineReader document folder. To change this folder, select Tools>Options…, click
the Advanced tab, and specify a new folder under User languages folder.
Creating a Language Group
If you are going to use a particular language combination regularly, you may wish to group the languages together for convenience.
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 group of languages and click OK.
4. In the Language Group Properties dialog box, type a name for your new group and select the desired languages.
Note: If you know that your text will not contain certain characters, you may wish to explicitly specify these so–called prohibited
characters. Specifying prohibited characters can increase both recognition speed and quality. To specify prohibited characters, click
the Advanced… button in the Language Group Properties dialog box. In the Advanced Language Group Properties dialog
box, type the prohibited characters in the Prohibited characters field.
5. Click OK.
The newly created group will be added to the Document Languages drop–down list in the Document window.
By default, user language groups are saved in the ABBYY FineReader document folder. To change this folder, select Tools>Options…,
click the Advanced tab, and specify a new folder under User languages folder.
Tip: If you need a particular language combination for a document, you can also select the desired languages directly, without creating
a group for them.
1. From the Document Languages drop–down list, select More languages…
2. In the Language Editor dialog box, select Specify languages manually.
3. Select the desired languages and click OK.
ABBYY FineReader Document
An ABBYY FineReader document contains both source document images and recognized text. Most program settings (e.g. the scanning
and OCR options selected by the user, patterns, languages, and language groups) apply to the entire ABBYY FineReader document.
● ABBYY FineReader Document: General
Provides information on how page images are displayed in the Document window and how to customize the view of the
Document window.
● Working with ABBYY FineReader Documents
Provides information on how to open, delete, and close an ABBYY FineReader document, how to add images to a document, and
how to save a document or document options.
● Renumbering Pages in ABBYY FineReader Documents
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