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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 User’s Guide
ABBYY FineReader Document: General
At launch, ABBYY FineReader creates a new document automatically. You can either continue working with this document or open
another document. All the pages of a document are displayed in the Document window.
To view a page, click its thumbnail in the Document window or double–click its number. The image of the page will be displayed in
the Image window and the recognized text will be displayed in the Text window.
You can change the appearance of the Document window.
To customize the Document window, do one of the following:
● Click
on the toolbar at the bottom of the Document window and from the menu, select either Thumbnails or Details.
Note: Select Customize… for more customization options.
● Select Tools>Options…, click the View tab, and then select either Thumbnail or Details under Document window.
● Right–click anywhere in the Document window and select Document Window View>Thumbnails or Document Window
View>Details from the shortcut menu.
Working with ABBYY FineReader Documents
When working with an ABBYY FineReader document, you can do the following:
● Create a new document
● From the File menu, select New FineReader Document, or
● On the toolbar at the bottom of the Document window, click the New FineReader Document button (
)
● Delete a page from the current document
● In the Document window, select the page you wish to delete and then select Delete Page from Document from the Page
menu, or
● In the Document window, rightclick the page you wish to delete and then select Delete Page from Document from the
shortcut menu
To select several pages, hold down the CTRL key and click each of the desired pages in turn.
● Open a document
At launch, ABBYY FineReader automatically creates a new document.
Note: If you wish ABBYY FineReader to open the last document on which you were working in the previous session, select
Tools>Options…, click the Advanced tab, and then select Open the last used FineReader document at startup.
To open a document:
1. From the File menu, select the Open FineReader Document…
2. In the Open Document dialog box, select the desired document.
Note: You can also open an ABBYY FineReader document directly from Windows Explorer by right–clicking the desired
document folder (document folders are displayed as
) and selecting Open with ABBYY FineReader from the shortcut
menu. A new instance of ABBYY FineReader will be launched for the selected document.
● Add images to the current document
● From the File menu, select Open PDF File/Image…
● In the Open Image dialog box, select the desired images and click Open. The selected images will be added to the document
and their copies saved in the document folder.
Note: You can also add images directly from Windows Explorer:
● In Windows Explorer, select the desired image files, rightclick the selection, and select Open with ABBYY FineReader from
the shortcut menu.
If ABBYY FineReader is running, the selected files will be added to the current document. Otherwise, ABBYY FineReader will be
launched and the selected files will be added to a new document.
● Save the current document
1. From the File menu, select Save FineReader Document…
2. In the Save Document dialog box, type in a name for your document and specify a storage location.
Note: Saving an ABBYY FineReader document will save the page images, the recognized text, the trained patterns, and the
user languages (if any).
● Close the current document
● To close a page of the current document, select the page and then select Close Current Page from the Document menu.
● To close the entire document, select Close FineReader Document from the File menu.
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