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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 User’s Guide
4. Click Change… to change the properties of the step
Click Delete to delete a step from your automated task.
The choice of available steps depends on which steps have been selected earlier. Therefore, not every step can be deleted on its
own. For example, if you add a Read Document step to your automated task, you will not be able to delete the Analyze Layout
step. However, you can use the << Back button to roll back the automated task.
5. Once you have added all the necessary steps to your automated task and selected their properties, click Finish.
Custom Automated Tasks
You can create customized automated tasks. The order of steps in your custom automated tasks should correspond to the document
processing stages in ABBYY FineReader. The steps at which images are acquired, read, and saved are obligatory, while the steps at
which the layout is analyzed or the results are checked are optional.
At each step, select one of the available operations.
1. Acquiring images
This is always the first step in an automated task. At this step, ABBYY FineReader gets images to be processed.
Select one of the ways of getting document images:
● Scan Images
ABBYY FineReader uses the current document settings to scan the images.
● Open Images
Provides the path to the folder where ABBYY FineReader should look for images.
● Open FineReader Document
Specifies the ABBYY FineReader document whose images should be used.
Note:
● If an automated task is programmed to add images to an ABBYY FineReader document which already contains some other
images, ABBYY FineReader will process only the newly added images. If a new document is to be created by the automated
task, all the images contained in this document will be processed.
● If an automated task is programmed to process an ABBYY FineReader document which contains already read images (i.e.
images on which OCR has been performed) and images on which the layout has been analyzed and areas drawn, ABBYY
FineReader will leave the read images as is and perform OCR on the images with drawn areas.
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