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4.2. Creating a project
A project contains all of the necessary document capture settings: document templates, image import
profiles, program settings, and processed documents.
Documents are grouped into batches. The number of batches depends on your processing approach: you
can process all documents in one batch, or you can sort documents into batches according to their date
of import or scanning date.
Documents are processed in work batches. Only work batches are accessible in operator’s mode. Test
batches are used by the administrator to test and adjust templates. The main difference between the two
types of batches is that local templates are used to process documents from test batches while published
templates are used to process documents from work batches.
A document contains images of one or several pages (single-page and multi-page documents) and data
extracted from these pages.
A project can contain several templates, in which case documents of different types will be processed
within a single project. As a result, you will not have to sort the document to be processed because
documents of different types can be captured in a single stream. If, however, document streams do not
intersect, you can create a separate project for them.
To begin with, the administrator must create a project and at least one document template.
To create a project, click Create New… in the Open Project dialog box which appears when you start
the program. Alternatively, select File > New Project… in the program main window. Specify the
folder to which the project is to be stored and enter the project name.
To add batches to the project, right-click in the program main window containing the list of batches
(Figure 2) and from the context menu select New Batch. You can load images without creating a batch,
in which case the program will create a batch automatically.
To view documents added to the batch, double-click the batch name. To return to the list of batches,
select Project > Work Batches List or press Ctrl+B.
Figure 2. ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional main window
Start ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional. To create a project, click Create New… in the Open Project dialog
box, which appears when you start the program. Alternatively, select File > New Project… in the program main
window. Specify the folder to which the project is to be saved and enter the project name. When you click
Create, the new project will open.