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ABBYY Finereader 10 User’S Guide ABBYY® FineReader Version 10 User’s Guide © 2009 ABBYY. All rights reserved. ABBYY FineReader 10 User’s Guide Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not bear any commitment on the part of ABBYY. The software described in this document is supplied under a license agreement. The software may only be used or copied in strict accordance with the terms of the agreement. It is a breach of the "On legal protection of software and databases" law of the Russian Federation and of international law to copy the software onto any medium unless specifically allowed in the license agreement or nondisclosure agreements. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any from or by any means, electronic or other, for any purpose, without the express written permission of ABBYY. © 2009 ABBYY. All rights reserved. ABBYY, the ABBYY logo, ABBYY FineReader, ADRT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. © 1984-2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors. All rights reserved. Adobe® PDF Library is licensed from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe, Acrobat, the Adobe logo, the Acrobat logo, the Adobe PDF logo and Adobe PDF Library are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. © 1996-2007 LizardTech, Inc. All rights reserved. DjVu is protected by U.S. Patent No. 6.058.214. Foreign Patents Pending. Fonts Newton, Pragmatica, Courier © 2001 ParaType, Inc. Font OCR-v-GOST © 2003 ParaType, Inc. © 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Windows Vista, Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. © 1991-2008 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. 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JasPer License Version 2.0: © 2001-2006 Michael David Adams © 1999-2000 Image Power, Inc. © 1999-2000 The University of British Columbia All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 2 ABBYY FineReader 10 User’s Guide Contents Introducing ABBYY FineReader .................................................................................................4 What is ABBYY FineReader ..................................................................................................................................4 What's New in ABBYY FineReader .......................................................................................................................4 The ABBYY FineReader 10 Interface..........................................................................................6 The Main Window ..................................................................................................................................................6 Toolbars...................................................................................................................................................................7 Customizing the ABBYY FineReader Workspace..................................................................................................7 The Options Dialog Box .........................................................................................................................................8 Working With ABBYY FineReader...........................................................................................10 ABBYY FineReader Quick Tasks.........................................................................................................................10 ABBYY FineReader Step–by–Step ......................................................................................................................13 ABBYY FineReader Document............................................................................................................................15 Taking Into Account Some of the Features of Your Paper Document..................................................................17 Image Acquisition Tips .........................................................................................................................................19 Tips for Improving OCR Quality ..........................................................................................................................26 Checking and Editing the Recognized Text ..........................................................................................................31 Working with Complex–Script Languages ...........................................................................................................34 Saving the Results .................................................................................................................................................36 Advanced Features.......................................................................................................................45 Working in Other Applications .............................................................................................................................45 Using Area Templates...........................................................................................................................................45 Recognition With Training....................................................................................................................................46 User Languages and Language Groups.................................................................................................................48 Group Work in a LAN ..........................................................................................................................................49 ABBYY FineReader Automated Task Management ............................................................................................50 ABBYY Hot Folder ..............................................................................................................................................53 Appendix .......................................................................................................................................58 Glossary.................................................................................................................................................................58 Supported Image Formats .....................................................................................................................................59 Supported Saving Formats ....................................................................................................................................61 Languages and Their Fonts ...................................................................................................................................62 Regular Expressions..............................................................................................................................................64 Shortcuts................................................................................................................................................................65 Using ABBYY FineReader Help ..........................................................................................................................68 How to Buy an ABBYY Product.................................................................................................71 About ABBYY......................................................................................................................................................71 ABBYY Offices and Technical Support Contacts ................................................................................................72 Activating and Registering ABBYY FineReader......................................................................73 ABBYY FineReader Activation............................................................................................................................73 ABBYY FineReader Registration .........................................................................................................................73 Privacy Policy .......................................................................................................................................................74 Technical Support ........................................................................................................................75 3 ABBYY FineReader 10 User’s Guide Introducing ABBYY FineReader This chapter provides an overview of ABBYY FineReader and its features. Chapter contents: ● What Is ABBYY FineReader ● What's New in ABBYY FineReader What is ABBYY FineReader ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) system. It is used to convert scanned documents, PDF documents, and image files, including digital photos, into editable formats. ABBYY FineReader advantages Fast and accurate recognition ● The OCR system used in ABBYY FineReader lets users quickly and accurately recognize and retain the source formatting of any document (including text on background images, colored text on colored backgrounds, text wrapped around an image, etc.). ● Thanks to ABBYY's adaptive document recognition technology (ADRT®), ABBYY FineReader can analyze and process a document as a whole, instead of page by page. This approach retains the source document's structure, including formating, hyperlinks, e–mail addresses, headers and footers, image and table captions, page numbers, and footnotes. ● ABBYY FineReader
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