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All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 2 ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide Contents Introducing ABBYY FineReader ......................................................................... 5 What is ABBYY FineReader ................................................................................................ 5 What's New in ABBYY FineReader 11 ................................................................................ 5 The ABBYY FineReader 11 Interface................................................................. 6 The Main Window .............................................................................................................. 7 Toolbars ............................................................................................................................ 8 Customizing the ABBYY FineReader Workspace ................................................................. 9 The Options Dialog Box ................................................................................................... 10 Working with ABBYY FineReader .................................................................... 12 ABBYY FineReader Tasks ................................................................................................. 13 Managing Automated Tasks ............................................................................................. 20 ABBYY FineReader Step–by–Step .................................................................................... 21 Splitting an ABBYY FineReader Document ....................................................................... 27 Taking Into Account Some of the Features of Your Paper Document ............................... 29 Image Acquisition Tips .................................................................................................... 31 Scanning Tips .................................................................................................................. 33 Taking Photos of Documents ........................................................................................... 36 Checking and Editing the Recognized Text ...................................................................... 49 Working with Complex–Script Languages ........................................................................ 54 Recommended Fonts ....................................................................................................... 54 Saving the Results ........................................................................................................... 57 Advanced Features ............................................................................................ 72 Working in Other Applications ......................................................................................... 72 3 ABBYY FineReader 11 User’s Guide Using Area Templates ...................................................................................................... 73 Recognition with Training ................................................................................................ 73 User Languages and Language Groups ............................................................................ 76 Group Work in a LAN ....................................................................................................... 78 ABBYY Hot Folder ............................................................................................................ 79 Appendix ............................................................................................................ 85 Glossary .......................................................................................................................... 85 Supported Image Formats ............................................................................................... 89 Supported Saving Formats .............................................................................................. 92 Languages and Their Fonts ............................................................................................. 92 Regular Expressions ........................................................................................................ 95 Shortcut Keys .................................................................................................................. 96 How to Buy an ABBYY Product ...................................................................... 102 About ABBYY ................................................................................................................. 102 ABBYY Offices and Technical Support Contacts ............................................................. 103 Activating and Registering ABBYY FineReader ........................................... 105 ABBYY FineReader Activation ........................................................................................ 105 ABBYY FineReader Registration ..................................................................................... 106 Privacy Policy ................................................................................................................ 107 Technical Support ........................................................................................... 108 4 ABBYY FineReader 11 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 formatting, hyperlinks, e–mail addresses, headers and footers, image and table captions, page numbers, and footnotes. • ABBYY FineReader can recognize documents written in one or several of 189 languages, including Arabic, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Hebrew. ABBYY FineReader also features auto–detection of document languages. • What's more, ABBYY FineReader