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Copyrights 262 2 ABBYY® FineReader 14 User’s Guide Contents Introducing ABBYY FineReader ..................................................................................... 8 About ABBYY FineReader ........................................................................................... 9 What's New in ABBYY FineReader .............................................................................. 11 The New Task window ................................................................................................ 13 Viewing and editing PDFs ........................................................................................... 15 Quick conversion ..................................................................................................... 17 Creating PDF documents .................................................................................... 20 Creating Microsoft Word documents ..................................................................... 22 Creating Microsoft Excel spreasheets .................................................................... 24 Other formats ................................................................................................. 26 Advanced conversion ............................................................................................... 26 Comparing documents ............................................................................................. 30 Scanning and saving documents ................................................................................. 33 Scanning to the OCR Editor ................................................................................. 36 Scanning to PDF ............................................................................................... 38 Scanning to Microsoft Word ................................................................................ 40 Scanning to Microsoft Excel ................................................................................ 42 Scanning to image files ...................................................................................... 44 Scanning to other formats .................................................................................. 46 PDF Editor ................................................................................................................. 47 Viewing PDF documents ............................................................................................ 48 Viewing modes ................................................................................................. 49 Navigating PDF documents ................................................................................. 52 Background recognition ...................................................................................... 54 Keyword search ............................................................................................... 55 Copying content from PDF documents .................................................................. 57 PDF security features ........................................................................................ 58 Reviewing PDF documents ........................................................................................ 59 Comments ...................................................................................................... 59 Marking up text ............................................................................................... 60 Drawing shapes ............................................................................................... 62 Adding text to a PDF document ........................................................................... 64 Collaborating on PDF documents .......................................................................... 65 Adding stamps ................................................................................................. 69 Working with PDF content ......................................................................................... 71 Editing text ..................................................................................................... 72 Inserting and editing pictures .............................................................................. 74 Recognizing text ............................................................................................... 75 Working with pages ........................................................................................... 76 3 ABBYY® FineReader 14 User’s Guide Contents Adding bookmarks ............................................................................................ 79 Adding Bates numbers ...................................................................................... 81 Adding file attachments ..................................................................................... 83 Viewing metadata ............................................................................................. 84 Enhancing page images ..................................................................................... 85 Filling out forms ...................................................................................................... 86 Signing PDF documents ............................................................................................ 87 Digital signature ................................................................................................ 88 Text signature ................................................................................................. 89 Picture signature .............................................................................................. 90 Protecting PDF documents with passwords .................................................................... 90 Passwords and permissions ................................................................................ 91 Deleting confidential information from PDF documents .............................................. 92 Creating PDF documents .......................................................................................... 93 Creating PDF documents from selected pages ........................................................ 93 Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents ...................................................... 93 Saving and exporting PDF documents .......................................................................... 94 Saving PDF documents ...................................................................................... 94 Saving in PDF/A ............................................................................................... 95 Saving in other formats ..................................................................................... 96 Reducing the size of your PDF documents ............................................................. 97 Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor ............................................................ 98 E-mailing PDF documents ................................................................................... 98 Printing PDF documents ..................................................................................... 99 OCR Editor ............................................................................................................... 100 Launching the OCR Editor ........................................................................................ 100 OCR Editor interface ............................................................................................... 101 Obtaining documents .............................................................................................. 105 Opening images and PDFs ................................................................................ 105 Scanning paper documents ............................................................................... 106 Recognizing documents ........................................................................................... 107 OCR projects ................................................................................................. 108 Group work with OCR projects ........................................................................... 113 Improving OCR results ............................................................................................ 114 If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low ................................. 115 If areas are detected incorrectly ........................................................................ 118 Editing area properties ................................................................................. 121 If the complex structure