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Introducing ABBYY FineReader .............................................................................................................. 9
About ABBYY FineReader ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
What's New in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 ................................................................................................................... 12
The New Task window ........................................................................................................................... 15
Viewing and editing PDFs ..................................................................................................................................................... 17
Quick conversion ........................................................................................................................................................................ 19
Creating PDF documents ............................................................................................................................................ 22
Creating Microsoft Word documents .................................................................................................................. 24
Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets .............................................................................................................. 26
Other formats ................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Advanced conversion .............................................................................................................................................................. 29
Comparing documents ........................................................................................................................................................... 32
Mobile application documents .......................................................................................................................................... 35
Scanning and saving documents ....................................................................................................................................... 37
Scanning to the OCR Editor ...................................................................................................................................... 40
Scanning to PDF .............................................................................................................................................................. 42
Scanning to Microsoft Word .................................................................................................................................... 44
Scanning to Microsoft Excel ..................................................................................................................................... 46
Scanning to image files .............................................................................................................................................. 48
Scanning to other formats ......................................................................................................................................... 50
PDF Editor ................................................................................................................................................ 51
Viewing PDF documents ........................................................................................................................................................ 52
Viewing modes ................................................................................................................................................................ 53
Navigating PDF documents ...................................................................................................................................... 56
Background recognition ............................................................................................................................................. 58
PDF security features .................................................................................................................................................... 59
Searching PDF documents .................................................................................................................................................... 59
Keyword search ............................................................................................................................................................... 60
Search and replace ........................................................................................................................................................ 62
Search and redact .......................................................................................................................................................... 64
Copying data from PDF documents ................................................................................................................................ 66
Copying an area as an image .................................................................................................................................. 67
Copying an area as text .............................................................................................................................................. 68
Copying an area as a table ....................................................................................................................................... 70
Reviewing PDF documents ................................................................................................................................................... 72
Comments .......................................................................................................................................................................... 73
Marking up text ............................................................................................................................................................... 73
Drawing shapes ............................................................................................................................................................... 76
Adding a Text block annotation to a PDF document ................................................................................. 793

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Collaborating on PDF documents ......................................................................................................................... 80
Adding stamps ................................................................................................................................................................. 85
Working with PDF content .................................................................................................................................................... 88
Inserting and editing text ........................................................................................................................................... 89
Inserting and editing pictures .................................................................................................................................. 97
Inserting and editing hyperlinks ............................................................................................................................. 98
Recognizing text .......................................................................................................................................................... 100
Working with pages ................................................................................................................................................... 101
Adding bookmarks ..................................................................................................................................................... 105
Adding headers and footers .................................................................................................................................. 107
Adding watermarks .................................................................................................................................................... 110
Adding file attachments .......................................................................................................................................... 111
Viewing metadata ....................................................................................................................................................... 112
Enhancing page images ........................................................................................................................................... 113
Working with interactive PDF forms ............................................................................................................................. 114
Filling out forms ........................................................................................................................................................... 115
Creating forms ............................................................................................................................................................... 117
Editing forms .................................................................................................................................................................. 119
Text field ................................................................................................................................................................... 125
Drop-down list ...................................................................................................................................................... 130
Check box ................................................................................................................................................................. 135
Radio button .......................................................................................................................................................... 138
Button ......................................................................................................................................................................... 141
Signature field ....................................................................................................................................................... 151
List box ...................................................................................................................................................................... 154
Signing PDF documents ...................................................................................................................................................... 158
Digital signature ........................................................................................................................................................... 159
Time Stamp Server Settings ........................................................................................................................... 160
Text signature ................................................................................................................................................................ 161
Picture signature ........................................................................................................................................................... 162
Protecting PDF documents with passwords ............................................................................................................. 162
Passwords and permissions .................................................................................................................................... 163
Deleting confidential information from PDF documents ...................................................................... 164
Creating PDF documents .................................................................................................................................................... 165
Creating PDF documents from selected pages ........................................................................................... 165
Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents ....................................................................................... 165
Saving and exporting PDF documents ........................................................................................................................ 166
Saving PDF documents ............................................................................................................................................. 167
Saving in PDF/A ............................................................................................................................................................ 168
Saving in other formats ............................................................................................................................................ 170
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Reducing the size of your PDF documents .................................................................................................... 171
Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor .................................................................................................. 172
E-mailing PDF documents ...................................................................................................................................... 172
Printing PDF documents ........................................................................................................................................... 173
Splitting PDF documents .................................................................................................................................................... 173
Splitting by file size .................................................................................................................................................... 174
Splitting by page count ............................................................................................................................................ 175
Splitting by bookmarks ............................................................................................................................................ 176
OCR Editor ............................................................................................................................................. 177
Launching the OCR Editor .................................................................................................................................................. 177
OCR Editor interface .............................................................................................................................................................. 178
Obtaining documents ........................................................................................................................................................... 182
Opening images and PDFs ..................................................................................................................................... 183
Scanning paper documents ................................................................................................................................... 184
Recognizing documents ...................................................................................................................................................... 185
OCR proj ects ................................................................................................................................................................... 186
Group work with OCR proj ects ............................................................................................................................. 191
Improving OCR results .......................................................................................................................................................... 192
If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low ......................................................... 193
If areas are detected incorrectly .......................................................................................................................... 196
Editing area properties ..................................................................................................................................... 200
If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced ................................................... 201
If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts ............................... 202
If tables and pictures are not detected ........................................................................................................... 203
If a barcode is not detected .................................................................................................................................. 206
If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?" or "□" .............................. 207
If your printed document contains non-standard fonts ......................................................................... 208
If your document contains many specialized terms ................................................................................. 211
If the program fails to recognize certain characters ................................................................................ 212
If vertical or inverted text was not recognized ............................................................................................ 214
Checking and editing texts ................................................................................................................................................ 215
Checking recognized text ........................................................................................................................................ 216
Using styles ...................................................................................................................................................................... 219
Editing hyperlinks ........................................................................................................................................................ 220
Editing tables ................................................................................................................................................................. 221
Removing confidential information .................................................................................................................. 221
Copying content from documents ................................................................................................................................. 222
Saving OCR results .................................................................................................................................................................. 223
Saving in PDF ................................................................................................................................................................. 225
Saving editable documents ................................................................................................................................... 226
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Saving tables .................................................................................................................................................................. 228
Saving e-books ............................................................................................................................................................. 229
Saving in HTML ............................................................................................................................................................. 230
Saving images ............................................................................................................................................................... 231
Sending OCR results to the PDF Editor ............................................................................................................ 232
E-mailing OCR results ................................................................................................................................................ 233
Sending OCR results to Kindle .............................................................................................................................. 234
Integration with other applications ................................................................................................... 235
Integration with Windows Explorer .............................................................................................................................. 236
Integration with Microsoft Office ................................................................................................................................... 239
Integration with Microsoft Word ........................................................................................................................ 240
Creating a PDF document using a Word document ......................................................................... 241
Creating a Word document using image files ..................................................................................... 243
Comparing Word documents ....................................................................................................................... 243
Integration with Microsoft Excel ......................................................................................................................... 244
Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint ............................................................................................................ 246
Integration with Microsoft Outlook ................................................................................................................... 248
Integration with Microsoft SharePoint ........................................................................................................................ 250
Integration with the mobile application .................................................................................................................... 250
Cloud storage ............................................................................................................................................................................ 256
Automating and scheduling OCR ....................................................................................................... 257
Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader ........................................................................... 258
ABBYY Hot Folder ................................................................................................................................................................... 261
ABBYY Compare Documents .............................................................................................................. 266
Launching ABBYY Compare Documents .................................................................................................................... 267
Comparing documents ........................................................................................................................................................ 268
The main window .................................................................................................................................................................... 270
Improving comparison results ......................................................................................................................................... 271
Viewing comparison results .............................................................................................................................................. 273
Saving comparison results ................................................................................................................................................. 275
ABBYY Screenshot Reader .................................................................................................................. 276
Reference .............................................................................................................................................. 280
How to set ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 as your default PDF viewer ............................................................ 281
Types of PDF documents .................................................................................................................................................... 283
Scanning tips ............................................................................................................................................................................. 286
Taking photos of documents ............................................................................................................................................ 289
Options dialog box ................................................................................................................................................................ 292
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Format settings ......................................................................................................................................................................... 295
PDF settings .................................................................................................................................................................... 296
DOC(X)/RTF/ODT settings ...................................................................................................................................... 300
XLS(X) settings ............................................................................................................................................................... 303
PPTX settings .................................................................................................................................................................. 304
CSV settings .................................................................................................................................................................... 304
TXT settings ..................................................................................................................................................................... 305
HTML settings ................................................................................................................................................................ 306
EPUB/FB2 settings ....................................................................................................................................................... 307
Dj Vu settings .................................................................................................................................................................. 308
Supported OCR and document comparison languages .................................................................................... 310
Supported document formats ......................................................................................................................................... 317
Document features to consider prior to OCR .......................................................................................................... 320
Image processing options .................................................................................................................................................. 323
OCR options ............................................................................................................................................................................... 326
Working with complex-script languages ................................................................................................................... 329
Recognition of text written using a Gothic script .................................................................................................. 332
Supported interface languages ....................................................................................................................................... 335
Current date and time on stamps and in headers and footers ...................................................................... 336
Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages .................................................. 339
Regular expressions ............................................................................................................................................................... 341
Using the command line ..................................................................................................................................................... 343
Command line parameters for converting documents ........................................................................... 343
Command line parameters for comparing documents .......................................................................... 345
Saving the results via the command line ........................................................................................................ 348
LangName parameter values for the command line ............................................................................... 351
Installing, activating, and registering ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 ................................................. 359
System requirements ............................................................................................................................................................. 360
Installing and starting ABBYY FineReader ................................................................................................................. 361
Activating ABBYY FineReader .......................................................................................................................................... 362
Registering ABBYY FineReader ........................................................................................................................................ 364
Data privacy ............................................................................................................................................................................... 364
Appendix ............................................................................................................................................... 365
Glossary ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 366
Keyboard shortcuts ................................................................................................................................................................ 372
Technical support ................................................................................................................................. 383
Third-party software ........................................................................................................................... 383

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Introducing ABBYY FineReader
This chapter provides an overview of ABBYY FineReader and its features.
Chapter contents· About ABBYY FineReader 10· What's New in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 12

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About ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 is a universal PDF tool for managing documents in the digital workplace.
Powered by ABBYY’s AI-based OCR and document-conversion technologies, FineReader unlocks theinformation contained within a document to increase business productivity. FineReader makes it easy
and efficient to digitize, retrieve, edit, convert, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of PDF andpaper documents in the modern working world.
What you can do with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15:· Work with any type of PDF, including scanned documentso Edit text 89 (even whole paragraphs, also within table cells), hyperlinks 98 , and pictures 97
throughout a document.
o Search by keywords 60 in the text, comments, bookmarks, and metadata within adocument.
o Rearrange, add, delete 101 and enhance (rotate, crop, deskew) 113 pages in PDFs.
o Copy text, tables, and pictures 66 from PDFs, scans, or photos in a few clicks.
o Export PDFs into Microsoft Word, Excel, or another editable format 166 .
o Add comments and annotations 72 to documents.
o Add watermarks 110 , headers and footers, bates numbering, 107 and stamps 85 to PDFs.
o Apply and verify digital signatures 159 .
o Protect PDFs 163 with passwords and encryption.
o Remove sensitive information 164 from documents through redaction.
o Create / combine PDF documents 167 , including industry standards PDF/A for long-termarchiving 168 and PDF/UA for accessibility.
o Fill out PDF forms 115 .
o View 52 and print 173 PDFs.
o Identify differences 266 in the text from two versions of the same document, whether theversions be PDFs, scans, images, Microsoft Word documents, or any combination of
supported digital files.
o Save and share 275 these differences as a Microsoft Word document in Track Changes
mode.
· Scan and convert documents 15

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guideo Scan and convert PDF and paper documents into editable and searchable formats(including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, searchable PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA, and manymore) to further edit, reuse, or store them.
o Convert paper documents, document images, and PDFs quickly and accurately - while
retaining their original layout, formatting, and structure - with the advanced OCR Editor.
o Improve quality and correct distortions in the digital images of documents(scans/photographs) before converting them, either automatically or manually.
o Quickly check how recognized text matches up with the original document and make anynecessary changes with a built-in text editor and verification tools before saving.
o Improve the accuracy of converting documents with advanced tools: adj ust or specify
document areas, train the program to recognize unusual or decorative fonts, and create
user dictionaries and languages for specific terminology, abbreviations, codes, etc.
· Compare texts to identify differences 266 between two versions of the same document*o ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 can compare two versions of the same document even if they
are in two different formats. For example, you can compare a scanned document and thesame document in Microsoft Word (in either DOC and DOCX formats).
o Save and share the differences as a simple list of changes, as an entire Microsoft Word
document in Track Changes mode, or as an entire PDF with highlighted text mark-ups andcomments.
· Automate your personal document conversion routines with ABBYY Hot Folder 261 *o ABBYY Hot Folder is a conversion scheduling tool included with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15
that watches for documents in user-defined folders and converts them on a schedule withpre-set parameters.
· Take a snapshot of any part of the screen with ABBYY Screenshot Reader 276

o If a screenshot contains text or tables, it can also be extracted and saved as an editableformat.*** This feature is not available with all versions of ABBYY FineReader. Please visit our home page formore information.
** In order to use ABBYY Screenshot Reader, you must first register your copy of ABBYY FineReader.

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What's New in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15
Editing PDFs
· Editing text within paragraphs

Now, editing text in PDFs of any kind – including scanned documents – can be done within awhole block of text. When you add or delete text, it automatically flows from line to line,
which provides you with a convenience and freedom similar to editing in a word processor
like Microsoft Word.
· Reformatting text

You can also change the text formatting (font type and size, typeface, color, line spacing, textalignment, and direction) either for the whole paragraph or for only a selection of text.
· Editing page layout

You can even change the layout of any page in a PDF. Add or delete paragraphs, change
their positioning or order, and make them wider, narrower, higher, or lower to align themwith rest of the page. Throughout the process, the text will automatically flow into the layout
to fit with the changes you make.
· Editing table cells

Each cell in a table can now be edited individually, as a separate paragraph, and it will notaffect content in the other cells in the same row.

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Viewing PDFs
· Faster viewer

FineReader’s PDF viewer has become 1.5x faster. Opening any kind of PDF is now as quick as
you would expect.

Creating PDFs
· Creating interactive PDF forms

Create your own fillable PDF forms from a blank document or by adding fields to an existing
PDF. Choose from fillable fields, drop-down lists, multiple-choice questions, action buttons,
and more. Edit and rearrange the forms as needed.

Converting PDFs
· Detecting text-layer quality

Detect the quality of a text layer when working with digital PDFs. If the text layer in a page isproblematic (corrupted, encoding problems, etc.), FineReader applies OCR to convert thewhole page rather than extracting the text layer. This allows for the most accurate results
when converting digitally-created PDFs into editable formats.
· Detecting text in fields and annotations

When converting an interactive PDF form or a PDF with annotations into an editable format,
FineReader ensures that the text from fields and certain kinds of annotations (such as a Text
Box or Typewriter) is accurately and reliably extracted.
· Improved layout retention

Reconstructing paragraphs when converting digital PDFs into editable formats has been
improved as well.

Comparing documents· Export in Track Changes mode

Now, you can export the comparison results as a Microsoft Word document highlighting thedifferences in Track Changes mode, the mode commonly used in organizations, particularlyin the legal field.
· Even more accurate comparisonsThanks to the improvements in converting digital PDFs, you can compare such documentswith any other type of supported format even more precisely than before.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· New comparison language

Comparing documents in Armenian is now possible, with 38 comparison languages in total.

Improved OCR
ABBYY’s latest OCR technology provides improvements to a variety of features in ABBYY FineReader
PDF 15: more reliable detection of headers and footers; more accurate document conversion in
Japanese and Korean; improved retention of table structure when saving to Excel in languages writtenfrom right to left; and better automatic tagging when saving to tagged PDFs (including PDF/UA).

Improvements for organizations· Remote User licenses

Based on access for named users, Remote User licenses allow organizations to use
FineReader with desktop and application virtualization solutions, such as Microsoft Remote
Desktop Services (RDS), Citrix XenApp, and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Please refer toFineReader’s Administrator Guide for detailed information.
· Improved product customization with GPO

The list of possibilities to customize FineReader for specific users/workstations using GPO(Group Policy Obj ects) has increased to include the following options:o Define the maximum number of workstation CPUs used by FineReader.
o Set a user inactivity timeout to force the release of licenses for workstations that use
concurrent licenses.
o Take advantage of ADMX/ADML templates.

We would like to extend our sincere appreciation for all the users who have contributed feedback andhelped us broaden FineReader’s capabilities to make it more useful in daily work.

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The New Task window
When you launch ABBYY FineReader, a New Task window opens, where you can easily open, scan,create, or compare documents. If you don’t see the New Task window (e.g. if you closed it or if you
initiated an ABBYY FineReader task by right-clicking a file in Windows Explorer), you can always open
it by clicking the

button on the main toolbar.

To start processing a document, select a task:
1. In the left-hand pane:· Click Open if you already have documents that you need to process.
· Click Scan if you need to scan paper documents first.
· Click Compare if you want to compare two versions of the same document.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Click Recent to resume work on a previously saved PDF document or OCR proj ect.
· Click Mobile application to create documents on your smartphone using FineReader

PDF for iOS or Android and continue working with them on your computer.
2. In the right-hand pane, select the appropriate task.
For your convenience, when you hover the mouse cursor over a task, a pop-up window
appears listing the most common scenarios covered by that task.

The settings for all ABBYY FineReader tasks are specified in the Options 292 dialog box. To open this
dialog box, click Options at the bottom of the left-hand pane.
Chapter contents· Viewing and editing PDF documents 17· Quick conversion 19· Advanced conversion 29· Comparing documents

32· Mobile application documents 35· Scanning and saving documents 37

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Viewing and editing PDFs
With ABBYY FineReader, you can easily view, edit, comment, and search inside any type of PDF
documents, even those that were obtained by simply scanning a paper document and so do notcontain any searchable or editable text.
Viewing PDF documents and adding your comments
On the New Task screen, click the Open tab and then click Open PDF Document. The selected
document will be opened in the PDF Editor for viewing 52 and commenting 72 .
Use the Pages 56 , Bookmarks 105 , Search 59 and Comments 80 buttons to navigate around the
document.

ABBYY FineReader offers the following commenting tools:· Add Note 73· Highlight 73 , Underline, Strikethrough, and Insert Text
· Draw 76 Shape, Line, or Arrow

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If you don't see the commenting tools, click the

button.

Editing PDF documents
ABBYY FineReader offers the following editing tools:

See also: Editing text 89 , Inserting and editing pictures 97 .
Protecting PDF documents 162
With ABBYY FineReader, you can:See also: Digital signatures 159 , Removing confidential information from PDF documents 164 , Passwords
and permissions 163 .
Working with interactive forms
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 allows you to create, edit, fill out, save, and print interactive PDF forms. See
also: Working with interactive PDF forms 114
When you open a PDF that contains an interactive form, the form fields are highlighted, inviting you
to select a value from the drop-down list or type in some information.
If you encounter a form that cannot be filled out by simply typing text in the empty fields, use theExport tool to type the necessary information over the form. See also: Filling out forms 115 .
For more information on working with PDF documents, see Working with PDF documents 51 .

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Quick conversion
You can use the built-in tasks on the Open tab of the New Task screen to convert PDF documents orimages or create a new PDF from files in various formats.
Converting one or more files
1. Click the Open tab and then click a desired task:· Convert to PDF creates PDF documents from *.docx, *.html, *.j peg, and other files. You

can also use this task to combine multiple files into one PDF document.
· Convert to Microsoft Word creates Word documents from PDF and image files. You

can also use this task to combine multiple files into one Microsoft Word document.
· Convert to Microsoft Excel creates Excel spreadsheets from PDF and image files. You

can also use this task to combine multiple files into one Excel document.
· Convert to Other Formats converts PDF and image files into popular formats, including*.odt, *.pptx, *.epub, *.html, and many more.

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2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert.

3. Specify conversion settings.
These settings determine the appearance and properties of the output document.
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Click the Convert to <format> button.
6. Specify a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting file will be placed into the folder that you
specified.
Combining files
1. Click the Open tab and then click a desired task.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the files that you want to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings.

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4. Add or remove files if necessary.

5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document
option.
6. Click the Convert to <format> button.
7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting file will be placed into the folder that you specified.
Use advanced conversion 29 for large documents with complicated layouts.
See also: :· Creating PDF documents 22· Creating Microsoft Word documents 24· Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets 26· Other formats 28

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Creating PDF documents
In the New Task window, you can:· Create PDF documents from files in various formats.
· Convert multiple files to PDF.
· Combine multiple files into one PDF.
· Create searchable PDF documents.
· Create PDF/A-compliant documents.

Converting one or more files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to PDF.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
3.1.Image quality The quality of the pictures and the size of the resulting file can be
tweaked using the options in the Image quality drop-down menu:· Best quality

Select this option to retain the quality of the pictures and the page image. The
original resolution will be preserved.
· Balanced

Select this option to reduce the size of the output PDF file without too much loss inpicture quality.
· Compact size

Select this option to obtain a small-sized PDF file at the expense of picture quality.
· Custom...

Select this option to customize picture saving. In the Custom Settings dialog box,
specify desired values and click OK.
3.2.Full-text search Use this drop-down menu to enable or disable full-text searches in the
output document:· As in original document The text on the images will not be recognized. Users will beable to search inside the output document only if the original document has a text
layer.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Search inside text and images The text on the images will be recognized. Users will

be able to search inside the output document.
· Disable full-text search The document will be converted to image-only PDF. Users

will not be able to search inside the output document.
3.3.Create PDF/A documents Select this option to create a PDF/A-compliant document. A
PDF/A-2b document will be created by default. Click More options... to select anotherversion of PDF/A.
3.4.Use MRC compression Select this option to apply Mixed Raster Content (MRC)
compression to reduce file size without noticeable loss in image quality.
3.5.OCR languages Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
3.6.Image preprocessing settings... Here you can specify some additional manipulations
to be preformed on your scans and image files to improve their appearance and thequality of conversion. See also: Image processing options 324 .
3.7.More options... Open the PDF 296 tab of the Format Settings 295 dialog box.
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Click the Convert to PDF button.
6. Specify a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting PDF document will be placed into the folder thatyou specified.
Combining files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to PDF.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the files that you want to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings 22 .
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document
option.
6. Click the Convert to PDF button.
7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting PDF document will be placed into the folder thatyou specified.

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Creating Microsoft Word documents
In the New Task window, you can create Microsoft Word documents from PDF documents andimages and from files in any of the supported formats 317 . You can also convert and combine multiple
files into one Microsoft Word document.
Converting one or more files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to Microsoft Word.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
3.1.Keep formatting.
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document:· Exact copy

The output document will look almost exactly like the original, but will offer limited
editing options.
· Editable copy

The appearance of the output document may slightly differ from the original, but the
document can be easily edited.
· Formatted text

The font types, font sizes, and paragraph formatting will be retained. The output text
will be placed in one column.
· Plain text

Only the paragraph formatting will be retained. The output text will be placed in one
column and a single font will be used throughout.
3.2.OCR languages Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
3.3.Keep pictures Select this option if you want to preserve the pictures in the output
document.
3.4.Keep headers, footers, and page numbers Select this option to preserve the headers,footers, and page numbers.
3.5.More options... Opens the DOC(X)/RTF/ODT 300 tab of the Format Settings 295 dialogbox.
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Click the Convert to Word button.

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6. Specify a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting Microsoft Word document will be placed into thefolder that you specified.
Combining files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to Microsoft Word.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the files that you want to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings 24 .
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document
option.
6. Click the Convert to Word button.
7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting Microsoft Word document will be placed into thefolder that you specified.

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Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
In the New Task window, you can create Microsoft Excel documents from PDF documents andimages and from files in any of the supported formats 317 . You can also convert and combine multiple
files into one Excel document.
Converting one or more files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to Microsoft Excel.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
3.1.Keep formatting.
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
· Formatted text

The font types, font sizes, and paragraph formatting will be retained.
· Plain text

Only the paragraphs will be retained. A single font will be used throughout.
3.2. OCR languages Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
3.3. Keep pictures (XLSX only) Select this option if you want to preserve the pictures in the
output document.
3.4. Create a separate sheet for each page (XLSX only) Select this option if you want tocreate a separate Microsoft Excel spreadsheet from each page of the original
document(s).
3.5. More options... Opens the XLS(X) 303 tab of the Format Settings 295 dialog box.
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Click the Convert to Excel button.
6. Specify a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting Microsoft Excel file will be placed into the folderthat you specified.
Combining files
1. Click the Open and then click Convert to Microsoft Excel.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the files that you want to convert.
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4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document
option.
6. Click the Convert to Excel button.
7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting Microsoft Excel document will be placed into thefolder that you specified.

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Other formats
In the New Task window, you can convert PDF documents and images into popular formats (*.pptx,*.odt, *.html, *.epub, *.fb2, *.rtf, *.txt, *.csv, *.dj vu) and combine multiple files into one document.
Converting one or more files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to other formats.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more files to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
3.1.Select output format Select a format into which to convert your file.
3.2.OCR languages Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
3.3.More options... Opens the corresponding tab of the Format Settings 295 dialog box.
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Click the Convert to <format> button.
6. Specify a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting file will be placed into the folder that you
specified.
Combining files
1. Click the Open tab and then click Convert to other formats.
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the files that you want to convert.
3. Specify conversion settings 28 .
4. Add or remove files if necessary.
5. Arrange the files in the desired order and select the Combine all files into one document
option.
6. Click the Convert to <format> button.
7. Specify a name and a destination folder for the output file.
When the task is completed, the resulting document will be placed into the folder that you
specified.

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Advanced conversion
ABBYY FineReader includes an OCR Editor 177 , which provides advanced OCR and conversion features.
The OCR Editor allows you to check recognition areas and verify recognized text, preprocess images inorder to improve OCR accuracy, and much more.

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The OCR Editor also offer powerful features for fine-tuning OCR and conversion to get the best
possible results. For example, you can edit recognition areas 196 , check recognized text 216 , andtrain 208 ABBYY FineReader to recognize non-standard characters and fonts.
1. There are several ways to open the OCR Editor:· Open the New Task 15 window by clicking File > New Task, click the Open tab, andthen click the Open in OCR Editor task.
· Open the New Task window and click Tools > OCR Editor.
· Open the New Task window, and click File > Open in OCR Editor....

2. In the Open Image dialog box, select the files you want to open.
If you are using the default settings, ABBYY FineReader will automatically analyze andrecognize the files you opened. You can change these settings on the Image Processing
tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).

3. After you open a document, its image will be displayed in the Image pane, and text,
picture, table and barcode areas will be marked on the image. Check that the areas havebeen detected correctly and edit them if necessary.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideABBYY FineReader analyzes documents to detect areas that contain text, pictures,tables, and barcodes.
Sometimes, areas in complex documents may be detected incorrectly. In most cases it
is easier to correct automatically detected areas than to draw all areas manually.
You can find tools for drawing and editing areas on the toolbar above the Image paneand on the toolbars that appear above text, picture, background picture, and tableareas when you select them.
You can use these tools to:· Add and delete areas· Change the type of an area
· Adj ust area borders and move entire areas· Add rectangular parts to areas or delete them
· Change the order of areas

4. If you made any changes to areas, click the Recognize button on the main toolbar torecognize the document again.
5. Check the recognized text in the Text pane and correct it if necessary.
6. Save the recognized document 223 . You can select the format in which to save yourdocument from the drop-down list of the Save/Send button on the main toolbar (click thearrow next to the button to open the drop-down list).
For more information about the OCR Editor and its features, see Working with the OCR Editor 177 .

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Comparing documents(This functionality is not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader. See also:
http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader.)ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Compare Documents, an application that lets you compare two
versions of a document, even if these versions are in different formats. ABBYY FineReader's documentcomparison tool lets you detect significant inconsistencies in a text and, for example, prevent theapproval or publication of the wrong version of a document.
There are several ways to start ABBYY Compare Documents:· Open the New Task 15 window, click the Compare tab, and then click Open ABBYY

Compare Documents.
· Click the Start button in Windows and click ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY CompareDocuments (in Windows 10, click the Start

button, click the All Programs item on thestart menu, and then click ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY Compare Documents)· Click Compare Documents on the Tools menu.
· Right-click a file in Windows Explorer 236 and click Compare documents... on the shortcut

menu.
Follow the instructions below to compare two documents.

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1. Open ABBYY Compare Documents, open one of the versions that you want to compare in
the left-hand pane and the other one in the right-hand pane.
2. In the COMPARE pane, select the languages of the document from the drop-down list.

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3. Click the Compare button to compare the documents.

4. Review the differences detected by ABBYY Compare Documents.
The differences between the two versions will be highlighted in each version and listed in
the right-hand pane, providing you with a clear picture of the changes made to the
document. This makes it easy to see which text was added, removed or edited in eachversion. Both pages are scrolled simultaneously and the identical fragments are always
displayed side by side. Differences can be removed from the list or copied to the
Clipboard.
Differences that were removed from the list will not be saved to the difference report.

You can save the comparison results:· As a Microsoft Word files where the differences will be shown using the Track Changes

feature.
· As a PDF document with comments.
· As a Microsoft Word table containing the differences.

For more information on comparing two versions of the same document, see ABBYY CompareDocuments 266 .
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Mobile application documents
You can create documents in the FineReader PDF mobile application and continue working with themin FineReader PDF on your PC.
To send a document from your smartphone to your PC, do the following:
1. Install the FineReader PDF mobile application on your iOS/Android device (available in App Storeand Google Play).
2. Create a document on your iOS/Android device using your FineReader PDF mobile application.
3. Send that document to your PC using export to Google Drive (FineReader).
Next, to get quick access to documents created using the mobile application:
1. Install a Google Drive cloud storage client on your PC.
Download Google Drive for Windows from the Google website.
2. On the home screen, specify the FineReader folder in your local Google Drive storage by clicking
Select folder in the Mobile application tab.

3. From the list of mobile application documents and folders that will appear, select the appropriate
document or folder.
4. Make your changes and save the document.
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For more information about working with documents created using the mobile application, see
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Scanning and saving documents
You can use the tasks on the Scan tab of the New Task window to create digital documents in various
formats. You will need a scanner or a digital camera to obtain document images.
1. Click the Scan tab and then click a task:· Scan to OCR Editor opens scans in the OCR Editor 177 .
· Scan to PDF creates PDF documents from images obtained from a scanner or digital

camera.
· Scan to Microsoft Word creates Microsoft Word documents from images obtained

from a scanner or digital camera.
· Scan to Microsoft Excel creates Microsoft Excel documents from images obtained froma scanner or digital camera.
· Scan to Image Files creates image-only documents from images obtained from ascanner or digital camera.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Scan to Other Formats creates documents in popular formats, such as *.odt, *.pptx,*.epub, and *.html, from images obtained from a scanner or digital camera.

2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify the settings specific to the selected format.
These settings determine the appearance and properties of the output document.
6. Click the Scan to <format> button.
7. When scanning starts, a dialog box with a progress bar and tips will be displayed.
8. After a page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next will
be displayed.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. Depending on the task you selected in step 1, the scanned images will be:· Processed and added to an OCR proj ect in the OCR Editor 177 .
· Processed and converted to PDF. Specify the folder where you want to save the resulting

document. The document will remain open in the OCR Editor.
· Processed and converted to the selected format. Specify the folder where you want tosave the resulting document. The document will remain open in the OCR Editor.
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See also: :· Scanning to the OCR Editor 40· Scanning to PDF 42· Scanning to Microsoft Word 44· Scanning to Microsoft Excel 46· Scanning to image files 48· Scanning to other formats 50

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Scanning to the OCR Editor
You can open images from a scanner or camera in the OCR Editor, where you will be able to:· Draw and edit recognition areas manually· Check recognized text
· Train ABBYY FineReader to recognize non-standard characters and fonts· Use other advanced tools to ensure the best possible OCR result.

1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to OCR Editor task.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisified with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify preprocessing and automation settings.
5.1.Automatically process page images as they are added
This option enables or disables automatic processing of newly added pages. If
automatic processing is enabled, you can select general document processing options
and image preprocessing settings to be used when scanning and opening images:· Recognize page images

Enable this option if you want FineReader to automatically preprocess newly added
images using the settings specified in the Preprocessing Settings dialog box (click
the Image preprocessing settings (apply to conversion and OCR) link below to
open this dialog box). Analysis and OCR will also be performed automatically.
· Analyze page images

Performs image preprocessing and document analysis automatically, but OCR has tobe started manually.
· Preprocess page images

Preprocesses images automatically. Analysis and OCR have to be started manually.
5.2.OCR languages
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5.3.Image preprocessing settings...
Opens the Preprocessing Settings dialog box where you can specify image
preprocessing settings such as detection of page orientation and automatic
preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly improve source images, resulting
in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing options 324 .
5.4.More options...
Opens the Image Processing 293 tab of the Options dialog box. You can also open this
dialog box by clicking Options... on the Tools menu.
6. Click Scan.
7. A progress dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next
will appear.
Click Scan Again to scan subsequent pages using the current settings or Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. After the scanning process is completed, the scanned images will be added to an OCR
proj ect in the OCR Editor and processed using the preprocessing and automation settings
you specified earlier.
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Scanning to PDF
The Scan to PDF task in the New Task window lets you create PDF documents from images obtained
from a scanner or a digital camera.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click Scan to PDF.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
5.1.Image quality This option determines the quality of images and pictures, which affects
the size of the resulting output file. The following quality settings are available:· Best quality

Select this option to retain the quality of the pictures and the page image. The
original resolution will be preserved.
· Balanced

Select this option to reduce the size of the output PDF file without too much loss inpicture quality.
· Compact size

Select this option to obtain a small-sized PDF file at the expense of picture quality.
· Custom...

Select this option to customize picture saving. In the Custom Settings dialog box,
specify the desired values and click OK.
5.2.Create PDF/A documents
Select this option to create a PDF/A-compliant document.
5.3.Use MRC compression
Select this option to apply Mixed Raster Content (MRC) compression to reduce file size
without noticeable loss in image quality..
5.4.Recognize text on images
Select this option if you want OCR to start automatically.
5.5.OCR languages
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5.6.Image preprocessing settings...
Use this option to specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of pageorientation and automatic preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly
improve source images, resulting in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing
options 324 .
5.7.More options...
Opens the PDF 296 section of the Format Settings 295 of the Options dialog box, where
you can specify additional settings (you can also open this dialog box by clicking
Options... on the Tools menu).
6. Click Scan to PDF.
7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next
will appear.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. After the scanning is completed, the scanned images will be processed using the settings
you specified, converted to PDF, and opened in the OCR Editor.
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Scanning to Microsoft Word
The Scan to Microsoft Word task in the New Task window lets you create Microsoft Word
documents from images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Microsoft Wordtask.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
5.1.Preserve formatting
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
· Exact copy

The output document will look almost exactly like the original, but will offer limited
editing options..
· Editable copy

The appearance of the output document may slightly differ from the original, but the
document can be easily edited.
· Formatted text

The font types, font sizes, and paragraph formatting will be retained. The output text
will be placed in one column.
· Plain text

Only the paragraph formatting will be retained. The output text will be placed in one
column and a single font will be used throughout.
5.2.OCR languages
Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
5.3.Keep pictures
Select this option if you want to preserve the pictures in the output document.
5.4.Keep headers, footers, and page numbers
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5.5.Image preprocessing settings...
Specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of page orientation andautomatic preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly improve source
images, resulting in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing options 324 .
5.6.More options...
Opens the DOC(X)/RTF/ODT 300 section of the Format Settings 295 tab of the Options
dialog box, where you can specify additional settings (you can also open this dialog box
by clicking Options... on the Tools menu).
6. Click Scan to Word.
7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next
will appear.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. Specify the folder where you want to save your Microsoft Word document.
When the task is completed, a Microsoft Word document will be created in the folder that you
specified. All of the document's pages will also be opened in the OCR Editor.

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Scanning to Microsoft Excel
The Scan to Microsoft Excel task in the New Task window lets you create Microsoft Excel documentsfrom images obtained from a scanner or a digital camera.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Microsoft Exceltask.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
5.1.Preserve formatting.
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
· Formatted text

The font types, font sizes, and paragraph formatting will be retained.
· Plain text

Only the paragraphs will be retained. A single font will be used throughout.
5.2.OCR languages
Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
5.3.XLSX settings:· Keep pictures

Select this option if you want to preserve the pictures in the output document.
· Create a separate sheet for each page

Select this option if you want to create a separate Microsoft Excel spreadsheet fromeach page of the original document(s).
5.4.Image preprocessing settings...
Use this option to specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of pageorientation and automatic preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly
improve source images, resulting in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing
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5.5.More options...
Opens the XLS(X) 303 section of the Format Settings 295 tab of the Options dialog box,
where you can specify additional settings (you can also open this dialog box by clicking
Options... on the Tools menu).
6. Click Scan to Excel.
7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next
will appear.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. Specify the folder where you want to save your Microsoft Excel document.
When the task is completed, a Microsoft Excel document will be created in the folder that you
specified. All of the document's pages will also be opened in the OCR Editor.

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Scanning to image files
The Scan to Image Files task in the New Task window lets you create image-only documents fromimages obtained from a scanner or a digital camera.
1. Click the Scan tab and then click the Scan to Image Files task.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
5.1.Select image format
Use this setting to select the desired image file format.
5.2.Compression
If you selected the TIFF format, you will be able to compress scanned images. Imagecompression reduces file size.
Using different compression methods results in different data compression rates andmay result in data loss (loss of image quality). There are two factors you should consider
when choosing a compression method: the quality of images in the output file and its
size.
ABBYY FineReader lets you use the following compression methods:· PACKBITS

Does not cause data loss and is well suited for compressing black-and-white scans.
· JPEG (JFIF format)

This method is used to compress grayscale and color images such as photographs. It
compresses images significantly, but at the cost of some data loss. This leads toreduced image quality (blurriness and loss of color saturation).
· ZIP

Does not cause data loss and works best on images that contain large single-color
areas such as screenshots and black-and-white images.
· LZW

Does not cause data loss and works best on images with vector graphics andgrayscale images.

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5.3.Image preprocessing settings...
Specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of page orientation andautomatic preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly improve source
images, resulting in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing options 324 .
6. Click Scan to <format>.
7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next
will appear.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. Specify the folder where you want to save your output file.
When the task is completed, output files in the specified format will be created in the folder that you
specified. All of the document's pages will also be opened in the OCR Editor.

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Scanning to other formats
The Scan to Other Formats task in the New Task window lets you create documents in popularformats (*.pptx, *.odt, *.html, *.epub, *.fb2, *.rtf, *.txt, *.csv, and *.dj vu) from images obtained from ascanner or a digital camera.
1. Open the New Task window, click the Scan tab, and then click the Scan to Other Formats
task.
2. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If you are not satisfied with the quality of the image, change thescanning settings and click the Preview button again.
5. Specify conversion settings. These settings determine the appearance and properties of theoutput document.
5.1.Select output format
Use this option to select the desired format for the output file.
5.2.OCR languages
Select the language(s) of your document. See also: OCR languages 320 .
5.3.Image preprocessing settings...
Specify image preprocessing settings, such as detection of page orientation andautomatic preprocessing settings. These settings can significantly improve source
images, resulting in greater OCR accuracy. See also: Image processing options 324 .
5.4.More options...
Opens the section with the settings of the selected format on the Format Settings 295
tab of the Options dialog box, where you can specify additional settings (you can also
open this dialog box by clicking Options... on the Tools menu).
6. Click Scan to <format>.
7. A dialog box will be displayed, showing a progress bar and tips.
8. After the page has been scanned, a dialog box prompting you to decide what to do next
will appear.
Click Scan Again to scan more pages using the current settings or click Finish Scanning toclose the dialog box.
9. Specify the folder where you want to save your output file.
When the task is completed, output files in the specified format will be created in the folder that you
specified. All of the document's images will also be opened in the OCR Editor.
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PDF Editor
The PDF Editor in ABBYY FineReader is an easy-to-use tool for working with PDF documents. Using
the PDF Editor you can view PDF documents, carry out text searches, rearrange pages, add or remove
pages, edit document text, copy pictures or text fragments from PDF documents and paste them into
other applications, add your comments to PDF documents, and create, fill out, and edit interactive
PDF forms. You don't need to convert your PDF to an editable format, even if it only contains scans
without a text layer.
Chapter contents· Viewing PDF documents 52· Searching PDF documents 59· Copying data from PDF documents 66· Reviewing PDF documents 72· Working with PDF content 88· Working with interactive PDF forms 114· Signing PDF documents with a digital signature 158· Protecting PDF documents with passwords 162· Creating PDF documents 165· Saving and exporting PDF documents 166· Splitting PDF documents 173

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Viewing PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to view and search PDF documents and copy text, pictures, and tables
inside them.
To open a PDF document in the PDF Editor:· Open the New Task 15 window, click the Open tab and then click the Open PDF Documenttask.
· Open the New Task window and click File > Open PDF Document....

The document will be displayed in the PDF Editor.

To customize the way the document is displayed, use the following settings.
· The viewing modes change the way pages are displayed and scrolled.

See also: Viewing modes 53 .
52ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· The zoom feature lets you zoom in to and out of the document.

· Actual Size displays the page at a scale of 100%.
· Fit to Width changes the scale at which the document is displayed so that the width of the

document fits to the width of the screen.
· Best Fit changes the scale at which the document is displayed so that the height of the

document fits to the height of the screen.
· Zoom Out/Zoom In lets you adj ust the scale manually.

To show/hide the toolbar with PDF tools, click the PDF Tools button on the main toolbar.
Chapter contents· Viewing modes 53· Navigating PDF documents 56· Background recognition 58· PDF security features 59

Viewing modes
The PDF Editor has four viewing modes that determine how document pages are displayed andscrolled:
One-Page View displays one page and hides all the other pages.
One-Page Scrolling displays pages one after the other, so that when you get to the bottom of one
page, the top of the next page is visible.
Two-Page View displays pages side-by-side, with odd-numbered pages on the left and evennumbered pages on the right.
Two-Page Scrolling displays two pages side-by-side with subsequent pages appearing as you scroll
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If you want to display even pages on the left and odd pages on the right in one of the two-pageviewing modes, click View > View mode > Odd Pages on the Right.
There are several ways to change the viewing mode:· Click one of the buttons on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen:· Click View > View mode and select one of the viewing modes.
· Use the following keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3, and Ctrl+4.

Full-screen mode
The PDF Editor has a full-screen viewing mode, in which the document takes up the entire screen
space and no panels or toolbars are visible.
To enter full-screen mode, do one of the following:· Click the

button on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

· Click View > Full Screen.
· Press F11.

In the full-screen mode, you can:· Scroll the document.
· View comments (place the mouse pointer over a commented area to display the comment).
· Change viewing modes and scaling.

To display the bottom toolbar with viewing options, move the mouse pointer to thebottom edge of the screen.
· Go to specific pages in the document.

See also: Navigating PDF documents 57 .
You can also right-click the document in full-screen view and use the commands on the shortcut menu
to:· Add comments 73 and text insertion points· Create bookmarks 105· Edit 89 text and pictures

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Hiding toolbars and panes when reading PDF documents
When reading a document in the PDF Editor, you may want to hide some or all of the toolbars andpanes in order to leave as much screen space for the document as possible. The menu bar, the main
toolbar, and the toolbar at the bottom of the screen can't be hidden separately, but you can use thefull-screen mode if you want to hide all toolbars and panes.
You can hide the following toolbars and panes:· To hide the navigation pane, press F5 or click View and disable the Show Navigation Pane

option.
· To hide the PDF toolbar, press F6 or click View and disable the Show PDF Tools option.
· To hide the Comments pane, press F7 or click View and disable the Show Comments Pane

option.
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Navigating PDF documents
The PDF Editor offers a number of tools for navigating PDF documents.

· The PAGES pane lets you navigate pages quickly, change the order of pages, add pages tothe document, or delete them.
· The BOOKMARKS pane contains tools for creating, editing, and navigating bookmarks.
· The SEARCH pane lets you search and highlight text.
· The Attachments pane lets you view and edit attachments.
· The DIGITAL SIGNATURES pane lets you view and delete digital signatures.

The keyboard shortcuts for showing and hiding these panes are listed in Keyboard shortcuts 379 .

Viewing a specific page
The PDF Editor provides several tools that make it easier to navigate long documents.
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Use thebuttons on the main toolbar.

· Click View > Go to Page and then click Next Page, Previous Page, First Page or Last Page.

To quickly open a specific page:· Type the number of the desired page in thebox on the main toolbar and press

Enter.
· Click View > Go to Page > Page Number..., type the number of the desired page, and click

OK.
Navigating pages in the full-screen viewTo open a specific page in full-screen view, do the following:
1. Move the mouse pointer to the bottom edge of the screen to bring up the toolbar.

2. Type the number of the desired page in thebox on the toolbar at the bottom of

the screen.
3. Press Enter.

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Background recognition
The PDF Editor allows you to search and copy text and pictures in PDF documents without a text layer,such as scanned documents and documents created from image files. This is possible thanks to an
OCR process that runs in the background.
Background recognition is enabled by default and starts automatically when you open a PDF
document.

The background recognition process does not change the contents of the PDF file. Instead, it adds atemporary text layer that will not be available when you open the document in other applications.
If you want to make the document searchable in other applications, you will need to save the text
layer created by the background recognition process. To do this, click File > Recognize Document >Recognize Document... See also: Recognizing text 100 .
Important! If the search or copy functions don't work properly, check that the right OCR
languages are selected for the document. See also: Document features to consider prior to OCR 320 .
To disable background recognition, clear the Enable background recognition in the PDF Editor
option in the Options 292 dialog box.
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PDF security features
Some PDF documents can harm your computer.
ABBYY FineReader has a number of features that make working with PDF documents safer. The
program will ask for your confirmation when you perform the following potentially dangerous
actions:· Opening attachments· Opening links· Submitting form 115 data.

If you trust the creator of the document, click Allow; otherwise, click Cancel.
You can also protect your computer from malicious JavaScript code by disabling JavaScript in PDF
documents. To disable JavaScript, open the Options dialog box, click the Other tab, and clear the
Enable JavaScript in PDF documents option. No when you open a PDF document with JavaScript thefollowing notification will appear at the top of the window:

Click the image to enlarge it

If you trust the person or entity who sent you the PDF document, you can enable JavaScript byselecting one of the following options from the JavaScript Settings drop-down list:· Enable JavaScript for This Document Only to enable JavaScript while the current document

is open.
· Enable JavaScript for All Documents to open the Options dialog box, where you canenable JavaScript for all documents.

Searching PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to search for, highlight, replace, and redact information. The search will be
carried out not only in the main document text, but also in the comments, the headers and footers, aswell as the metadata. Thanks to background recognition 58 , you will be able to carry out searches in
any PDF documents, including scanned ones. To simplify navigating the search results, they will be
displayed in a separate panel. Words or phrases that have been found in the main text body will behighlighted. This will make it easier for you to select, replace, or redact all word or phrase search hits.
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Keyword search
To carry out a keyword search, do the following:

1. Click thetab in the pane on the left or click View > Search to open the SEARCH

pane.
2. In the Find what text field, type the word or phrase you want to find.
Words or phrases that match your query will be highlighted in the document.
The search results will be arranged into groups (by source: text, comments, or bookmarks)
and you will be able to highlight the entire text group.

3. If required, click the arrow next to theicon and select any of the following:· Exact Match will find only words that are an exact match of the words you typed in the

search box.
E.g. searching for the word "correct" will not find words like "incorrectly" or "correction".
· Match Case will find only words that match the capitalization in your query.

E.g. searching for the word "Editor" will not find words like "editor" or "EDITOR".
You can highlight, cross out, and underline 73 search hits in the text. To do this, select the appropriate
words in the search results and click the respective tool (highlight, cross out, or underline).
This will create comments in the PDF document and will also mark any changes that will need to bemade to the source document. This will not affect your PDF document's text itself.
To change the color used for text markup, click the arrow next to the respective tool and select thedesired color on the color palette that appears.

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To navigate to the next/previous search hit, use thebuttons. You can also select the next

search result by pressing F3.

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Search and replace
The PDF Editor allows you to search for and replace words and phrases. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Click thetab in the pane on the left or click View > Search to open the SEARCH

pane.
2. Navigate to the REPLACE tab.
3. In the Find what text field, type the word or phrase you want to find.
Words or phrases that match your query will be highlighted in the document.
The search results will be arranged into groups (by source: text, comments, or bookmarks)
and you will be able to highlight entire groups.

4. If required, click the arrow next to theicon and select any of the following:· Exact Match will find only words that are an exact match of the words you typed in the

search box.
E.g. searching for the word "correct" will not find words like "incorrectly" or "correction".
· Match Case will find only words that match the capitalization in your query.

E.g. searching for the word "Editor" will not find words like "editor" or "EDITOR".
5. In the Replace with field, enter the text that will replace the original text.
6. In the search results, mark a word or phrase to be replaced.
To replace several words or phrases at once, select the appropriate value in the Searchpanel.
7. Click Replace.
This will replace your selected word or phrase with the one you specified, and thecorresponding entry will be removed from the search results.
To navigate to the next/previous search hit, use thebuttons. You can also selectthe next search result by pressing F3.
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Search and redact
The PDF Editor allows you to use word, word combination, and keyword list search to remove
confidential information from PDF documents before publishing them. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Click thetab in the pane on the left or click View > Search to open the SEARCH

pane.
2. Navigate to the REDACT tab.
3. In the Find what text field:· type the word or phrase you want to find· or click theicon and select Find Using Keyword List 65 from the drop-down list

to search for text using a custom list.
4. Words or phrases that match your query will be highlighted in the document.
The search results will be arranged into groups (by source: text, comments, or bookmarks)
and you will be able to highlight entire groups.

5. If required, click the arrow next to theicon and select any of the following:· Exact Match will find only words that are an exact match of the words you typed in the

search box.
E.g. searching for the word "correct" will not find words like "incorrectly" or "correction".
· Match Case will find only words that match the capitalization in your query.

E.g. searching for the word "Editor" will not find words like "editor" or "EDITOR".
6. In the search results, mark a word or phrase to be redacted.
To redact several words or phrases at once, hold the Ctrl key and select the appropriate
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7. Click Redact.
This will remove the selected words or phrases and paint over their respective occurrences.

8. Save your changes.

Searching and redacting using keyword lists
If you need to search for and redact repeating words or word combinations from a document (e.g.
confidential information about your organization, etc.), create a keyword list for these words and use it
to search for and redact the appropriate text. To do so, click theand select one of the following from the drop-down list:

icon in the Find what text field

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Add Keyword to List to add a word or word combination currently in the text field to a keyword

list;· Find Using Keyword List to search the text using a custom keyword list;· Edit Keyword List... to add, modify, delete, and save keywords for a list.

To save the changes that you have made to a list and carry out a search using the modified
keyword list, click Save and Find.

To view all keywords in a particular list, hover the cursor over the list's name.

To close a keyword list, click theicon next to its name or uncheck Find Using Keyword

List.

Copying data from PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to copy any area of a PDF document without recognizing the whole
document or converting it into an editable format.
You can copy any area as:· an image 67 ;· text 68 ;· a table 70 .

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Copying an area as an image
To copy an area of a PDF document as an image:
1. Use the mouse to draw a rectangle around the area that you want to copy.
The area that you mark up has to be confined to a single page.

2. Click theicon on the toolbar that appears next to the marked up area.

Alternatively, you can right-click the marked up area and then click Copy as Image on the
shortcut menu or press Ctrl+C on the keyboard.

Text from the marked up area will be copied to the clipboard as an image.
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Copying an area as text
To copy an area of a PDF document as text, use one of two methods:
Method 1:
1. Use the mouse to draw a rectangle around the area that you want to copy.
The area that you mark up has to be confined to a single page.

2. Click theicon on the toolbar that appears next to the marked up area.

Alternatively, you can right-click the marked up area and then click Copy as Text on the
shortcut menu or press Ctrl+Shift+C on the keyboard.

3. Paste the copied text into the desired application.

Method 2:
1. Use the mouse to mark up the text strings that you want to copy.
You can mark up text strings on several pages at once.
2. Right-click the marked up text.

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3. Click Copy Text on the shortcut menu that appears or press Ctrl+C on the keyboard.

4. Paste the copied text into the desired application.
You can use Method 2 only for PDF documents with a text layer. If there is no text layer in a PDF
document, ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 creates a text layer as a result of the background recognition 58
process.
If you are unable to mark up text strings with the mouse cursor, make sure that the Enablebackground recognition in the PDF Editor option in the Options 292 dialog box is selected.
If there are visual differences and recognition errors in the copied text, make sure that the right OCR
languages are selected for the document.
See also: Document features to consider prior to OCR 320 .
To save the text layer created by the background recognition process, click File > Recognize
Document > Recognize Document....
See also: Recognizing text 100 .

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Copying an area as a table
To copy an area of a PDF document as a table:
1. Use the mouse to draw a rectangle around the area that you want to copy.
You can mark up a table or any part of one, as well as plain text, even on the images.
The area that you mark up has to be confined to a single page.

2. Click theicon on the toolbar that appears next to the marked up area.

Alternatively, you can right-click the marked up area and then click Copy as Table on the
shortcut menu or press Ctrl+Alt+C on the keyboard.

Before copying a table, you can change its structure 70 .
3. Paste the copied table into the desired application.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· add vertical / horizontal separators;· delete separators;· split / merge table cells.

After the text from the marked up area has been recognized, a toolbar with table editing tools
will be displayed next to the area.

Use these tools to change the table structure and click theicon on the table editing toolbar

again. The edited table will be copied to the clipboard.
No changes will be made to the table in the original file.
You can edit the table in the original file 221 in the OCR Editor.
If the table data that has been copied differs significantly from the original document data:· If the document does not have a text layer, make sure that the right OCR languages 320 are

selected.
· If the page containing the data you want to copy has a text layer of a poor quality, replace

the text layer 100 with a new one.
Now, try copying the data again.

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Reviewing PDF documents
The PDF Editor includes a number of features for reviewing PDF documents. While reading a
document, you can add comments, highlight important fragments, make notes, draw shapes tohighlight specific areas, and place stamps on pages.
Chapter contents· Adding comments 73· Marking up text 73· Drawing shapes 76· Adding text to PDF documents 79· Adding stamps 85· Collaborating on PDF documents 80

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Comments
The PDF Editor offers tools for adding notes to any part of a PDF document, making discussing andreviewing PDF documents much simpler.
1. If the PDF Tools toolbar is hidden, open it by clicking the PDF Tools button on the main
toolbar.

2. Click thetool on the PDF Tools toolbar.

3. If you don't like the default note color, select another one on the toolbar that appears
above the document.
4. Click where you want the note to appear on the page and type the note.

You can change the color of an existing note using its shortcut menu.
To find out how to open notes, reply to notes or delete them, see Collaborating on PDF documents 80.

Marking up text
The PDF Editor allows you to indicate what changes should be made to a document. Any editing
marks that you add will not alter the text itself but merely indicate what changes must be made andwhere.
Annotations related to editing text are only available in documents with a text layer or documentsthat have been recognized by the background recognition process.
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Add Note to Insert Text

You can add a comment to any type of annotation by double-clicking the annotation. For more oncomments, see Collaborating on PDF documents 80 .
To highlight, underline, or cross out a text fragment:· Select a markup tool on the main toolbar and then select the desired text fragment, or· Select the desired text fragment and then select a markup tool on the main toolbar.

To indicate an insertion point:· Click thetool on the PDF Tools toolbar and click the place where you think text needs to beinserted.

To change the color of an annotation:· Right-click the annotation and select the desired color on the shortcut menu or· Click a markup tool on the main toolbar and then click one of the color boxes on the toolbar

that appears above the document.
You can use the search feature to mark up specific text fragments without reading through the entire
document to find them.
1. Open the SEARCH pane.
2. Type the word or phrase you want to find.
3. In the SEARCH pane, select the search hits you want to mark up and click the desired
markup tool. If you want to choose a different color, click the arrow next to the markup tool
instead of clicking the tool itself and then click the desired color on the color palette thatappears.

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By default, the markup tools in the SEARCH pane use the same colors as the markup tools on the
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Drawing shapes
The PDF Editor allows you to draw various markings on the page of a PDF document. You can also
add comments to the various shapes that you have drawn.

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click.

2. Select the appropriate drawing tool from the drop-down menu.

· Ink

Draws a line when you hold down the left mouse button, letting you draw any shape.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· LineDraws a straight line. If you want to draw a vertical, horizontal or diagonal (sloped at anangle of 45°) line, hold down the Shift key.
· Arrow

Draws an arrow. If you want to draw a vertical, horizontal or diagonal (sloped at anangle of 45°) line, hold down the Shift key.
· Rectangle

Draws a rectangle. If you want to draw a square, hold down the Shift key.
· OvalDraws an oval. If you want to draw a circle, hold down the Shift key.
· Polygon

Draws a polygon. Click where you want to place the initial vertex of the polygon. To
complete the polygon, click the initial vertex.
· CloudDraws a cloud. Click where you want to place the initial vertex of the cloud. To complete
the cloud, click the initial vertex.
· Polyline

Draws a j agged line. Click the page to start drawing, click again when you want to draw
the next segment, and double-click where you want the j agged line to end.
· Text Box

Draws a rectangle with a nested text annotation. For more details, see Adding a Text
block annotation to a PDF document 79 .
3. Once you have finished drawing the shape, double-click it if you want to type a comment.
If you are using the Ink tool, you will need to disable the drawing tools before you cantype a comment.
To draw a set of shapes using the Ink tool and add a comment to the entire set:
· Hold down the Shift key and draw the figure. You can release the mouse button, but

only release the Shift key when you are finished drawing.
· Disable the drawing tools, double click one of the shapes in the set, and type yourcomment.

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4. Drawing tools have several settings you can change.

To change these options:· Right-click a shape you drew on the page and use the commands on its shortcut menu.
· Selecting the desired settings on the PDF Tools toolbar before drawing a shape.

For more on using and editing comments, see Collaborating on PDF documents 80 .

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Adding a Text block annotation to a PDF document
The PDF Editor allows you to add blocks of text to any type of PDF .
A text block is an annotation. Text in a text block is not the body text of a PDF document.
For more information about adding body text to a PDF document, see Inserting and editing text 89 .
To add a text block to a PDF document, do the following:

1. Click theicon on the toolbar and selectfrom the drop-down list.

A toolbar with text editing tools will appear beneath the PDF Tools toolbar.
2. Click where you want to add text. To change the size of the text block, drag one of thesizing handles in the desired direction.
3. Type your text. You can choose a font type, font size, and font color.

4. Change the size of the text block if necessary.
5. To draw a border around the text block, select the color and thickness of the border.
6. You can also change the background color of the text block or use the Detect backgroundcolor option to use the background color of the page.
By default, a transparent background is used.
You can use the PDF Editor to fill out forms that do not have interactive fields. To do this, simply typetext over the form using the Export tool.
When you add a text block, a new comment containing text from the block will appear in theComments pane. You can change the status of the comment in the same way you change the statusof an annotation. See also: Collaborating on PDF documents 80 .

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Collaborating on PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to see and reply to comments made by other reviewers, even if they werecreated in applications other than ABBYY FineReader. You can also change the status of a comment to
inform a reviewer that you have accepted or rej ected his/her suggestion.

To view a list of all comments in the document, open the COMMENTS pane by clicking the
button on the main toolbar.

There are other ways to open the Comments pane:· Right-click an annotation, stamp or comment and click Show Comments Pane on the

shortcut menu.
· Click View and select Show Comments Pane.
· Press F7.

Adding a comment to an annotation

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Double-click the annotation to which you want to add a comment, or· Right-click the annotation and select the Add Comment command on the shortcut menu.

If the COMMENTS pane is hidden, a comment box where you can type the comment will appear. If
the COMMENTS pane is visible, the comment box associated with the annotation will behighlighted.
Opening a comment· Select the annotation that contains the comment you want to see.

If the COMMENTS pane is hidden, a comment box where you can type the comment will appear. If
the COMMENTS pane is visible, the comment box associated with the annotation will behighlighted.
If you want a comment to always be visible, double-click its annotation. To hide a comment, clickthebutton in the upper-right corner of the comment box.

Replying to a comment
1. Select the annotation that contains the comment to which you want to reply.
2. Click Reply in the comment box or press Ctrl+Enter and type your reply.
Deleting an annotation or its associated comment or reply

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To delete an annotation:· Select the annotation you want to delete and press Delete on the keyboard or right-click the

annotation and click Delete on the shortcut menu.
The comment associated with the annotation will also be deleted.
· Select a comment box in the COMMENTS pane and press Delete on the keyboard or right-

click the comment box and click Delete.
The annotation associated with the comment will also be deleted.
To delete a comment in the COMMENTS pane:· Right-click anywhere inside the comment box and select Delete on the shortcut menu.

All replies associated with the comment will also be deleted.
To delete all comments and annotations:· Click Edit > Delete Comments and Markup...

To delete a reply:· Right-click the reply and select Delete Reply on the shortcut menu.

In the same manner, you can delete a reply on the COMMENTS pane.
Flagging a comment or changing its status
You can assign statuses to comments you have read or flag those comments which you want to revisit
later.
To flag a comment:· Click thebox next to the comment in the COMMENTS pane or right-click the commentand click Add Checkmark on the shortcut menu.
To change the status of a comment:· Right-click a comment or its annotation, click Status on its shortcut menu, and select thedesired status.
· Click the

button in the comments box and select the desired status.

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In the Properties... dialog box of an annotation or comment, you can change the author or the
subj ect and see how the status of the annotation or comment changed over time. If you havechanged the name of the author, you can click the Set Default button to use the new name for any
annotations and comments you make in the future.
To open the Properties dialog box of an annotation or comment:· Right-click the annotation, stamp or comment and click Properties... on the shortcut menu.

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The COMMENTS pane displays all annotations added to the document, with or without comments,
and all text blocks, stamps, and editorial marks.
· To navigate the comments, use thebuttons.

· You can search for a specific comment, reply or author using the search box at the top of the

COMMENTS pane.
To sort the comments:· On the COMMENTS pane, click

and then select the desired sorting option from themenu.
You can filter the comments by type, author, flag status, or comment status.
To filter the comments:· On the COMMENTS pane, click

to open the filter menu and then click Show All

Comments, Hide Current Comments, or select the criteria you want to use to filter thecomments.
You can filter the comments by:
1. Type
2. Author
3. Page
4. Date
5. Flag Status
6. Status
To reset the filter, click Reset.
If you j ust want to see the authors and dates of the comments, clickcomments. To display the text again, click

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Adding stamps
The PDF Editor allows you to stamp PDF documents in the same manner as you stamp paper
documents. You can select a stamp from the list of available stamps or create your own, adding any
desired text, the date and time of stamping, or an image.
To stamp a page:

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click

and select the desired stamp.

If the stamp you want to use is not available in the menu, click Other stamp.
2. Stamp the page.
3. Move the stamp to the desired location if necessary.
You can add comments to stamps and change their statuses in the same manner as you add
comments to annotations. See also: Collaborating on PDF documents 80 .
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The PDF Editor allows you to create textual stamps and stamps from images.
To create a stamp from an image:

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Create Stamp from Image....

2. In the dialog box that opens, type a name for your stamp in the Name field.
3. Click Open to open an image from your hard disk or click Paste from Clipboard if you
have previously copied an image to the Clipboard.
4. Use the Stamp size slider if you need to adj ust the size of the image.
5. Click Save.
To create a text stamp:

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Create Text Stamp....

2. In the dialog box that opens, type a name for your stamp in the Name field.
3. In the Stamp text field, type the text that you want to appear on the stamp.
4. From the Add Date/Time drop-down list, select the date and time format that you want
to use.
When you stamp a page, the stamp will contain the date and time of the stamping in theformat you specified.
All text elements will be added to the stamp at the position of the cursor in the Stamp
text field. You can change the order of the stamp elements in this field, add explanatory
text, and set up the date and time formats. For more on dates and times, see Current date
and time on stamps and in Bates numbers 336 .
5. In the Font and border group of options, select a font type, font size, and font effects 366
for the text in the stamp and a color for the stamp.
6. Enable the Add border option if you want the stamp to have a border.
7. The View box contains a preview of the stamp, so you can see the effects of the changes
you make.
8. Click Save.
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1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Manage Stamps....

2. In the dialog box that opens, select a stamp and click Edit....
3. Specify the desired settings and click Use.
How to delete a stamp
To remove a stamp from your document, do one of the following:· Select the stamp in the document and press Delete.
· Right-click the stamp in the document and select Delete... on the shortcut menu.
· Select the comment for the stamp in the COMMENTS pane and press Delete.

To remove a stamp from the list:

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Manage Stamps....

2. In the dialog box that opens, select the stamp and click Delete....

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Working with PDF content
The PDF Editor allows you to modify the contents of PDF documents without the need to convert PDF
documents to editable formats.
Chapter contents· Inserting and editing text 89· Inserting and editing pictures 97· Inserting and editing hyperlinks 98· Recognizing text 100· Working with pages 101· Adding bookmarks 105· Adding headers and footers 107· Adding watermarks 110· Adding file attachments 111· Viewing metadata 112· Enhancing page images 113

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Inserting and editing text
The PDF Editor in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 allows you to insert and edit text in any* PDF document:

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· PDF documents created using other applications· scanned documents· searchable PDF documents

The following features are available:· adding new text
· deleting text
· copying and pasting text from the clipboard· editing the formatting of text inside existing text blocks· changing the text block size· moving text blocks on a page
· correcting page orientation, skewing, distorted text, and other defects found in scanned

documents* except PDF documents containing vector graphics text

Inserting new text
New text can be added to a page in the following ways:· Add a new text block using the 90 Add Text tool 89 .

This is the most convenient way to insert:o a large volume of texto an isolated text block· Edit an existing text block 92 .

This is the most convenient way to insert text if you need to add a relatively small volume oftext to an already existing text block.
· Add text using the107

Header and Footer tool 107 .

This is the most convenient way to insert text if you need to add identical text to several
pages at once.

Adding new text using the Add Text tool
To add a new text block to a PDF document:

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1. Click the

button to enter the text editing mode. Alternatively, you can click Tools> Edit Text and Pictures or press Ctrl + E on the keyboard.

Tip: if the toolbar is not visible, clickin the upper-right corner.

Note: you might have to wait some time for the program to prepare the document forediting. During this time, a page preparation indicator will be displayed in the left part of
the Text pane.

The Text pane will appear under the toolbar, and text and images on the page will bemarked as separate blocks:

Note: when working with scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, it isimportant to specify the correct languages, especially when background recognition isdisabled. For more details, see Document features to consider prior to OCR 320 .
Tip: before starting your work with scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, it issometimes best to correct the page orientation, skew, distorted text, and other defects 95 .

2. Click the

button in the Text pane or press Ctrl + T on the keyboard. This will

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3. Place the cursor in the particular spot where you want a new text block to be added andmark out a rectangular shape of the appropriate size for your new text block or left-click
once for a text block of a default shape.
Note: the size of the new text block cannot be larger than the page itself.
Note: you can create new text blocks over other obj ects.
4. Enter your text into the text block that you have j ust created.
Note: when adding a large volume of text, take care to not go over the edges of the pageitself.
5. Finish adding the text. To do this, left-click the area outside of the text block or press theEsc key.
6. Save the changes you have made to the document by clicking the

button in the upper-

left part of the PDF editor window. Alternatively, you can click File > Save or press Ctrl + S
on the keyboard.

7. To exit the text editing mode, click the

button or press Ctrl + E on the keyboard.

Editing existing text
To edit text in a PDF document:

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1. Click the

button on the toolbar to enter the text editing mode. Alternatively, click

Tools > Edit Text and Pictures or press Ctrl + E on the keyboard.

Tip: if the toolbar is not visible, click the

button in the upper-right part of the

PDF Editor window.
Note: you might have to wait some time for the program to prepare the text for editing.
During this time, a page preparation indicator will be displayed in the left part of the Text
pane.

The Text pane will appear under the toolbar, and text and images on the page will bemarked as separate blocks:

Note: when working with scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, it isimportant to specify the correct languages, especially when background recognition isdisabled. For more details, see Document features to consider prior to OCR 320 .
Tip: before starting your work with scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, it issometimes best to correct the page orientation, skew, distorted text, and other defects 95 .
2. Edit the text in the PDF document.
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Add new text to an existing text block

To do this, place the cursor into the text block and type the appropriate text or paste thetext from the clipboard.
The program will pick a suitable font automatically.
Note: the name of the current font is displayed in the list in the Text pane. A pair ofsquare brackets around a font name means that the font is built into the edited PDF
document, but has not been installed on your system. To use this font when typing new
text, install it on your system first. Otherwise, the program will pick the default font.
· Delete text from an existing text block

To do this, select the text you want to delete and delete it.
· Delete a text block entirely

To do this:o Hold down the Ctrl key and left-click the text block.
Alternatively, you can select a text block by left-clicking inside it, place the cursor on
one of the block's edges, and select it by left-clicking it when the cursor's appearancechanges to.

o Delete the text block by pressing Delete.

· Change the formatting of text

To do this, select the appropriate text inside a text block and edit it using the tools
located in the Text pane:· Change the size of a text block

To do this, first select the appropriate text block by left-clicking inside it. The text blockedges will now have little square icons on them.

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Place the cursor on top of one of the square icons. When the cursor's appearancechanges to, hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor so that the text

block’s size changes to the size that you want.
Note: when changing a text block’s size, take care to not go over the edges of the page.

· Move text blocks around on a page

To do this, hold down the Ctrl key and place the mouse cursor on a text block. While still
holding down the Ctrl key, drag the block to the desired location.
Alternatively, you can select a text block by left-clicking inside it, place the cursor on oneof its edges, and move it by holding down the left mouse button when the cursor's
appearance changes to.

Note: when moving a text block, take care to not go over the visible edges of the page.
3. Finish editing the text. To do this, left-click outside the text block or press the Esc key.

4. Exit the text editing mode by clicking the

button or press Ctrl + E on the keyboard.

5. Save the changes you have made to the document by clicking the

button in the upper-

left part of the PDF editor window. Alternatively, you can click File > Save or press Ctrl + S
on the keyboard.

Improving text editing in scanned documents
Before starting to edit scanned documents and searchable PDF documents, you can do the following
to improve the editing of text:

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Correct the page orientation, skew, distorted text, and other defects

To make cosmetic changes to the appearance of a scanned document, click the Correct
Skew and Page Orientation button in the Text toolbar and choose Correct Skew andOrientation for Current Page (for a particular page or for the whole document).

Note: the Correct Skew and Page Orientation button appears in the Text pane only for
those pages, where the program has detected text skewing.
· Re-recognize a page / document

If a page contains a text layer, it will be used when editing the text. To recognize a pagefrom scratch, click the Text Layer button in the toolbar and select Recognize Page andReplace Existing Text Layer... (for a particular page or for the whole document).

This will open the Recognize Document dialog box.
Select the appropriate languages from the drop-down list in its upper half.
Mark the checkboxes next to Correct page orientation and Deskew images and correct
image resolution in the lower part of the window.

Click Recognize.

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Inserting and editing pictures
The PDF Editor allows you to insert pictures into PDF documents of any type.

1. Click the

button on the PDF Tools toolbar.

2. In the dialog box that opens, select a picture and click Open.
3. Move the picture to the desired location on the page.
You can move, rotate, delete, and resize pictures. When you move a picture, it may overlap withother obj ects on the page. To bring an overlapping picture to the foreground, right-click it andselect Bring Picture to Front.
To delete a picture:· To delete a picture in a PDF document created in another application, right-click the picture

and click Delete on the shortcut menu.
· You can delete a part of the document image and anything that it may contain, including

pictures. To do this, click thetool on the PDF Tools toolbar and select the area you

want to erase.
The Erase tool deletes pictures and text, automatically selecting the appropriate backgroundcolor to fill the empty space.

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Inserting and editing hyperlinks
ABBYY FineReader allows you to insert hyperlinks into PDF documents of any type and edit existing
hyperlinks.
When you point the mouse cursor to a hyperlink, its address is shown in a pop-up box. To follow thelink, simply click it.
To insert a hyperlink into a PDF document:
1. Type the text to be used as a hyperlink.
2. Either click Edit > Add Link... or select the text, right-click it, and then clickAdd Link... on the
shortcut menu.
· Linking to a specific text fragment in the current document

In the Link Editor:· Select Page in this document and enter the number of the page that the link should open, or· Click Select specific destination... and place the mouse cursor where you want to direct users whoclick the link.
· Linking to a web pageIn the Link Editor:· Select Web address, e-mail address, file or other resource and type the URL of the page youwant to link to (e.g. http://www.abbyy.com).
· Linking to an e-mail address

In the Link Editor:· Select Web address, e-mail address, file or other resource and type the recipient's e-mailaddress preceded by "mailto:" (e.g. mailto:office@abbyy.com).
· Linking to a fileIn the Link Editor:· Select Web address, e-mail address, file or other resource and enter the path to the file that thelink should open preceded by "file://" (e.g. file://D:/MyDocuments/ABBYYFineReader.pdf).

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1. Select the hyperlink you want to edit.
2. Right-click the selected link and click Edit Link... on the shortcut menu.
3. In the Link Editor, do one of the following:· Change the number of the page that the link should open
· Click Select specific destination... and place the mouse cursor where you want to direct users

who click the link
· Change the URL, e-mail address, or path to a file or other resource .

You can copy the URL, e-mail address or the path to a file or other resource into the Clipboard. To
do this, right click the link, select Copy Link, and copy the URL, e-mail address, or path.

To delete a hyperlink from a PDF document:
1. Select the hyperlink you want to delete.
2. Right-click the selected link and click Remove Link on the shortcut menu.

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Recognizing text
Background recognition 58 is a process that adds a temporary text layer to a document, enabling you
to mark up, copy, and search its text. You can make these capabilities available to other users byadding a permanent text layer to PDF documents. Documents with text layers are practicallyindistinguishable from their originals. You can also replace an existing text layer in a searchable PDF
document.

1. On the main toolbar, click the arrow next to thebutton and selectRecognize Document... from the drop-down list. Alternatively, click File > Recognize
Document > Recognize Document... or press Ctrl+Shift+R.
2. In the dialog box that opens, specify the appropriate OCR languages. See also: Document
features to consider prior to OCR 320 .
3. To improve the quality of OCR, enable image processing. Image processing may change theappearance of your document.
· Correct page orientation - The program will detect text orientation and correct ifnecessary.
· Deskew images and correct image resolution - The program will detect and correct

any skew, select the appropriate image resolution, and make some other changes toimprove the images.
4. Click the Recognize button.
5. As a result, the output document will contain a searchable text layer.
You can also add a text layer when adding pages to a PDF document from a file or when scanning
paper documents. To do this, select the Recognize text on images option in the Image Processing
Settings dialog box (click >> Image Processing Settings to open this dialog box)

and specify the languages of the document. See also: Working with pages 104 .
If you want to check recognized text, train the program to recognize non-standard fonts andcharacters, or use some other advanced features of ABBYY FineReader, click the arrow next to thebutton and then click Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor. Alternatively, click File >Recognize Document > Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor. See also: Sending PDF documents to
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Working with pages
The PDF Editor allows you to delete or add pages to a PDF document, change their order, and insert
blank pages.
Adding pages from PDF...

1. On the main toolbar, click the

button.

2. Click Add from PDF....
Alternatively, click Добавить страницы из PDF... in the shortcut menu of the PAGES
pane or from the drop-down menu that appears if you click the

button.

3. In the dialog box that opens, select the PDF file or files that you want to add to the PDF
document and specify the numbers of the pages that you want to add. You can also specify
where you want the new pages to be added (e.g. before the first page, before the current
page, etc.).
4. Click the Open button.
The selected PDF files will be inserted into the current PDF document without being modified.
Adding pages from a file...

1. On the main toolbar, click the

button.

2. Click Add from File....
Alternatively, click Add Pages from File... in the shortcut menu of the PAGES pane orfrom the drop-down menu that appears if you click the

button.

3. In the dialog box that opens, select the file or files that you want to add to the PDF
document and specify the numbers of the pages that you want to add. The files you selectmust be in any of the supported formats 317 . You can also specify where you want the newpages to be added (e.g. before the first page, before the current page, etc.).
4. Click the Settings... button and specify the desired image processing options 104 .
5. Click the Open button
The selected files will be converted into PDF and inserted into the current PDF document.
Adding scanned pages...

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1. On the main toolbar, click the

button.

2. Click Add from Scanner....
3. Select a device and specify scanning settings 286 .
4. Click the View button or click anywhere in the scanning area to view the image.
5. If required, click the Settings... button and specify the desired image processing options 104.
6. Click the Scan button.
The scanned pages will be inserted into the current PDF document.
Inserting blank pages...
1. In the PAGES pane, select the page before or after which you want to insert a blank page.
2. Right-click the page, click Add Blank Page on the shortcut menu, and then click Before
Current Page or After Current Page.

Alternatively, click> Add Blank Page. A blank page will be added after thecurrently selected page.
Changing the order of pages...
· In the PAGES pane, select one or more pages and drag them to the desired place in the

document.
Replacing pages...
1. In the PAGES pane, select the pages you wish to replace.
2. Select Replace Pages... in the Edit menu, in the context menu of the page or by clicking
thebutton in the PAGES pane.

3. In the opened dialog box, select the PDF document with new pages.
4. In the page replacement dialog box, specify the range of pages to be replaced in thecurrent document and the range of pages in the new document.
Rotating pages...

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· In the PAGES pane, select one or more pages, right-click them, click Rotate Pages on the

shortcut menu, and then click Rotate Right or Rotate Left. Alternatively, click thethebutton at the top of the pane and then click Rotate Pages > Rotate Right (or Rotate Left).
Cropping pages...
1. In the PAGES pane, select one or several pages.
2. Select Crop Pages... on the main toolbar, in the Edit menu, in the context menu of thepage or by clicking the

button in the PAGES pane.

3. On the cropping frame pane:· Select the cropping mode: Separate frame for each page or Single frame for all

pages· Select the size of the cropping frame· Use the option that lets the program automatically determine the size of the cropping

frame.
The option of automatic framing sets the boundaries of the cropping frame on theedges of a text and reduces blank areas on document pages.
4. Move the frame edges to set the cropping frame manually.
5. After you set the cropping frame:· Select the document pages to be cropped· Click Crop

Deleting pages...
· In the PAGES pane, select one or more pages, right-click them, and click Delete Pages... on

the shortcut menu or press the Delete key.
Creating a PDF document from selected pages...
· In the PAGES pane, select the desired pages, right-click them, and then click Create PDF

from Selected Pages on the shortcut menu.
The created document will be opened in a new window.

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Image processing options
The PDF Editor offers multiple image processing options to improve the quality of images and OCR.
You can specify image processing options when scanning paper documents or when creating PDF
documents from image files.
· Image quality The quality of the pictures and the size of the file are determined by the value

you select from the drop-down list in the Image quality group of options:o Best quality
Select this item to preserve the quality of the page images and pictures. The original
resolution of the source images will be preserved.
o Balanced
Select this option to reduce the size of the PDF file while keeping the quality of the page
images and pictures at a reasonably high level.
o Compact size
Select this option to obtain a small-sized PDF file. This may adversely affect the quality ofthe page images and pictures.
o Custom...
Select this option if you want to specify custom options for saving page images andpictures. In the dialog box that opens, specify desired saving options and click OK.
· Recognize text on images Select this option if you want to add a text layer to the

document.
You will get a searchable PDF document that looks almost exactly like the original.
· Use MRC compression (specify OCR languages below) Select this option if you want toapply the MRC compression algorithm to recognized pages. MRC compression reduces thesize of the output file while preserving the visual quality of the page images.
· Apply ABBYY PreciseScan to smooth characters on image Select this option if you want

to apply ABBYY PreciseScan technology. ABBYY PreciseScan smoothes characters on a
document so that they do not become pixilated when you zoom in.
· OCR languages Be sure to select the right OCR languages. See also: Document features toconsider prior to OCR 320 .

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Adding bookmarks
The PDF Editor allows you to add bookmarks to PDF documents of any type.
You can create a bookmark in the BOOKMARKS pane or using a shortcut menu.
1. To create a bookmark in the BOOKMARKS pane:a. Click the

button on the vertical bar to the left or click View > Bookmarks. The

BOOKMARKS pane will open.

b. Clickand type a name for your bookmark.

c. By default, the newly created bookmark will point to the start of the current page.
2. To create a bookmark using a shortcut menu:
a. Select a text fragment, a picture, or any other place in the document that you want tobookmark.
b. Right-click the selection and click Add Bookmark... on the shortcut menu.
c. Type a name for your bookmark in the BOOKMARKS pane.
If you bookmark a text fragment, the selected text will be used as the name of thebookmark.
d. The newly created bookmark will point to the text fragment, picture or other place in the
document that you selected.
To select a different destination for your bookmark, click Set Destination on the shortcut
menu of the bookmark and then click where you want the bookmark to be inserted in yourdocument.
Bookmarks can be nested. A new bookmark will have the same nesting level as thepreviously selected bookmark. If a new bookmark is the first bookmark in the document, it isplaced at the root level.
Alternatively, you can create a bookmark by clicking Edit > Add Bookmark....
Rearranging bookmarks…

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1. Select a bookmark in the BOOKMARKS pane.
2. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the bookmark to a desired location.

To create a nested bookmark, drag it onto an existing parent bookmark, wait for the icon of
the parent bookmark to change, and release the left mouse button. Alternatively, right-click abookmark and use the Move one level left and Move one level right commands on the
shortcut menu.
Rearranging bookmarks or changing their nesting levels will not affect the appearance ofthe document.
Renaming bookmarks…
1. Select a bookmark in the BOOKMARKS pane.
2. Click the

button or click Rename on the shortcut menu of the bookmark.

3. Type in a new name.
Deleting bookmarks…
1. Select a bookmark in the BOOKMARKS pane.
2. Click the

button or click Delete on the shortcut menu of the bookmark.

You can delete several bookmarks at a time if they are positioned at the same nesting level.
While holding down the Ctrl key, select the bookmarks you want to delete and click Delete.
When you delete a parent bookmark, all of its child bookmarks are also deleted.

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Adding headers and footers
The PDF Editor allows you to add headers and footers to pages in PDF documents. Headers andfooters are recurrent text at the top or bottom of the pages where you can put page numbers, thename of the author, the date or time of creation, or Bates numbers to be used for document indexing.
To add a header or footer to your document:

1. Click the

button.

2. Select the desired type of header or footer from the drop-down menu.
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1. Click the

button and then click Create Header and Footer...

2. In the dialog box that opens, choose one of the six possible locations on the page. For
greater precision, enter the exact distance between the header or footer and thecorresponding edge of the page.
You can select the units used for measuring the distance between the header/footer andhe edge of the page from the Measurement units drop-down list below the preview
pane.
3. In the Text field, type the text you want to be placed at the top or bottom of all of thepages of your document.
4. To add page numbers, date, time, or Bates numbers:· Click the Page Number button and select the desired page numbering format from thedrop-down list that opens.
The number of each page in the selected format will appear at the top or bottom of therespective page.
· Click the Bates Number button.

By default, numbering starts at 1 and all document pages are numbered. To change thedefault setting, click Continue from %0...

Numbering will start at the number you specify in the Start at field and will increment
either for each page or for each document, depending on your settings. Click Save toapply the changes.
· Click the Date/Time button and select the desired date or time format.

Each time you click the Bates Number button or an item in the Page Number ofDate/Time drop-down list, the corresponding item will be added into the Text field
after the mouse cursor. You can change the order of the items in this field, add your own
explanatory text, or customize the date or time format. For more information about
date and time formats, see "Current date and time on stamps and in headers andfooters 336 ."5. In the Font section, select the desired font, font size, font effects 366 , and font color.
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6. In the Pages section, specify whether your header/footer should appear on all of the pages
or only on some of them.
· Select All if you want your header/footer to appear on all of the pages, or select Page

range and specify a specific range of pages.
· You can put headers/footers only on odd or even pages. To do this, create aheader/footer and select Odd Pages or Even Pages from the Apply to drop-down list.
7. Click Save and Add to save your changes and add the newly created header/footer to yourdocument.
You can create a new header/footer from an existing one. To do this, click the
button and select Manage Headers and Footers.... In the Manage
Headers and Footers dialog box, select an existing header/footer and click Copy....
Editing headers/footers...

1. Click the

button and select Manage Headers and Footers...

2. In the Manage Headers and Footers dialog box, select the header/footer you want tomodify and click Edit....
3. Make the necessary changes and click Save.
Deleting a header/footer from the list...

1. Click the

button and select Manage Headers and Footers...

2. In the Manage Headers and Footers dialog box, select a header/footer you want to delete
and click Delete.

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Adding watermarks
The PDF Editor allows you to add watermarks into PDF documents. A watermark is some text placed
above or beneath the page content. You can use watermarks, for example, to indicate the author of atext or to identify pages containing confidential information.
To add a watermark:1. Clickand then click the Add Watermark... item.

2. In the dialog box that opens, select one of the nine possible locations on the page.
You can further adj ust the positioning of the watermark by changing the vertical andhorizontal offset values.
3. In the Text field, enter the text you want to appear on the pages.
You can select the font, font size, and font effects for your watermark text in the settings in
the Font section.
4. Adj ust the orientation and transparency of the watermark:a. In the Rotate field, specify a rotation angle (you can also use the slider to the right of
the field).
b. In the Transparency field, enter a transparency value (you can also use the slider to theright of the field).
5. Choose where you want to place your watermark — Above page content or In the
background beneath page content.
6. Specify if the watermark should appear on all of the pages or only on selected pages in the
document:a. Select All if the watermark should be placed on all the pages.
b. Select Selected if the watermark should be placed only on the currently selected page.
c. Select Page range if the watermark should be placed on a range of pages. If you selectthis option, you must specify a page range in the field below.
7. Review the watermark in the preview pane of the Add Watermark dialog box and, if you
are satisfied with the result, click Save and Add.
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To delete watermarks from a document, click

and then click the Delete Watermarks item.

This command deletes all of the watermarks from the document.

Adding file attachments
Files of any format can be attached to a PDF document.
To view attached files:· Click the

button in the pane to the left, or click View > Attachments.

You can open, save, rename or delete attached files.
In the ATTACHMENTS pane:· Select a file.

· On thetoolbar, click the tool that corresponds to the action you wantto perform. Alternatively, click the corresponding command on the shortcut menu.

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Viewing metadata
The PDF Editor allows you to view the title and author of a PDF document and some otherinformation. This information is called metadata. Some of the metadata are specified by the authorand some are generated automatically. You can also search documents by metadata.
To view metadata, click File > Document Properties... to open the Document Properties dialogbox.
You can change or save any metadata created by the author, provided that the PDF document is not
password-protected:· Title contains the title of the document.
· Author contains the author of the document.
· Subject contains the subj ect of the document.
· Keywords contains keywords that you can use when searching documents.

The original metadata are preserved when you convert files in various formats to PDF, provided thatyou have not chosen to delete the metadata and have not specified new export options that will
override the existing options.
The metadata of a document also contain the following information about the document and the file:· File name contains the name of the file.
· Location contains the path to the folder where the document is stored.
· File size contains the size of the file.
· Page size contains the size of the current page.
· Pages contains the number of pages in the document.
· PDF producer contains the name of the application where the document was created· Application contains the name of the application where the document content was created.
· PDF version contains the version of PDF.

If the metadata of a document contain information about the compliance with the PDF/Aor PDF/UA standard, this will be displayed in the Document Properties window.
· Tagged PDF contains information about document tags.
· Fast Web View specifies if the document supports Fast Web View technology, which speeds

up loading documents online.
· Created contains the date and time when the document was created.

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ABBYY FineReader allows you to view, edit, find 59 and delete 164 metadata.

Enhancing page images
The PDF Editor can enhance the quality of PDF documents created from image files. Depending on
the type of an input image, the program will select the appropriate image enhancement algorithms.
Besides automatic image enhancement, the PDF Editor can correct page orientation, skew, distorted
text lines and other defects, and make characters look smoother with ABBYY PreciseScan technology.
You can specify enhancement options in the Image Enhancement dialog box (click Edit > Enhance
Page Images... to open this dialog box).
· Correct page orientation Select this option if you want the program to detect and correct

page orientation automatically.
For best recognition results, a page should have the standard orientation, i.e. with horizontal
text lines and top-to-bottom reading order. Otherwise, the document may be recognizedincorrectly.
· Deskew images and correct image resolution Select this option if you want the program torun a number of image processing routines on your images.
Depending on the type of an input image, the program will select the image corrections toapply, such as skew correction, correction of trapezoid distortions, or adj ustment of image
resolution.
This operation may take some time to complete.
· Apply ABBYY PreciseScan to smooth characters on images Select this option if you want

to apply ABBYY PreciseScan technology, making the characters less pixelated when you
zoom in.
Be sure to select the right OCR languages. See also: Document features to consider prior to OCR 320 .

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Working with interactive PDF forms
Interactive PDF forms are a useful tool for gathering information. They can be filled out faster thanprinted forms and users are less likely to make errors when completing them.
Interactive PDF forms may contain the following types of fields: text fields 125 , drop-down lists 130 ,check boxes 135 , radio buttons 138 , buttons 141 , signature fields 151 , and list boxes 154 .
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 includes a PDF editor which allows you to fill out 115 , create 117 , and edit 119
interactive PDF forms.

With ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, you can easily print out 173 completed or blank forms, save 166 forms
in various formats, or e-mail 172 them.
Chapter contents· Filling out forms 115· Creating forms 117· Editing forms 119

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Filling out forms
ABBYY FineReader allows you to view, fill out, save, and print interactive forms.
1. If a document contains a form, the following message is displayed:

To disable the highlighting of interactive form fields, clear the Highlight fields in thismessage or click View and clear the check box next to the Highlight Fields item.
2. To fill out a form, select values form drop-down lists or type in text from the keyboard.

With ABBYY FineReader you can also:· Load data into a form

Click Tools > Form Data > Load Form Data from File..., browse to a file with form data,and click Open. The form will be populated with data from the file you selected.
Form data can be loaded from FDF or XFDF files.
· Save form data

Click Tools > Form Data > Save Form Data to File..., specify a name for your file, select an
output format, and click Save. The form data will be saved to file.
Form data can be saved in FDF, XFDF, or HTML formats.
· Clear form fields

Click Edit > Form Data > Reset Form. All of the form fields will be cleared.
If JavaScript is disabled in the program settings, some of the elements in PDF forms may be
unavailable. For example, data format checks may not be available. You can enable JavaScript byclicking Options > Other > Enable JavaScript in PDF documents.
See also: PDF security features 59 .

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If no interactive fields are highlighted in your current form, make sure that the Highlight fields
option is selected in the yellow pane above the form (or that the Highlight Fields item is selected on
the View menu). If the option or menu item is selected but you still don't see any highlighted fields,
use the Export tool to fill out your form.
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Creating forms
To create a form:
1. In the PDF Editor, create a new document or open an existing one. See also: Viewing PDF
documents 52

2. Switch to form editing mode by clicking the

button on the main toolbar. This willbring up a new toolbar with tools that allow you to add various types of interactive fields onto
your form.
If your form already contains interactive fields, their names will be displayed on the form. If you
do not want to see the field names, right-click anywhere on the form and clear the check box next
to the Show Field Names item on the shortcut menu. Alternatively, click View > Show Field
Names.

In form editing mode, the main PDF tools become unavailable.
3. Add 119 and edit 119 form fields as required and adj ust their position 121 on the page.
Fields can only be repositioned within the current page.
To see your form fields as they will be displayed to the user, exit form editing mode 118 .
You can add fields of the following types:· text field 125· drop-down list 130· check box 135

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4. Exit form editing mode by clicking the

button on the main toolbar. Alternatively,

right-click anywhere on the form and select Exit Form Editor on the shortcut menu, or j ust press
the Esc key.
5. Save 166 your form.
Saving you form as a PDF document (File > Save As > PDF Document...) will preserve theinteractive fields so that you or other users will be able to fill out the form when they open the PDF
file. Saving your form in other formats (e.g. Microsoft Word) will render it non-editable.

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Editing forms
In the PDF Editor, you can perform various operations on interactive form fields in PDF documents.
You can:· Add 119 fields.
· Change 119 the size of a field and other field properties.
· Copy 120 a field or create a linked copy 121 of a field.
· Move 121 a field to a different position within the current page.
· Align 121 fields relative to one another or to the margins.
· Delete 123 fields.
· Clear 123 data from all fields.

Adding fields
1. Switch to form editing mode 117 .
2. On the form toolbar, click the type of field that you want to add.

3. Click where you want to add the field. A default-sized field will be added.
To draw a field of any size, do not release the left mouse button and drag the mousepointer in the desired direction.
When you select the Radio Button tool, a radio button is added to the form each time
you click your mouse inside the form. Once you have added the required number of radio
buttons, press Esc to turn off the tool. See also: Radio buttons 138
4. Edit 119 the field if required.
5. Exit form editing mode 118 .

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2. Double-click the field that you want to edit (or right-click and select Properties... on the
shortcut menu).

3. In the Properties dialog box, change the properties of the field.
The set of properties you see in this dialog box depends on the type of the selected field.
Follow the links below to read more about the properties of each type of field:· text field 125· drop-down list 130· check box 135· radio buttons 138· button 141· signature field 151· list box 154

4. Click OK to save your changes.
Clicking Cancel discards all changes.
5. Exit form editing mode 118 .

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1. While in form editing mode 117 , right-click the field that you want to copy and select Copyon the shortcut menu. Alternatively, select the field with a mouse click and press Ctrl+C on
the keyboard.
2. Right-click where you want to copy the field and select Paste on the shortcut menu orpress Ctrl+V on the keyboard.
Copies will have the same properties as the original field with the exception of Field Name.
Only empty signature fields 151 can be copied.
Creating a linked copy of a field
While in form editing mode 117 , right-click the field for which you want to create a linked copy andselect Create Linked Copy on the shortcut menu. A linked copy will appear next to the original field.
When a user enters data into a field that has linked copies, all of the copies will be automatically
populated with the same data. This is useful when the same data has to be entered several times
within the same document.
Linked copies will have the same properties as the original field. You can change any property of alinked field. Changing the Field Name property will turn a linked copy into a simple copy, i.e. it will
no longer be automatically populated with data from the original field.
Moving fields around the page
While in form editing mode 117 , click the field that you want to move and drag it to the desired
location.
To move multiple fields, select them while holding down the Ctrl key. Next, click any of theselected fields and drag them to the desired location.
Fields can only be moved within the current page.
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While in form editing mode 117 , start moving 121 a field around the page. Purple-colored guides willappear to help you align the fields relative to one another or the page margins.
If you do not want to see the guides, press and hold down the Ctrl key while moving fields aroundthe page.

To specify coordinates for multiple fields:
1. While in form editing mode 117 , right-click one of the fields whose coordinates you want tochange and select Properties... on the shortcut menu. The Properties dialog box will open.
2. On the General tab, change the values in X and/or Y boxes 126 .
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4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for all the remaining fields that you want to align. Alternatively,align the remaining field using the purple-colored guides as described above.
To align fields vertically, specify the same value for all the fields in the X box.
To align fields horizontally, specify the same value for all the fields in the Y box.
Deleting fields
While in form editing mode 117 , click the field that you want to delete and press the Delete key.
Alternatively, right-click the field and select Delete on the shortcut menu.
To delete multiple fields, select them while holding down the Ctrl key and then press the Deletekey (or right-click the selection and select Delete on the shortcut menu).
Clearing data from all fields
While in form editing mode 117 , right-click anywhere in your PDF document and select Reset Formon the shortcut menu.
Resizing fields
1. While in form editing mode 117 , right-click the field that you want to resize and selectProperties... on the shortcut menu. The Properties dialog box will open.
2. On the General tab, change the values in the Width and Height boxes 126 .
3. Click OK to save your changes.
You can also resize an interactive field by clicking it, resting your mouse on one of the sizing
handles until the mouse pointer changes to, and dragging the handle in the desired direction.

Adding pop-up tips to fields
1. While in form editing mode 117 , right-click the field for which you want to provide a tip andselect Properties... on the shortcut menu. The Properties dialog box will open.
2. On the General tab, type the text of the tip in the Tooltip box 126 .
In the case of radio buttons, type a single tip for entire group in the Radio Group
Tooltip box.
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1. While in form editing mode 117 , right-click the field that you want to make required andselect Properties... on the shortcut menu. The Properties dialog box will open.
Any fields can be made required with the exception of buttons 141 .
2. On the General tab, select the Required option.
3. Click OK to save your changes.
In form editing mode, the names 126 of required fields are highlighted in red.

When you exit form editing mode, required fields will have a red-colored frame if theHighlight fields option is selected in the yellow pane above the form (or if the Highlight
Fields item is selected on the View menu).

The Required option merely informs the user that a particular field must always be completed. It
does not limit the user's ability to save, e-mail or print 166 a PDF form with required fields left empty.

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Text field
Text Field is intended for textual data.

To add a text field onto your form, switch to form editing mode and click the

tool.

See also: Adding interactive fields 119
To edit a text field, right-click the field and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

Text field properties
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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the text field (field name, pop-up tip,
size, etc.).

Field Name - This is a required property. It will be displayed above the field in form editing mode.
Each field must have a unique name. Field names must not start or end with a full stop or contain two
or more consecutive full stops.
Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115 mode.
Max Number of Symbols - The maximum number of characters that can be entered into the field. If
no value is specified, text of any length can be entered.
Required - If this option is selected, the field will be marked as required 123 .
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to edit the field.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the field in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a field cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the field are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the field can only be changed in proportion to each other.
X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the field. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the field dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a field can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.
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Appearance tab
On the Appearance tab, you can specify frame thickness and color, fill color, and font size and color.

Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the field.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the field.
Font Color - The color of text typed into the field.
Font Name - The font to be used for text typed into the field.
Font Size - The size of text typed into the field.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new text fields that you create.
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On the Format tab, you can specify what type of data can be entered into the field by selecting thedesired data type from the Format drop-down list. Two data types are available:· Text 128· DateText
Select Text from the Format drop-down list to allow users to enter any text in this field.
This format is suitable for entering text, numbers, passwords, e-mail addresses, and other textual
data.

Field Type - Indicates how many lines of text the field may contain.
· Single Line - The field may contain only one line of text.
· Multiline - The field may contain any number of lines.

Date
Select Date from the Format drop-down list to allow users to enter a date into this field.
In fill-out mode, clicking this field will display a calendar, where the user can quickly select a date.

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View - The format to be used for the date.
Users will be able to enter a date in any format. However, when a user finishes entering the date, itwill be reduced to the format specified in the View box.

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Drop-down list
Drop-down List allows the user to select a value from the list or to enter a custom value.

To add a drop-down list onto your form, switch to form editing mode and click the
tool.
See also: Adding interactive fields 119
To edit a drop-down list, right-click the drop-down list and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

Drop-down list properties
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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the drop-down list (field name, pop-up
tip, size, etc.).

Field Name - This is a required property. It will be displayed above the field in form editing mode.
Each field must have a unique name. Field names must not start or end with a full stop or contain two
or more consecutive full stops.
Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115 mode.
Required - If this option is selected, the field will be marked as required 123 .
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to edit the field.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the field in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a field cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the field are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the field can only be changed in proportion to each other.
X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the field. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the field dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a field can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.
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On the Appearance tab, you can specify frame thickness and color, fill color, and font size and color.

Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the field.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the field.
Font Color - The color of text items selected from the drop-down list.
Font Name - The font to be used for text items selected from the drop-down list.
Font Size - The size of text items selected from the drop-down list.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new drop-down lists that you create.
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On the List Items tab, you can edit the list of items by adding, deleting or modifying items. You canalso move an item up or down, make an item the default choice, or allow the user to enter a custom
value not included on the list.

List Items - Displays all the items that will appear on the drop-down list.
Add - Adds a new item at the end of the list.
Edit - Modifies the selected item.
Delete - Deletes the selected item from the list.
To delete multiple items, click them one by one while holding down the Ctrl key and then click
Delete.
Set as Default - Make the selected item the default choice. This choice will be suggested to the user
by default, but the user will be free to choose any other item from the list. If the user clears data fromall the fields 123 , the default choice will be restored.
To specify a different item as the default choice, click that item and then click Set as Default.
Unset as Default - Removes the default status from the item that was previously made the default
choice.
Use this button if you no longer need to suggest a default choice.
Up - Moves the selected item up in the list.
Down - Moves the selected item down in the list.

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Allow non-list items - Allows the user to enter a custom value not included on the drop-down list.

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Check box
Check Box allows the user to select an option or leave it unselected (i.e. select between Yes or No).

To add a check box onto your form, switch to form editing mode and click the

tool.

See also: Adding interactive fields 119
To edit a check box, right-click the check box and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

Check box properties
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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the check box (field name, pop-up tip,
size, etc.).

Field Name - This is a required property. It will be displayed above the field in form editing mode.
Each field must have a unique name. Field names must not start or end with a full stop or contain two
or more consecutive full stops.
Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115 mode.
Enabled by Default - If this option is selected, this check box will be selected by default.
Required - If this option is selected, the field will be marked as required 123 .
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to edit the field.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the field in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a field cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the field are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the field can only be changed in proportion to each other.
X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the field. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the field dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a field can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.
Appearance tab
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On the Appearance tab, you can specify frame thickness and color, fill color, and the color of thecheck.

Checkmark Color - The color of the check inside the box.
Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the field.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the field.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new check boxes that you create.

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Radio button
Radio Button allows the user to select only one option from a group of available options.
To add radio buttons onto your form:
1. Switch to form editing mode 117 .

2. Click thetool.

3. Click where you want to add a radio button. A default-sized radio button will be added. Continue
clicking on the form to add the required number of radio buttons.
You must add at least two radio buttons, because, by their very nature, radio buttons give theuser a choice between two or among multiple options.

4. Click thetool again or press the Esc key to stop adding radio buttons.

All the radio buttons you add before turning off this tool, will form a single group. If you need to
add another group of radio buttons, repeat steps 2 through 4.
To edit a radio button, right click that button and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

Radio button properties
General tab

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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the group of radio buttons (groupname, pop-up tip, size, etc.).

Radio Group Name - The name of the group that contains this radio button. This name will be
displayed above all the radio buttons in this group when you switch to form editing mode. This is arequired field. You can create a group of radio buttons by entering a new name in this field, or you
can select an existing group from the drop-down list of groups.
Radio Group Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115
mode.
The same tip will be displayed for all radio buttons in the group.
Radio Button Name - This is a required field. Each radio button must have a unique name.
Enabled by Default - If this option is selected, this radio button will be selected by default.
Required - If this option is selected, the user will be required 123 to select a radio button in thisgroup.
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to select a radio button in this group.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the field in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a field cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the field are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the field can only be changed in proportion to each other.
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X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the field. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the field dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a field can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.
Appearance tab
On the Appearance tab, you can specify stroke thickness and color, fill color, and the color of the dot.

Dot Color - The color of the dot inside the selected radio button.
Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the radio button.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the radio button.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new radio buttons that you create.

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ButtonButton allows the user to initiate an action associated with a given button.
To add a button onto your form, switch to form editing mode and click the

tool.

See also: Adding interactive fields 119
To edit a button, right-click the button and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

Button properties
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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the button (field name, button text,
pop-up tip, button size, etc.).

Field Name - This is a required property. It will be displayed above the field in form editing mode.
Each field must have a unique name. Field names must not start or end with a full stop or contain two
or more consecutive full stops.
Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115 mode.
Button Text - The text to be displayed on the button.
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to click the button.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the button in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a button cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the button are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the button can only be changed in proportion to each other.
X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the button. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the button dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a button can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.
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On the Appearance tab, you can specify frame thickness and color, fill color, and font size and color.

Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the button.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the button.
Font Color - The color of text on the button.
Font Name - The font to be used for the text on the button.
Font Size - The size of the text on the button.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new buttons that you create.
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On the Actions tab, you can add, delete, or modify actions triggered by certain events cause by user
activity.

Actions lists all the actions triggered by certain user activity.
Create... adds a new action 144 .
Edit... modifies the selected action.
Delete deletes the selected action.

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To add a new action for your button:
1. Switch to form editing mode 117 .
2. Open 119 the Properties dialog box for the desired button and click the Actions tab.
3. Click Create.... This will open the New Action dialog box.

4. Select an event that will trigger an action.
· Click - The user clicks the button.
· Drop - The user releases the left mouse button while the mouse pointer is placed over the

button on the form.
· Mouse Over - The user places the mouse pointer over the button on the form.
· Mouse Out - The user removes the mouse pointer from the button on the form.
· Focus - The user places focus on the button using the Tab key.
· Focus Out - The user removes focus on the button using the Tab key.

5. Select an action 146 that will be triggered by the event.
6. Click Save to save the action. The action will appear in the Actions section of the Button
Properties window.
Actions are grouped by event. An event may initiate a sequence of actions.
You can move actions between groups with the mouse.
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7. Click OK to save your changes.
List of possible actions

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Add pages from scanner opens the scanning dialog box, where the user can select a scanningdevice and specify scanning parameters 37 . Newly scanned pages will be appended at the endof the PDF document.
· Save form as... opens the document saving dialog box, where the user can save the form as a

PDF, FDF, XFDF, or HTML document.
· Close document closes the current document.
· Print form... opens the printing dialog box 173 .
· Exit application closes the current application.
· Search document... opens the search pane 59 .
· Go to first page goes to the first page in the current document.
· Go to last page goes to the last page in the current document.
· Go to next page goes to the next page in the current document.
· Go to previous page goes to the previous page in the current document.
· Go back goes to the page that was open before the user opened the current page.
· Go forward goes to the page from which the user returned to the current page.
· Select a page to go to... opens a dialog box where the user can enter the number of the pagethat he/she wants to open.
· Set one-page view switches to One-Page View 53 .
· Set two-page view switches to Two-Page View 53 .
· Set one-page scrolling enables One-Page Scrolling 53 .
· Set two-page scrolling enables Two-Page Scrolling 53 .
· Zoom to 100% displays the page in its actual size.
· Fit page width to screen fits the page into the screen horizontally.
· Fit page to screen displays the entire page.
· Show/hide attachments opens the ATTACHMENTS 111 pane.
· Show/hide bookmarks opens the BOOKMARKS 105 pane.
· Show/hide pages pane opens the PAGES 101 pane.
· Show/hide digital signatures opens the DIGITAL SIGNATURES 159 pane.

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· View document properties... opens the Document Properties dialog box, where you canreview the document's metadata 112 .
· Open file opens the document specified in the File box. Click Browse... to select the documentthat you want to open.

· Follow link opens the link specified in the Link box.

· Reset form clears the data from all the fields in the current form.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Send form sends the form data to the e-mail address or server specified in the Send to box. In

the File Format box, you can choose the format to be used when submitting a completed
form. The following four choices are available: PDF, FDF, XFDF, or HTML.

· Go to page opens the page specified in the Page Number box.

· Run JavaScript runs the code entered in the JavaScript box.

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To change an action associated with a button:
1. Switch to form editing mode 117 .
2. Open 119 the Properties dialog box for the desired button and click the Actions tab.
3. Click the action that you want to change and then click Edit.... This will open the Edit Action
dialog box.
4. Change the values in the Trigger Event 145 and Action 146 boxes.
5. Click Save. The changes you have made will be reflected in the Actions section of the Button
Properties dialog box.
6. Click OK to save your changes.

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Signature field
Signature Field allows the user to put his/her digital signature to the PDF document.
See also: Digital signature 159

To add a signature field onto your form, switch to form editing mode and click the
tool.
See also: Adding interactive fields 119
To edit a signature field, right-click the field and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

Signature field properties
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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the signature field (field name, pop-up
tip, size, etc.).

Field Name - This is a required property. It will be displayed above the field in form editing mode.
Each field must have a unique name. Field names must not start or end with a full stop or contain two
or more consecutive full stops.
Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115 mode.
Required - If this option is selected, the user will be required 123 to put hie/her digital signature to
the document.
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to edit the field.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the field in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a field cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the field are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the field can only be changed in proportion to each other.
X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the field. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the field dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a field can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.
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On the Appearance tab, you can specify frame thickness and color and fill color.

Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the field.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the field.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new signature fields that you create.

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List box
List Box allows the user to select one or more values from a list.

To add a list box onto your form, switch to form editing mode and click the

tool.

See also: Adding interactive fields 119
To edit a list box, right-click the list box and select Properties... on the shortcut menu.
See also: Editing interactive fields

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On the General tab, you can specify the general properties of the list box (field name, pop-up tip,
size, etc.).

Field Name - This is a required property. It will be displayed above the field in form editing mode.
Each field must have a unique name. Field names must not start or end with a full stop or contain two
or more consecutive full stops.
Tooltip - The text of the tip that appears when you point to the field in fill-out 115 mode.
Required - If this option is selected, the field will be marked as required 123 .
Read-Only - If this option is selected, the user will not be able to edit the field.
Width and Height - These boxes specify the size of the field in units selected in the Units box. The
size of a field cannot be 0.
- The width and height of the field are independent of each other.
- The width and height of the field can only be changed in proportion to each other.
X and Y - These boxes contain the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the field. The coordinates
start from the top left corner of the page.
Units - The measurement units for the field dimensions specified in the Width and Height boxes.
The width and height of a field can be specified in centimeters, inches, or points.

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Appearance tab
On the Appearance tab, you can specify frame thickness and color, fill color, and font size and color.

Fill Color - The fill color.
Stroke Color - The color of the frame enclosing the field.
Thickness - The thickness of the frame enclosing the field.
Font Color - The color of text items selected from the list.
Font Name - The font to be used for text items selected from the list.
Font Size - The size of text items selected from the list.
Set as Default Style - The current settings will be used for any new list boxes that you create.
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On the List Items tab, you can edit the list of items by adding, deleting or modifying items. You canalso move an item up or down, make an item the default choice, or allow the user to select multiple
items from the list.

List Items - Displays all the items that will appear in the list box.
Add - Adds a new item at the end of the list.
Edit - Modifies the selected item.
Delete - Deletes the selected item from the list.
To delete multiple items, click them one by one while holding down the Ctrl key and then click
Delete.
Set as Default - Make the selected item the default choice. If the user clears data from all thefields 123 , the default choice will be restored.
To specify a different item as the default choice, click that item and then click Set as Default.
Unset as Default - Removes the default status from the item that was previously made the default
choice.
Use this button if you no longer need to suggest a default choice.
Up - Moves the selected item up in the list.
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Allow multiple selection - Allows the user to select multiple items from the list.

Signing PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to sign documents digitally and to validate any digital signature in adocument. You can also add text and picture signatures.
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Digital signature
The PDF Editor allows you to sign documents digitally and to validate any digital signature in adocument. A digital signature is used to establish the identity of the person that signed the document.
Additionally, a digital signature can be used to make sure that a signed document has not beenaltered.
To sign a document:

1. On the main toolbar, click> Add Digital Signature....

2. Select the area where you want to place the signature or simply click the desired location.
3. Select the certificate to be used from the Sign as drop-down list. To view the properties ofa certificate, select it and click Show Certificate....
If the certificate you want to use is not in the list, you will have to install it. To install acertificate, right-click it in Windows Explorer, click Install Certificate on the shortcut menu,
and follow the instructions in the Certificate Import Wizard.
4. If required, use the Reason drop-down list to specify the reason for signing the document.
The Location and Contact fields are used to specify the location where the document was
signed and your contact information respectively.
In the Reason field, you can either select a value from the drop-down list or enter acustom text.
5. The following can also be specified in a signature: the date and time of signing, signatureowner information, as well as the name and version number of the FineReader program thatwas used.
You can also choose which information is displayed in the signature by unchecking thenames of fields that you do not want to be displayed.
If you do not want field names to be displayed in the signature, uncheck Show labels.
6. If required, click Set up Time Stamp Server 160 and specify the server URL. If login
credentials are required to establish a connection, enter a login and a password.
7. Select the Borders and background option to add a border and a grey background to yoursignature.
8. Select Add custom image to digital signature if you want your signature to include animage. Then click the Select Image... button to browse to an image file. The image willappear to the left of the signature.
9. Click Save and sign.
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This will add a digital signature with the specified parameters to the document.

A signature contains information about the version of the document at the time of signing. If you add
a new signature to an already signed document, the previously added signatures will remain valid.
To view the properties of a signature in a document:· Right-click the signature and click Show Signature Properties... on the shortcut menu, or· Double-click the signature in the DIGITAL SIGNATURES pane.

When you open a PDF document, ABBYY FineReader automatically validates the digital signatures inthe document, if any. Validation results will be displayed in the DIGITAL SIGNATURES pane, which
also contains detailed information about the signatures used in the document.
To delete a signature:· Right-click the signature and click Remove Signature on the shortcut menu.

You can only delete a signature from a document if you have the corresponding digital certificate.
You can add more than one digital signature to a document.

Time Stamp Server Settings
The use of timestamps decreases the possibility of a signature being invalid. Marking a PDF documentwith a timestamp requires a connection to a timestamp server. To set up a timestamp serverconnection, click Set up Time Stamp Server and specify one of the following server options in the
dialog box that will appear:· Default to use the default timestamp server.
· Custom to specify the URL of a custom timestamp server. If credentials are required to establish aconnection to that server, enter your login and password and click OK.
Your login and password will be encrypted and saved on your computer in a Windows storage
called Windows Credentials (Credential Manager > Windows Credentials). You will not be
required to enter your credentials when connecting to the server a second time.
This will specify the timestamp server time at which the document was signed after the document
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Text signature
The PDF Editor allows you to add text signatures to your PDF documents.

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Create Text Signature....

If you have already created some text signatures, select a signature from the list ofavailable signatures. Alternatively, click Other Signature > Create Text Signature....
2. In the Create Text Signature dialog box that opens, enter some text for the signature.
3. Change the style of the signature, if required.
4. Click Save.
5. Place the signature where you want it to appear on the page.
6. You can change the size of the signature, rotate it, or move it to another location in the
document.
As a result, your text signature will appear in the document.
Editing signatures

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Other Signature > Manage Signatures....

2. In the dialog box that opens, select a signature and click Edit....
You can edit both text and picture signatures 162 .
3. In the dialog box that opens, change the parameters of your signature and click Save.
If you want to add the edited signature to the document, click Use and place thesignature where you want it to appear on the page.
Deleting signatures
To delete a signature:· Select the signature on the document and press the Delete key, or· Right-click the signature on the document and click Delete... on the shortcut menu.

To delete a signature from the list of available signatures:

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Other Signature > Manage Signatures....

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2. In the dialog box that opens, select the signature you want to delete and click Delete....
You can delete both text and picture signatures 162 .
You can add more than one signature to a document.

Picture signature
ABBYY FineReader allows you to add picture signatures to your PDF documents.

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click> Create Signature from Image....

If you have already created some signatures, select a signature from the list of available
signatures. Alternatively, click Other Signature > Create Signature from Image....
2. In the Create Signature from Image dialog box, click Open to select an image file or click
Paste from Clipboard to paste the signature currently stored on the Clipboard.
3. You can change the size of your signature and make the background transparent.
4. Click Save.
5. Place the signature where you want it to appear on the page.
6. You can change the size of the signature, rotate it, or move it to another location in the
document.
As a result, your picture signature will appear in the document.
You can add any number of signatures to a document.
You can edit or delete a picture signature. See also: Text signature 161 .

Protecting PDF documents with passwords
When you create a PDF document, you can set passwords to protect it from unauthorized access,editing, and printing.
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Passwords and permissions
When you create a PDF document 165 , you can set passwords to protect it from unauthorized access,editing, and printing. A PDF document can be protected with a Document Open password and/orPermissions Password.
If a PDF document is protected from unauthorized access, it can only be opened after entering theDocument Open Password that was specified by the document's author. If the document is protectedfrom unauthorized editing and printing, these actions will only be possible after entering thePermissions Password specified by the author. The Permissions Password can also be used to open aprotected PDF document.
Follow the instructions below to protect a document with a password.

1. Click the

button on the PDF Tools toolbar or click Tools > Security

Settings.
The Security Settings dialog box will open.
2. If you want to protect your document from unauthorized opening, select the Restrict
access with a Document Open password option.
3. Type a Document Open password and confirm it.
You can disable the Hide characters option. In this case, the characters you enter will be
displayed on the screen and you won't have to retype your password.
4. If you want to prevent unauthorized printing, editing or copying of your document, selectthe Restrict printing and editing with a Permissions password option.
5. Type a Permissions Password and confirm it.
The Document Open Password and the Permissions Password must be different.
6. From the Printing drop-down list, select a printing resolution for your document.
7. From the Editing drop-down list, select allowed editing operations.
8. If you want to allow other users to copy and edit the content of your document, select thecorresponding options.
9. Select an encryption level and components to encrypt.
10.Click OK.
You will be prompted to confirm the passwords again. You can save the changes to the open
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Deleting confidential information from PDF documents
You can use the PDF Editor to remove confidential information from PDF documents before
publishing them. Both text and images can be redacted.

1. On the PDF Tools toolbar, click

or click the arrow next to this tool andselect Redaction Mode.
2. If you want to change the color of rectangles that will be painted over redacted text, click
one of the seven color boxes on the toolbar or click the arrow and select any other desiredcolor from the palette. For even more colors, click More colors....

3. Select the text and/or images you want to remove.
As a result, the selected content will be removed from the document and their respective
occurrences painted over with the color of your choice.
You can delete obj ects and data that do not occur in the body text of your document (e.g. comments,
annotations, bookmarks, attachments, metadata, etc.):

1. Click the arrow next to thebutton and select Delete Objects and Data....

2. In the dialog box that opens, select the obj ects and data to delete and click Apply.
ABBYY FineReader also allows you to use the Search feature to remove sensitive data. See also:
Search and redact 64 .

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Creating PDF documents
Chapter contents· Creating PDF documents from selected pages 165· Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents

For detailed instructions on creating PDF documents from files, scans, or digital photos, see:Creating PDF documents 22 and Scanning to PDF 42 .

Creating PDF documents from selected pages
The PDF Editor allows you to create PDF documents from selected pages.
1. In the PAGES pane, select the pages from which you want to create a PDF.
2. Right-click the pages and click Create PDF from Selected Pages on the shortcut menu.
3. The created document will be opened in a new PDF Editor window.

Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents
You can create PDF documents from any applications that allow you to select a printer. PDF-XChange
5.0 for ABBYY FineReader 15 will be used.
1. Open a document from which you want to create a PDF.
2. Open the printing options dialog box.
3. In the list of available printers, select PDF-XChange 5.0 for ABBYY FineReader 15.
4. If required, click Printer Settings... and adj ust the PDF creation settings.
5. Click Print to start creating a PDF document.
6. In the dialog box that opens, you can change the name and location of your file, open the
document for viewing after it is saved, or e-mail the document. You can also choose to add
the PDF document that is being created to an existing PDF document by selecting Add Filesto PDF.

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Saving and exporting PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to save, print, and e-mail PDF documents or send them to the OCR Editor
for further processing.
Chapter contents· Saving PDF documents 167· Saving in PDF/Α 168· Saving in other formats 170· Reducing the size of your PDF documents 171· Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor 172· E-mailing PDF documents 172· Printing PDF documents 173

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Saving PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to save entire PDF documents or only selected pages. Various saving
options are available.
· To save the changes you have made to your current PDF document, click File > Save.

Alternatively, clickon the main toolbar.

· To save your current PDF document under a different name or to a different folder, click File

> Save As > PDF Document.... Alternatively, clickon the main toolbar andthen click PDF Document....
· To save your document as a PDF document where users will be able to select, copy, and edit

content, click File > Save As > Searchable PDF Document. Alternatively, click Save As on
the main toolbar and then click Searchable PDF Document.
As a result, your PDF document will be converted to searchable PDF using the currently
selected saving options. To change the saving options, click the Options... button in thesaving dialog box and select desired saving options on the PDF 296 tab.
· To save a PDF document without a text layer (such PDF documents cannot be searched andtheir content cannot be selected, copied or edited) click File > Save As > Image-Only PDF
Document. Alternatively, click Save As on the main toolbar and then click Image-Only PDF
Document.
As a result, your PDF document will be converted to image-only PDF using the currently
selected saving options. To change the saving options, click the Options... button in thesaving dialog box and select desired saving options on the PDF 296 tab.
To convert only some pages of a document, in the PAGES pane, select the pages that you
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Saving in PDF/A
The PDF Editor allows you to save documents in PDF/A, a format intended for long-term storage.
PDF/A documents contain all the information required for their correct display:· All fonts are embedded into the document (except for non-visible text).
· Only embeddable fonts are used.
· Colors are displayed correctly irrespective of the device.
· The metadata used in the document comply with the applicable standards.

The following are not supported:· audio, video, and 3D obj ects
· scripts· encryption· links to external content· copyrighted content (e.g. LZW).

To save a PDF document in PDF/A:

1. Click File > Save As > PDF Document.... Alternatively, click the

button on

the main toolbar and then click PDF Document....
2. In the dialog box that opens, specify a name and location for your document.
3. Select Create PDF/A and then select a PDF/A version 168 from the drop-down list.
4. Click Save.
You can create PDF/A-compliant documents from various formats. See also: Creating PDF
documents 22 .

PDF/A versions
PDF/A-1

PDF/A-2

PDF/A-3

B, A

B, A, U

B, A, U

· 2005: PDF/A-1 is based on PDF 1.4 and supports the following features:

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ISO 19005-1:2005 (Cor 1: 2007, Cor 2: 2011).
· 2011: PDF/A-2 is based on PDF 1.7 and supports additional features:o U - Unicode
o JPEG2000 compressiono transparencyo PDF/A attachmentso digital signatures
ISO 19005-2:2011.
· 2012: PDF/A-3 supports additional features:

o file attachments in any format
ISO 19005-3:2012.

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Saving in other formats
The PDF Editor allows you to save entire PDF documents or individual pages in various formats:
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, HTML, images formats, and many more.

1. Click File > Save As and then click a desired format. Alternatively, click

andthen click a desired format.
2. In the dialog box that opens, specify a name and location for your document.
3. Open the drop-down list next to File options and specify whether you want to create one
file for all pages or a separate file for each page.
4. Click Save.
5. As a result, your PDF- document will be converted into the format of your choice using thecurrently selected saving options.
To change the saving options, click the Options... button in the saving dialog box and selectdesired saving options. Alternatively, click Tools > Options... > Format Settings 295 . The
options dialog box will open, displaying the tab of the format that you selected.
To convert only some of the pages in the document, in the PAGES pane, select the pages
that you want to convert, right-click them, click Save As on the shortcut menu, and then click
an output format.
You can convert PDF and image files into documents in various formats. See also: Creating
Microsoft Word documents 24 , Creating Microsoft Excel documents 26 , and Other formats 28 .

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Reducing the size of your PDF documents
PDF documents that contain page images or a lot of pictures can be very large. The PDF Editor allows
you to reduce the size of such documents.
1. Click File > Reduce File Size....
2. In the dialog box that opens, the following options are available:· Image quality - Select this option if you want to reduce the size of the file by lowering

the quality of the pictures inside the document.
· Use MRC compression (specify OCR languages below) - Select this option if you want

to apply the MRC compression algorithm to recognized pages, which considerably
reduces file size while preserving the visual quality the page images.
· OCR languages - Be sure to select the right OCR language(s).

3. Click Apply.
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Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor
The PDF Editor allows you to send PDF documents to the OCR Editor 177 , where you can draw
recognition areas, check recognized text, train the program to recognize non-standard fonts andcharacters, and use other advanced features offered by ABBYY FineReader.
· To send a PDF document to the OCR Editor, click the arrow next to thebuttonand then click Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor.
· To send only some of the pages of the document to the OCR Editor, in the PAGES pane,select the pages that you want to send, right-click them and click Send Selected Pages to
OCR Editor on the shortcut menu.
When sending the document to the OCR Editor, some of these document obj ects will be
lost:· attachments· bookmarks· comments· annotations

Once you are done working with the document in the OCR Editor, you can send it back to the
PDF Editor. To do this, click the arrow next to thebutton and then click Send

to PDF Editor.... Alternatively, click File > Send To > PDF Editor....

E-mailing PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to send PDF documents by e-mail.

1. Click the

button on the main toolbar or click File > E-mail....

2. In the dialog box that opens, change the name of the document if required.
3. Select the pages that you want to e-mail.
4. Click Create E-mail Message.
An e-mail message will be created and the PDF document will be attached to this message. Type in
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Printing PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to print PDF documents. Before printing, please make sure your computer
has a local or network printer connected to it and that the drivers for the printer are installed.

1. Click the

button on the main toolbar or click File > Print....

2. In the dialog box that opens, specify desired printing settings:· Printer - Select one of the available printing devices.
· Copies - Specify the number of copies to be printed.
· Pages to print - Specify the pages to be printed (you can choose to print all of thepages, selected pages or a range of pages).
· Page setup - Specify paper size and orientation.
· Scaling and position - Specify the number of document pages to place on one printed

page and other printing settings, such as scaling and positioning.
· Comments and markup - Select the appropriate action from the list to print comments

and markups. To view all comments in the document, click Show Comments....
· Manually print on both sides - Select this option if you use duplex printing.
· Black and white - Select this option if you want to print your document in black andwhite.
3. Click Print.

Splitting PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to split a PDF document into several documents of a smaller size. You cansplit a document by file size, page count, or top level bookmarks.
Chapter contents:· Splitting by file size 174· Splitting by page count 175· Splitting by bookmarks 176

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Splitting by file size
To split a PDF document by file size, do the following:
1. Use the PDF Editor to open the document and then select File > Split Document...
2. In the dialog box that will open:
a. Select Split method > By file size.
b. Specify the File size, which is the maximum allowed file size for each new document.
The specified file size should be less than the size of the original file.
The size of the new document can turn out to be greater than the specified size dependingon the contents of the PDF document (e.g. if the document contains a large number of images,
fonts, interactive forms, etc.).
c. Change the File name if needed. The names of all new documents are numerated at the end inorder to keep them unique. Enable numeration before or after the name and specify the
number of digits.
E.g. the parameters "Name: Document, Numeration: After name, Number of digits: 3" will
generate the following document names: Document001.pdf, Document002.pdf,
Document003.pdf, etc.
The name of the source document is used by default.
d. Save the new documents to the source document folder or specify a different location.
Attached files will be sent to a separate folder called Attachments in the same directory.
Bookmarks are not retained in the new documents.
3. Click Split.
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Splitting by page countTo split a document by page count, do the following:
1. Use the PDF Editor to open the document and then select File > Split Document...
2. In the dialog box that will open:
a. Select Split method > By page count.
b. Specify the Page count, which is the maximum allowed number of pages for each new
document.
c. Change the File name if needed. The names of all new documents are numerated at the end inorder to keep them unique. Enable numeration before or after the name and specify the
number of digits.
E.g. the parameters "Name: Document, Numeration: After name, Number of digits: 3" will
generate the following document names: Document001.pdf, Document002.pdf,
Document003.pdf, etc.
The name of the source document is used by default.
d. Save the new documents to the source document folder or specify a different location.
Attached files will be sent to a separate folder called Attachments in the same directory.
Bookmarks are not retained in the new documents.
3. Click Split.
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Splitting by bookmarks
The PDF Editor lets you split a PDF document using only its top level bookmarks. One new
document will be created for each top level bookmark.
To split a PDF document by bookmarks, do the following:
1. Use the PDF Editor to open the document and then select File > Split Document...
2. In the dialog box that will open:
a. Specify the Split method > By bookmarks (first level оnly).
b. Select the file naming method from the File name drop-down list:§ Same as bookmark name names the new documents according to the bookmarks. By

default, new document names are numerated. Enable numeration before or after the nameand specify the number of digits.
E.g. the parameters "Numeration: After name, Number of digits: 3" will generate thefollowing document names: Introduction001.pdf, Chapter_1002.pdf, Chapter_2003.pdf etc.,
where Introduction, Chapter_1, and Chapter_2 are bookmark names.
Unchecking Add numeration will disable the numeration.
§ Use Custom name to change the document name if needed. The names of all new

documents are numerated at the end in order to keep them unique. Enable numeration
before or after the name and specify the number of digits.
E.g. the parameters "Name: Document, Numeration: After name, Number of digits: 3"
will generate the following document names: Document001.pdf, Document002.pdf,
Document003.pdf, etc.
The name of the source document is used by default.
c. Save the new documents to the source document folder or specify a different location.
Attached files will be sent to a separate folder called Attachments in the same directory.
Bookmarks are not retained in the new documents.
3. Click Split.
Once the splitting has been finished, the folder containing the new files will open in a new window.

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OCR Editor
The OCR Editor uses Optical Character Recognition technology for advanced conversion of document
scans, PDF documents, and image files (including digital photos) into editable formats.
In the OCR Editor, you can draw recognition areas, check recognized text, train the program torecognize non-standard characters and fonts, and use some other advanced features to achieve
maximum OCR quality.
Chapter contents· Launching the OCR Editor 177· OCR Editor interface 178· Obtaining documents 182· Recognizing documents 185· Improving OCR results 192· Checking and editing texts 215· Copying text, tables and pictures from PDF documents 66· Saving OCR results 223

Launching the OCR Editor
There are several ways to launch the OCR Editor:· In the New Task window, click:o New Task 15 > Open > Open in OCR Editoro or New Task > Tools > OCR Editoro or New Task > File > Open in OCR Editor...
· In the PDF Editor, click:o PDF Editor 52 > Tools > OCR Editor.
· Open the Windows Start menu and click ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY FineReader 15

OCR Editor (or click Start> All Programs > ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY

FineReader 15 OCR Editor in Windows 10).
Tip. You can set up the OCR Editor to either open the last used proj ect or create a new proj ect when
it is launched. To do this, click New Task > Options > General and select either Open a new OCR
project or Open the last used OCR project.
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OCR Editor interface
The OCR Editor window displays your current OCR proj ect. For more information on working with OCR
proj ects, see OCR proj ects 186 .

· The Pages pane shows the pages contained in the OCR proj ect. Two page views modes areavailable: thumbnails (shown above) and details, which shows a list of document pages andtheir properties. To switch between the views, right-click anywhere in the Pages pane andselect Navigation Pane > Thumbnails or Navigation Pane > Details. Alternatively, use theView menu at the top of the OCR Editor window.
· The Image pane displays the image of the current page. Here you can edit recognitionareas 196 and change area properties 200 .
· The Text pane displays the recognized text. Here you can check the spelling and edit therecognized text.

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area you are currently working on. In the Image pane you see the entire page, whereas in theZoom pane you can examine certain image fragments in greater detail, e.g. compare theimage of a character with its recognized counterpart in the Text window. To scale the image
up or down, use thecontrols at the bottom of the pane.

Toolbars
There are several toolbars in the OCR Editor. The toolbar buttons provide easy access to programcommands. The same commands can also be invoked by pressing their corresponding keyboard
shortcuts 372 .
The Main Toolbar features a set of buttons for the most commonly used operations. Using thesebuttons, you can open a document, scan a page, open an image, recognize pages, and save theresults. The main toolbar cannot be customized.

The Quick Access Bar is fully customizable and contains the buttons that you use the most. This
toolbar is hidden by default. To make it visible, click View > Toolbars and select Quick Access Bar.
Alternatively, right-click anywhere on the main toolbar and select Quick Access Bar.

To customize the Quick Access Bar:
1. Click View > Customize... to open the Customize Toolbars and Shortcuts dialog box.
2. On the Toolbars tab, select a category from the Categories drop-down list.
The set of commands available in the Commands list will change accordingly. The
commands are grouped in the same manner as in the main menu.
3. From the Commands list, select a command and click >> to add it onto the Quick Access
Bar or click << to remove it.
4. Click OK to save the changes.
5. If you want to reset the Quick Access Bar to its default state, click the Reset All button.
The toolbars in the Pages, Image, and Text panes contain buttons for commands applicable toobj ects that can be displayed in the respective pane:

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The Warnings pane displays warnings and error messages.

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button in the lower left-hand corner of the OCR Editor window.

Warnings and errors are displayed for the page that is currently selected in the Pages pane. To scroll
through the warnings and errors and delete unwanted messages, use thebuttons.

Customizing the OCR Editor workspace· You can temporarily hide the panes that you do not need. To show/hide panes, use the View

menu or the following keyboard shortcuts:· F5 — shows or hides the Pages pane.
· F6 — shows or hides the Image pane.
· F7 — shows or hides the Image and Text panes.
· F8 — shows or hides the Text pane.
· Ctrl+F5 — shows or hides the Zoom pane.
· To change the size of a pane, hover the mouse cursor on one of its borders until a double-

headed arrow appears and drag the border in the desired direction.
· To change the position of the Pages or Zoom pane, use the View menu or the shortcut menuof the pane.
· To show or hide the Warnings pane, click View and select or clear the Show Warnings item.
· To show or hide the Properties bar at the bottom of the Image or Text pane, select or clear

the Properties item in the context menu of the pane or click the

button.

· Some of the pane properties can be customized on the Areas and Text 294 tab of the

Options dialog box.
All of the pages of your current OCR proj ect are displayed in the Pages pane. Two page views areavailable.
To change the way the pages are displayed in the Pages pane:· Use theandbuttons in the Pages pane.

· Click View > Navigation Pane.
· Right-click anywhere in the Pages pane, click Navigation Pane in the context menu, andthen select the desired item.
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To open a page, double-click its thumbnail in the Pages pane (in Thumbnails view) or double-click
its number (in Details view). The image of the selected page will be shown in the Image pane. If OCR
has already been performed on this page, the recognized text will appear in the Text pane.

Obtaining documents
After you launch the OCR Editor, you need to open an image file or PDF. This chapter provides
instructions on how you can obtain images and PDF documents for subsequent processing in the OCR
Editor.
Chapter contents· Opening images and PDF documents 183· Scanning paper documents

The quality of OCR depends on the quality of images and PDF documents that you open with
ABBYY FineReader. For information on scanning and taking photos of documents and on how to
remove common defects from scans and photographs, see Image processing options 323 and Editing
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Opening images and PDFs
ABBYY FineReader allows you to open PDF and image files in any of the supported formats 317 .
Complete the following steps to open an image or PDF file:

1. In the OCR Editor, clickon the main toolbar or click File > Open Image....

2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more image or PDF files.
3. If you select a file that contains multiple pages, you can specify a range of pages to open.
4. Select Automatically process page images as they are added if you want the image to beprocessed automatically.
Tip. You can specify which manipulations the program should perform on the image, e.g. what image
defects should be rectified or whether the document should be analyzed and recognizedautomatically. To specify image processing options, click the Options... button. See Image processing
options 323 for details.
If an OCR proj ect is already open when you open new pages, the selected pages will be appended
to the end of this proj ect. If no OCR proj ect is currently open, a new one will be created from theselected pages.
For more information on working with pages and OCR proj ects, see OCR proj ects 186 .
Access to some PDF files may be restricted by their authors. Such restrictions include password
protection and restrictions on opening the document or copying its content. When opening such files,
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Scanning paper documents
To scan a document:

1. In the OCR Editor, clickon the main toolbar or click File > Scan Pages....

2. Select a scanning device and specify scanning settings 286 .
3. Click the Preview button or click anywhere inside the image.
4. Review the image. If it is not satisfactory, change the scanning settings and click thePreview button again.
5. Click Settings... and specify image processing options 293 .
These options determine the appearance and properties of the output document.
6. Click Scan.
7. Once the scanning is completed, a dialog box will appear, offering the following two
choices:· Click Scan more if you want to scan more pages using the current scanning settings.
· Click Preview if you want to see the scanned page.
· Click

to close the dialog box.

8. If an OCR proj ect is already open when you scan new pages, the scanned pages will beappended to the end of this proj ect. If no OCR proj ect is currently open, a new one will becreated from the scanned pages
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Recognizing documents
ABBYY FineReader uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to convert document images
into editable text. Prior to OCR, the program analyzes the structure of the entire document anddetects the areas that contain text, barcodes, pictures, and tables. For best OCR results, be sure toselect the right OCR language 320 , recognition mode 326 , and print type 321 .
By default, images contained in an OCR proj ect are recognized automatically using the settingscurrently selected in the program.
Tip. You can disable automatic analysis and OCR for newly added images on the Image
Processing 293 tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
In some cases, the OCR process must be started manually. This may be necessary, for example, if you
disable automatic OCR, manually draw areas on an image, or change any of the following parametersin the Options 292 dialog box:
· the OCR language on the Languages tab· the OCR options on the OCR tab· the fonts to be used on the OCR tab

To launch the OCR process manually:· Click the

button on the main toolbar, or· Click Recognize > Recognize All Pages.

Tip. To recognize a selected area or page, use the Area or Recognize menu or right-click the area or
page to call up the context menu.
See also: :· OCR options 326· Document features to consider prior to performing OCR 320· Editing areas 196· Improving OCR results 192

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OCR projects
While working with the program, you can save your interim results in an OCR proj ect 366 so that you
can resume your work where you left off. An OCR proj ect contains the source images, the text that has
been recognized on the images, your program settings, and any user patterns 366 , languages or
language groups that you have created.
This section covers the following topics:· Opening a previously saved OCR proj ect 186· Using settings from earlier versions of ABBYY FineReader 187· Adding images to an OCR proj ect 187· Removing pages from an OCR proj ect 187· Saving an OCR proj ect 187· Closing an OCR proj ect 188· Splitting an OCR proj ect into several proj ects 188· Reordering pages in an OCR proj ect 188· Working with document metadata 189· Working with patterns and languages

Opening an OCR project
When you launch the OCR Editor, a new OCR proj ect is created by default. You can either work thisnew OCR proj ect or open an existing one.
To open an existing OCR proj ect:
1. Click File > Open OCR Project....
2. In the dialog box that opens, select the OCR proj ect that you want to open.
If you open an OCR proj ect that was created in an earlier version of the program, ABBYY FineReader
will try to convert it into the new format used by the current version. This conversion cannot be
undone, so you will be prompted to save your OCR proj ect under a different name. The recognized
text from the old proj ect will not be carried over into the new proj ect. To recognize the pages in the
OCR proj ect, click the

button.

Tip. If you want the last used OCR proj ect to open when you launch the OCR Editor, select Open thelast used OCR project on the General tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... top
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You can also right-click an OCR proj ect in Windows Explorer and select Open OCR project in ABBYY
FineReader PDF 15. OCR proj ects are marked with theicon.

Using settings from earlier versions of ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader lets you import user dictionaries and program settings from files created in earlier
versions of the program.
To use dictionaries created in ABBYY FineReader 10, 11, 12 or 14:
1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries....
2. In the User Dictionaries dialog box, select the language of the dictionary and click View....
3. In the Dictionary for... dialog box, click Import... and specify the path to the dictionary.
4. Select the dictionary file and click Open.
Adding images to an OCR project
1. Click File > Open Image....
2. In the dialog box that opens, select one or more images and click Open. The images will beappended to the end of the open OCR proj ect, and their copies will be saved in the OCR
proj ect folder.
You can also right-click images in Windows Explorer and select Convert with ABBYY FineReader
PDF 15 > Open in OCR Editor on the shortcut menu. The selected files will be added to a new OCR
proj ect.
You can also add document scans. See also: Scanning paper documents 184 .
Removing pages from an OCR project· In the PAGES pane, select a page and click Delete, or· Click Edit > Delete Pages..., or· Right-click a page in the PAGES pane and select Delete... on the shortcut menu

You can select and delete more than one page in the PAGES pane.
Saving an OCR project
1. Click File > Save OCR Project....
2. In the dialog box that opens, enter a name for your OCR proj ect and specify a folder whereit should be stored.

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When you save an OCR proj ect, not only the page images and recognized text are saved, but also
any patterns and languages you created while working on the proj ect.
Closing an OCR project· To close an OCR proj ect, click File > Close.

Splitting an OCR project into several projects
When processing large numbers of multi-page documents, it is often more practical to scan all the
documents first and only then analyze and recognize them. However, to preserve the originalformatting of each paper document correctly, ABBYY FineReader must process each of them as aseparate OCR proj ect. ABBYY FineReader includes tools for grouping scanned pages into separate
OCR proj ects.
To split an OCR proj ect:
1. Right-click anywhere in the PAGES pane and select Move Pages to New OCR Project... on
the shortcut menu.
2. In the dialog box that opens, create the necessary number of OCR proj ects by clicking the
Add OCR Project button.
3. Move pages from the PAGES pane to another OCR proj ect using one of the following
methods:· Select the pages and drag them with the mouse.

You can also use drag-and-drop to move pages between OCR proj ects.
· Use the Move and Return buttons. The Move button will move the pages to the current

proj ect.
· Press Ctrl+Right Arrow to move the selected pages from the PAGES pane to the current

OCR proj ect or press Ctrl+Left Arrow or Delete to move them back to their original
proj ect.
4. When you are done, click Create to create a new OCR proj ect or Create All to create all
proj ects in one go.
Tip. You can also drag-and-drop selected pages from the PAGES pane into another instance of the
OCR Editor. The selected pages will be appended to the end of the OCR proj ect.
Reordering pages in an OCR project
1. In the PAGES pane, select one or more pages.
2. Right-click anywhere in the PAGES pane and select Reorder Pages... on the shortcut menu.
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Reorder pages (cannot be undone)

This changes all page numbers successively, starting with the selected page.
· Restore original page order after duplex scanningThis option restores the original page numbering of a document with double-sided
pages. This option is useful if you use a scanner with an automatic feeder to first scan all
the odd-numbered pages and then all the even-numbered pages. You can choose
between the normal and the reverse order for the even-numbered pages.
This option will only work if three or more consecutively numbered pages are
selected.
· Swap book pages

This option is useful if you scan a book written in a left-to-right script and then split thefacing pages without specifying the correct language.
This option will only work if two or more consecutively numbered pages are selected
and if at least two of them are facing pages.
To cancel this operation, select Undo last operation.
4. Click OK.
The pages in the PAGES pane will be rearranged in accordance with their new numbers.
In Thumbnails view, you can change page numbering simply by dragging selected pages to thedesired place in the OCR proj ect.
Metadata
Document metadata contain detailed information about the document such as its author, subj ect, andkeywords. Document metadata can be used to sort files and to review document properties.
Documents can also be searched by their metadata.
When recognizing PDF documents and certain types of image files, ABBYY FineReader will export the
metadata of the source document. You can edit these metadata if necessary.
To add or modify document metadata:
1. Open the Format Settings 295 tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... toopen this dialog box).
2. Click the Edit Metadata... button and in the dialog box that opens, enter the name, author,
subj ect, and keywords for the document.
3. Click OK.
Working with patterns and languages
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For more about patterns, see If your document contains non-standard fonts 208 . For more about user
languages, see If the program failed to recognize some of the characters 212 .
To save patterns and languages to a file:
1. Open the OCR tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog
box).
2. Click the Save Patterns and Languages...
3. In the dialog box that opens, type a name for your file and click Save.
This file will contain the path to the folder where your user languages, language groups, dictionaries,
and patterns are stored.
To load patterns and languages:
1. Open the OCR tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog
box).
2. Click the Load Patterns and Languages...
3. In the Load Options dialog box, select the required *.fbt file and click Open.

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Group work with OCR projects
ABBYY FineReader provides tools for working on documents together with other users over a network.
Multiple users can share the same user languages and dictionaries created for these languages.
To make user dictionaries and languages available to multiple users:
1. Create/open an OCR proj ect and select desired scanning and OCR options for the proj ect.
2. Specify a folder where user dictionaries will be stored. This folder should be accessible toall users.
By default, user dictionaries are stored in %Userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\ABBYY\FineReader\15\FineReaderShell\UserDictionaries.
To specify a different folder for user dictionaries:
a. On the Areas and Text tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options...to open
this dialog box), click the User Dictionaries... button.
b. In the dialog box that opens, click the Browse... button and specify the path to yourfolder.
3. Save the user patterns and languages 189 to a file (*.fbt):
a. Click the OCR tab in the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog
box).
b. Click Save Patterns and Languages....
c. In the Save Options dialog box, specify a folder where the file will be stored. This folder
should be accessible to all users.
4. Now other users can access the user languages and dictionaries. To do so, they need to load
the *.fbt file you created in step 3 and specify the path to the folder with the user
dictionaries you created in step 2.
To be able to access the user dictionaries, patterns, and languages, users must haveread/write permissions for the folders where they are stored.
To see the list of available user languages and their parameters, click the OCR tab in the Options
dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
When a user language is being used by several users, users can add words or delete words from thecorresponding dictionary, but they cannot change the properties of this language.
When a user dictionary is being edited by a user, other users can use this dictionary to perform OCR
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Any changes a user makes to a user dictionary will become available to all users who have selected
the folder where this dictionary is stored. For the changes to come into effect, users will need torestart ABBYY FineReader.

Improving OCR results
Contents:· If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low 193· If areas are not detected properly 196· If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced 201· If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts 202· If tables and pictures are not detected 203· If a barcode is not detected 206· If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?" or "□" 207· If your printed document contains non-standard fonts 208· If your document contains many specialized terms 211· If the program fails to recognize certain characters 212· If vertical or inverted text was not recognized 214

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If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low
Distorted text lines, skew, noise, and other defects commonly found in scanned images and digital
photos can lower OCR quality. ABBYY FineReader provides a variety of automated 323 and manual 193
tools for removing these defects.
How to edit images manually
If you disabled automatic preprocessing features or want to preprocess specific pages, you can use
the Image Editor to manually edit page images.
Follow the instructions below to edit an image manually:
1. Open the OCR Editor and then open the Image Editor:

2. Clickon the toolbar of the Image pane, or

3. Click Edit > Edit Page Images....

4. The IMAGE EDITOR will open and display the currently selected page. The rightmost panelof the Image Editor contains tools for editing images.
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5. Click the tool you want to use and apply it to the image. The resulting changes will be
displayed in the Image pane. Most of the tools can be applied both to specific pages andto all of the pages in the document. You can specify which pages you want to edit using the
Selection drop-down list of the tool, where you can select all odd/even pages, the current
page or the selected pages if multiple pages are selected in the PAGES pane.
6. After you finish editing images, click the Exit Image Editor button at the top of the Image
Editor.
The image editor contains the following tools:· Recommended Preprocessing

Depending on the type of your image, the program will automatically determine and apply
the necessary corrections. Corrections that may be applied include noise and blur removal,
color inversion to make the background color lighter than the text, skew correction,straightening of text lines, correction of trapezoid distortions, and cropping of image
borders.
· Deskew

Corrects image skew.
· Straighten Text Lines

Straightens any curved text lines on the image.
· Photo Correction

Tools in this group let you straighten text lines, remove noise and blur, and change thedocument's background color to white.
· Correct Trapezoid Distortion

Corrects trapezoid distortions and removes image edges that don't contain any useful data.
When this tool is selected, a blue grid appears on the image. Drag the grid's corners to thecorners of the image so that the grid's horizontal lines become parallel to the text lines. Click
the Correct button to apply the changes.
· Rotate & Flip

Tools in this group let you rotate images and flip them vertically or horizontally to get the
text on the image facing in the right direction.
· SplitTools in this group let you split the image into parts. This can be useful if you are scanning abook and need to split facing pages.
· CropRemoves image edges that don't contain any useful information.

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Inverts image colors. This can be useful if you're dealing with non-standard text coloring(light text on a dark background).
· Resolution

Changes the resolution of the image.
· Brightness & Contrast

Changes the brightness and contrast of the image.
· Levels

This tool lets you adj ust the color levels of the images by changing the intensity of shadows,
light, and halftones.
To increase the contrast of an image, move the left and right sliders on the Input levels
histogram. The range of colors between lightest and darkest is divided into 255 increments.
The left slider sets the color that will be considered to be the blackest part of the image, andthe right slider sets the color that will be considered to be the whitest part of the image.
Moving the middle slider to the right will darken the image, and moving it to the left willlighten the image.
Adj ust the output level slider to decrease the contrast of the image.
· Eraser

Erases a part of the image.
· Remove Color Marks

Removes any color stamps and marks made in pen to facilitate the OCR of the text obscured
by such marks. This tool is intended for scanned documents with a white background, andshould not be used on digital photos and documents with color backgrounds.

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If areas are detected incorrectly
ABBYY FineReader analyzes page images prior to OCR and detects different types of areas on theseimages, specifically text, picture, background picture, table, and barcode areas. This analysis
determines which areas will be recognized and in what order. In the user interface, different area
types are distinguished by the colors of their borders.
If you click on an area, it will be highlighted and will become active 366 . You can also navigate areas
by pressing the Tab key. The areas' numbers determine the order in which they are selected when the
Tab key is pressed. By default, these area numbers are not visible in the Image pane, but you can view
them in the Area Properties pane of each area. Area numbers will appear on areas when the OrderAreas tool is selected.
The tools for drawing and editing areas manually can be found on the toolbar at the top of the
Image pane and on the pop-up toolbars of the text, picture, background picture, and table areas(select an area to view its pop-up toolbar).

Once you have adj usted the position or changed the type of an area, be sure to recognize theimage again.
You can use area editing tools to:· Create a new area 196· Adj ust area borders 197· Add or remove parts of areas 197· Select one or more areas 198· Move areas 198· Reorder areas 198· Delete areas 198· Change the orientation of text in an area 198· Change the color of area borders

Creating a new area

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1. Select one of the tools on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane:draws a recognition area 366 .
draws a text area 366 .
draws a picture area 366 .
draws a background picture area 366 .
draws a table area 366 .
2. Hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse pointer to draw an area.
Tip. New areas can be drawn without selecting a tool from the Image pane toolbar. You can draw an
area on the image using one of the following key combinations:· Ctrl+Shift draws a text area.
· Alt+Shift draws a picture area.
· Ctrl+Alt draws a table area.
· Ctrl+Shift+Alt draws a background picture area.

You can change the type of an area. Right-click the area whose type you want to change, click Change
Area Type To on the shortcut menu, and select the desired area type.
Adjusting area borders
1. Place the mouse pointer on an area border.
2. Hold down the left mouse button drag the border in the desired direction.
You can simultaneously adj ust the vertical and horizontal borders of an area by placing the mousepointer on a corner of the area.
Adding/removing area parts
1. Select theortool on the toolbar of a text, picture or background picture area.

2. Place the mouse pointer inside an area and select a part of the image. This segment will be
added to or deleted from the area.
3. Adj ust the area border if necessary.
Note:
1. These tools are only available for text, picture, and background picture areas. Area
segments cannot be added to or deleted from table or barcode areas.

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2. Area borders can also be adj usted by using sizing handles. The resulting segments can be
dragged in any direction using the mouse. To add a new sizing handle, place the mousepointer on the desired point on the border while holding down Ctrl+Shift (this will change
the mouse pointer to crosshairs) and click the border. A new sizing handle will appear on
the area border.
Selecting one or more areas· Select the

,

,

,

,

,

or

tool on the toolbar at the top of the

Image pane and click the areas you want to select while holding down the Ctrl key. To
remove an area from the selection, click it again.
Moving an area
· Select an area and drag it while holding down the Ctrl key.

Reordering areas

1. Select thetool on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane or click Area > Reorder

Areas.
2. Select the areas in the order in which their content should appear in the output document.
The areas are automatically numbered from left to right during page analysis, regardless of thedirection of the text on the image.
Deleting an area
· Select the areas you want to delete and press the Delete key.
· Select the areas you want to delete, right-click one of them, and click Delete on the shortcut

menu.
· Select thetool and click the areas you want to delete.

To delete all areas:· Right-click anywhere inside the Image pane and click Delete Areas and Text on the shortcut

menu.
Deleting an area from an image that has already been recognized will also delete all text fromthat area in the Text pane.
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Area Properties pane. In this dialog box, select the desired text orientation from theOrientation drop-down list.
Fore more information about editing text properties in text areas, see Editing area properties 200 .
To change the colors of area borders:
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and click the Areas and Text tab.
2. Select an area whose color you want to change and then select the desired color.

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Editing area properties
When performing automatic document analysis, ABBYY FineReader detects different area types on
document pages, such as table, picture, text, and barcode areas. The program also analyzes the
document structure and identifies headings and other layout elements, such as headers, footers, andcaptions.
You can manually change incorrectly defined properties in some text and table areas.
1. Select an area in the Image or Zoom pane to display its properties in the Area Properties
pane. This pane displays the following editable properties:· Language

See OCR languages 320 .
· Function

Displays the function of the text, i.e. whether it is a header or a footer, a footnote, etc.
(applies only to text areas).
· Orientation

See If vertical or inverted text was not recognized 214 .
· Print typeSee Document features to consider prior to OCR 321 .
· Inversion

See If vertical or inverted text was not recognized 214 .
· Direction of CJK text

See Working with complex-script languages 331 .
Note:a. Use the/buttons to navigate the properties dialog box if the Image pane is notwide enough to fit the entire dialog box.
b. Some properties of text in text areas can be changed using the shortcut menu ofthese areas.
2. After you have made the desired changes, be sure to recognize the document again so thatthe changes you made to the areas are reflected in the recognized text.
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If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced
Before running the OCR process, ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 analyzes of the logical structure of the
document and detects areas containing text, pictures, tables, and barcodes. The program then relieson this analysis to identify which parts of the image need to be recognized and the order in which
they should be recognized. This information helps recreate the formatting of the original document.
By default, ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will analyze documents automatically. In the case of very
complex layouts, the program may occasionally make mistakes when determining the type of an area
type or locating it's borders. It is often easier to correct faulty areas manually rather than drawing allareas anew.
Use the following tools and commands to correct areas:· The manual area adj ustment tools on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane.
· The shortcut menu commands available by right-clicking the selected area in the Imagepane or the Zoom pane.
· Commands on the Area menu.

Make sure you recognize the document again after making the desired adj ustments, so that thechanges you have made to the areas are reflected in the recognized text.
For more information about areas, see Editing areas 196 .
OCR settings, area properties, and selected saving options also have an effect on how well the layoutof the original document is retrained. See also: OCR options 326 , Editing area properties 200 , Saving OCR
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If you are processing a large number of documents with identicallayouts
If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts (e.g. forms orquestionnaires), analyzing the layout of every page will be very time consuming. To save time, you
can analyze only one document in a set of similar documents and save the detected areas as atemplate. Then you can use this template for the other documents in the set.
To create an area template:
1. Open an image in the OCR Editor and either let the program analyze the layout
automatically or draw the areas manually.
2. Click Area > Save Area Template.... In the dialog box that opens, specify a name for thearea template and click Save.
To be able to use an area template, you must scan all the documents in the set using the same
resolution value.
To apply an area template:
1. In the PAGES pane, select the pages to which you want to apply the template.
2. Click Area > Load Area Template....
3. In the Open Area Template dialog box, select the desired template file (*.blk).
4. In the same dialog box, next to Apply to, select Selected pages to apply the template to
the selected pages.
Tip. If you want to apply the template to all pages in the document, select All pages.
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If tables and pictures are not detected
If a table is not detected
Table areas 366 contain tables and text that is arranged in a table-like manner. If the program fails tocorrectly draw a table area around a table, use the Table tool to draw the area manually.

1. Clickon the toolbar at the top of the Image pane and use the mouse pointer to drawa table area around the table.
2. Right-click the table and click Analyze Table Structure on the shortcut menu, or clickon the pop-up toolbar of the table area.
3. Use the pop-up toolbar, the shortcut menu of the table area, or the commands on the Areamenu to edit the results.
4. Run the OCR process again.
You can also assign the Table type to an area of a different type. To do this, right-click the area andclick Change Area Type To > Table on the shortcut menu.
If ABBYY FineReader failed to correctly detect the rows and columns in a table automatically, you can
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· You can use commands on the Area menu and the shortcut menu of a table area to:o Analyze Table Structure (automatically analyzes the structure of a table and saves you thetrouble of drawing vertical and horizontal separators manually).
o Split Cells, Merge Cells, Merge Rows (allow you to correct any wrongly identified rows orcolumns).
· Use the pop-up toolbar of the selected table area to add a horizontal or vertical separator,

delete table separators, analyze table structure, split table cells, or merge table cells or rows.
To do this, click the table area and then click the appropriate tool on the pop-up toolbar:.
Tip. Click thetool on the pop-up toolbar to select obj ects.

Note:
1. The cell splitting command can only be applied to table cells that were previously merged.
2. To merge or split table cells or rows, select them on the image and then click theappropriate tool or menu command.
3. If the table contains vertical text cells, you may need to change the text properties first.
4. If a table cell only contains an image, select the Treat selected cells as picture option on
the Area Properties pane (to open this pane, right-click an area and click Properties on the
shortcut menu).
If a cell contains a combination of images and text, select the image to turn it into a dedicatedarea inside the cell.
See also: :· If vertical or inverted text was not recognized 214· Editing areas 196· Editing area properties 200

If a picture is not detected
Picture areas 366 contain pictures. You can also use picture areas for text fragments that you don't want
to be recognized. If the program fails to correctly draw a picture area around a picture, use thePicture tool to draw the area manually.

1. Select thetool on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane and use the mouse pointerto draw a picture area around the picture.
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2. Run the OCR process again.
If there is text printed over a picture in your document, draw a background picture 366 area around thepicture.

1. Select thetool on the toolbar at the top of the Image pane and use the mouse pointerto draw a background picture area around the background picture.
2. Run the OCR process again.
You can also assign the Picture or Background Picture type to an area of a different type that was
detected automatically. To do this, right-click the area whose type you want to change and click
Change Area Type To > Picture (or Background Picture) on the shortcut menu.
For more on areas, area types, and how to edit them, see Editing areas 196 .

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If a barcode is not detected
Barcode areas 366 contain barcodes. If your document contains a barcode that you would like torender as a sequence of letters and digits rather than as an image, select the barcode and change thearea type to Barcode.
Barcode recognition is disabled by default. To enable it, click Tools > Options... to open the
Options dialog box, click the OCR tab, and select the Convert barcodes into strings option.
To draw a barcode area and recognize it:
1. Draw an area around a barcode in the Image or Zoom pane.
2. Right-click the area and click Change Area Type To > Barcode on the shortcut menu.
3. Run the OCR process.
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 can read the following types of barcode:· Code 3 of 9
· Check Code 3 of 9
· Code 3 of 9 without asterisk· Codabar· Code 93· Code 128· EAN 8· EAN 13
· IATA 2 of 5
· Interleaved 2 of 5
· Check Interleaved 2 of 5
· Matrix 2 of 5
· Postnet· Industrial 2 of 5
· UCC-128· UPC-A· UPC-E

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· Data Matrix· QR code· Patch code

The default barcode type is Autodetect, which means that barcode types are to be detected
automatically. However, not all barcode types can be detected automatically, and sometimes you
may need to select the appropriate type manually on the Area Properties 181 pane.
ABBYY FineReader can automatically detect the following types of barcode: Code 3 of 9, Code 93,
Code 128, EAN 8, EAN 13, Postnet, UCC-128, UPC-E, PDF417, UPC-A, QR code.

If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?"or "□"
If you see "?" or "□" instead of letters in the Text pane, check to see if the fonts selected to display therecognized text contain all the characters used in your text.
See also: Required fonts 339 .
You can change the font of a recognized text without running the OCR process again.
To change the font in a short document:
1. Select a text fragment where some characters have the wrong font.
2. Right-click the selection and click Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. Select the desired font from the Font drop-down list in the Text Properties pane. The fontin the selected text fragment will change accordingly.
To change the font in a long document where styles are used 219 :1. Click Tools > Style Editor....
2. In the Style Editor dialog box, select the style you want to edit and change its font.
3. Click OK. The font in all of the text fragments using this style will change accordingly.
If an OCR project was recognized or edited on another computer, the text in the document may
be displayed incorrectly on your computer. If this is the case, make sure that all the fonts used in thisOCR project are installed on your computer.

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If your printed document contains non-standard fonts
If a document you want to recognize contains decorative fonts or special characters (e.g.
mathematical symbols), we recommend using the training mode to improve OCR accuracy.
It is not advisable to use the training mode in other cases, as the gains in OCR quality will beinsignificant compared to the time and effort you will spend on training.
In training mode, a user pattern 366 is created, which can be used when performing OCR on the entire
text.
· Using user patterns 208· Creating and training a user pattern 208· Selecting a user pattern 210· Editing a user pattern

Using user patterns
To use a user pattern to recognize a document:
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and click the OCR tab.
2. Select the Use user patterns option.
If the Also use built-in patterns option underneath the Use user patterns option is
selected, ABBYY FineReader will use its built-in patterns in addition to any user patterns you
create.
3. Click the Pattern Editor... button.
4. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, select a pattern and click OK.

5. Click the

button on the main toolbar at the top of the OCR Editor window.

Creating and training a user pattern
To train a user pattern to recognize new characters and ligatures:
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and click the OCR tab.
2. Select the Use training to recognize new characters and ligatures option.
If the Also use built-in patterns option underneath the Use training to recognize new
characters and ligatures option is selected, ABBYY FineReader will use its built-in patterns
in addition to any user patterns you create.
3. Click the Pattern Editor... button.
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4. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, click the New... button.
5. In the Create Pattern dialog box, specify a name for the new pattern and click OK.
6. Click OK in the Pattern Editor dialog box and then click OK in the Options dialog box.

7. Click the

button in the toolbar at the top of the Image pane.

If the program encounters a character it does not recognize, the Pattern Training dialog
will open and display this character.

8. Teach the program to read new characters and ligatures.
A ligature is a combination of two or three characters that are "glued together" (forexample, fi, fl, ffi, etc.) and are difficult for the program to separate. In fact, better results
can be obtained by treating them as single compound characters.
Words printed in bold or italic type or words in superscript/subscript may be retained in
the recognized text by selecting the corresponding options under Effects.
To go back to a previously trained character, click the Back button. The frame will j ump to
its previous location and the latest trained "character image - keyboard character" pairing
will be removed from the pattern. The Back button navigates between the characters of one
word and will not navigate between words.
Important!
· You can only train ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 to read the characters included in the alphabetof the OCR language. To train the program to read characters that cannot be entered fromthe keyboard, use a combination of two characters to denote these non-existent charactersor copy the desired character from the Insert Character dialog box (click

to open this

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ligatures, as this may adversely affect OCR quality.
Selecting a user pattern
ABBYY FineReader lets you use patterns 366 to improve OCR quality.
1. Click Tools > Pattern Editor....
2. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, select one of the patterns in the list and click the Set
Active button.
Some important points to remember:
1. Sometimes the program will not differentiate between very similar yet different charactersand recognize them as one and the same character. For example, the straight ('), left (‘), andright (’) quotes will be stored in a pattern as a single character (straight quote). This meansthat left and right quotes will never be used in the recognized text, even if you try to trainthem.
2. For some character images, ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will select the corresponding
keyboard character based on the surrounding context. For example, an image of a small
circle will be recognized as the letter O if there are letters immediately next to it, and as thenumber 0 if there are digits next to it.
3. A pattern can only be used for documents that have the same font, font size, and resolution
as the document used to create the pattern.
4. You can save your pattern to a file and use it in other OCR proj ects. See also: OCR
proj ects 186 .
5. To recognize texts set in a different font, be sure to disable the user pattern. To do this, click
Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box, click the OCR tab, and select the Usebuilt-in patterns option.
Editing a user pattern
You may wish to edit your newly created pattern before launching the OCR process. An incorrectlytrained pattern may adversely affect OCR quality. A pattern 366 should contain only entire charactersor ligatures 366 . Characters with cut edges and characters with incorrect letter pairings should be
removed from the pattern.
1. Click Tools > Pattern Editor....
2. In the Pattern Editor dialog box, select the pattern you want to edit and click the Edit...
button.
3. In the User Pattern dialog box, select a character and click the Properties... button.
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In the dialog box that opens:· In the Character field, enter the letter that corresponds to the character.
· In the Effects field, specify the desired font effect (bold, italic, superscript or subscript).

To delete a character that has been trained incorrectly, click the Delete button in the User Patterndialog box.

If your document contains many specialized terms
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 checks recognized words against its internal dictionary. If your text contains
too many specialized terms, abbreviations or proper names, you can improve OCR quality by adding
them to a user dictionary.
1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries....
2. In the User Dictionaries dialog box, select the appropriate language and click View....
3. In the dialog box that opens, type the word you want to add and click the Add word button(or select a word you want to delete and click the Delete button).
If the dictionary already contains the word you are trying to add, a warning message will be
displayed.
You can import user dictionaries created in ABBYY FineReader 9.0, 10, 11, 12 and 14:
1. Click Tools > View Dictionaries... button.
2. In the User Dictionaries dialog box, select the appropriate language and click the View....
3. In the dialog box that opens, click the Import... button and select the user dictionary you
want to import (it will have the *.pmd, *.txt or *.dic extension).

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If the program fails to recognize certain characters
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 uses data about the document language 320 when recognizing text. The
program may fail to recognize some characters in documents with uncommon elements (e.g. code
numbers) because the document language might not contain these characters. To recognize such
documents, you can create a custom language that has all of the necessary characters. You can also
create groups of several OCR languages 213 and use these groups when recognizing documents.
How to create a user language
1. Open the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box), click the
Languages tab.
2. Click the New... button.
3. In the dialog box that opens, select the Create a new language based on an existing one
option, select the language which you want to use as a base for the new language, and clickOK.
4. The Language Properties dialog box will open. In this dialog box:
a. Type a name for your new language.
b. The language you selected in the New Language or Group dialog box is displayed in
the Source language drop-down list. You can select a different language from this dropdown list.
c. The Alphabet contains the alphabet of the base language. If you want to edit thealphabet, click the

button.

d. The Dictionary option group contains several options for the dictionary that will be usedby the program when recognizing text and checking the result:· NoneThe language will not have a dictionary.
· Built-in dictionary

The program's built-in dictionary will be used.
· User dictionary

Click the Edit... button to specify dictionary terms or import an existing custom
dictionary or a text file with Windows-1252 encoding (terms must be separated by
spaces or other characters that are not in the alphabet).
Words from the user dictionary will not be marked as misspelled when the spellingin the recognized text is checked. They may be written in all lower-case or all uppercase letters, or may begin with an upper-case letter.

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Word in the

Words that will not be considered misspelled

dictionary

during a spelling checkabc

abc, Abc, ABC

Abc

abc, Abc, ABCABC

abc, Abc, ABC

Abc

aBc, abc, Abc, ABC· The Regular expression allows you to create a user dictionary using regularexpressions.
See also: Regular expressions 341 .
e. Languages can have several additional properties. To change these properties, click the
Advanced... button to open the Advanced Language Properties dialog box, where you
can specify:· Characters that can begin or end a word
· Non-letter characters that appear separately from words· Characters that may appear inside words but should be ignored· Characters that cannot appear in texts that are recognized using this language(prohibited characters)· The Text may contain Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, and abbreviations

option5. You can now select the newly created language when choosing OCR languages.
For more on OCR languages, see OCR languages 320 .
By default, the user language is saved in the folder of the OCR proj ect. You can also save all user
patterns and languages as a single file. To do this, open the Options dialog box (click Tools >Options... to open this dialog box), click the OCR tab, and then click the Save Patterns andLanguages... button.
Creating a language group
If you are going to use a particular language combination regularly, you may wish to group thelanguages together for convenience.
1. Open the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box) and click
the Languages tab.
2. Click the New... button.
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3. In the New Language or Group dialog box, select the Create a new group of languages
option, and click OK.
4. The Language Group Properties dialog box will open. In this dialog box, specify a namefor the language group and select the languages you want to include in the group.
If you know that your text will not contain certain characters, you may wish to explicitly
specify these so-called prohibited characters. Doing this can increase the speed andaccuracy of OCR. To specify these characters, click the Advanced... button in the LanguageGroup Properties dialog box and enter the prohibited characters in the Prohibitedcharacters field.
5. Click OK.
The new group will appear in the drop-down list of languages on the main toolbar 179 .
By default, user language groups are saved in the folder of the OCR proj ect 186 . You can also save alluser patterns and languages as a single file. To do this, open the Options dialog box (click Tools >Options... to open this dialog box), click the OCR tab, and then click the Save Patterns andLanguages... button.
Tip. You can use the drop-down list of languages on the main toolbar to select a language group.
1. Select More languages... from the drop-down list of languages on the main toolbar.
2. In the Language Editor dialog box, select the Specify OCR languages manually option.
3. Select the desired languages and click OK.

If vertical or inverted text was not recognized
A fragment of recognized text may contain a large number of errors if the orientation of the fragment
was detected incorrectly or if the text in the fragment is inverted 366 (i.e. light text is printed on a dark
background).
To solve this problem:
1. In the Image pane, select the area or the table cell that contains vertical or inverted text.
2. Right-click the area and click Properties on the shortcut menu to open the Area Properties
pane. Next:· Select the direction of the text from the Direction of CJK text drop-down list,or· Select Inverted from the Inversion drop-down list.

3. Run the OCR process again.
For more information about areas, see Editing areas 196 .
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Checking and editing texts
Once the OCR process is completed, the recognized text appears in the Text pane. The charactersrecognized with low confidence are highlighted, so that you can easily spot any OCR errors andcorrect them.
You can edit recognized text either directly in the Text pane or in the Verification dialog box (click
Recognize > Verify Text... to open this dialog box). In the Verification dialog box, you can review
low-confidence words, correct spelling errors, and add new words to the user dictionary.
ABBYY FineReader also allows you to change the formatting of output documents.
To change the formatting of recognized texts, use the buttons on the main toolbar of the Text pane
and the buttons in the Text Properties pane (right-click anywhere in the Text pane and then click
Properties on the shortcut menu to display this pane).
When recognizing a text, ABBYY FineReader identifies the styles used in the text. All the identified
styles are displayed in the Text Properties pane. You can edit the styles to change the formatting of
the entire text. When saving recognized texts in DOCX, ODT or RTF, all the existing styles can bepreserved.
See also: :· Checking recognized text 216· Using styles 219· Editing hyperlinks 220· Editing tables 221· Removing confidential information 221· Saving editable documents 226

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Checking recognized text
You can edit recognized text either directly in the Text 216 pane or in the Verification 216 dialog box(click Recognize > Verify Text... to open this dialog box). In the Verification dialog box, you canreview low-confidence words, correct spelling errors, and add new words to the user dictionary.
Checking texts in the Text pane
You can check, edit, and format OCR results in the Text pane.
The toolbar of the Text pane contains buttons that let you check the spelling in recognized texts. Use
the/buttons to go to the next/previous low-confidence word or character. If the low-

confidence characters are not highlighted, click the

button on the toolbar at the top of the Text

window.
To verify a low-confidence word in the Text pane:
1. Click the word in the Text pane. The image area with this word will be highlighted in the
Image pane. At the same time, the Zoom pane will display a magnified image of the word.
2. Correct the word in the Text window, if necessary.

Tip. You can insert symbols that are not on available on your keyboard by clicking the

button.

Alternatively, use the Verification dialog box.
This method is convenient when you need to compare the source and output documents.
The text formatting tools can be found:· on the toolbar at the top of the Text pane

· in the Text Properties pane (right-click anywhere in the Text pane and then click Properties

on the shortcut menu to display this pane)
Use the/buttons to move around the Text Properties pane if the Text window is too

narrow and you cannot see the entire pane.
To learn how you can change the appearance of the main window and the tools available on its
toolbars, see OCR Editor Window 178 and Toolbars 179 .
Checking the recognized text in the Verification dialog box

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contain low-confidence characters. To open the Verification dialog box, clickon themain toolbar or click Recognize > Verify Text....

In the Verification dialog box, you can:
· Skip a highlighted word without making any changes. When you click Skip, the highlighting

is removed.
Replace the highlighted word with one of the suggested variants.
· Simply select the correct suggestion in the box to the right and click Replace.
· Add the highlighted word to the dictionary by clicking the Add to Dictionary button.

Next time the program encounters this word, it will no longer treat it as an error.
See also: Working with user dictionaries 218 .
· Change the font and apply font effects.
· Insert non-keyboard characters into the text. Click theand select More Symbols.... In

the dialog box that opens, from the Subset drop-down list, select the subset that contains
the symbol that you need (e.g. Basic Greek or Currency Symbols). Next, double-click thecharacter that you wish to insert. Alternatively, you can specify the Unicode code point of thecharacter in the Character code field.
Tip. To change the checking options, click Options....
When checking texts written in Chinese, Japanese or Korean, the program will suggest similar-looking
characters for characters recognized with low confidence.
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Working with user dictionaries
When recognizing a text, ABBYY FineReader checks recognized words against its dictionaries. If yourtext contains too many specialized terms, abbreviations or proper names, you can improve OCR
quality by adding them to a user dictionary.
User dictionaries may not be available for some of the supported languages 310 .
To add a word to the user dictionary, do one of the following:· In the Verification dialog box (click Recognize > Verify Text... to open this dialog box),

click the Add to Dictionary button, or· In the Text window, right-click the word you wish to add and then click Add to Dictionary

on the shortcut menu
When adding a word to a user dictionary, make sure that the right language is selected.

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Using styles
When recognizing a text, ABBYY FineReader detects the styles and formatting used in the original
document. These styles and formatting are reproduced in the output document. You can review andedit the document styles and create new styles in the Text pane.
To apply a style to a text fragment:
1. Select the desired text fragment in the Text pane.
2. Right-click the selected fragment and click Properties on the shortcut menu.
3. Select the desired style in the Text Properties pane.
When saving recognized texts in DOCX, ODT or RTF, all the existing styles can be preserved. See
also: DOC(X) /RTF/ODT format 300 .
To create, change, and merge styles:
1. Click Tools > Style Editor....
2. In the Style Editor dialog box, select the desired style and modify its name, font, font size,
character spacing, and scale.
3. To create a new style, click the Newbutton. The newly created style will be added to the listof existing styles, where you can modify it.
4. To merge multiple styles into one, select the styles to merge and click the Merge... button.
In the Merge Styles dialog box, specify the style into which to merge the selected styles.
5. Click OK to save the changes.
You can navigate between text fragments printed in identical styles. To do this, in the Style Editor
dialog box, select the desired style and click Previous Fragment or Next Fragment.

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Editing hyperlinks
ABBYY FineReader detects hyperlinks and recreates their destination addresses in the output
document. Detected hyperlinks are underlined and displayed in blue.
When viewing the recognized document in the Text pane, rest the mouse pointer on a hyperlink toview its address. To follow a hyperlink, right-click it and click the Open Hyperlink command on its
shortcut menu, or click the hyperlink while holding down the Ctrl key.
To add, delete or change the text or address of a hyperlink:
1. In the Text pane, select the text of the desired hyperlink.
2. To delete a hyperlink, right-click it and then click Remove Hyperlink on the shortcut menu.
3. To add a hyperlink or change the text of a hyperlink, right-click it and click the Hyperlink...
command on its shortcut menu, or clickon the main toolbar at the top of the Text

pane. In the Edit Hyperlink dialog box, you can:· Edit the text of the link in the Text to display field.
· Select or change the hyperlink type in the Link to group:o Select Web page to link to an Internet page.
In the Address field, specify the protocol and the URL of the page (e.g.
http://www.abbyy.com).
o Select Local file to link to a file.
Click Browse... to browse for the file that the hyperlink will point to (e.g.
file://D:/MyDocuments/ABBYY FineReaderGuide.pdf).
o Select E-mail address if you want users to be able to send an e-mail message to theaddress contained in the hyperlink by simply clicking it.
In the Address field, specify the protocol and the e-mail address (e.g.
mailto:office@abbyy.com).

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Editing tables
You can edit recognized tables in the Text pane. The following commands are available:· Merge table cells

Use the mouse to select the table cells to be merged and click Area > Merge Table Cells.
· Split table cells

Click a table cell to split and click Area > Split Table Cells.
This command can only be applied to table cells that have been previously merged.
· Merge table rows

Use the mouse to select the table cells to be merged and click Area > Merge Table Rows.
· Delete cell contents

Select the cell or cells whose contents you want to delete and press the Delete key.
By default, the table editing tools are not displayed on the toolbar. You can add the table editing
tools to the toolbar in the Customize Toolbars and Shortcuts dialog box (click View > Toolbars >Customize... to open this dialog box).
For detailed instructions on how to add buttons to the toolbars, see Toolbars 179 .

Removing confidential information
With ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, you can remove confidential information from recognized texts.

1. Click Tools > Redaction Mode or click the

button on the main toolbar at the top of

the Text pane.
2. In the Text pane, use the marker to black out the text you wish to obliterate.
Tip. If you black out some characters by mistake, you can undo the last redaction by pressing Ctrl+Z
on the keyboard or by clicking the Undo button on the main toolbar.
3. Save your document.
The redacted text will appear as dots in the output document. If the saving format you selectedsupports text and background colors, the redacted text fragments will appear as black rectangles.
To switch off the redaction mode, either· Click the Tools > Redaction Mode once again, or· Click the

button on the main toolbar once again.

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Copying content from documents
ABBYY FineReader allows you to copy text, pictures, and tables from documents and paste them toother applications. You can copy content from scanned pages and images without recognizing theentire document or converting it to an editable format. The selected content will be copied to the
Clipboard. You can then paste it into any application that supports pasting from the Clipboard.
To copy content:

1. Use the

,

,

or

tool in the Image pane to select the fragment of the

document you want to copy.
2. Right-click the fragment and click Recognize and Copy Text on the shortcut menu or click
button on the pop-up toolbar.
3. Paste the content into another application.
To save several pages:
1. Select the pages in the PAGES pane.
2. Right-click the selected pages, click Save As, and select a desired format, or select Send To
and select the application into which you want to insert the recognized pages.

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Saving OCR results
OCR results can be saved to a file, sent to another application or to the PDF Editor, copied to the
Clipboard, or e-mailed. You can also send OCR results to Kindle.com, where they will be converted to
the Kindle format and become available for download onto your Kindle device. You can save either
the entire document, or selected pages only.
Be sure to select the appropriate saving options before clicking Save.
To save recognized text:
1. On the main toolbar, click the arrow next to the Save button and select a document saving
mode and page obj ects to preserve.

Available file formats are listed beneath each mode.
There are five format saving modes:· Exact copy produces a document whose formatting corresponds to that of the original.

Recommended for documents with complex formatting, such as promotion booklets.
Note, however, that this option limits your ability to change the text and format of theoutput document.
· Editable copy produces a document whose formatting may differ slightly from that of

the original. Documents produced in this mode are easy to edit.
· Formatted text retains the fonts, font sizes, and paragraphs, but does not retain theexact spacing or locations of the obj ects on the page. The text produced will be leftaligned (texts in right-to-left scripts will be right-aligned).
Vertical texts will be changed to horizontal in this mode.
· Plain text does not retain text formatting.
· Flexible layout produces an HTML document with the positions of the obj ects as close

to the original as is technically possible.
2. On the Format Settings 295 tab of the Options dialog box, select the desired saving options
and click OK.
3. On the main toolbar 179 , click the arrow to the right of the Save button and select theappropriate option, or use the commands on File menu.
ABBYY FineReader allows you to save pages as images. See also: Saving images 231 .
Supported applications:· Microsoft Word 2016 (16.0), 2013 (15.0), 2010 (14.0), 2007 (12.0)· Microsoft Excel 2016 (16.0), 2013 (15.0), 2010 (14.0), 2007 (12.0)

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To ensure the best compatibility between ABBYY FineReader and the applications listed above,
make sure you install the latest available updates for these applications.
See also: :· Saving in PDF 225· Saving editable documents 226· Saving tables 228· Saving e-books 229· Saving in HTML 230· Saving an image of a page 231· Sending OCR results to the PDF Editor 225· E-mailing OCR results 233· Sending OCR results to Kindle 234

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Saving in PDF
ABBYY FineReader allows you to save entire PDF documents or selected pages. Various saving options
are available.
· To save a PDF document that will allow users to select, copy, and edit its content, click thearrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select Searchable PDF
Document. Alternatively, click File > Save As > Save as Searchable PDF Document....
The document will be saved as a searchable PDF. To change the saving options, click the
Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the PDF 296
tab.
· To save a PDF document that will not allow users to select, copy, and edit its content, click

the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select Image-Only PDF
Document. Alternatively, click File > Save As Save as Image-Only PDF Document....
The document will be saved as an image-only PDF. To change the saving options, click the
Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the PDF 296 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > Searchable PDF Document (or Image-Only
PDF Document).
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > PDF tab of the Options
dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).

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Saving editable documents
ABBYY FineReader allows you to save OCR results in editable formats. When choosing a format,
consider how you intend to use the document.
· Saving documents in DOC(X)/RTF/ODT 226· Saving documents in PPTX 226· Saving plain text (TXT)

DOC(X)/RTF/ODT
To save your text in DOCX/RTF/ODT:· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select Microsoft

Word Document, RTF Document or ODT Document. If the format that you need is not
displayed in the list, select Save in Other Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select therequired format. Alternatively, click File > Save As and select the desired saving format.
The document will be saved in the format that you specified. To change the saving options, click
the Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on theDOC(X)/RTF/ODT 300 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > Microsoft Word Document. RTF Document
ODT Document
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > DOC(X) / RTF / ODT tab of
the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
PPTX
To save your text in PPTX:· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select Microsoft

PowerPoint Presentation. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Savein Other Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively,
click File > Save As > Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation.
The document will be saved in the PPTX format. To change the saving options, click the
Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the PPTX 304 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation.
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > PPTX tab of the Options
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TXT
To save your text in TXT:
· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select TXT

Document. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other
Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File >Save As > TXT Document.
The document will be saved in the TXT format. To change the saving options, click the Options...
button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the TXT 305 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > Text Document.
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > TXT tab of the Options
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Saving tables
ABBYY FineReader allows you to save tables in the XLS, XLSX, and CSV formats.
XLS and XLSX
To save your text in XLS or XLSX:· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select Microsoft

Excel Workbook. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other
Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File >Save As > Microsoft Excel Workbook.
The document will be saved in the format that you specified. To change the saving options, click
the Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the
XLS(X) 303 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > Microsoft Excel Workbook.
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > XLS(X) tab of the Options
dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
CSV
To save your text in CSV:·

Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select CSVDocument. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other
Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File >Save As > CSV Document.

The document will be saved in the CSV format. To change the saving options, click the Options...
button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the CSV 304 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > CSV Document.
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > CSV tab of the Options
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Saving e-books
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 allows you to scan paper books and convert them into the EPUB, FB2, and
Dj Vu formats. You will be able to read the resulting e-books on tablets (including iPads), and on othermobile devices and upload 234 them to your Kindle.com account.
You can also save an e-book in the HTML format. For details, see Saving in HTML 230 .
Saving in FB2 or EPUB
To save your text in FB2 or EPUB:· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar and select FB2 Document orEPUB Document. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, click Save in Other
Formats... and select the required format. Alternatively, click File > Save As > FB2
Document (or EPUB Document).
The document will be saved in the format that you specified. To change the saving options, click
the Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the
EPUB/FB2 307 tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > Electronic Publication (EPUB)(orFictionBook (FB2)).
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > EPUB / FB2 tab of the
Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
Saving in DjVu
To save your text in Dj Vu:· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select DjVu

Document. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other
Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File >Save As > DjVu Document.
The document will be saved in the format that you specified. To change the saving options, click
the Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the Dj Vu 308
tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > DjVu Document.
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > DjVu tab of the Options
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Saving in HTMLTo save your text in HTML:· Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and select HTML

Document. If the format that you need is not displayed in the list, select Save in Other
Formats... and in the dialog that opens, select the required format. Alternatively, click File >Save As > HTML Document.
The document will be saved in the format that you specified. To change the saving options, click
the Options... button in the saving dialog box and select desired saving options on the HTML 306
tab.
To save only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you wantto save and on the shortcut menu, click Save As > HTML Document.
You can select additional saving options on the Format Settings 295 > HTML tab of the Options
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Saving images
ABBYY FineReader allows you to save both recognized text and page images, including scans.
To save one or more images:
1. In the PAGES pane, select the pages you want to save.
2. Click File > Save As > Page Images....
3. In the dialog box that opens, select the disk and folder to save the file to.
4. Select an image format you want to save the image in.
If you want to save multiple pages to one file, choose the TIFF format and select Createa single file for all pages.
For details, see Supported document formats 317 .
5. Specify a file name and click Save.
Tip. When saving in TIFF, you can select the image format and compression method. Imagecompression lets you decrease file size. Methods used for image compression differ by compression
rate and data loss. Two factors define the choice of compression method: the resulting image quality
and file size.
ABBYY FineReader offers the following compression methods:· ZIP No data loss occurs. This compression algorithm is used for images containing large

sections in one color. For example, this compression algorithm is suitable for screenshots andblack-and-white images.
· JPEG This compression algorithm is used for gray and color images such as photos. Thismethod provides high-density compression but causes data loss and results in poorer image
quality (blurred outlines and poor color palette).
· CCITT Group 4 No data loss occurs. This compression algorithm is commonly used forblack-and-white images created in graphical programs or for scanned images. CCITT Group
4 is a commonly used compression method that is suitable for virtually all images.
· Packbits No data loss occurs. This compression algorithm is used for black-and-white scans.
· LZW No data loss occurs. This compression algorithm is used for graphic design andgrayscale images.
When saving to image-only PDF, the program uses the parameters you specified on the Format
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Sending OCR results to the PDF Editor
ABBYY FineReader allows you to send OCR results from the OCR Editor to the PDF Editor 51 , where
you can add notes and comments to the document and use other features offered by ABBYY
FineReader for working with PDF documents.
To send OCR results to the PDF Editor:· On the toolbar, click the arrow next to thebutton and select Send to PDF

Editor...
· Click File > Send To > PDF Editor...

Once you are done working with the document in the PDF Editor, you can send it back to the OCR
Editor. To do this, on the toolbar at the top of the OCR Editor window, click the arrow next to thebutton and from the drop-down list, select Recognize and Verify in OCR Editor. To
send only some pages of the document, on the PAGES pane, select the pages that you want to send,
right-click them and click Send Selected Pages to OCR Editor on the shortcut menu.
When sending the document back to the OCR Editor, the following document obj ects will be lost:· attachments· bookmarks· comments· annotations

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E-mailing OCR results
ABBYY FineReader allows you to e-mail OCR results in any of the supported formats 317 with the
exception of HTML.
To e-mail a document:
1. Click File > E-mail > Document....
2. In the dialog box that opens, select:· A saving format· One of the three saving options: save all pages to one file, save each page to a separate

file, or split the document into files based on blank pages
3. Click OK. An e-mail message with an attachment will be created. Specify the recipient andsend the message.
You can also e-mail the images of document pages.
To e-mail page images:
1. Click File > E-mail > Images....
2. In the dialog box that opens, select:· A saving format· Send as multi-page image file if you want to send the images as a multi-page image

file.
3. Click OK. An e-mail message with an attachment (or attachments) will be created. Specify
the recipient and send the message.

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Sending OCR results to Kindle
ABBYY FineReader allows you to send OCR results to the Kindle.com server, where they will be
converted into the Kindle format and made available for download onto your Kindle device.
To use this feature, you need a Kindle account on Kindle.com.
1. Click the arrow next to the Save As button on the main toolbar 179 and then click Send to
Amazon Kindle....
2. In the dialog box that opens, specify:· The address of your Kindle account· One of the three saving options: save all pages to one file, save each page to a separate

file, or split the document into files based on blank pages· A name for the file

3. Click OK.
An e-mail message with an attachment (or attachments) will be created. Send this e-mailmessage to Kindle.com and the converted file will soon be available for download onto yourKindle device.

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Integration with other applications
FineReader PDF integrates with Windows Explorer, allowing you to initiate the processing of PDF
documents, office documents, and image files by simply right-clicking them.
ABBYY FineReader PDF integrates with Microsoft Office, allowing you to create PDF documents andlaunch conversion and comparison of documents directly from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Outlook.
You can also make and save changes to PDF documents stored on a Microsoft SharePoint server;
create documents using the FineReader PDF mobile application and continue working with them in
FineReader PDF on your computer; process PDF documents from cloud storage clients such as
OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
Chapter contents· Integration with Windows Explorer 236· Integration with Microsoft Office 239· Integration with Microsoft SharePoint 250· Integration with the mobile application 250· Cloud storage 256

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Integration with Windows Explorer
ABBYY FineReader integrates with Windows Explorer. As a result, ABBYY FineReader commands willappear when you right-click a file in any of the supported formats 317 , enabling you to open and edit
PDF documents, perform OCR on image files, convert files, combine multiple files into one PDF, andcompare files.
To open and process a PDF directly from Windows Explorer:
1. In Windows Explorer, select one or more PDF files.
2. Right-click the files(s) and select one of the following commands:· Edit with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 opens PDF files in the PDF Editor

For more information on working with PDF documents in the PDF Editor, see Working
with PDF documents 51 .
· Convert with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 - converts PDF files into various formats:o Convert to searchable PDF documento Convert to image-only PDF documento Convert to Microsoft Word documento Convert to Microsoft Excel documento Convert to another format· Open in OCR Editor opens PDF files in the OCR Editor.

For more information on working with the OCR Editor, see Working with the OCR
Editor 177 .
If you select multiple files in Windows Explorer, clicking Convert with ABBYY
FineReader PDF 15 on the shortcut menu will open the New Task window. For more
information on the available conversion settings, see Creating PDF documents 22 ,Creating Microsoft Word documents 24 , Creating Microsoft Excel documents 26 , and Other
formats 28 .
· Compare with... opens PDF files in the ABBYY Compare Documents application.

For more information about comparing documents, see ABBYY CompareDocuments 266 .
· Combine into one PDF... combines multiple files into one PDF.
· Compare documents... compares two versions of the same document.

To process files in editable formats directly from Windows Explorer:
1. In Windows Explorer, select one or more files in editable formats.
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2. Right-click the files(s) and select one of the following commands:· Convert to PDF with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15... converts files to PDF.

When creating PDF documents from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft
PowerPoint files, ABBYY FineReader will preserve the structure of the original document,
and any bookmarks and hyperlinks.
· Convert to PDF and send... converts files to PDF and attaches them to an e-mailmessage.
· Compare with... opens files in the ABBYY Compare Documents application.
· Combine into one PDF... combines multiple files into one PDF.
· Compare documents... compares two versions of the same document.

To process image files directly from Windows Explorer:
1. In Windows Explorer, select one or more image files.
2. Right-click the files(s) and select one of the following commands:· Convert with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 converts image files into various formatso Convert to searchable PDF documento Convert to image-only PDF documento Convert to Microsoft Word documento Convert to Microsoft Excel documento Convert to another format· Open in OCR Editor opens image files in the OCR Editor.
· Combine into one PDF... combines multiple files into one PDF.
· Compare with... opens image files in the ABBYY Compare Documents application.

The commands actually available to you on the Windows Explorer shortcut menu depend on thenumber and format of the selected files.
If you don't see the ABBYY FineReader commands on the Windows Explorer shortcut menu...

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If you can't see the ABBYY FineReader commands on the Windows Explorer shortcut menu, thismeans that you chose not to integrate ABBYY FineReader with Windows Explorer when installing the
program.
To integrate ABBYY FineReader with Windows Explorer:

1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel (or click Start> Settings > System > Apps

& features in Windows 10) and then click Programs and Features.
2. In the list of installed applications, select ABBYY FineReader and click Change/Remove.
3. Follow the instructions of the setup program.

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Integration with Microsoft Office
When you install ABBYY FineReader, it is integrated with Microsoft Office. As a result, the ABBYY
FineReader PDF 15 add-in will appear in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, andMicrosoft Outlook, allowing you to create PDF documents and launch conversions and comparisons of
documents directly from these applications.
The tab's features vary depending on the application itself.
Integration is carried out with both Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Office 2019.

If the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 Ribbon tab is missing from your Microsoft Office toolbar...
The ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 Ribbon tab may be missing from the application's toolbar if thecorresponding add-in was not enabled in the Microsoft Office parameters. If this is the case, do thefollowing (if you are using Microsoft Word):· In the Word Options window (File > Options), navigate to the Add-ins tab. Next, select COM Add-ins in the Manage drop-down list and click Go... In the dialog box that will appear, select ABBYY
FineReader 15 MSWord COM Add-In and click OK.
This will make the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 Ribbon tab appear in your Microsoft Word toolbar.
If the ABBYY FineReader 15 MSWord COM Add-In option is missing from the COM Add-ins dialog,
Microsoft Office integration was either disabled during the installation of ABBYY FineReader or has
been deleted.
To install the add-in, do the following:

1. Navigate to Programs and Features (Start > Settings > Control Panel or Start>

Settings > System > Apps & features, if you are using Windows 10).
2. From the list of installed programs, select ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 and click
Change/Remove.
3. In the Custom Installation dialog, select the appropriate components.
4. After that, follow the instructions of the setup wizard.

In this section:· Integration with Microsoft Word 240· Integration with Microsoft Excel 244· Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint 246· Integration with Microsoft Outlook 248

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Integration with Microsoft WordWith Microsoft Word integration, you can easily do any of the following: use a Word document tocreate a PDF file and send it via e-mail, create a Word document from image files or paper
documents, launch a comparison of a Word document with its pervious version directly in Microsoft
Word.
1. Create or open an appropriate Word document in Microsoft Word.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click one of the following:· Create PDF to create and save a PDF document using the active Word document;· Create PDF and Send by E-mail to create and send a PDF document created using the active

Word document via e-mail;· Scan to Word to create a Word document using a scanner or a camera;· Convert to Word to create a Word document using image files;· Compare document with... to compare the active Word document with its previous version.

In this section:· Creating a PDF document using a Word document 241· Creating a Word document using image files 243· Comparing Word documents 243

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Creating a PDF document using a Word document
How to use a Word document to create a PDF document
To create and save a PDF document, do the following:
1. Create or open an appropriate Word document in Microsoft Word.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Create PDF.
3. In the dialog box that will open:
a. Specify a name and folder for the output PDF document.
b. Select Open document if you need to open the output document in a PDF viewer.
c. Click Save.
If required, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and specify the PDF
creation settings 241 .
This will save your current Word document as a PDF document with the specified settings.

How to use a Word document to create a PDF document and send it via e-mailTo create a PDF document and send it via e-mail, do the following:
1. Create or open an appropriate Word document in Microsoft Word.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Create PDF and Send by E-mail.
This will attach the PDF document to a new blank e-mail.
If required, you can specify a range for pages that will be used to create the PDF document. To doso, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and select Ask to specify pages inthe dialog box that will appear. Enabling this option will bring up a page selection dialog every time
you create a new PDF document. You can also specify other PDF creation settings 241 .

PDF creation settings for Word documents
This dialog contains the following groups of settings:· Create PDF/A

Select this option to create a PDF/A-compatible document. Select the required PDF/A type in thedrop-down list on the right.
· Create PDF/UA

Select this option to create a PDF/UA-compatible document. The appearance of such a document
may differ from the original document.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Password-protect documents

Select this option if you need to set passwords to protect your PDF document from unauthorizedviewing, printing, and editing. Next, click Settings... and specify the appropriate security
parameters 163 in the dialog that will open.
· Create PDF tags

Creating a PDF document automatically creates PDF tags as well.
Aside from text and images, PDF files can also contain information about the structure of the
document: logical structure, illustrations, and tables. This information is stored in the form of PDF
tags, ensuring that the PDF document can be comfortably viewed on screens of varying size, e.g.
handheld devices.
· Create bookmarks from headings

Creating a PDF document will also create a table of contents based on the structure of the
document.
· Apply to pages

The specified pages will be used when creating a PDF document.
o All
Selecting this option will use all pages to create the PDF document.
o Ask to specify pages
A page selection dialog box will appear every time you create a new PDF document.

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Creating a Word document using image files
To create a Word document using image files or paper documents, do the following:
1. Launch Microsoft Word.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click:· Scan to Word to create a Word document using a scanner or a camera.

This will open the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 scanner image conversion dialog box. In this dialog
box, specify all required scanning settings and parameters 44 and scan the appropriate images.
· Convert to Word to create a Word document using image files.

Specify the following in the dialog box that will appear:
1. Document languages. For more information, see Recognition languages 320 .
2. Document layout 44 . Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to
use the output document.
3. Click Options to open Format Settings 295 in the DOC(X)/RTF/ODT 300 bookmark in the
Options dialog (Tools > Options...) and specify additional options.
4. Click OK.
In the dialog box that will appear, select all appropriate images and then wait for theconversion to finish.
The output Microsoft Word document will be displayed on your screen. Make any
required changes and save the document.

Comparing Word documents
To compare a Word document with its previous version, do the following:
1. Create or open an appropriate Word document in Microsoft Word.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Compare document with...
3. This will open the specified document in the ABBYY Compare Documents window. Next, select asecond document to compare it with. For more information about comparing documents, seecomparing documents 268 .

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Integration with Microsoft Excel
With Microsoft Excel integration, you can easily use an Excel document to create a PDF document andsend it via e-mail directly from Microsoft Excel.
How to use an Excel document to create a PDF document
To create and save a PDF document, do the following:
1. Create or open an appropriate document in Microsoft Excel.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Create PDF.
3. In the dialog box that will appear, do the following:a. Specify a name and folder for the output PDF document.
b. Select Open document if you need to open the output document in a PDF viewer.
c. Click Save.
If required, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and specify the PDF
creation settings 244 .
This will save the PDF document in the specified folder and open it in a PDF viewer if specified.

How to use an Excel document to create a PDF document and send it via e-mailTo create a PDF document and send it via e-mail, do the following:
1. Create or open an appropriate document in Microsoft Excel.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Create PDF and Send by E-mail.
This will attach the PDF document to a new blank e-mail.
If required, you can use specific document sheets to create a PDF document. To do so, click
Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and select Ask to specify spreadsheets in the
dialog box that will appear. Enabling this option will always bring up a sheet selection dialog every
time you create a new PDF document. You can also specify other PDF creation settings 244 .

PDF creation settings for Excel documents
This dialog contains the following groups of settings:· Create PDF/A

Select this option to create a PDF/A-compatible document. Select the required PDF/A type in thedrop-down list on the right.

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Select this option to create a PDF/UA-compatible document. The appearance of such a document
may differ from the original document.
· Password-protect documents

Select this option if you need to set passwords to protect your PDF document from unauthorizedviewing, printing, and editing. Next, click Settings... and specify the appropriate security
parameters 163 in the dialog box that will appear.
· Apply to the following spreadsheets

Select this option to only use the sheets you specify to create the PDF document: active sheet, all
sheets, selected area. If you want the sheet selection dialog to always appear when you create a PDF
document, select Ask to specify spreadsheets.

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Integration with Microsoft PowerPoint
With Microsoft PowerPoint integration, you can easily use a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation tocreate a PDF document directly from PowerPoint.
How to use a PowerPoint presentation to create a PDF document
To create and save a PDF document, do the following:
1. Create or open an appropriate presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Create PDF.
3. In the dialog box that will appear, do the following:a. Specify a name and folder for the output PDF document.
b. Select Open document if you need to open the output document in a PDF viewer.
c. Click Save.
If required, specify the numbers of the slides that will be used to create your PDF file. To do so, click
Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and select Ask to specify slides in the dialog
box that will appear. Enabling this option will always bring up a slide selection dialog every time you
create a new PDF document. You can also specify other PDF creation settings 246 .
This will save the output PDF document in the specified folder and open it in a PDF viewer if
specified.

PDF creation settings for PowerPoint presentations
This dialog contains the following groups of settings:· Convert speaker notes

Select this option to save the author's comments.
· Include hidden slides

Select this option to automatically save hidden slides when creating your PDF document.
· Create PDF/A

Select this option to create a PDF/A-compatible document. Select the required PDF/A type in thedrop-down list on the right.
· Create PDF/UA

Select this option to create a PDF/UA-compatible document. The appearance of such a document
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Select this option if you need to set passwords to protect your PDF document from unauthorizedviewing, printing, and editing. Next, click Settings... and specify the appropriate security
parameters 163 in the dialog box that will appear.
· Create PDF tags

Creating a PDF document automatically creates PDF tags as well.
Aside from text and images, PDF files can also contain information about the structure of the
document: logical structure, illustrations, and tables. This information is stored in the form of PDF
tags, ensuring that the PDF document can be comfortably viewed on screens of varying size, e.g.
handheld devices· Apply to the following slides

The specified slides will be used when creating a PDF document.
o All
Selecting this option will use all slides to create the PDF document.
o Ask to specify slides
A page selection dialog will appear every time you create a new PDF document.
The Ask to specify slides option is available only when the Convert speaker notes
option is deselected.

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Integration with Microsoft Outlook
With Microsoft Outlook integration, you can easily use e-mails, e-mail folders, and e-mailattachments to create a PDF document directly from Microsoft Outlook.
How to use the body of an e-mail to create a PDF document
To create a PDF document using the body of an e-mail, do the following:
1. In Microsoft Outlook, select an e-mail that will be used to create your PDF document.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Convert to PDF.
If you want to use several e-mails to create a PDF document, select all of them at once.
3. In the dialog box that will appear, specify a name and folder for the output PDF document
and select Open document, if you need to open the output document in a PDF viewer.
You can also specify relevant commands in the context menu of the selected e-mail or emails.
If required, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and specify the PDF
creation settings 249 .
This will save the output PDF document in the specified folder and open it in a PDF viewer if specified.

All e-mail attachments will be saved in the output PDF document as PDF attachments.
How to use an e-mail folder to create a PDF document
To create a PDF document using an e-mail folder, do the following:
1. In Microsoft Outlook, specify the e-mail folder that will be used to create the PDF
document.
2. In the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar, click Create PDF from folder or select theappropriate command in the folder context menu.
3. Specify a name and location for the output PDF document.
4. Select Open document if you need to open the resulting document in a PDF viewer.
If required, click Preferences in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar and specify the PDF
creation settings 249 .
This will save the output PDF document in the specified folder and open it in a PDF viewer if specified.

All e-mail attachments will be saved in the output PDF document as PDF attachments.
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To create a PDF document using e-mail attachments, do the following:
1. In Microsoft Outlook, select one or several e-mails, the attachments of which you want to
use to create PDF documents.
2. Select Create PDF from attachments in the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 toolbar or in thecontext menu for an e-mail message.
To create a PDF document using one or several e-mail attachments, select theappropriate attachments and select Create PDF from attachments in the context menu.
3. The ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 image conversion window will appear. In this window,
specify the appropriate conversion parameters and settings 22 and click Convert to PDF.
4. Specify a folder where your output PDF documents will be saved.
This will save your output PDF documents to the specified folder.

PDF creation settings
This dialog contains the following groups of settings:· Create PDF/A

Select this option to create a PDF/A-compatible document. Select the required PDF/A type in thedrop-down list on the right.
· Password-protect documents

Select this option if you need to set passwords to protect your PDF document from unauthorizedviewing, printing, and editing. Next, click Settings... and specify the appropriate security
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Integration with Microsoft SharePointABBYY FineReader allows you to open, edit, and save files stored in Microsoft SharePoint document
libraries.
To process a PDF document stored on a Microsoft SharePoint server:
1. Use ABBYY FineReader PDF Editor to open the PDF document stored on the Microsoft
SharePoint server.
2. Check out the document to prevent other users from changing it by doing the following:· Click the Check Out button in the message that appears in the top part of the screen,· Alternatively, click File > SharePoint® > Check Out.

If the document has already been checked out by another user, save a copy of the
document on your computer.
3. Edit the PDF document.
For more information on working with PDF documents in the PDF Editor, see Working with
PDF documents 51 .
4. Check in the document, so that other users can see your changes. To do this, click File >SharePoint® > Check In....
If you don't want to save the changes to the server, click Discard Check Out...
5. In the dialog box that opens, select Version type of the document if version control isenabled on the server and enter your comment.
Select the Keep the document checked out after checking in the current version option
if you want to upload all of your changes to the server without checking in the document.
6. Click Check In.
Note. If you are using OneDrive cloud storage, you will not be able to check out documents stored
there. OneDrive Client creates copies of files locally on your computer and synchronizes them with theserver. In this case, PDF documents will be treated as regular files.

Integration with the mobile application
ABBYY FineReader integrates with the FineReader PDF mobile application, allowing you to create
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To create documents on your smartphone and send them to your computer for further editing, youwill need to install and set up the FineReader PDF mobile application on your smartphone (iOS orAndroid), as well as a Google Drive cloud storage client:
1. Install the FineReader PDF mobile application for iOS or Android (available in App Store and
Google Play).
For more information about the scanning and text recognition features of the FineReader PDF
mobile application, see the ABBYY website.
2. Install and set up a Google Drive cloud storage client on your computer.
Download Google Drive for Windows from the Google website.
For more information about setting up a cloud storage client, see Cloud storage 256 .
Once the environment has been set up, do the following:on your smartphone
1. Open the mobile application and create a document.
2. Send the document to your computer using export to Google Drive (FineReader).
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3. Select an appropriate format and size for the document being exported.
You can send your document either as a JPG file or as a PDF file.
on your computer
4. Use ABBYY FineReader to open the appropriate document from the local FineReader folder
created on your PC by the Google Drive storage client. To do so:a. On the home screen, click Select folder in the Mobile application tab.

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b. Select the FineReader folder in your local Google Drive cloud storage.

If there is no FineReader folder in your local Google Drive storage, open the document inyour mobile application and send it to your PC using export to Google Drive (FineReader).
Once this is done, all files and folders that you have created using your mobile application will
be displayed in the FineReader PDF application screen. The documents and folders will besorted by creation date, with the document or folder created most recently displayed at the topof the list.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guidec. From the list of mobile application documents and folders that will appear, select theappropriate document or folder.

§ Selecting a PDF file will open the document in the ABBYY FineReader PDF editor for viewing

and editing;§ Selecting a folder containing document images will open a dialog for creating a PDF

document from JPG files.
For more information about converting images to a PDF file, see Creating PDF
documents 22 .
If files of other supported formats 317 are selected, FineReader PDF creates a PDF
document and opens it in the PDF editor for viewing and editing.
Creating a PDF file from files of other formats is not available in some versions of
FineReader PDF.
5. Make your changes and save the document.
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If required, you can set up FineReader to work with a different cloud storage (e.g. OneDrive or
Dropbox). To do so, install the appropriate cloud storage client and select the folder that the client
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Cloud storage
ABBYY FineReader is able to process PDF documents stored on the following cloud storage services:
OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox. The cloud storage client creates copies of files locally on yourcomputer and synchronizes them with the server. As such, you can work with cloud PDF documents
like you would with regular documents.
To process a cloud PDF document, do the following:
1. Install and set up the appropriate cloud storage client:· Microsoft OneDrive;

For more information about using the OneDrive client, see the official Microsoft website.
· Google Drive;

For more information about using the Google Drive client, see the official Google website.
· Dropbox.

For more information about using the Dropbox client, see the official Dropbox website.
After you have set up your client, a folder should appear in Windows Explorer containing all
files that have been uploaded to your cloud storage.
2. In ABBYY FineReader, open the appropriate PDF document from this new folder, edit, and save it.
For more information, see PDF Editor 51 .
The following is an example of how you can work with a PDF document hosted on the OneDrive
cloud storage service.
After you have installed and set up your OneDrive client, you should be able to see the following
folder on your computer's hard drive:The

icon will appear in the notification area, and your files will begin to be synchronized with theserver.

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Such files will be marked with theicon. They do not take up space on your hard drive and will be

downloaded while you are working with ABBYY FineReader.
1. In ABBYY FineReader, open a document from the folder.
Once you open a file, it will be downloaded to your computer and will be marked with theicon.
2. Make your changes to the document and save it.
Next, the local copy of the file will be synchronized with the copy hosted on the server. The file
will then be marked with theicon.

3. Once the file has been uploaded to OneDrive, it is once again marked with theicon.

To mark the most important files and always have access to them, select Always keep on thisdevice from the drop-down menu for that file. This will mark the files with theicon and will makethem available even when you are offline.
Note that the actual process of using any cloud storage service may differ from the one describedabove.

Automating and scheduling OCR· Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader 258

Processing multiple documents often involves repeating the same actions multiple times.
ABBYY FineReader includes built-in automated tasks 15 . If you need more flexibility, you cancreate custom automated tasks from a wide range of available processing steps.
· Scheduled processing 261

ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Hot Folder, a scheduling agent that lets you process
documents when your computer is not in use, e.g. overnight. Scheduled tasks can be createdfor specific folders. You can specify all the necessary image opening, OCR, and saving
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Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader(Not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader. See also: http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader)
In ABBYY FineReader, you can use built-in and custom automated tasks to process your documents.
You can organize your tasks in the Automated Tasks... 366 dialog box.
· To open the Automated Tasks dialog box, click Tools > Automated Tasks.

The toolbar at the top of the Automated Tasks dialog box contains buttons for creating, modifying,copying, deleting, importing, and exporting tasks.

To process a document using an automated task, start the task in Tasks window.
Creating Custom Automated Tasks
You can create your own automated tasks if you need to include processing steps that are notavailable in the built-in automated tasks. The order of steps in an automated task must correspond tothe order of processing operations in the OCR Editor.
1. On the toolbar, click New.
2. In the left-hand pane, choose an OCR proj ect to be used:· Create new OCR project

If you choose this option, a new OCR proj ect will be created when you start the task. You
will also need to specify which document options to use when processing yourdocuments: the global options specified in the program or the options specified in thisparticular task.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Select existing OCR project

Select this option if you want the task to process images from an existing OCR proj ect.
· Use current OCR project

Select this option if you want the task to process images from the current OCR proj ect.
3. Choose how you will obtain images:· Open image or PDF

Select this option if you want the task to process images or PDF documents from aparticular folder (you will need to specify the folder in this case).
· ScanSelect this option if you are going to scan some pages (the current scanning settings will
be used).
Note:a. This step is optional if earlier you chose the Select existing OCR project or Use
current OCR project command.
b. If images are added to an OCR proj ect that already contains images, only the newly
added images will be processed.
c. If an OCR proj ect to be processed contains some pages that have already beenrecognized and some pages that have already been analyzed, the recognized pages
will not be processed again and the analyzed pages will be recognized.
4. Add the Analyze step to detect areas on the images and configure this step:· Analyze the layout automatically

ABBYY FineReader will analyze the images and identify the areas based on their content.
· Draw areas manually

ABBYY FineReader will ask you to draw the appropriate areas manually.
· Use an area template

Select this option if you want an existing area template 366 , to be used when the program
analyzes the document. You will need to either specify a template or choose to have theprogram prompt you to select one every time the task starts. For details, see If you areprocessing a large number of documents with identical layouts 202 .
5. Add an OCR step if you need the images to be recognized. The program will use the OCR
options you selected in the OCR project step.
When you add an OCR, step the Analyze step is added automatically.
6. Add an OCR step to save the recognized text in a format of your choice, e-mail the text orimages, or create a copy of the OCR proj ect. A task may include multiple saving steps:
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Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, file options and the folder where
the file should be saved.
To avoid specifying a new folder each time the task is started, select Create a timestamped subfolder.
· Send document

Here you can select the application in which to open the resulting document.
· E-mail document

Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, file options, and the e-mail address
to which the file should be sent.
· Save images

Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, file options, and the folder where
the image file should be saved.
To save all images to one file, select Save as one multi-page image file (applicable
only to images in TIFF, PDF, JB2, JBIG2, and DCX).
· E-mail images

Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, file options, and the e-mail address
to which the image file should be sent.
· Save OCR project

Here you can specify the folder to which the OCR proj ect should be saved.
Specify which options the program should use to save the results. You can choose
between the global options specified in the program at the time of saving or the options
which you specified for this particular task.
7. Remove any unnecessary steps from the task by clicking the

button.

Sometimes, removing one step will also cause another step to be removed. For instance,
if you remove the Analyze step, the OCR step will also be removed, as OCR cannot be
carried out without analyzing an image.
8. Once you have configured all the required steps, click Finish.
The newly created task will appear in the Tasks window.
To save an automated task, click Export on the toolbar at the top of the Automated Tasks dialog
box and specify a name and folder for the task.
To load a previously created automated task, click Import on the toolbar at the top of theAutomated Tasks and select the file of the task that you want to import.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideABBYY Hot Folder(Not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader. See also: http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader)
ABBYY FineReader includes ABBYY Hot Folder, a scheduling agent that allows you to select a folder
with images that ABBYY FineReader should process automatically. You can schedule ABBYY
FineReader to process documents when you don’t use your computer, e.g. overnight.
To process images in a folder automatically, create a processing task for that folder and specify theimage opening, OCR, and saving options. You must also specify how often ABBYY FineReader should
check the folder for new images (at regular intervals or only once) and set the start time for the task.
For tasks to start, your computer must be turned on and you must be logged on.
Installing ABBYY Hot Folder
By default, ABBYY Hot Folder is installed on your computer together with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
If, during custom installation of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, you chose not to install the ABBYY Hot
Folder component, you can install the it later by following the instructions below.
To install ABBYY Hot Folder:
1. Click the Start button on Control Panel and then click Control Panel.
2. Click Programs and Features.
If you use Windows 10, click Start> Settings > System > Apps & features.

3. Select ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 from the list of installed programs and click Change.
4. In the Custom Setup dialog box, select the ABBYY Hot Folder item.
5. Follow the instruction in the installation wizard.

Launching ABBYY Hot Folder
To launch ABBYY Hot Folder:· Click Start > ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 and then click ABBYY Hot Folder (Start>

All Programs > ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY Hot Folder , if you use Windows 10),or· click in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 and then click Hot Folder, or· click theicon on the Windows taskbar (this icon will appear after you have set up at least

one task).
When you launch ABBYY Hot Folder, its main window opens.
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Use the toolbar buttons at the top of the window to set up, copy, and delete tasks, to initiate
processing, and to view reports.

The set-up tasks are displayed in the ABBYY Hot Folder main window. For each task, the complete
path to its folder, its status, and the time of the next processing session are displayed.
A task may have one of the following statuses:
StatusDescription

Running...

The images in the folder are being processed.

Scheduled

You chose to check the hot folder for images only onceat start time. The start time is indicated in the Next
Start Time column.
You chose to check the hot folder for images repeatedly.

Watching...

The start time is indicated in the Next Start Timecolumn.
StoppedThe processing has been paused by the user.

Completed

The processing is completed.

Error (see log)

An error occurred when processing images in this folder.
The full text of the error can be found in the task log. To
find out the cause of the error, select the failed folder
and click the View Log button on the toolbar.

You can save any task for future use:
1. Click> Export....

2. In the dialog box that opens, specify the name of the task and the folder where it should be
stored.
3. Click Save.
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To load a previously saved task:
1. Click> Import....

2. In the dialog box that opens, select a task and click Open.
To create a new task:
1. On the ABBYY Hot Folder toolbar, click the New button.
2. In the Task name field, type a name for the task.
3. Specify a schedule for the task:· Run once (the task will be run once at the time you specify)· Recurring (the task will be run every minute, once a day, once week or once a monthat the specified time).
4. Specify the folder or OCR proj ect that contains the images to be processed.
· File from folder allows you to process images in local and network folders.
· File from FTP allows you to process images in folders on an FTP server.

If login and password are required in order to access the FTP folder, enter them in theUser name and Password fields respectively. If no login and password are required,select the Anonymous user option.
· File from Outlook allows you to process images in your mail box.
· OCR project opens images stored in an OCR proj ect.

For more about document colors, see Document features to consider prior to OCR 320.
Under Original files specify whether original files should be kept, deleted or moved.
5. In the Analyze and recognize images step, configure the document analysis and OCR
options.
· From the Document language drop-down list, select the language of the texts to berecognized.
You can select more than one OCR language.
· Under Document processing settings, specify whether a document should berecognized or analyzed or whether its page images should be preprocessed. If
required, specify additional OCR and image preprocessing options by clicking
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Specify whether the program should detect areas automatically or use an area

template for the purpose.
6. From the Save results drop-down list, select how documents should be saved.
a. From the Save as drop-down list, select a destination format.
Tip. Click Options... if you want to specify additional saving options.
When saving to PDF, specify whether the text on the images should be recognized or whether theimages should be converted to image-only PDF documents.
b. In the Folder field, specify a folder where documents should be saved after processing.
c. From the Output drop-down list, select a saving method:· Create a separate document for each file (retains folder hierarchy) creates aseparate document for each file.
· Create a separate document for each folder (retains folder hierarchy) creates one

document for all files stored in a particular folder.
· Create one document for all files creates one document for all files.

d. In the File name field, enter a name to be assigned to documents after processing.
Tip. You can specify several saving steps for a folder in order to save processing results in multiple
formats.
7. Click Create Task.
The configured task will be displayed in the ABBYY Hot Folder main window.
Task files are stored in %Userprofile%\AppData\Local\ABBYY\FineReader\15\HotFolder.
For tasks to start, your computer must be turned on and you must be logged on.
To see a notification message each time a task has been completed, click.

A notification message will be displayed in a pop-up window above the Windows taskbar.
Changing task properties
You can change the properties of an existing task.
1. Stop the task whose properties you wish to change.
2. Click Modify on the toolbar at the top of the ABBYY Hot Folder window.
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Processing log
Images in a hot folder are processed according to your defined settings. ABBYY Hot Folder keeps adetailed log of all the operations.
The log file contains the following information:· The name of the task and its settings· Errors and warnings (if any)
· Statistics (number of processed pages, number of errors and warnings, number of uncertain

characters)
To enable logging, clickon the toolbar.

The log will be saved as a TXT file in the same folder that contains the files with recognized text.
To view a log:
1. In the ABBYY Hot Folder main window, select the task you wish to inspect.
2. Click the Log button on the toolbar at the top of the ABBYY Hot Folder window.

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ABBYY Compare Documents is a universal software solution that allows you to compare two different
versions of the same document in different formats.
ABBYY Compare Documents lets you detect significant inconsistencies in the text and helps preventthe approval or publication of the wrong version of a document.
Main features· Compare documents that are in different formats. You can compare a Microsoft Word

document with its PDF version, a scan with its ODT version, and any other combination offormats that are supported by ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
· Examine the differences in a handy side-by-side view. Clicking a difference in the resultspane will immediately highlight the corresponding fragment in both versions.
· View only substantial changes such as deleted, added or edited text. Minor differences informatting, fonts, spaces, and tabs will be ignored.
· Save documents as Microsoft Word files where the differences will be shown using the Track

Changes feature.
Note: a saved document is a recognized version of the original document, meaning that
there can be visual differences and recognition errors. Hence, a document of this type should
only be used for viewing the differences.
· Save documents as PDF files, with each difference marked with a comment.
· Save comparison results as a Microsoft Word table containing the differences.

Chapter contents· Launching ABBYY Compare Documents 267· Comparing documents 268· The main window 270· Improving comparison results 271· Viewing comparison results 273· Saving comparison results 275

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Launching ABBYY Compare Documents
There are many ways to launch ABBYY Compare Documents:· Open the New Task 15 window, click the Compare tab and then click the Open ABBYY

Compare Documents task.
· In the New Task window, click Tools > Compare Documents (similarly, ABBYY CompareDocuments can be launched from the PDF Editor 51 and the OCR Editor 177 ).
· Click Start > ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY Compare Documents. (In Windows 10,

click Start

and then click All Programs > ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY

Compare Documents.)
There are several other ways to open a document in ABBYY Compare Documents:· In the PDF Editor, click the

button on the main toolbar.

· In the PDF Editor, click File > Compare Documents.

The document that is open in the PDF Editor will be opened in ABBYY Compare Documents.
You will then need to open another version of this document to compare the two.
· In Windows Explorer 236 , right-click a file and click Compare with... on the shortcut menu.
· In Windows Explorer, select two files, right-click one of them, and click Compare

documents... on the shortcut menu.
ABBYY Compare Documents is not available in some versions of ABBYY FineReader. See also:
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Comparing documents
To compare two versions of a document, complete these steps:
1. Launch ABBYY Compare Documents.
See also: Launching ABBYY Compare Documents 267 .
2. Open the documents in ABBYY Compare Documents. The documents have to be in one of
the supported formats 317 .
To open a document, do one of the following:· Drag and drop a document onto one of the two of the display areas.
· Click anywhere on a display area and browse to the file location.
· Click the

button on the toolbar of a display area and browse to the desired

document.
· Click one of the display areas and then click on the File > Open Document....

You can switch between the display areas by pressing Ctrl+Tab or Alt+1/Alt+2.
· ABBYY Compare Documents remembers recently compared pairs of documents.

To open one of the recently compared documents, select it from the drop-down list at
the top of a display area.
· To open a recently compared pair of documents, click File > Recent Comparisons andselect a pair of documents from the list.
You can also open a pair of recently compared documents from the New Task
window: click the Compare tab and then select a pair of documents under Recent
Comparisons.
3. Select the language of the documents 310 from the list on the COMPARE tab.
4. Click the Compare button on the COMPARE tab of the rightmost pane or click theCompare Documents command on the Compare menu.
A window will be displayed, showing a progress bar, comparison tips, and warnings.

After the documents have been compared, a list of differences will appear in the
DIFFERENCES tab. All differences will be highlighted in both documents.
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You can Save the Comparison Results:· As a Microsoft Word file where the differences will be shown using the Track Changes

feature.
Note: a saved document is a recognized version of the original document, meaning that
there can be visual differences and recognition errors. Hence, a document of this typeshould only be used for viewing the differences.
· As a PDF document with comments.
· As a Microsoft Word table containing the differences.

To save the comparison results, click the Save... button in the DIFFERENCES tab. By default, thedifferences will be saved in the last selected file format. If you want to save the differences in adifferent format, choose the appropriate format in the drop-down list next to the Save... button.

See also: Viewing comparison results 273 , Saving comparison results 275 .

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The main window
When you launch 267 ABBYY Compare Documents, its main window opens.

Display Area 1 shows the first document.
Display Area 2 shows the second document.
Tip. You can change the way the documents are displayed:· Zoom in by pressing Ctrl+=, zoom out by pressing Ctrl+-, or reset the zoom level by pressing

Ctrl+0. You can also do this using the commands on the shortcut menu of the document andthebuttons above the document.

· Change the way the display areas are shown by clicking View > Split Document Pane

Horizontally. This will split the display pane horizontally, i.e. one document will be displayed
above the other.
· The COMPARE tab of the rightmost pane contains comparison settings.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· The DIFFERENCES tab of the rightmost pane contains a list of differences between the

documents (the list only appears after you compare the documents).
For more about the types of differences that can be detected and how to navigate them, see Viewing
comparison results 273 .

Improving comparison results
ABBYY Compare Documents offers a number of additional options to achieve more accurate
document comparison. To configure these options, do one of the following:· Click the COMPARE tab in the rightmost pane.
· Click Compare > Advanced.

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This tab contains the following settings:· Find differences in punctuation

Select this option to detect differences in punctuation and hyphenation.
· Find one-letter differences

Select this option to detect differences in spelling.
Advanced options
The following advanced options are available:· PDF recognition mode

Selecting the right recognition mode is crucial for accurate comparison of PDF documents.
ABBYY Compare Documents offers three PDF recognition modes:
o Use Only Text from PDF
This is the default mode for PDF documents with a text layer. ABBYY Compare Documents
will use the text layer for comparison.
o Automatically Choose between OCR and Text from PDF
When this mode is selected, ABBYY Compare Documents will check the quality of theoriginal text layer. If the program determines the original text layer is good enough, it will
use the original text layer. Otherwise, it will recognize the document and use the resulting
text layer instead.
o Use OCR
In this mode, the program uses optical character recognition to extract text fromdocuments.
The documents will take longer to compare in this mode, but the comparison results will
be more reliable.
These options are intended for PDF documents that contain a text layer and pictures.
Such PDF documents are typically created by converting editable document files to PDF.
Other kinds of PDF documents, such as searchable or image-only PDF documents, do not
require any additional OCR options and are always processed in the Use OCR mode.
· Find Headers and Footers Automatically

Disable this option if the document has no headers or footers.
· Reset Advanced Options

Select this command to revert to the default settings.

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Viewing comparison results
The differences that the program has detected are highlighted in the two texts and are also listed
separately in the pane on the right.

ABBYY Compare Documents can find the following types of differences:···

Each item in the list of differences contains a deleted, inserted or edited text fragment and thenumbers of the pages where this text occurs in each document. To copy a difference to the Clipboard,right-click it and click Copy Difference on the shortcut menu or select it and click Edit > Copy
Difference.
If a text fragment has been edited, both the old and the new versions of the fragment will be listed
in the rightmost pane.
The number of detected differences is displayed in two locations:· On the red bar that appears at the top of the display area after you compare the documents:

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When you select a difference on the DIFFERENCES tab, the differing text will be displayed in both
documents side-by-side.
To navigate the differences, do one of the following:· Click a difference in one of the two documents.
· Use the following keyboard shortcuts 372 : Ctrl+Right Arrow/Ctrl+Left Arrow.
· Use theandbuttons on the DIFFERENCES tab.

· Click Compare and then click Next Difference or Previous Difference.

You can also scroll the two versions simultaneously to see the changes in a side-by-side view.
Simultaneous scrolling is enabled by default. To disable it, click Fit to Width on the View and clear
the Synchronize Scrolling item, or right-click a document and disable the Synchronize Scrolling
option on the shortcut menu, or click the

button above one of the documents.

Grouping differences
ABBYY Compare Documents groups detected differences so that you can ignore minor changes andfocus on substantial discrepancies.
Detected differences may be placed in one of three groups:· Body text

This group contains the substantial differences found in the body text of the two documents.
· Headers and footers

This group contains the differences in the headers and footers of the two documents (e.g.
differences in page numbers).
· Numbering

This group contains the differences in the numbers contained in the two documents, e.g.
differences in the numbering of lists.
To disable the grouping of differences, click the

button on the DIFFERENCES tab of therightmost pane.
To remove a difference from the list, do one of the following:· Click the

button on the DIFFERENCES tab.

· Right-click the difference and click Ignore Difference on the shortcut menu.

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To remove several differences at a time, select them while holding down the Ctrl key.
To ignore all identical differences, choose the Ignore Identical Differences command in the
shortcut menu.
Any differences that you have removed from the list will not be shown in the comparison report.

Saving comparison results
You can save:
1. One of the documents as a Microsoft Word file where the differences will be shown using
the Track Changes feature.
To do this, click the Save... button in the DIFFERENCES tab and choose the DOCX in Track
Changes Mode for Document 1 / Document 2.

Note: a saved document is a recognized version of the original document, meaning that
there can be visual differences and recognition errors. Hence, a document of this typeshould only be used for viewing the differences.
2. One of the documents as a PDF file with the detected differences as comments.
To do this, click the Save... button in the DIFFERENCES tab and choose the PDF with
Comments for Document 1 / Document 2.
3. The difference list as a Microsoft Word table.
To do this, click the Save... button in the DIFFERENCES tab and choose Comparison
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ABBYY Screenshot Reader is an easy-to-use application for creating screenshots and capturing text
from the screen.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader features:· Create screenshots· Turn screenshots into editable text
· All the benefits of ABBYY OCR technology

ABBYY Screenshot Reader has a straightforward and intuitive interface, which means that you do notneed any specialist knowledge to be able to make screenshots and recognize text in them. Simply
open any window of any application and select the section of the computer screen which you wish to"photograph." You can then recognize the screenshot and save the image and the recognized text.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader is available to registered users of certain ABBYY products. For details on
how to register your copy of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, see Registering ABBYY FineReader 364 .
· Installing and starting ABBYY Screenshot Reader 276· Making screenshots and recognizing text

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· Additional options 278· TipsInstalling and starting ABBYY Screenshot Reader
By default, ABBYY Screenshot Reader is installed on your computer together with ABBYY FineReader
PDF 15.
To start ABBYY Screenshot Reader, click the ABBYY Screenshot Reader iconon the taskbar.

There are several other ways to start ABBYY Screenshot Reader:· Open the New Task window of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 and click Screenshot Reader on

the Tools menu.
· Open the PDF Editor and click Screenshot Reader on the Tools menu.
· Open the OCR Editor and click Screenshot Reader on the Tools menu.
· In Microsoft Windows, click the Start button and then click ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 >ABBYY Screenshot Reader on the Start menu. If you are using Windows 10, click the
button and then clickAll Programs > ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 > ABBYY Screenshot
Reader on the Start menu.
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Making screenshots and recognizing text
ABBYY Screenshot Reader can create screenshots of selected areas on the screen of your computerand save them to a file, copy them to the Clipboard, or send them to the OCR Editor 177 .
When you launch ABBYY Screenshot Reader, the ABBYY Screenshot Reader window appears on thescreen of your computer.

The ABBYY Screenshot Reader window contains tools for recognizing text and tables on the screenof your computer, for creating screenshots of selected screen areas, and for setting up theapplication.
To make a screenshot or to recognize a text fragment:
1. Select a screen capture method from the Capture drop-down list.
· AreaLets you select an area to capture.
· Window

Captures a specific part of the screen (e.g. a window, a part of a window, or a toolbar).
· Screen

Captures the entire screen.
· Timed Screen

Captures the entire screen after a 5-second delay.
2. Select the language of the text you want to recognize from the Language drop-down list.
3. In the Send drop-down list, select the application to which you want to send the image orrecognized text.
The text and screenshots will be:· Copied to the clipboard (when you select Text to Clipboard, Table to Clipboard, or

Image to Clipboard from the Send drop-down list).
· Placed in a new document (when you select Text to Microsoft Word [1] or Table to

Microsoft Excel [2] from the Send drop-down list).

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Saved as a file (when you select Text to File, Table to File or Image to File from theSend drop-down list). The Save As dialog box will open and you will need to specify thename and format of the file.
· Opened in the OCR Editor of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 (when you select Image to OCR

Editor [3] from the Send drop-down list). Select this item if the screen area contains
both text and pictures.
· Attached to a newly created e-mail message as a *.bmp file (when you select Image toE-mail from the Send drop-down list).
This item requires:[1] Microsoft Word
[2] Microsoft Excel[3] ABBYY FineReader PDF 15

4. Click the

button.

Depending on the item you select in the Screenshot list, the screenshot will be createdautomatically or a capture tool will appear enabling you to select the desired area:· If you selected Area from the Capture drop-down list, an area of the screen will beselected.
· To adj ust the borders of an area, place the mouse pointer on a border and drag it

while holding down the left mouse button. To move an area, select the area and drag itto the desired location. When you have selected the desired area, click the Capture
button.
· If you selected Window from the Capture drop-down list, place the mouse pointer overthe desired area and when a color frame appears, click the left mouse button.
· If you selected Screen or Timed Screen from the Capture drop-down list, the screenshot

will be created without any further input.
Notes.
1. To cancel screen capture, press the Esc key or click the right mouse button.
2. To cancel recognition, click the Stop button or press the Esc key.
Additional options
To select additional options, right-click on the ABBYY Screenshot Reader

icon on the taskbar andthen click Options. The following options are available:
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Always on Top

Keeps the ABBYY Screenshot Reader toolbar on top of all the other windows when switching
between applications.
· Run at Startup

Launches ABBYY Screenshot Reader each time you start your computer.
· Enable Sounds

Plays a sound notification when ABBYY Screenshot Reader copies a screen area to the
Clipboard.
Tips
1. Working with texts written in several languages
Select a text fragment written entirely in one language. Before starting the recognition
process, make sure that the language you selected from the Language drop-down list is thesame as the language of the text fragment. Select the correct language if it isn't.
2. If the required language is not in the list, select More languages... from the Language
drop-down list and select the desired language in the dialog box that opens.
If you cannot find the required language in the list of available languages:· ABBYY Screenshot Reader does not support this language. For a full list of supported

languages, please see http://www.abbyy.com. The list of supported languages may varyin different editions of the application.
· This language may have been disabled during custom installation. To install OCR

languages:
a. Open the Control Panel by clicking the Start > Control Panel.
b. In the Control Panel window, click the Add or Remove Programs item.
If you are using Windows 10, click the

button and then click Settings >System > Apps & features.
c. Select ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 from the list of installed software and click the
Change button.
d. Select desired languages in the Custom Setup dialog box.
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3. If the selected area contains both text and pictures:
In the Send drop-down list, click Image to OCR Editor. The screenshot will be added to an
OCR proj ect in the OCR Editor of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, where you can process andrecognize it. If the OCR Editor is already open, the image will be added to the current OCR
proj ect. Otherwise, a new OCR proj ect will be created and the image will be added to thisnew proj ect.

Reference
This chapter provides answers to some frequently asked questions.
Chapter contents· Types of PDF documents 283· Scanning tips 286· Taking photos of documents 289· Options dialog box 292· Format settings 295· Supported OCR and document comparison languages 310· Supported document formats 317· Document features to consider prior to OCR 320· Image processing options 323· OCR options 326· Working with complex-script languages 329· Supported interface languages 335· Current date and time on stamps and in Bates numbers 336· Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages 339· Regular expressions 341· Using the command line 343

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How to set ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 as your default PDF viewer
To set ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 as your default PDF viewer:
1. Right-click any PDF file in Windows Explorer and click Properties in the shortcut menu.
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2. On the General tab click the Change button to change the application that you use to open
PDF files.
A list of applications will open.

3. In the list of applications, select ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
Note. If you don't see ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 in the list, try scrolling down. To see more
applications, click More apps.
4. Click OK.

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Types of PDF documents
The features of a PDF document depend on the program in which it was created. Some PDF
documents are searchable and have text you can copy, while in other documents this only becomes
possible when you open them in special applications like ABBYY FineReader. There are three types of
PDF documents.
Image-only PDF documents
Image-only PDF documents are created from scans of hard-copy documents. They only contain theimages of pages and don't have a text layer. Image-only PDFs are not searchable, and the text they
contain cannot be modified or marked up in PDF viewing applications.
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 uses a special background OCR process 58 that creates a temporary text
layer in image-only documents, making it possible to search and copy their text and even edit page
images 89 . Moreover, ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 lets you save this text layer 100 in the document sothat the text in the document can be searched and copied into other applications. See also: PDF
settings 296 .
Searchable PDF documents
Searchable PDF documents consist of the images of pages with an invisible text layer placed
underneath. Documents of this type are usually created by scanning a paper document, recognizing it,
and saving the recognized text into a text layer.
When you open a PDF document in ABBYY FineReader, it will analyze the document to determine if it
contains a usable text layer. See also: OCR options 326 . If a text layer is present, the text in the
document can be searched and copied in any PDF application. Unlike many other PDF applications,
ABBYY FineReader also lets you edit the text in searchable PDF documents.
In ABBYY FineReader, searchable PDF documents can be created by:
1. Adding a text layer 100 to an image-only PDF document.
2. Converting PDF documents and image files to the searchable PDF format. To do this, enable
the Text under the page image option in the Searchable PDF settings group of options in
the PDF format settings. See also: PDF settings 296 .

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PDF documents that were created in other applications
Searchable PDF documents can be created from documents in various editable formats (such as
DOCX). Documents of this type contain a text layer and pictures, but do not contain page images.
These documents are searchable and their text and pictures can be copied and edited, provided thatsuch actions do not require entering a password or that the user knows the password.
PDF documents if this type can be created by:
1. Opening an editable document in the program where it was created and saving it in PDF.
2. Converting another type of PDF document or a document in another format into this typeof PDF using ABBYY FineReader (in the PDF format settings, enable the Text and pictures
only option in the Searchable PDF settings group of options). See also: PDF settings 296 .
The resulting document will be easier to edit than other types of PDF documents but may be visuallydifferent from the original.

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Scanning tips
You can set the scanning settings in the ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box.
· Make sure that the scanner is properly connected to your computer and turn it on.

Consult your scanner documentation to ensure it is set up correctly. Be sure to install thesoftware provided with your scanner. Some scanners have to be turned on before turning on
the computer they are connected to.
· Try to make sure that the pages in the scanner are positioned as straight as possible. Place

your documents face down on the scanner, making sure they are properly adj usted. Skewed
images may be converted incorrectly.
· If you need to scan documents that were printed with a regular printer, use the grayscalemode and a resolution 287 of 300 dpi for best results.
Recognition quality depends on the quality of the hard-copy document and on the settings
used for scanning the document. Poor image quality may have an adverse effect on thequality of conversion. Be sure to select the scanning parameters appropriate for yourdocument 320 .
There are several ways to open the scanning interface:· Open the New Task screen, click the Scan tab, and then click Scan to OCR Editor or anothertask on this tab.
· In the OCR Editor, click the Scan button on the main toolbar.
· In the PDF Editor, click the

button on the main toolbar and then click Add

from Scanner... on the menu shown below.

You can specify the following scanning settings:
Color mode
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Brightness
Changes the scanning brightness.
ABBYY FineReader will display a warning message during scanning if the brightness 366 setting is too
low or too high. You may also need to adj ust the brightness setting when scanning in black-and-whitemode.
The 50% setting works well in most cases.
If the resulting image contains too many "sketchy" or "thick" letters, troubleshoot using the tablebelow.
Image defectRecommendations
This image is suitable for text recognition.
· Lower the brightness to make the image darker.

Characters are very thin and sketchy· Use the grayscale scanning mode (brightness is

adj usted automatically in this mode).
· Increase the brightness to make the image lighter.

Characters are very thick and are stuck
together· Use the grayscale scanning mode (brightness is

adj usted automatically in this mode).

Scanning resolution
Changes the scanning resolution.
Recognition quality depends on the resolution of the document image. Poor image quality may havean adverse effect on the quality of conversion.
We recommend scanning documents at 300 dpi 366 .
For best recognition results, vertical and horizontal resolutions must be the same.
Setting the resolution too high (over 600 dpi) slows down OCR. Increasing the resolution beyond thispoint does not yield substantially improved OCR results.
Setting an extremely low resolution (less than 150 dpi) adversely affects OCR quality.
You may need to adj ust the resolution of your images if:· The resolution of your image is less than 250 dpi or higher than 600 dpi.
· If the image has a non-standard resolution.

Some faxes, for example, have a resolution of 204 by 96 dpi.
Crop Image
Lets you select a preset scanning area size or specify the scanning area manually.
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Multi-page document scanning options:
Specify settings for scanning multi-page documents if your scanner supports the following features:
duplex scanning, automatic document feeding (ADF), delays between automatic scans, etc.
Scanning facing pages
When you scan a book, a scanned image will typically contain two facing pages.

To improve OCR quality, images with facing pages need to be split into two separate images. ABBYY
FineReader PDF 15 features a special mode that automatically splits such images into separate pages
within the OCR proj ect.
Follow the instructions below to scan facing pages from a book or to scan dual pages.
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options dialog box and then click the Image
Processing tab.
2. Select the Split facing pages option in the Image preprocessing settings (apply toconversion and OCR) group of options.
Make sure your scans have the correct orientation or enable the Correct page orientation
option. If a scan with facing pages does not have the correct orientation (e.g. it is upsidedown), facing pages will not be split.
3. Scan the facing pages.
There are other image processing options you can specify. See also: Image processing options 324 .
You can also split facing pages manually:

1. Open the Image Editor by clicking the

button on the toolbar of the Imagepane.
2. Use the tools in the Split section of the leftmost pane to split the page.
See also:· Image processing options 323· Document features to consider prior to OCR 320· If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low 193

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Taking photos of documents
Scanning isn't the only way to acquire images of your documents. You can photograph documentswith a camera or a mobile phone and then open the photographs in ABBYY FineReader 183 andrecognize them.
When taking pictures of documents, a number of factors should be kept in mind to make the photo
better suited for OCR. These factors are described in detail in the sections that follow:· Camera requirements 289· Lighting 289· Taking photos 290· How to improve an image

Camera requirements
Your camera should meet the following requirements in order to obtain document images that canbe reliably recognized.
Recommended camera characteristics· Image sensor: 5 million pixels for A4 pages. Smaller sensors may be sufficient for taking

pictures of smaller documents such as business cards.
· Flash disable feature· Manual aperture control, i.e. availability of Av or full manual mode
· Manual focusing· An anti-shake (image stabilization) feature or ability to use a tripod· Optical zoom

Minimum requirements· Image sensor: 2 million pixels for A4 pages· Variable focal distanceFor detailed information about your camera, please refer to the documentation supplied with yourdevice.
Lighting
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Best results can be achieved with bright and evenly distributed light, preferably daylight. On a brightsunny day, you can increase the aperture number to get a sharper picture.
Using a flash and additional lighting sources· When using artificial lighting, use two light sources positioned so as to avoid shadows orglare.
· If there is enough light, turn the flash off to prevent sharp highlights and shadows. Whenusing the flash in poor lighting conditions, be sure to take photos from a distance ofapproximately 50 cm.
We advise against using the flash when taking pictures of documents printed on glossy
paper. Compare an image with glare and a good quality image:

If the image is too dark
· Set a lower aperture value to open up the aperture.
· Set a higher ISO value.
· Use manual focus, as automatic focus may fail in poor lighting conditions.

Compare an image that is too dark with a good quality image:Taking photos

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To obtain good quality photos of documents, be sure to position the camera correctly and follow
these simple recommendations.
· Use a tripod whenever possible.
· The lens should be positioned parallel to the page. The distance between the camera andthe document should be selected so that the entire page fits within the frame when you
zoom in. In most cases, this distance will be between 50 and 60 cm.
· Even out the paper document or book pages (especially in the case of thick books). The textlines should not be skewed by more than 20 degrees, otherwise the text may not be
converted properly.
· To get sharper images, focus on the center of the image.

· Enable the anti-shake feature, as longer exposures in poor lighting conditions may cause

blur.
· Use the automatic shutter release feature. This will prevent the camera from moving when

you press the shutter release button. The use of automatic shutter release is recommended
even if you use a tripod.
How to improve an image if:· The image is too dark or its contrast is too low.

Solution: Try using brighter lighting. If that is not an option, try setting a lower aperture
value.
· The image is not sharp enough.

Solution: Autofocus may not work properly in poor lighting or when taking pictures from aclose distance. Try using brighter lighting. Use a tripod and self-timer to avoid moving thecamera when taking the picture.
If an image is only slightly blurry, the Photo Correction tool in the Image Editor of the OCR
Editor may help get better results. See also: If your document image has defects and OCR
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· A part of the image is not sharp enough.

Solution: Try setting a higher aperture value. Take pictures from a greater distance at
maximum optical zoom. Focus on a point between the center and the edge of the image.
· The flash causes glare.

Solution: Disable the flash or try using other light sources and increasing the distance
between the camera and the document.

Options dialog box
The Options dialog box contains a variety of options that let you decide how documents will bescanned, opened, recognized, and saved into various formats, as well as change OCR languages, thelanguage of the interface, the print type of input documents, and some other options.
There are several ways to open the Options dialog box:
· In the New Task screen, click the Options button in the lower-left corner.
· In the New Task screen, click Tools > Options....
· In the PDF Editor, click Tools > Options....
· In the OCR Editor, click Tools > Options....

Buttons, links or commands that open the Options dialog box will also be available when you convert
or scan files in the New Task screen, on toolbars and on shortcut menus of toolbars in the PDF Editor
and the OCR Editor, and in the dialog boxes that appear when you save documents.
The Options dialog box has seven tabs, each of which contains settings specific to certain ABBYY
FineReader functionality.
GeneralOn this tab, you can:
· Choose which part of the program will open when you start ABBYY FineReader PDF 15: the

New Task screen, the OCR Editor with a new OCR proj ect, or the OCR Editor with the mostrecently used OCR proj ect.
· Specify which device you want to use to get images, and choose a scanning interface.

ABBYY FineReader uses a built-in dialog box to display the scanning settings 286 . If thescanning interface of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 is incompatible with your scanner, you can
use your scanner's native interface. The scanner's documentation should contain a descriptionof this dialog box and its elements.
· Make FineReader the default program for opening PDF documents.

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Image Processing
This tab contains three groups of options:· Enable background recognition in the PDF Editor

When this option is enabled, all pages that are opened in the PDF Editor will be recognizedautomatically. This process runs in the background and adds a temporary text layer to PDF
documents, making it possible to search them and copy their text.
Use the link at the bottom of this group to specify the language(s) of your document.
· Automatically process page images as they are added to the OCR Editor

This option enables or disables automatic processing of newly added pages. If automatic
processing is enabled, you can select general document processing options and image
preprocessing settings to be used when scanning and opening images:· Recognize page images (includes preprocessing and analysis)

Newly added images in the OCR Editor will be preprocessed using the settings specified in
the Image preprocessing settings (apply to conversion and OCR) group of options.
Analysis and recognition will also be performed automatically.
· Analyze page images (includes preprocessing)Image preprocessing and document analysis are performed automatically, but OCR has tobe started manually.
· Preprocess page images

Only preprocessing is carried out automatically. Analysis and OCR have to be started
manually.
· Image preprocessing settings (apply to conversion and OCR)ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 lets you automatically remove common defects from scans anddigital photos.
See also: Background recognition 58 , Image processing options 323 , and Working with complex-script
languages 329 .
Languages
This tab contains OCR language options. See also: Document features to consider prior to OCR 320 .
OCR
On this tab, you can select recognition options:· The PDF recognition mode326

· Whether to use thorough or fast recognition· The type of the document 321

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Whether the program should detect structural elements (lets you choose which elements topreserve when exporting results to Microsoft Word)· Whether the program should recognize barcodes· Training (lets you use user patterns when recognizing texts)· Fonts (lets you choose the fonts to be used in recognized texts)

See also: OCR options 326 , If the printed document contains non-standard fonts 208 .
Format Settings
On this tab, you can adj ust the settings of output file formats. See also: Format settings 295 .
Other
On this tab, you can:
· Specify the interface language 335 of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
· Specify how many processor cores FineReader may use for OCR.
· Specify whether ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 should automatically check for and install

updates.
· Specify whether you want to send anonymized ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 configuration data

to ABBYY for purposes of improving the software.
· Specify whether you want to see marketing messages in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 dialog

boxes.
· Enable or disable JavaScript 59 in PDF documents.
· Specify whether ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 should automatically detect URLs in PDF

documents.
Click Reset... at the bottom of the dialog box if you want to revert to the default settings.
Areas and Text*
On this tab you can:
· Specify verification settings for low-confidence characters.
· Specify verification settings for non-dictionary words:· Ignore words with digits and special characters.
· Check non-dictionary compounds.

A compound word is a word made up of two or more words.
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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Specify whether you want to correcting spaces before and after punctuation marks.
· View and edit user dictionaries.
· Choose a font for displaying plain text.
· Choose the color and thickness of frames of different area types in the Image window, thehighlight color for low-confidence characters, and other display options.
See also: Checking recognized text 216 , If the program fails to recognize certain characters 212 , Editing
area properties 200 .
* This tab is only available in the OCR Editor.

Format settings
ABBYY FineReader offers flexible format settings which determine the look and feel of output
documents.
· PDF settings 296· DOC(X)/RTF/ODT settings 300· XLS(X) settings 303· PPTX settings 304· CSV settings 304· TXT settings 305· HTML Settings 306· EPUB/FB2 settings 307· Dj Vu settings 308

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PDF settings
The following settings are available:
Image quality
If your text contains a lot of pictures or if you choose to save the page image together with therecognized text, the resulting PDF file may be quite large. The quality of the pictures and the size ofthe resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Image quality drop-down list:· Best quality

Select this option to retain the quality of the pictures or the page image. The original
resolution of the source image will be preserved.
· Balanced

Select this option to reduce the size of the PDF file while keeping the quality of the pictures
or page image at a reasonably high level.
· Compact size

Select this option to greatly reduce the size of the output PDF file. The resolution of thepictures and page image will be reduced to 300 dpi, affecting their quality.
· Custom...

Select this option if you want to specify custom image quality settings. In the Custom
Settings dialog box, select the desired settings and click OK.
Create PDF/A
Enable this option if you want to create a PDF/A document and select the PDF/A version that you
want to use.
Create PDF/UA (requires OCR)
Enable this option if you want to create a PDF/UA document. Please be aware that the resulting
document may not look exactly like the original.
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This option allows you to protect your PDF document with a password to prevent unauthorized
opening, printing, or editing. Click the Settings... button and specify protection settings in the dialog
box that opens:· Document Open password

If your document has a Document Open password, users will be able to open it only after
entering the password you specify. To set a password for your document:
1. Enable the Restrict access with a Document Open password option.
2. Type the password and confirm it.
Disable the Hide characters option if you want the characters of your password to bevisible in the Document Open password field.
· Permissions password

This password protects the PDF document from unauthorized editing and printing andprevents users who do not know the password from copying its content into anotherapplication. Users will be able to perform all of these actions only after entering the
password you specify. To set this password:
1. Enable the Restrict printing and editing with a Permissions password option.
2. Type the password and confirm it.
Disable the Hide characters option if you want the characters of your password to bevisible in the Permissions password field.
Next, select the actions you want to allow users to perform.
o The Printing drop-down list contains options that allow or restrict printing the
document.
o The Editing drop-down list contains options that allow or restrict editing the
document.
o The Allow copying text, images, and other content option allows users to copy
content (text, pictures, etc.) from your document. If you want to prohibit such actions,
make sure this option is not selected.
o The Allow screen readers to read text option allows screen reader software to readtext from the document when it is open. If you want to prohibit such actions, makesure this option is not selected.
· Encryption level

The Encrypt drop-down list contains options that encrypt password-protected documents.
· 128-bit AES is a fairly strong encryption algorithm based on the AES standard.

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Select one of the options from the Encrypt drop-down list. All document contents encrypts theentire document, while All document contents except metadata leaves the document's data
unencrypted and readable.
Delete objects and data
Enable this option if you don't want to preserve various obj ects contained in the PDF document, thenclick the Select... button to select which obj ects you don't want to keep:· Comments and markup

Notes, annotations, shapes, and text blocks will not be saved.
· Links, media, actions, scripts, and form data

Interactive elements will not be saved.
· Bookmarks

Bookmarks will not be saved.
· Attachments

Attached files will not be saved.
Use one paper size for all page images
If this option is disabled, the original paper size of the page images will be retained. Enable thisoption if you want to use a specific paper size in your PDF document.
Use MRC compression (requires OCR)
Selecting this option will apply the MRC compression algorithm, which greatly reduces file size andpreserves the visual quality the image.
The Use MRC compression (requires OCR) option is available for searchable PDF documents
when the Text under the page image option is enabled.
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Enable this option if you want to use the ABBYY PreciseScan technology to smooth out the charactersin the document. As a result, characters will not look pixelated even when you zoom in on the page.
Searchable PDF settings
This group of options lets you decide what elements of your PDF document you want to save.
Depending on how you are planning to use your document, select one of the following options:· Text and pictures onlyThis option saves only the recognized text and the associated pictures. The page will be fully
searchable and the size of the PDF file will be small. The appearance of the resulting
document may slightly differ from the original· Text over the page image

This option saves the background and pictures of the original document and places therecognized text over them. Usually, this PDF type requires more disk space than Text andpictures only. The resulting PDF document will be fully searchable. In some cases, theappearance of the resulting document may slightly differ from the original.
· Text under the page image

This option saves the entire page as an image and places the recognized text underneath.
The text layer makes it possible to search the document and copy text, while the page
images insure that the document looks virtually the same as the original.
Create bookmarks from headings
Select this option if you wish to create a table of contents from the document headings.
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Select this option to add PDF tags to the output PDF document.
Apart from text and pictures, PDF files can contain information about the document structure, such as
logical parts, pictures, and tables. This information is stored in PDF tags. A PDF file equipped with PDF
tags may be reflowed to fit different screen sizes and will display well on handheld devices.
Fonts
When saving texts in PDF, you can use either Adobe fonts or the Windows fonts installed on yourcomputer. To specify the font set to be used, select one of the following items from the drop-down
list:· Use predefined fonts

The PDF file will use Adobe fonts, for example: Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New.
· Use Windows fonts

The file will use the Windows fonts installed on your computer.
To embed fonts in the PDF document, select the Embed fonts option. This will make the document
file larger, but the document will look the same on all computers.
The Embed fonts is only available for Text and pictures only and Text over the page image PDF
documents.
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
Preserves the metadata 112 of the document when it is saved in the PDF format. This option is enabled
by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

DOC(X)/RTF/ODT settings
The following settings are available:
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Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
1. Exact copy
Preserves the formatting of the original document. This setting is recommended for
documents with complex layouts, such as promotion booklets. Note, however, that it limits
your ability to change the text and formatting in the output document.
2. Editable copy
Produces a document in which the formatting may differ slightly from that of the original.
Documents produced in this mode are easy to edit.
3. Formatted text
Retains paragraphs but does not retain the exact positions of obj ects on the page and line
spacing. The text produced will be left-aligned. Texts in right-to-left scripts will be rightaligned.
Vertical texts will become horizontal.
4. Plain text
Discards most formatting. Preserves only the font styles if the Keep bold, italic, andunderlined text styles in plain text option is enabled.
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You can select the paper size to be used for saving in RTF, DOC, DOCX, or ODT format from theDefault paper size drop-down list.
Picture settings
Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures andthe size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom..., specify the desired settings in the Custom
Settings dialog box, and click OK.
Text settings· Keep headers, footers, and page numbers

Retains the headers, footers, and page numbers in the output text.
· Keep line breaks and hyphens

Retains the original arrangement of text lines in the output text.
· Keep page breaks

Retains the original page arrangement.
· Keep line numbers

Retains the original line numbering (if any). The line numbers will be saved in a separate
field that remains unchanged when you edit the text.
This feature is available only if the Editable copy option is selected in the Document
layout drop-down list.
· Keep text and background colors

Select this option to retain the font color and background color.
· Keep bold, italic, and underlined text styles in plain text

Retains font styles when the Plain text option is selected in the Document layout dropdown list.
If you disable the detection of headers, footers, the table of contents, numbered lists, and footnoteson the OCR tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box), theseelements will be saved as body text.
Low-confidence characters
Enable the Highlight low-confidence characters option if you plan to edit the document in
Microsoft Word and not in the Text pane of the OCR Editor. When this option is selected, all lowconfidence characters will be highlighted in the Microsoft Word document.
Tip. You can change the color use for low-confidence characters on the Areas and Text tab of the
Options dialog box (click Tools>Options... to open this dialog box).
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
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Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

XLS(X) settings
The following settings are available:
Document layout
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
1. Formatted text
Retains the fonts, font sizes, and paragraphs, but does not retain the exact line spacing or
locations of the obj ects on the page. The text produced will be left-aligned. Texts in rightto-left scripts will be right-aligned.
Vertical texts will become horizontal.
2. Plain text
Does not retain the formatting.
Picture settings
You can save pictures in XLSX documents. Documents containing a large number of pictures can bevery large. The quality of the pictures and the size of the resulting file can be tweaked using theoptions in the Keep pictures (XLSX only) drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom..., select the desired settings in the Custom
Settings dialog box, and click OK.
Text settings· Keep headers and footers

Enable this option if you want to keep the headers and footers. If this option is disabled, theheaders and footers will not be preserved.
· Ignore text outside tables

Saves only the tables and ignores the rest.
· Convert numeric values to numbers

Converts numbers into the "Numbers" format in the XLSX document. Microsoft Excel can
perform arithmetic operations on such cells.
· Create separate sheet for each page (XLSX only)

Select this option to save pages from the source document as separate worksheets.
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Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

PPTX settings
The following settings are available:
Picture settings
Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures andthe size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom.... In the Custom Settings dialog box, selectthe desired settings and click OK.
Text settings· Keep headers and footers

Preserves the headers and footers in the output document.
· Keep line breaks

Retains the original arrangement of text lines. If this option is not selected, the output
document will have a single line containing all of the text.
· Shrink text on overflow

Decreases the font size of text if the text does not fit into a text block.
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

CSV settings
The following settings are available:
Text settings· Ignore text outside tables

Saves only the tables and ignores the rest.
· Insert page break character (#12) as page separator

Saves the original page arrangement.
Delimiter
Specifies the character that will be used to separate the data columns in the output CSV document.
Encoding
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Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

TXT settings
The following settings are available:
Document layout
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
1. Formatted text
Retains the paragraphs but does not retain the exact positions of the obj ects and line
spacing. Additionally, white spaces are used to reproduce paragraph indentations andtables. The text produced will be left-aligned. Texts in right-to-left scripts will be rightaligned.
Vertical texts will become horizontal.
2. Plain text
Does not retain the formatting.
Text settings· Keep line breaks

Retains the original arrangement of text lines. If this option is not selected, each paragraphwill be saved as a single line of text.
· Insert page break character (#12) as page break

Saves the original page arrangement.
· Use blank line as paragraph separator

Separates the paragraphs with blank lines.
· Keep headers and footers

Preserves the headers and footers in the output document.
Encoding
ABBYY FineReader detects the code page 366 automatically. To change the code page, select thedesired code page from the Encoding drop-down list.
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Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

HTML settings
The following settings are available:
Document layout
Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
· Flexible layout

Preserves the formatting of the original. The output HTML document can be easily edited.
· Formatted text

Retains the fonts, font sizes, font styles, and paragraphs, but does not retain the exact line
spacing or locations of the obj ects on the page. The text produced will be left-aligned. Texts
in right-to-left scripts will be right-aligned.
Vertical texts will become horizontal.
· Plain text

Does not retain the formatting.
Picture settings
Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures andthe size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom.... In the Custom Settings dialog box, selectthe desired settings and click OK.
Text settings· Keep line breaks

Retains the original arrangement of text lines. If this option is disabled, the output document
will have a single line containing all of the text.
· Keep text and background colors

Select this option to retain the font color and background color.
· Keep headers and footers

Preserves the headers and footers in the output document.
Encoding

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Book settings
If you are converting a hard-copy book to HTML, enable the Generate a table of contents and use it
to divide the document into files option. The book can be split into chapters in one of the following
ways:· Automatically create files based on headings

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will automatically split the document into parts of roughly equal
size, save them as separate HTML files, and create links to them in the table of contents.
· Create files based on level 1 headings

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will automatically split the document into separate HTML files
using the highest-level headings.
· Create files based on level 2 headings

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will automatically split the document into separate HTML files
using the highest-level headings and the headings of the next level.
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

EPUB/FB2 settings
The following settings are available:
Document layout

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Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
· Formatted text

Retains the paragraphs but does not retain the exact positions of the obj ects and line
spacing. The text produced will be left-aligned. Texts in right-to-left scripts will be rightaligned.
Vertical texts will become horizontal.
Font styles will be retained only in the EPUB format.
· Plain text

Does not retain the formatting.
If you are saving to the EPUB format, you can preserve fonts by selecting the Formatted text option
from the Document layout drop-down list and enabling the Retain fonts and font sizes (EPUB
only) option below. Select the Embed fonts option to embed the document's fonts in the resulting ebook.
Some devices and software cannot display embedded fonts.
Create cover
Enable the Use the first page as the e-book cover option if you want to use the first page in the
document as its cover.
Picture settings
Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures andthe size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Keep pictures drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom.... In the Custom Settings dialog box, selectthe desired settings and click OK.
EPUB Settings
You can choose which version of the EPUB format you want to use.
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

DjVu settings
The following settings are available:
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Select the appropriate setting depending on how you plan to use the output document.
· Text under the page image

This option saves the entire page as an image and places the recognized text underneath. As
a result, you get a searchable Dj Vu document that looks almost exactly like the original.
· Page image onlyThis option saves the exact image of the page. The output document will look almost exactly
like the original, but the text in the document will not be searchable.
Picture settings
Documents containing a large number of pictures can be very large. The quality of the pictures andthe size of the resulting file can be tweaked using the options in the Image quality drop-down list.
Tip. To change the picture saving settings, click Custom.... In the Custom Settings dialog box, selectthe desired settings and click OK.
Multiple layers
The Dj Vu format uses a special compression technique which separates a page image into layers andapplies different compression methods to each of them. By default, ABBYY FineReader willautomatically determine whether multi-layer compression must be used on a page (i.e. the Multiple
layers option is set to Automatic). Set the Multiple layers option to Always on if you want to use
multi-layer compression on all pages or to Always off if you do not want to use multi-layer
compression.
Preserve document metadata, such as authors and keywords
Preserves the metadata when you save the document. This option is enabled by default.
If you want to make changes to the document's metadata, click the Edit Metadata... button, make thedesired changes, and click OK.

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Supported OCR and document comparison languages
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 supports 201 OCR languages:· Natural languages 310· Artificial languages 316· Formal languages

Supported languages may vary in different versions of the product.
Natural languages· Abkhaz· Avar· Agul· Adyghe· Azeri (Cyrillic), Azeri (Latin) **· Aymara· Albanian· Altai· English phonetic transcriptions· English*, **· Arabic (Saudi Arabia)· Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar)*· Afrikaans· Nahuatl· Basque· Bashkir*, **· Belarusian· Bemba· Blackfoot· Bulgarian*, **310

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Breton· Bugotu· Buryat· Welsh· Hungarian*, **· Wolof· Vietnamese*, **· Hawaiian· Gagauz· Galician· Ganda· Greek*, **· Guarani· Kawa· Scottish Gaelic· Dakota· Dargwa· Danish*, **· Tun· Dungan· Zulu· Hebrew*· Yiddish· Ingush· Indonesian*, **· Irish311

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Icelandic· Spanish*, **· Italian*, **· Kabardian· Kazakh· Kalmyk· Karakalpak· Karachay-balkar· Catalan*, **· Kashubian· Quechua (Bolivia)· Kikuyu· Kirghiz· Chinese Simplified**, Chinese Traditional· Kongo· Korean, Korean (Hangul)· Corsican· Koryak· Xhosa· Kpelle· Crow· Crimean Tatar· Kumyk· Kurdish· Lak· Latin*312

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Latvian*, **· Lezgi· Lithuanian*, **· Luba· Sorbian· Maya· Macedonian· Malagasy· Malay (Malaysian)· Malinke· Maltese· Mansi· Maori· Mari· Minangkabau· Mohawk· Romanian (Moldova)· Mongol· Mordvin· Miao· German (Luxembourg)· German**, German (New Spelling)*, **· Nenets· Nivkh· Dutch**, Dutch (Belgian)*, **· Nogay313

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Norwegian (Nynorsk)**, Norwegian (Bokmal)*, **· Nyanja· Ojibway· Ossetian· Papiamento· Polish*, **· Portuguese**, Portuguese (Brazilian)*, **· Occitan· Rhaeto-Romanic· Rwanda· Romanian*, **· Rundi· Russian*, **· Russian (Old Spelling)· Russian with stress marks· Sami (Lappish)· Samoan· Zapotec· Swazi· Cebuano· Selkup· Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin)· Slovak*, **· Slovenian*, **· Somali· Swahili

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Sunda· Tabasaran· Tagalog· Tajik· Tahitian· Thai*· Tatar*, **· Tok Pisin· Tongan· Tswana· Tuvinian· Turkish*, **· Turkmen (Cyrillic), Turkmen (Latin)· Udmurt· Uighur (Cyrillic), Uighur (Latin)· Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin)· Ukrainian*, **· Faroese· Fijian· Finnish*, **· French*, **· Frisian· Friulian· Khakass· Hani· Khanty

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Hausa· Croatian*, **· Jingpo· Romany· Chamorro· Chechen· Czech*, **· Chuvash· Chukchee· Swedish*, **· Shona· Evenki· Even· Eskimo (Cyrillic), Eskimo (Latin)· Estonian*, **· Sotho· Yakut· Japanese· Old English*· Old French*· Old German*· Old Italian*· Old Spanish*· Latvian Gothic

Artificial languages

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Formal languages· Basic· C/C++· COBOL· Fortran· Java· Pascal· Simple math formulas· Numbers

To find out which fonts are required to display the characters of a specific language, see Fonts
required for the correct display of texts in supported languages 339 .
*Dictionaries are available for this language, enabling ABBYY FineReader to identify unreliably
recognized characters and detect spelling errors in texts written in this language.
**Document comparison language. ABBYY FineReader can compare documents written in 37
languages. See also: ABBYY Compare Documents 266 .

Supported document formats
The table below lists the formats supported by ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
Input formats
for the PDF
FormatFile extension

Input formats

Editor /for the OCR Editor

for ABBYY

Saving formats

CompareDocuments
PDF document

*.pdf

+

+

+

Editable text formats

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Microsoft Word*.doc, *.docx

-

+

+

*.xls, *.xlsx

-

+

+

*.pptx

-

+

+

*.ppt

-

+

-

*.vsd, *.vsdx

-

+/ -

-

HTML Document*.htm, *.html

-

+

+

Rich Text Format

*.rtf

-

+

+

Text Document

*.txt

-

+

+

Microsoft Office

*.csv

-

-

+

*.odt

-

+

+

*.ods

-

+

-

*.odp

-

+

-

FB2 Document

*.fb2

-

-

+

EPUB Document*.epub

-

-

+

*.xps

+

+

-

*.dj vu, *.dj v

+

+

+

*.j pg, *.j peg

+

+

+

Document
Microsoft Excel 972003 Workbook
Microsoft
PowerPoint
Presentation

Microsoft Visio
Drawing

Excel CommaSeparated Values
File
OpenDocument
Text

Non-editable formats
XPS (requires
Microsoft .NET
Framework 4)
Dj Vu Document
ImagesJPEG

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JPEG 2000*.j p2, *.j 2k, *.j pf,

+

+

+

*.j px, *.j pc
PNG

*.png

+

+

+

TIFF

*.tiff, *.tif

+

+

+

BMP

*.bmp, *.dib, *.rle

+

+

+

GIF

*.gif

+

+

-

JBIG2

*.j big2, *.j b2

+

+

+

PCX

*.dcx, *.pcx

+

+

+

To be able to edit texts in a particular format, you must have the appropriate version of Microsoft
Office or Apache OpenOffice installed on your computer.
ABBYY Compare Documents can save comparison results in the following formats:· PDF document (*.pdf)

To view PDF files, you must have a PDF viewing application installed on your computer. To
see the list of differences, open the Comments pane.
· Microsoft Word Document (*.docx)

If the metadata of a document contain information about the compliance with the PDF/A or
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Document features to consider prior to OCR
The quality of images has a significant impact on OCR quality. This section explains what factors you
should take into account before recognizing images.
· OCR languages 320· Print type 321· Print quality 321· Color mode

OCR languages
ABBYY FineReader can recognize both single- and multi-language documents (e.g. written in two or
more languages). For multi-language documents, you need to select several OCR languages.
To select OCR languages, click Options 292 > Languages and select one of the following options:· Automatically select OCR languages from the following list

ABBYY FineReader will automatically select the appropriate languages from the userdefined list of languages. To edit the list of languages:
1. Make sure the Automatically select OCR languages from the following list option is
selected.
2. Click the Specify... button.
3. In the Languages dialog box, select the desired languages and click OK.
4. In the Options dialog box, click OK.
· Specify OCR languages manually

Select this option if the language you need is not in the list.
In the dialog box below, specify one or more languages. If you often use a particular language
combination, you can create a new group 213 for these languages.
If a language is not in the list, it is either:
1. Not supported by ABBYY FineReader, or
For a complete list of supported languages, see Supported OCR languages 310 .
2. Not supported by your version of the product.
The complete list of languages available in your version of the product can be found in
the Licenses dialog box (click Help > About > License Info to open this dialog box).
In addition to using built-in languages and language groups, you can create your own languages andgroups.See also: If the program fails to recognize certain characters 212 .
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Print type
Documents may be printed using various devices such as typewriters and fax machines. OCR quality
may vary depending on how a document was printed. You can improve OCR quality by selecting thecorrect print type in the Options 292 dialog box.
For most documents, the program will detect their print type automatically. For automatic print typedetection, the Auto option must be selected in theDocument type group of options in the Options
dialog box (clickTools > Options...>OCR to access these options). You can process documents in fullcolor or black-and-white mode.
You may also choose to manually select the print type as needed.
An example of typewritten text. All letters are of equal width (compare, for example,"w" and "t"). For texts of this type, select Typewriter.
An example of a text produced by a fax machine. As you can see from the example,
the letters are not clear in some places. There is also some noise and distortion. For
texts of this type, select Fax.
After recognizing typewritten texts or faxes, be sure to select Auto before processing regular printed
documents.
Print quality
Poor-quality documents with "noise" (i.e. random black dots or speckles), blurred and uneven letters,
or skewed lines and shifted table borders may require specific scanning settings.
Fax

Newspaper

Poor-quality documents are best scanned in grayscale 286 . When scanning in grayscale, the program
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The grayscale scanning mode retains more information about the letters in the scanned text toachieve better OCR results when recognizing documents of medium to poor quality. You can also
correct some of the defects manually using the image editing tools available in the Image Editor. See
also: If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low 193 .
Color modeIf you do not need to preserve the original colors of a full-color document, you can process the
document in black-and-white mode. This will greatly reduce the size of the resulting OCR proj ect andspeed up the OCR process. However, processing low-contrast images in black-and-white may result inpoor OCR quality. We also do not recommend black-and-white processing for photos, magazine
pages, and texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Tip. You can also speed up the OCR of color and black-and-white documents by selecting Fast
recognition on the OCR tab of the Options dialog box. For more about the recognition modes, see
OCR Options 326 .
For some additional recommendations on selecting the right color mode, see Scanning tips 286 .
Once the document is converted to black-and-white, you will not be able to restore the colors. To
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Image processing options
To customize the scanning and opening of pages in ABBYY FineReader, you can:· enable/disable background recognition in the PDF Editor 323· enable/disable automatic analysis and recognition 323 of pages when they are added into the

OCR Editor· specify image preprocessing settings 324

You can select desired options either when opening a PDF document, images or scans in the New
Task Window or on the Image Processing tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... toopen this dialog box).
Any changes you make in the Options dialog box will only be applied to newly scanned/opened
images.
The Image Processing tab of the Options dialog box contains the following options:
Enable background recognition in the PDF Editor
background recognition will be used for all pages you open in the PDF Editor. Backgroundrecognition allows you to search and copy text even in documents that do not have a text layer (e.g.
documents that contain only scans or that were created from images). No permanent changes are
made to the document itself.
On this tab, you can also specify the OCR languages 320 .
If you want to enable other users to carry out text searches in this document, click File > Recognize
Document > Recognize Document....
Automatic analysis and recognition of images added into the OCR Editor
By default, pages are analyzed and recognized automatically, but you can change this behavior. The
following modes are available:· Recognize page images (includes preprocessing and analysis)

When images are opened in the OCR Editor, they will be automatically preprocessed using
the settings selected in the Image preprocessing settings (apply to conversion and OCR)
group of settings. Analysis and OCR are also performed automatically.
· Analyze page images (includes preprocessing)Image preprocessing and document analysis are performed automatically, but OCR has tobe started manually.
· Preprocess page images

Only preprocessing is carried out automatically. Analysis and OCR have to be started
manually. This mode is commonly used for documents with complex structures.
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If you do not want the images you add to be automatically processed, clear the Automaticallyprocess page images as they are added to the OCR Editor option.
This lets you quickly open large documents, recognize only select pages in a document, and save
documents as images 231 .
Image preprocessing settings
ABBYY FineReader lets you automatically correct common defects on scan and digital photos.
By default, this dialog box displays three recommended options:· Split facing pages

Split facing pages The program will automatically split images that contain facing pages
into two images containing one page each.
· Correct page orientation

The orientation of pages that are added to an OCR proj ect will be automatically detected
and corrected if necessary.
· Use recommended settings for better OCR

The program will automatically choose and apply the required preprocessing settings.
To display all the settings, click Show Custom Settings:· Deskew images

The program will automatically detect skewed pages and correct skew if necessary.
· Straighten text lines

The program will automatically detect uneven text lines on images and straighten themwithout correcting trapezoid distortions.
· Correct image resolution

The program will automatically detect will automatically determine the best resolution forimages and will change the resolution of images when necessary.
· Detect page edges *The program will automatically detect and crop image edges.
· Whiten background *The program will automatically whiten backgrounds and select the best brightness setting.
· Reduce ISO noise *The program will automatically remove noise from photographs.
· Remove motion blur *The sharpness of blurry digital photos will be increased.

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Correct trapezoid distortions *The program will automatically detect trapezoid distortions and uneven text lines on digital
photographs and scans of books.
· Fix inverted colors on image

When appropriate, the program will invert the colors of an image so that dark text is printed
on a light background.
· Convert to black and white

The program will convert color images to black-and white This will greatly reduce the size ofthe resulting OCR proj ect and speed up OCR. We do not recommend black-and-white
conversion for photos, magazine pages, and texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
· Remove color marks

The program will detect and remove any color stamps and marks made in pen to facilitate
the recognition of the text obscured by such marks. This option is designed for scanned
documents with dark text printed on a white background. Do not select this option for
digital photos and documents with color backgrounds.
* For digital photos only.
To display only the recommended settings, click Hide Custom Settings.
You can disable all of these options when scanning or opening document pages and still apply any
desired preprocessing in the Image Editor of the OCR Editor. See also: If your document image has
defects and OCR accuracy is low 193 .

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OCR options
Selecting the right OCR options is important if you want fast and accurate results. When deciding
which options you want to use, you should consider not only the type and complexity of yourdocument, but also how you intend to use the results. The following groups of options are available:· PDF recognition modes 326· Balance between OCR speed and accuracy 327· Document type 328· Detection of structural elements 328· Barcodes 328· Patterns and languages 328· Fonts to be used in recognized text 328

You can find the OCR options on the OCR tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... toopen this dialog box).
ABBYY FineReader automatically recognizes any pages you add to an OCR proj ect. The currently
selected options will be used for OCR. You can turn off automatic analysis and OCR of newly added
images on theImage Processing tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools> Options... to open this
dialog box).
If you change the OCR options after a document has been recognized, run the OCR process again torecognize the document with the new options.
PDF recognition modes
These settings are intended for PDF documents with text layers and pictures. Such PDF documents areusually created from documents in editable formats. Other types of PDF documents, such as
searchable PDFs and image-only PDFs, are always processed in Use OCR mode, which is the default
mode for these types of PDF. No additional settings are required to process such PDFs.
Three recognition modes are available:· Automatically Choose between OCR and Text from PDF

The program will examine the text layer and use the existing text layer if it contains goodquality text. Otherwise, OCR will be used to create a new text layer.
· Use OCR

OCR will be used to create a new text layer. This mode takes more time but is more suitablefor documents with poor-quality text layers.

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This is the default mode for PDF documents with text layers. The program will use theoriginal text layer without running OCR.
balance between OCR speed and accuracy
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 allows you to perform:· Thorough recognition

In this mode, ABBYY FineReader analyzes and recognizes both simple documents anddocuments with complex layouts, even those with text printed on a colored background anddocuments with complex tables (including tables with white grid lines and tables with color
cells).
Thorough recognition requires more time but delivers better quality.

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This mode is recommended for processing large documents with simple layouts and goodquality images.
Print typeSpecifies the type of device that was used for printing the document. See also: Document features toconsider prior to OCR 321 .
Detect structural elements
Select the structural elements you want the program to detect: headers and footers, footnotes, tablesof contents, and lists. The selected elements will be clickable when the document is saved.
BarcodesIf your document contains barcodes and you wish them to be converted into strings of letters anddigits rather than saved as pictures, select Convert barcodes into strings. This feature is disabled bydefault.
Patterns and languages
Recognition with training is used to recognize the following types of text:· Texts with special symbols (e.g. mathematical symbols)· Text with decorative elements· Large volumes of text from low-quality images (over 100 pages)

Training 208 is disabled by default. Enable Use training to recognize new characters and ligatures totrain ABBYY FineReader while performing OCR.
You can use either built-in or your own patterns for recognition.
You can save and load settings for user patterns and languages. See also: OCR proj ect 186 .
Fonts
Here you can select the fonts to be used when saving recognized text.
To select fonts:
1. Click the Select Fonts... button.
2. Select the desired fonts and click OK.

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Working with complex-script languages
With ABBYY FineReader, you can recognize documents in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean. Some additional factors must be taken into account when working with
documents in Chinese, Japanese or Korean and with documents in which a combination of CJK andEuropean languages is used.
· Recommended fonts 329· Disabling automatic image processing 330· Recognizing documents written in more than one language 331· If non-European characters are not displayed in the Text window 331· Changing the direction of recognized text

Recommended fonts
Recognition of text in Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean may require
additional fonts to be installed. The table below lists the recommended fonts for texts in theselanguages.
OCR languages

Recommended font

ArabicArial™ Unicode™ MS

Hebrew

Arial™ Unicode™ MS

YiddishArial™ Unicode™ MS

ThaiArial™ Unicode™ MS
AharoniDavid
Levenim mt
MiriamNarkisim
Rod

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Chinese (Simplified)Arial™ Unicode™ MS

Chinese (Traditional)

SimSun fonts such as:Japanese, Korean

Example SimSun (Founder Extended),

Korean (Hangul)

SimSun-18030, NSimSun.
Simhei
YouYuanPMingLiU
MingLiU
Ming(for-ISO10646)
STSong

The sections below contain advice on improving recognition accuracy.
Disabling automatic image processing
By default, any pages you add to an OCR proj ect 186 are automatically recognized.
However, if your document contains text in a CJK language combined with a European language, we
recommend disabling automatic detection of page orientation and using the dual page splitting
option only if all of the page images have the correct orientation (e.g. they were not scanned upside
down).
You can enable/disable the Correct page orientation and Split facing pages options on the Image
Processing tab of the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
To split facing pages in Arabic, Hebrew, or Yiddish, be sure to select the corresponding OCR
language first and only then select the Split facing pages option. You can also restore the original
page numbering by selecting the Swap book pages option. See also: OCR proj ects 186 .
If your document has a complex structure, we recommend disabling automatic analysis and OCR for
images and performing these operations manually.
You can turn off automatic analysis and OCR of newly added images on the Image Processing tab of
the Options dialog box (click Tools > Options... to open this dialog box).
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options 292 dialog box.
2. On the Image Processing tab, clear the Automatically process page images as they areadded to the OCR Editor option.

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3. Click OK.
Recognizing documents written in more than one language
The instructions below are provided as an example and explain how to recognize a document that
contains both English and Chinese text. Documents that contain other languages can be recognized ina similar manner.
1. On the main toolbar, select More languages... from the list of languages. In the Language
Editor dialog box, select Specify OCR languages manually and select Chinese and English
from the list of languages.
2. Scan your pages or open your images.
3. If the program fails to detect all of the areas on an image:· Specify areas manually using the area editing tools 196· Specify any areas that only contain one language and on the Area Properties selectEnglish or Chinese as appropriate.
A language can only be specified for areas of the same type. If you selected areas ofdifferent types, such as Text and Table, you will not be able to specify a language.
· If necessary, select the text direction from the Orientation drop-down list (for details,

see If vertical or inverted text was not recognized 214 )· For texts in CJK languages, the program provides a selection of the text directions in the

Direction of CJK text drop-down list (for details, see Editing area properties) 200 .
If non-European characters are not displayed in the Text pane
If text in a CJK language is displayed incorrectly in the Text pane, you may have selected the Plaintext mode.
To change the font used in Plain text mode:
1. Click Tools > Options... to open the Options 292 dialog box.
2. Click the Areas and Text tab.
3. Select Arial Unicode MS from the Font used to display plain text drop-down list.
4. Click OK.
If this did not help and text in the Text window is still displayed incorrectly, see Incorrect font is usedor some characters are replaced with "?" or "□" 207 .
Changing the direction of recognized text

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manually.
1. Activate the Text pane.
2. Select one or more paragraphs.

3. Click the

button on the toolbar in the Text pane.

You can use the Direction of CJK text drop-down list in the Image pane to specify the direction of
text prior to OCR. See also: Editing area properties 200 .

Recognition of text written using a Gothic script
ABBYY FineReader can help you recognize historical documents and books that have been written
using a Gothic typeface in the English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Latvian languages.
Working with such documents is different in several respects, as described below.
· Gothic script recognition languages 332· Supported Gothic fonts 333· Instructions for recognizing text written in Gothic script

Sample text

Gothic script recognition languages
To recognize text written in a Gothic typeface, the program uses the following 6 languages:
1. Old English.
2. Old French.
3. Old German.
4. Old Italian.
5. Old Spanish.
6. Latvian Gothic.

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Supported Gothic fonts

You may need to install additional Windows fonts in order to have the text displayed in a Gothic
typeface in the recognition results.

ABBYY FineReader supports the following Gothic scripts:
1. Textur/Textualis — blackletter typeface.
2. Fraktur — blackletter typeface with angluar strokes.
3. Schwabacher — "broken" typeface with rounded strokes in some letters.
If no Gothic fonts are installed, the recognition results will be displayed in either Arial, Times, or
Courier.

Instructions for recognizing text written in Gothic script

To recognize a document that contains Gothic typeface text, do the following:
1. In the OCR Editor window, select More languages... from the Languages drop-down list on themain toolbar. In the Language Editor dialog that opens, select the Specify OCR languages
manually option and specify the appropriate language 332 from the list. Then click OK.
Selecting several recognition languages at the same time (e.g. English and Old English or
German and old German) may negatively affect the recognition results. To avoid this, specify only
the language that will be used to recognize the Gothic text 332 .
For more information on how to launch the OCR Editor, see Launching the OCR Editor 177 .
2. Scan or open the images.
For more information, see Obtaining documents 182 .

3. Click the

button on the main toolbar.

The recognition results will be displayed in the Text window.
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Recognition results will be displayed in a Gothic font if the source document was written using a
supported font 333 that is installed on your machine. Otherwise, either Arial, Times, or Courier will beused.
If necessary, change the font of the results:
1. Select the appropriate text.
2. Click Properties in the context menu for that text.
3. On the Text Properties panel, select the appropriate font from the list.
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Supported interface languages
The interface language is selected when ABBYY FineReader is installed. This language will be used for
all the messages, dialog boxes, buttons, and menu items. To change the interface language, follow
the instructions below:
1. Click Options... on the Tools menu to open the Options dialog box and then select the
Other tab.
2. Select the desired language from the Interface language drop-down menu.
3. Click OK.
4. Restart ABBYY FineReader.
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 supports 23 GUI languages:· English· Bulgarian· Hungarian· Vietnamese· Dutch· Greek· Danish· Spanish· Italian· Chinese Traditional· Chinese Simplified· Korean· German· Polish· Portuguese (Brazilian)· Russian· Slovak· Turkish

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Current date and time on stamps and in headers and footers
You can create stamps and Bates numbers that display the current date. Use the following tags in thestamp manager or Bates number manager.
Tag

Example<d/>Date in short format

07.02.2013<date/>

Date in long format

7 February 2013<t12/>

Time in 12-hour format

9:22 PM<t24/>

Time in 24-hour format

21:22<time/>

Time in HH:MM:SS format

21:22:51

By default, the regional settings of your computer will determine the date and time formats. You canspecify a different format. For example, <d=RUS/>, <date=USA/>, or <time=ENG/>. The result will
be immediately displayed in the preview pane.
Click here to see some examples<d=USA/ 2/7/2013><d=ENG/ 07/02/201>

3<d=RUS/ 07.02.2013><d=DEU/ 07.02.2013><d=FRA/ 07/02/201
>

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3<d=ESP/> 07/02/201
3<d=NLD/ 7-2-2013><d=PO/> 07.02.2013<d=HUN/ 2013.02.07><d=CZ/> 07.02.2013<d=SL/> 7. 2. 2013

You can specify custom date and time formats.
Click here to see some examples<date=USA %A/>

Friday<date=DEU %B, %Y/> February, 2013
<time %Hh %Mm/>

09h 22m

You can specify date and time formats using the <date/> and <time/> tags.
<date/> parameters
ExampleYear%y

The year as a number from 01 to 99 (with leading zeros)

01

%#y

The year as a number from 1 to 99 (no leading zeros)

1%Y

The year as a number from 0001 to 9999 (with leading zeros)

2013

%#Y

The year as a number from 1 to 9999 (no leading zeros)

2013

Abbreviated names of the months

Feb

Month
%b

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Full names of the months

February%m

The month as a number from 01 to 12 (with leading zeros)

02

%#m

The month as a number from 1 to 12 (no leading zeros)2

Day of month%d

The day as a number from 01 to 31 (with leading zeros)

07

%#d

The day as a number from 1 to 31 (no leading zeros)7%aAbbreviated names of the days

Tu

%A

Full names of the months

Tuesday

Day of week<time/> parameters
ExampleHours%H

Hours in 24-hour format (from 00 to 23, with leading zeros)

07

%#H

Hours in 24-hour format (from 0 to 23, no leading zeros)

7%I

Hours in 12-hour format (from 01 to 12, with leading zeros)

05

%#I

Hours in 12-hour format (from 1 to 12, no leading zeros)5%p

A.M./P.M. indication for 12-hour format*

AM

Minutes and seconds%M

Minutes as a number from 00 to 59 (with leading zeros)

04

%#M

Minutes as a number from 0 to 59 (no leading zeros)

4%S

Seconds as a number from 00 to 59 (with leading zeros)

04

%#S

Seconds as a number from 0 to 59 (no leading zeros)

4

Additional parameter%%

Percentage symbol

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Changing your regional settings
1. Click Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options
2. On the Formats tab, select a format to be used for date and time, or click Options tocreate your own date and time format.

In Windows 10, click Start> PC Settings > Time and Language > Region andlanguage.
______________________* Available only for the USA, ENG, HUN, and CZ regions.

Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported
languages
OCR languages

Font

AbkhazArial Unicode MS(*) 341

Avar

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Agul

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

AdygheArial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

AltaicArial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

ArabicArial Unicode MS(*) 341

Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar)*

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

Bashkir*

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Palatino Linotype

Vietnamese

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

GagauzArial Unicode MS(*) 341

DargwaArial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Zulu

Arial Unicode MS,(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Hebrew

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Aharoni, David, Levenim mt,
Miriam, Narkisim, Rod

YiddishArial Unicode MS(*) 341

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IngushArial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Kabardian

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional) Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , SimSun fonts
Example SimSun (Founder Extended), SimSun-18030,
NSimSun.
Simhei, YouYuan, PMingLiU, MingLiU, Ming(forISO10646), STSong
Korean, Korean (Hangul)

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , SimSun fonts
Example SimSun (Founder Extended), SimSun-18030,
NSimSun.
Simhei, YouYuan, PMingLiU, MingLiU, Ming(forISO10646), STSong

KoryakArial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Lak

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Lezgi

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Mansi

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Mari

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

Ossetian

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

Russian (old spelling)

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Palatino Linotype

Tabasaran

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Taj ikArial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Palatino Linotype

Thai

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

UdmurtArial Unicode MS(*) 341

Khakass

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

KhantyArial Unicode MS(*) 341

Hausa

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

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ChuvashArial Unicode MS(*) 341

Chukchee

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , Lucida Sans Unicode

Yakut

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341

Japanese

Arial Unicode MS(*) 341 , SimSun fonts
Example SimSun (Founder Extended), SimSun-18030,
NSimSun.
Simhei, YouYuan, PMingLiU, MingLiU, Ming(forISO10646), STSong

Where to find/supplied with(*) Microsoft Office 2000 or later

Regular expressions
The table below lists the regular expressions that can be used to create a dictionary for a custom
language 212 .
Conventional
Item nameregularexpression

Usage examples and explanations

symbol
Any character.

c.t— denotes "cat," "cot," etc.

Character from[][b-d]ell— denotes "bell," "cell," "dell," etc.; [ty]ell— denotes

group"tell" and "yell"

Character not from [^][^y]ell— denotes "dell," "cell," "tell," but forbids "yell”; [^n-s]ell

group— denotes "bell," "cell," but forbids "nell," "oell," "pell," "qell,""rell," and "sell"Or|c(a|u)t— denotes "cat" and "cut"0 or more matches *10*— denotes numbers 1, 10, 100, 1000, etc.

1 or more matches +10+— allows numbers 10, 100, 1000, etc.

Letter or digit[0-9a-zA-Zа- [0-9a-zA-Zа-яА-Я]— allows any single character; [0-9a-zA-ZаяА-Я]

Capital Latin letterяА-Я]+— allows any word

[A-Z]

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Small Latin letter[a-z]Capital Cyrillic letter [А-Я]Small Cyrillic letter [а-я]
Digit

[0-9]
@

Reserved.

Note:
1. To use a regular expression symbol as a normal character, precede it with a back slash. For
example,[t-v]x+ stands for tx, txx, etc., ux, uxx, etc., and vx, vxx, etc., but \[t-v\]x+ stands for[t-v]x, [t-v]xx, [t-v]xxx, etc.
2. To group regular expression elements, use brackets. For example, (a|b)+|c stands for c orany combinations like abbbaaabbb, ababab, etc. (a word of any non-zero length in which
there may be any number of a's and b's in any order), while a|b+|c stands for a, c, b, bb,
bbb, etc.
ExamplesSuppose you are recognizing a table with three columns: birth dates, names, and e-mail addresses. In
this case, you can create two new languages, Data and Address, and specify the following regularexpressions for them.
Regular expression for dates:
The number denoting a day may consist of one digit (1, 2, etc.) or two digits (02, 12), but it cannot be
zero (00 or 0). The regular expression for the day should then look like this: ((|0)[1-9])|([1|2][0-9])|(30)|(31).
The regular expression for the month should look like this: ((|0)[1-9])|(10)|(11)|(12).
The regular expression for the year should look like this: ([19][0-9][0-9])|([0-9][0-9]).
Now all we need to do is combine all this together and separate the numbers by period. The period isa regular expression symbol, so you must put a back slash (\) before it.
The regular expression for the full date should then look like this:((|0)[1-9])|([1|2][0-9])|(30)|(31)\. ((|0)[1-9])|(10)|(11)|(12)\.((19)[0-9][0-9])|([0-9][0-9])
Regular expression for e-mail addresses:[a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+\@[a-z0-9\.\-]+

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Using the command line
You can use the command line to convert scanned documents, PDF files, and image files to supported
formats. You can also use it to launch a comparison of two versions of a document in different
formats without having to specifically open either the OCR Editor window or ABBYY CompareDocuments.
To process documents using the command line, follow the steps below:
1. Open the command line interface by pressing the Win+R key combination. Next, enter "cmd" into
the command line and click OK.
2. Enter a command for either converting 343 or comparing 345 your documents, and press the Enter
key. An ABBYY FineReader dialog window will appear on the screen. It will contain a progress bar,as well as any relevant hints and warnings.
3. After your documents have been processed, the results will be opened in the appropriate
application.
To save the conversion results 348 , you will need to manually launch the save procedure.
Chapter contents:· Command line parameters for converting documents 343· Command line parameters for comparing documents 345· Saving the results via the command line 348· LangName parameter values for the command line 351

Command line parameters for converting documents
To begin converting a document into an editable format, execute the following command:
FineReaderOCR.exe <ImageSourceCommands> <RecognitionCommands> <ExportCommands>
FineReaderOCR.exe

The path to the FineReaderOCR.exe file in the
program installation folder.

If the full path contains spaces, put it inquotation marks.

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document.

recognition
You can specify several files by separatingthem using spaces. If the full path contains
spaces, put it in quotation marks.
/scan [SourceName]

Gets an image from the scanner. SourceNameis the name of the scanner.

If SourceName is not specified, the mostrecent scanner is used by default. If the scannername contains spaces, put it in quotation
marks.
<RecognitionCommands> /lang LangName

LangName is the recognition language.

- recognition parameters
If LangName is not specified, the most recent
language is used by default. You can specify
several recognition languages by separatingthem with spaces.

For a list of supported command line
recognition languages, see LangName
parameter values for the command line 351 .

You can specify a custom recognition
language if it is saved in the OCR proj ect
folder. To do so, place two "@" symbols before
its name, e.g. "@@ UserLang". A custom
language name cannot contain nonalphanumeric symbols like "!" or "@".

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recognition results export

Target is the name of an external application,
to which the recognition results will be sent.
Replace "Target" with one of the following:· MSWord - Microsoft Word;· MSExcel - Microsoft Excel;· OpenOffice - Apache OpenOffice;· Mail - your email application (results are in

Microsoft Word format);· Clipboard - the clipboard;· WebBrowser - your default web browser;· PDFViewer - your default PDF viewer;· PowerPoint - Microsoft PowerPoint.

Sample command:“C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY FineReader 15\FineReaderOCR.exe” D:\Documents\Guide_German.pdf /lang German /send MSWord
The above command will use the OCR Editor to convert and open the German-language
Guide_German.pdf file in Microsoft Word.
To find out more about automatically saving your conversion results, see Using the command line
to save the conversion results on program launch 348 .

Command line parameters for comparing documents
To compare two versions of a single document in ABBYY Compare Documents, execute the following
command:Comparator.exe /compare <ImageSourceCommands> <ComparisonCommands>
Comparator.exe /compareComparator.exe stands for the path to theComparator.exe file in the program
installation folder.

<ImageSourceCommands> /file1:File_1 /file2:File_2

File_k is the path to the document.

- documents to becomparedIf the full path contains spaces, put it inquotation marks.

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LangName is the language of the document.

comparison settings
If LangName is not specified, the mostrecent language is used by default. You canspecify several recognition languages by
separating them with spaces.

For a list of supported command line
recognition languages, see LangName
parameter values for the command line 351 .
Additional options:/recMode:RecognitionMode

PDF recognition mode. Replace"RecognitionMode" with one of thefollowing:· UseOnlyPdfText - uses only the text fromthe PDF file. This mode is enabled bydefault (whenthe /recMode:RecognitionMode option isnt
specified);· AutoChoose - automatically selects whether

to use OCR or the PDF text;· UseOnlyOCR - uses OCR.

For more information about document
processing modes, see Improving comparison
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Additional options:/options:OptionsList

Replace OptionsList with one or several of thefollowing (separated by commas):· NoheadersFooters - does not search forheaders or footers (the program searches
for headers and footers by default);· IgnorePunctDiff - ignores punctuationdifferences (the program searches for
punctuation errors by default);· IgnoreOneLetterDiff - ignores differencesthat are not greater than one letter (theprogram looks for spelling errors by
default);· UngroupDiff - does not group differencesthat have been found, including those in the
text body, the headers and the footers (theprogram groups differences by default).
Sample command:“C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY FineReader 15\Comparator.exe” /compare /file1:D:\Documents\Document1.pdf /file2:D:\Documents\Document2.pdf /lang:French /recMode:AutoChoose /options:IgnorePunctDiff,UngroupDi
ff
The above command will launch a comparison of the French-language documents called
Document1.pdf and Document2.pdf, and will automatically determine whether to use OCR or the
document text. ABBYY Compare Documents will ignore all punctuation differences and will not groupthe differences it finds.
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Saving the results via the command line
Requires a suitable ABBYY FineReader license.
Using the command line to save the conversion results on program launch
To convert any scanned documents, PDF files, and/or image files to editable formats and save theresults, execute the following command:
FineCmd.exe <ImageSourceCommands> <RecognitionCommands> <ExportCommands><OtherCommands>
FineCmd.exe

The path to the FineCmd.exe file in the
program installation folder.
If the full path to the file contains spaces, put
it in quotation marks.

<ImageSourceCommands

For more information, see Command line

> - source documents forparameters for converting documents 343 .

recognition<RecognitionCommands>

For more information, see Command line

- recognition parametersparameters for converting documents 343 .

<ExportCommands> -/out Out.Ext

saving the results

Out.Ext is the path to the file that contains therecognition results, where .Ext is the fileextension. If a file with this name already exists,
it will be modified instead.

For a list of supported file formats, see
Supported document formats 317 .
<OtherCommands>/report ReportFile

Creates a report about the completed
conversion task. ReportFile is the path to thereport file.

Sample command:“C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY FineReader 15\FineCmd.exe” D:\Documents\Document1.pdf /langFrench /out D:\Documents\Result.docx /report D:\Documents\ReportFile
The above command will use the OCR Editor to convert and save a French-language file called
Document1.pdf into a file called Result.docx. A report file called ReportFile will also be created.
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To compare of two versions of a document and save the result, execute the following command:
Comparator.exe /compare <ImageSourceCommands> <ComparisonCommands><ExportCommands>
Comparator.exe /compareComparator.exe is the path to theComparator.exe file in the program
installation folder.

<ImageSourceCommands>

For more information, see Command line

- documents to beparameters for comparing documents 345 .

compared<ComparisonCommands> -For more information, see Command line

comparison settingsparameters for comparing documents 345 .

<ExportCommands> -/saveFile:Out.Ext

saving the results

Out.Ext is the path to the file that contains thecomparison results, where .Ext is the fileextension. If a file with this name alreadyexists, it will be modified instead.

The file extension should be in line with thesave results mode formats.

For a list of supported formats, see
Supported document formats 317 .
/saveMode:SaveMode

Save comparison results mode. Replace"SaveMode" with one of the following:· PdfDocument1 - saves the first document in

PDF format and adds a comment for every
difference;· PdfDocument2 - saves the second

document in PDF format and adds acomment for every difference;· Word - saves a list of differences as a

Microsoft Word table.
Sample command:

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ff /saveFile:D:\Documents\Comparison.docx /saveMode:Word
The above command will launch a comparison of the French-language documents Document1.pdf
and Document2.pdf. The program will automatically determine whether to use OCR or the existing
PDF text. ABBYY Compare Documents will ignore all punctuation differences, will not group any
differences it finds, and will save the comparison results in a file called Comparison.docx (as a table).

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LangName parameter values for the command line
Below is a list of values for the recognition language parameter when running ABBYY FineReader via
the command line. Available comparison languages are marked with an asterisk (*).
· Abkhaz· Adyghe· Afrikaans· Agul· Albanian· Altaic· Arabic· ArmenianEastern· ArmenianGrabar· ArmenianWestern· Awar· Aymara· AzeriCyrillic· AzeriLatin*· Bashkir*· Basic· Basque· Belarusian· Bemba· Blackfoot· Breton· Bugotu· Bulgarian*· Buryat351

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· C++· Catalan*· Chamorro· Chechen· Chemistry· ChinesePRC· ChineseTaiwan· Chukcha· Chuvash· Cobol· Corsican· CrimeanTatar· Croatian*· Crow· Czech*· Danish*· Dargwa· Digits· Dungan· Dutch*· DutchBelgian*· English*· EskimoCyrillic· EskimoLatin· Esperanto· Estonian*352

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Even· Evenki· Faeroese· Fij ian
· Finnish*· Fortran· French*· Frisian· Friulian· GaelicScottish· Gagauz· Galician· Ganda· German*· GermanLuxembourg· GermanNewSpelling*· Greek· Guarani· Hani· Hausa· Hawaiian· Hebrew*· Hungarian*· Icelandic· Ido· Indonesian*353

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Ingush· Interlingua· Irish· Italian*· Japanese· Java· Kabardian· Kalmyk· KarachayBalkar· Karakalpak· Kasub· Kawa· Kazakh· Khakas· Khanty· Kikuyu· Kirgiz· Kongo· Korean*· KoreanHangul*· Koryak· Kpelle· Kumyk· Kurdish· Lak· Lappish

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Latin· Latvian*· Lezgin· Lithuanian*· Luba· Macedonian· Malagasy· Malay· Malinke· Maltese· Mansi· Maori· Mari· Mathematical· Maya· Miao· Minankabaw· Mohawk· Mongol· Mordvin· Nahuatl· Nenets· Nivkh· Nogay· NorwegianBokmal*· NorwegianNynorsk*

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Nyanj a· Occidental· Oj ibway· Ossetic· Papiamento· Pascal· PidginEnglish· Polish*· PortugueseBrazilian*· PortugueseStandard*· Provencal· Quechua· RhaetoRomanic· Romanian*· RomanianMoldavia· Romany· Ruanda· Rundi· Russian*· RussianOldSpelling· RussianWithAccent· Samoan· Selkup· SerbianCyrillic· SerbianLatin· Shona356

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Sioux· Slovak*· Slovenian*· Somali· Sorbian· Sotho· Spanish*· Sunda· Swahili· Swazi· Swedish*· Tabassaran· Tagalog· Tahitian· Taj ik
· Tatar*· Thai· Tinpo· Tongan· TranscriptionEnglish· Tswana· Tun· Turkish*· Turkmen· TurkmenLatin· Tuvin357

ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guide· Udmurt· UighurCyrillic· UighurLatin· Ukrainian*· UzbekCyrillic· UzbekLatin· Vietnamese*· Visayan· Welsh· Wolof· Xhosa· Yakut· Yiddish· Zapotec· Zulu358

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Installing, activating, and registering ABBYY
FineReader PDF 15
Software piracy hurts software manufacturers and end users alike - using an illegal product is neversafe. Legal software ensures that a third party cannot introduce detrimental code changes. ABBYY
makes every effort to protect its intellectual property rights and the security of its customers.
ABBYY software products include special protection technology which prevents unauthorized use by
those who have not entered into a license agreement with ABBYY. To be able to run ABBYY
FineReader without any limitations, you need to activate it.
Registration is optional and registered users enj oy certain benefits.
Chapter contents· System requirements 360· Installing and starting ABBYY FineReader 361· Activating ABBYY FineReader 362· Registering ABBYY FineReader 364· Privacy Policy 364

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System requirements
1. Operating system:· Microsoft Windows 10 / 8.1· Microsoft Windows Server 2019 / 2016 / 2012 R2

The operating system must support the language you select for the user interface.
2. 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor with the SSE2 instruction set.
3. 1 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
An additional 512 MB of RAM is required for each additional processor in a multi-processor
system.
4. 1.5 GB of free disk space for installation and an additional 1.5 GB for program operation.
5. Video card and monitor supporting a resolution of at least 1024×768.
6. An Internet connection for activating your serial number.
7. Keyboard and mouse or other pointing device.
Terminal server support
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 has been tested with the following terminal servers:· Microsoft Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012 R2 (Remote Desktop, RemoteApp and Remote

Desktop Web Access)· Citrix Workspace App 1808 (using the Installed application accessed from a server scenario),

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Scanners and MFPs
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 supports TWAIN and WIA-compatible scanners and multi-function
printers (MFPs).

For a list of file formats supported by ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, see Supported document
formats 317 .

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Installing and starting ABBYY FineReader
Installing ABBYY FineReader on one computer
1. Double-click the Setup.exe file on the installation disk or other distribution media.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions in the Installation Wizard.
Deploying ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 in a LAN
ABBYY FineReader can be installed and used on a local area network*. The automated installation
methods give you speed and flexibility when installing ABBYY FineReader on a local area network, as
you do not have to install the program manually on each individual workstation.
The installation consists of two stages. First, the program is installed on the server. From the server, theprogram can be installed on workstations using one of the following four methods:· Using Active Directory· Using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)· From the command line
· Manually in interactive mode

For more information about installing ABBYY FineReader on workstations, using the License Manager,
and working with the program in a local area network, please refer to the System Administrator's
Guide.
Starting ABBYY FineReader
To start ABBYY FineReader PDF 15:· Click the Start button in Windows and then click All Programs > ABBYY FineReader PDF

15 (in Windows 10, click the Start> All Programs and then click ABBYY FineReader

PDF 15).
· Alternatively, right-click a document file in Windows Explorer (it has to be in one of the

supported formats 317 ) and then click Edit with ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 or Convert with
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 and select one of the conversion commands.
* This feature is not available in some editions of ABBYY FineReader. See also: FineReader page of
the ABBYY website (http://www.ABBYY.com/FineReader/ 361 ) for a list of editions and their features.

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Activating ABBYY FineReader
After you install ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, you will need to activate the program to be able to run it
in full mode. Unless you activate ABBYY FineReader PDF 15, the program will run in trial mode, whichlets you try out the program but limits the number of pages you can save and stops working after acertain period of time.
To activate ABBYY FineReader PDF 15:
1. In the New Task window, click Help > Activate....
2. Enter your serial number 366 or load a license file if you have one.
Select one of the four activation options displayed in the Activation Wizard:· Activation over the Internet

Activation is carried out automatically and takes only seconds to complete. An active
Internet connection is required for this method.
· Activation via the ABBYY website

1. Click the link in the Activation Wizard to open the activation page.
2. Copy the Product ID 366 in the Activation Wizard and paste it to the corresponding fieldon the page.
3. Copy the serial number in the Activation Wizard and paste it to the corresponding fieldon the page.
4. Save the license file to your hard disk.
5. Click Next in the Activation Wizard and specify the path to the license file.
6. Click Next.
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will be activated and will run in full mode from now on.
· Activation by e-mail1. The program will generate an e-mail message with all of the information required for
activation.
2. Send the e-mail message without changing its body text and subj ect. You will receive a
reply message containing a license file.
3. Save the license file to your hard disk.
4. Specify the path to the license file in the Activation Wizard.
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will be activated and will run in full mode from now on.
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1. Select this activation method if you can't activate ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 on thecomputer on which it is installed (e.g. if it does not have an Internet connection orcannot send e-mail messages).
2. Save the licensing information to a text file.
3. Create a new e-mail message on a computer that can send e-mail messages. Specify
Activation request in the Subject field and FineReader-activation@abbyy.com 362 in the
To field.
4. Copy the contents of the text file to the e-mail message. Do not make any changes toensure that your message will be processed automatically and you will receive a prompt
reply.
5. Send the message. You will receive a reply message with a license file.
6. Save the license file to your hard disk.
7. Specify the path to the license file in the Activation Wizard.
ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will be activated and will run in full mode from now on.
After you activate ABBYY FineReader once, you will be able to install it on the same computer any
number of times without having to activate it again. However, if significant changes are made to thecomputer's hardware configuration, its hard disk is formatted or its operating system is reinstalled,
you may need to get a license file and activate ABBYY FineReader again.

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Registering ABBYY FineReader
We invite you to register your copy of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 and receive special benefits
available to registered users. Registration is optional.
You can register your copy of ABBYY FineReader:· By providing your contact information when activating your copy of the product.

If you choose not activate ABBYY FineReader during the activation process, you will beable to register it later at any convenient time.
· By clicking Help > Register... and providing your contact information in the registration

dialog box· By completing the registration process on the ABBYY website (https://www.abbyy.com/).

Registered users will receive the following benefits:
1. Free technical support 383 .*2. ABBYY Screenshot Reader 276 , an easy-to-use application for capturing screenshots andrecognizing on-screen text.
3. A way to recover your serial number if you lose it (e.g. when reinstalling your operating
system).
We will also send you notifications about updates and new versions of products if you indicate
your consent to receive these notifications during the registration process.
* See also: the technical support page of the ABBYY website (https://www.abbyy.com/enus/support/).

Data privacy
We respect your privacy and take great care to protect your information. We will collect, process, anduse any data received from you under the condition of confidentiality and in accordance with thisPrivacy Policy.
We will send you e-mail messages containing product news, pricing information, special offers, andother company and product information only if you agree to receive such information from us by
selecting the corresponding option in the product registration dialog box. You can ask us to delete
your e-mail address from the mailing list at any time.

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Appendix
Chapter contents· Glossary 366· Keyboard shortcuts 372

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GlossaryАAbbreviation A shortened form of a word or phrase (e.g. MS-DOS for Microsoft Disk Operating
System, UN for United Nations, etc.).
ABBYY FineReader task A set of consecutive steps the program needs to perform in order to process
a document. ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 includes a number of built-in tasks for the most common
document processing needs. Users can also create their own custom tasks. Built-in tasks can belaunched in the New Task window.
ABBYY Hot Folder A scheduling agent that allows users to select a folder with images and specify
the time for processing the images in this folder. ABBYY FineReader will automatically process theimages from the selected folder.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader An application that enables users to create screenshots and recognize
texts on them.
activation The process of obtaining a special code from ABBYY allowing the user to use his/her copyof the product in full mode on a given computer.
active area The currently selected area on an image. An active area can be deleted, moved or
modified. To make an area active, click it. The frame enclosing an active area is bold and has sizing
handles that can be dragged to change its size.
ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) A device that automatically feeds documents to a scanner. A
scanner with an ADF can scan multiple pages without manual intervention. ABBYY FineReader canwork with multi-page documents.
ADRT (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) A technology that increases the quality of
conversion of multi-page documents. For example, it can recognize such elements as headings,
headers and footers, footnotes, page numbering, and signatures.
area A section of an image enclosed by a frame and containing a certain type of data. Before
performing OCR, ABBYY FineReader detects text, picture, table, and barcode areas in order todetermine which sections of the image should be recognized and in what order.
area template A template that contains information about the size and locations of the areas insimilar-looking documents.
Automated Tasks A task managing component of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 that allows you tocreate, set up, and launch ABBYY FineReader tasks.

B

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ABBYY® FineReader PDF 15 User’s Guidebackground picture area An image area that contains a picture with text printed over it.
barcode area An image area that contains a barcode.
base form The form of a word to which endings, prefixes or suffixes are added.
brightness An image parameter that reflects the amount of white in an image. Increasing brightness
makes the image "whiter". Specifying a suitable brightness value increases recognition quality. See
also: Scanning tips 287 .
Back to topCcode page A table of correspondences between characters and their codes. Users can select thecharacters they need from those available in a code page.
color mode A mode that determines whether document colors are to be retained. Black-and-white
images produce smaller OCR proj ects and are faster to process.
compound word A word made up of two or more existing words. In ABBYY FineReader, a compound
word is a word that the program cannot find in its dictionary but which it can create from two or
more dictionary words.

Ddocument analysis The process of identifying the logical structure of a document and areas that
contain various types of data. Document analysis can be carried out automatically or manually.
Document Open password A password that prevents users from opening a PDF document unlessthey type the password specified by the author.
dpi (dots per inch) A measure of image resolution.
document type A parameter that tells the program how the original text was printed (e.g. on a laser
printer, on a typewriter, etc.). For laser-printed texts, select Auto, for typewritten texts, selectTypewriter, for faxes, select Fax.
driver A software program that controls a computer peripheral (e.g., a scanner, a monitor, etc.).

F
font effects The appearance of a font (e.g. bold, italic, underlined, strikethrough, subscript,
superscript, small caps).

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headers and footers Images or text in the top or bottom margin of a page. Headers are located at
the top of the page and footers are located at the bottom.

I
ignored characters Any non-letter characters found in words (e.g. syllable characters or stress marks).
These characters are ignored during the spell check.
inverted image An image with white characters printed against a dark background.
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K
keyboard shortcuts Keys or combinations of keys that trigger a specific action when pressed. Using
keyboard shortcuts can significantly increase your productivity.

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L
License Manager A utility used for managing ABBYY FineReader licenses and activating ABBYY
FineReader PDF 15.
ligature A combination of two or more characters that are "stuck" together (e.g. fi, fl, ffi). Suchcharacters are difficult for ABBYY FineReader to separate. Treating them as one character improves
OCR accuracy.
low-confidence characters Characters that may have been recognized by the program incorrectly.
low-confidence words Words that contain one or more low-confidence characters.

M
monospaced font A font (such as Courier New) in which all characters are equally spaced. For better
OCR results on monospaced fonts, on the OCR tab of the Options dialog box, select Typewriter inthe Document type group of options.
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) A technology that enables computers to read text, detectpictures, tables, and other formatting elements.
OCR project A proj ect created by ABBYY FineReader to process a document. It contains the images ofthe document pages, their recognized text (if any), and the program settings.
OCR project options The set of options that can be selected in the Options dialog box (click
Tools>Options... to open this dialog box). These options also include user languages and patterns.
OCR proj ect options can be saved and then used in other OCR proj ects.
omnifont system A recognition system that recognizes characters set in any font without priortraining.
optional hyphen An optional hyphen (¬) indicates exactly where a word or word combination shouldbe split if it occurs at the end of a line (e.g. "autoformat" should be split into "auto" and "format").
ABBYY FineReader replaces all hyphens found in dictionary words with optional hyphens.

Ppage layout The arrangement of text, tables, pictures, paragraphs, and columns on a page. The fonts,
font sizes, font colors, text background, and text orientation are also part of the page layout.
paradigm All grammatical forms of a word.
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pattern A set of associations between averaged character images and their respective names.
Patterns are created when you train ABBYY FineReader on a specific text.
PDF (Portable Document Format) A commonly used document format. A PDF file looks the same no
matter what computer it is displayed on thanks to the detailed descriptions of text, fonts, andgraphics it contains.
PDF security settings Restrictions that prevent a PDF document from being opened, edited, copiedor printed. These settings include document open passwords, permissions passwords, and encryption
levels.
Permissions password A password that prevents other users from printing and editing a PDF
document unless they type the password specified by the author. If some security settings are selected
for the document, other users will not be able to change these settings until they type the password.
picture area An image area that contains a picture. This type of area may enclose an actual picture or
any other obj ect (e.g. a text fragment) that should be displayed as a picture.
product ID A product identifier that is automatically generated on the basis of the hardware
configuration when activating ABBYY FineReader on a given computer. It does not contain any
personal information or information about the software or data stored on your computer.
prohibited characters Characters that you think will never occur in a text to be recognized. Specifying
prohibited characters increases the speed and quality of OCR.
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Rrecognition area An image area that ABBYY FineReader should analyze automatically.
resolution A scanning parameter measured in dots per inch (dpi). Resolution of 300 dpi should be
used for texts set in 10 pt fonts and larger, 400 to 600 dpi is preferable for texts of smaller font sizes(9 pt and less).

S
scanner A device for inputting images into a computer.
scanning mode A scanning parameter that determines whether an image must be scanned in black
and white, grayscale, or color.
separators Symbols that can separate words (e.g. /, \, dash) and that are separated by spaces fromthe words themselves.
serial number A unique number you receive when you purchase the program. It is used during
activation.

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shortcut menu The menu that appears when you right-click something, such as an area or anotherpart of a document.
support ID The unique identifier of a serial number that contains information about the license andthe computer on which it is used. A Support ID provides additional protection and is checked by thetechnical support staff before providing technical support.

Тtable area An image area that contains data in tabular form. When the program reads this type ofarea, it draws vertical and horizontal separators inside the area to form a table. This area is thenrendered as a table in the output text.
tagged PDF A PDF document that contains information about the document structure, such as its
logical parts, pictures, and tables. The structure of a document is encoded in PDF tags. A PDF file withsuch tags may be reflowed to fit different screen sizes, and will display well on handheld devices.
text area An image area that contains text. Text areas should only contain single-column text.
training The process of establishing a correspondence between a character image and the character
itself. See also: If your printed document contains non-standard fonts 208 .

U
Unicode An international text encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium (Unicode,Inc.). The Unicode standard provides an easily extendible 16-bit system for encoding symbols fromalmost all contemporary languages. It specifies how symbols should be encoded and determines
which algorithms and character properties should be used during the encoding process.
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Keyboard shortcuts
ABBYY FineReader offers the following keyboard shortcuts for the most commonly used commands.
· New Task window 372· OCR Editor 373· PDF Editor 378· ABBYY Compare Documents 381

New Task window· File 372 menu 372· Edit 372 menu 372· Tools 373 menu 373· Help 373 menu 373

File menu
Command

Shortcut

New PDF Document

Ctrl+N

Open PDF Document...

Ctrl+O

Open in OCR Editor...

Ctrl+R

Scan to OCR Editor

Ctrl+SNew OCR Project

Ctrl+Shift+N

Open OCR Project...

Ctrl+Shift+O

Exit

Ctrl+Q

Edit menu
Command

ShortcutMove Up

Alt+↑

Move Down

Alt+↓
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RemoveDel

Select All

Ctrl+A

Find Recent Documents

Ctrl+F

Tools menu
Command

Shortcut

Options...

Ctrl+>

Help menu
Command

Shortcut

Help

F1

OCR Editor· File 373 menu 373· Edit 374 menu 374· View 375 menu 375· Recognize 375 menu 375· Area 376 menu 376· Tools 376 menu 376· Help 377 menu 377· General

File menu
Command

Shortcut

New Task...

Ctrl+N

Open Image...

Ctrl+O

Scan Pages...

Ctrl+K
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Save Page Images As...

Ctrl+Alt+S

Close

Ctrl+W

New OCR Project

Ctrl+Shift+N

Open OCR Project...

Ctrl+Shift+O

Save OCR Project...

Ctrl+Shift+S

E-mail document

Ctrl+M

E-mail images

Ctrl+Alt+M

Print text

Ctrl+P

Print image

Ctrl+Alt+P

Exit

Ctrl+Q

Edit menu
Command

Shortcut

Undo

Ctrl+Z

Redo

Ctrl+Y

Cut

Ctrl+X

Recognize and Copy Text

Ctrl+C

Copy Area as Image

Ctrl+Shift+C

Paste

Ctrl+V

DeleteDel

Select All

Ctrl+A

Cancel Selection

Ctrl+Shift+A

Delete Pages...

Ctrl+Backspace

Delete Areas and Text

Ctrl+Del

Delete Text

Ctrl+Shift+Del

Rotate Pages Right

Ctrl+Shift+>

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Rotate Pages Left

Ctrl+Shift+<

Edit Page Images...

Ctrl+I

Find...

Ctrl+F

Find Next

F3

Replace...

Ctrl+H

View menu
Command

ShortcutShow Navigation Pane

F5Show Zoom Pane

Ctrl+F5

Image Pane Only

F6

Image and Text Panes

F7

Text Pane Only

F8

Next Pane

Ctrl+Tab

Previous Pane

Ctrl+Shift+Tab

Zoom In

Ctrl++

Zoom Out

Ctrl+-

Best Fit

Ctrl+0

Go to Page Number...

Ctrl+G

Go to Next Page

Ctrl+↓

Go to Previous Page

Ctrl+↑

Go to First Page

Ctrl+Home

Go to Last Page

Ctrl+End

Close Page

Ctrl+F4

Recognize menu
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Recognize All Pages

Ctrl+Shift+R

Recognize Page

Ctrl+R

Analyze All Pages

Ctrl+Shift+E

Analyze Page

Ctrl+E

Verify Text...

Ctrl+F7

Next Error

Alt+↓

Previous Error

Alt+↑Mark Text as Verified

Ctrl+T

Area menu
Command

Shortcut

Recognize Area

Ctrl+Shift+B

Change Area Type to Text

Ctrl+2

Change Area Type to Table

Ctrl+3

Change Area Type to Picture

Ctrl+4

Change Area Type to Background Picture

Ctrl+6

Change Area Type to Barcode

Ctrl+5

Change Area Type to Recognition Area

Ctrl+1Tools menu
Command

ShortcutView Dictionaries...

Ctrl+Alt+D

Redaction Mode

Ctrl+Shift+H

Hot Folder

Ctrl+Shift+F

Options...

Ctrl+>

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Help menu
Command

Shortcut

Help

F1

GeneralCommand

ShortcutMake the selected text fragment bold

Ctrl+B

Make the selected text fragment italic

Ctrl+I

Underline the selected text fragment

Ctrl+U

Go to table cell

Arrow keys

Switch to Pages pane

Alt+1

Switch to Image pane

Alt+2

Switch to Text pane

Alt+3

Switch to Zoom pane

Alt+4

You can also create your own keyboard shortcuts in the OCR Editor 177 .
To create a shortcut in the OCR Editor:
1. Open the Customize Toolbars and Shortcuts dialog box by clicking View > Toolbars >Customize....
2. On the Keyboard Shortcuts tab, select a category in the Categories field.
3. In the Commands field, select the command for which you want to specify a keyboard
shortcut.
4. Place the cursor in the Press new shortcut key field and press the keys to be used for thiscommand.
5. Click Assign. The selected key combination will be added into the Current shortcut field.
6. Click OK to save the changes.
7. To return shortcuts to their default values, click Reset (for a selected command category) or
Reset All (for all shortcut keys).

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PDF Editor· File 378 menu 378· Edit 378 menu 378· View 379 menu 379· Tools 380 menu 380· Help 381 menu 381

File menu
Command

Shortcut

New Task...

Ctrl+N

Open...

Ctrl+O

Save

Ctrl+S

Save as PDF Document...

Ctrl+Shift+S

Close Document

Ctrl+W

Recognize Document

Ctrl+Shift+R

Print...

Ctrl+P

Exit

Ctrl+Q***Back to Top

Edit menu
Command

Shortcut

Undo

Ctrl+Z

Redo

Ctrl+Y

Cut

Ctrl+X

Copy

Ctrl+C

Copy Area as Image

Ctrl+C

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Copy Area as Text

Ctrl+Shift+C

Copy Area as Table

Ctrl+Alt+C

Paste

Ctrl+V

DeleteDel

Select All

Ctrl+A

Add Pages from File...

Ctrl+Shift+O

Add Pages from Scanner...

Ctrl+Shift+A

Rotate Pages Right

Ctrl+Shift+>

Rotate Pages Left

Ctrl+Shift+<

Delete Pages...

Ctrl+Backspace

Add Bookmark...

Ctrl+D

Find...

Ctrl+F

Find Next

F3***Back to Top

View menu
Command

ShortcutShow Navigation Pane

F5

SearchF9Digital Signatures

F8

Show PDF Tools

F6Show Comments Pane

F7

Zoom In

Ctrl++

Zoom Out

Ctrl+-

Best Fit

Ctrl+0

Actual Size

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Fit to Width

Ctrl+9Go to Page Number...

Ctrl+G

Next Page

Ctrl+↓

Previous Page

Ctrl+↑First Page

Home

Last Page

End

Back

Alt+←

ForwardAlt+→

One-Page View

Ctrl+1

One-Page Scrolling

Ctrl+2

Two-Page View

Ctrl+3

Two-Page Scrolling

Ctrl+4

Full Screen

F11***Back to Top

Tools menu
Command

Shortcut

Edit Text and Pictures

Ctrl+E

Text Box

Ctrl+T

Add Note

Ctrl+M

Highlight

Ctrl+H

Underline

Ctrl+U

StrikethroughCtrl+K

Insert Text

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- PCRE test suite, located in test/mj sunit/third_party/regexp-pcre/regexp-pcre.j s. This is based on thetest suite from PCRE-7.3, which is copyrighted by the University of Cambridge and Google, Inc. The copyrightand license are embedded in regexp-pcre.j s.

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- Strongtalk assembler, the basis of the files assembler-arm-inl.h,
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assembler-ia32.cc, assembler-ia32.h, assembler-x64-inl.h,
assembler-x64.cc, assembler-x64.h, assembler-mips-inl.h,
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- Valgrind client API header, located at src/third_party/valgrind/valgrind.hThis is released under the BSD license.

- The Wasm C/C++ API headers, located at third_party/wasm-api/wasm.{h,hh}This is released under the Apache license. The API's upstream prototype implementation also formed the basi
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