User manual ABBYY SOFTWARE FINEREADER 7

[. . . ] Optical Character Recognition Program ABBYY FineReader Version 7. 0 User's Guide ® © 2003 ABBYY Software Ltd. All rights reserved. Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not bear any commitment on the part of ABBYY. The software described in this document is supplied under a license agreement. The software may only be used or copied in strict accordance with the terms of the agreement. [. . . ] Before recognizing a document, check that the fonts selected on the Formatting tab support all the characters contained in the recognition lan guage(s) chosen. Unsupported characters will be displayed incorrectly ("?" or "_" symbols will appear instead of letters). See "Fonts for Recognition Languages that may be Displayed in Text Editor Incorrectly" in ABBYY FineReader Help for more information. Your desired language may not be listed if: 1. ABBYY FineReader does not support the language. See the complete list of recognition languages under "Supported Languages" in the ABBYY FineReader Help. The language hasn't added to the recognition language list on the Recognition toolbar. To add a language, select Choose more languages in 53 A B BY Y Fi n e Re a d e r 7 . 0 U s e r ' s G u i d e the language list on the Standard toolbar. The Recognition Language dia log will open. The language was disabled during custom installation. Note: Always use the folder that contains ABBYY FineReader. To show/hide a language in the drop­down list on the toolbar: Select the language of your choice in the Language Editor dialog (Tools>Language Editor) and then check or uncheck the Show this lan guage in the drop­down list on the toolbar item. Tip: You may specify recognition language down to the block level. To do this, right click the desired block and select Properties in the local menu. Select the Block tab in the dialog and then select the block recognition language in the Languages field on the tab. Source Text Print Type Usually, source text print type is determined automatically. To ensure this is the case, select Autodetect in the Print Type group (Tools>Options menu, Recognition tab). Select an alternate print type to increase recognition quality of dot matrix printouts done in draft mode or typewritten texts: Select the Typewriter item if you wish to recognize typewritten texts Select the Dot Matrix Printer item if you wish to recognize dot matrix printouts. An example of draft mode dot matrix text. Character lines are made up of individual dots. All letters are of equal width (compare, for example, "w" and "a"). To change print type: Select the print type of your choice on the Recognition tab in the Options dialog (Tools>Options menu). Note: Once you have completed recognition of typewritten texts or dot matrix printouts, re enable the Autodetect item to recognize normal texts again. 54 C h a p t e r 6 . Re c o g n i t i o n Other Recognition Options Show image during recognition When processing large numbers of pages, recognition is invariably faster if the processed image is not displayed on­screen. To run recognition without displaying the image: Clear the Show image during recognition item on the General tab (Tools>Options menu). Text direction If the application recognizes blocks containing vertical text incorrectly (a text block or a table cell): right­click the block with vertical text and select the Properties item in the local menu. Select the relevant item in the Text direction list in the dialog and re­recognize the image. Inverted or flipped block If the application recognizes blocks containing inverted or flipped text incorrectly (a text block, a table cell, or a whole table): Right click on the appropriate block and select Properties in the local menu. Select the Inverted or Flipped item in the dialog and re­recognize the image. Background Recognition If you wish to simultaneously edit previously recognized pages and run recognition, you may find background recognition mode useful. [. . . ] ABBYY FineReader replaces all hyphens found in dictionary words with optional hyphens. Pattern A set of pairs (the character image and the character itself) that is created during pat tern training. A pattern provides additional information during recognition. Primary form The form of words in dictionary. Prohibited characters If certain characters will never be found in recognized text, they may be specified in a set of prohibited characters in the language group properties. [. . . ]