User Guide

How to Input a Document in Less than a Minute
1. Turn on your scanner prior to starting ABBYY FineReader.
(Many scanner models require the unit to be turned on before you start your PC.)
Next, turn on the computer and start ABBYY FineReader
(Start/Programs/ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition or
Corporate Edition). The main window of ABBYY FineReader will appear on
your screen.
2. Place the document on the scanner.
3. Click the arrow to the right of the Scan&Read button in the main window.
Select the Scan&Read Wizard item in the local menu.
The Scan&Read Wizard has Scan&Read and Open&Read
modes to guide you through each step of the scanning
process. You can use a sample image file contained in the
Demo folder of FineReader.
4. Follow the Scan&Read Wizard instructions.
There are four steps to input a document: scanning, reading, spellchecking and saving
recognized text. Once scanning is complete, the scanned document will appear in the Image
window. The application then asks you to set up the recognition parameters (i.e. resolution,
scan mode and brightness). Once you have identified your preferred parameters, FineReader
will start reading the image and analyzing its layout. Recognized text will be shown highlight
ed in blue within the document. The recognized data will also be displayed as editable text in
the Text window. Once you have finished correcting your text, the Scan&Read Wizard will
prompt you to send the final text to an application, save it to a file, or start processing another
document.
The ABBYY FineReader Main Window
ABBYY FineReader uses a batch mode for all document processing. Simply, a batch is a folder
that contains images, recognized text files and other FineReader information files. Each
scanned image is converted into a separate batch file. If there are several images in a single
image file (for example, if you are dealing with a multipage TIFF), each image file will be con
tained in a separate batch file.
As a default, FineReader opens a new batch at startup. You may choose to work with the newly
opened batch or to open a previously created batch. Please see “General Information on
Working with Batches” for more information.
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