User Guide

Acquiring Images from the Hot Folder
(Corporate Edition only)
Multifunction devices, which combine a scanner, printer and scanner into a single device, may
be used with ABBYY FineReader to automatically acquire images.
The folder monitoring feature directs the program to monitor a specified folder on a local
disk, in a network, or on an FTP server for new items. In this mode, the program automatically
opens all the scanned images, faxes and PDF documents that are placed in the “hot” folder.
New items will be added to the ABBYY FineReader batch and deleted from the monitored
folder.
To enable the Hot Folder:
● Select the Hot Folder… item in the File menu, or
● Select the Hot Folder item from the local menu of the Scan&Read toolbar.
When the Hot Folder mode is enabled, the Scan&Read icon on the status bar will be replaced
with the Hot Folder button
.
If an error occurs, it will change again to . Double
clicking this icon to view the error message.
To disable the Hot Folder mode:
● Select the Disable Hot Folder item in the File menu, or
● Select the Disable Hot Folder on the Scan&Read toolbar.
Scanning Dual Pages
When scanning a bound document (i.e. a book), a dualpage scan, which scans both pages
simultaneously, is easiest. You can increase recognition quality, though, by splitting the two
sides after scanning, in order to perform recognition, layout analysis, and deskewing (if neces
sary).
To split a dual page:
● Select the Split Dual Pages option on the Scan/Open Image tab
(Tools>Options menu) prior to scanning.
This command splits each dual page into two batch pages. See “General Information on
Working with Batches” section for more information on batches.
Note: If a dual page has been split incorrectly, deselect the Split dual pages checkbox and
rescan the dual page, or add the page images to the batch again. Finally, try to split
the image manually using the Split Image dialog (Image>Split Image).
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ABBYY FineReader 7.0 User’s Guide