User Guide
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ABBYY FineReader 7.0 User’s Guide
To stop background recognition:
● Select the Stop Background Recognition item in the Process menu.
Note: The background recognition mode uses the recognition options that were active
when the process started.
Recognition with Training
As noted, ABBYY FineReader can read texts set in practically any font regardless of print quali
ty. Consequently, no prior training is required prior to recognition. Regardless, ABBYY
FineReader offers a number of user pattern training tools.
The Train User Pattern mode may come in useful when:
1. Recognizing texts set in decorative fonts;
2. Recognizing texts containing unusual characters (e.g. mathematical symbols);
3. Recognizing large volumes (more than a hundred pages) of low printquality
texts.
Tip: Use Train User Pattern mode only if one of the above applies. In other cases, the time
and effort required will outweigh the slight increase in recognition quality..
Pattern training creates a pattern based on one or two pages recognized in training mode.
ABBYY FineReader uses this pattern to improve recognition of the remaining text.
Sometimes two or three characters may get “glued” together, and ABBYY FineReader may be
unable to enclose each character in an individual frame to separate them. If you cannot move
the frame so that it contains only one whole character, you can train ABBYY FineReader to
recognize the entire character combination. Examples of character combinations (or ligatures)
that are frequently found glued together include ff, fi, and fl.
Note:
1. A pattern is only useful when a document has the same font, font size, and
resolution as the document used to create the user pattern.
2. Each pattern is created specifically for a particular batch. Consequently, it is
deleted if the associated batch is deleted. Patterns can, however, be copied
into other batches. To transfer a user pattern to another batch, simply save the
batch options in a batch template format file.
3. If you switch to recognizing texts set in a different font, always disable any
user patterns – choose Do not use user pattern on the Recognition tab,
menu Tools>Options.