User Guide

After recognition, the page text is displayed in the Text window. When you send your text to
an external application, the layout retention options mandate how the text layout is retained.
Set these options on the Formatting tab (Tools>Options menu) and in the format dialogs.
The program automatically highlights uncertainly recognized characters. To disable this fea
ture, unselect Highlight uncertain characters on the View tab (Tools>Options menu).
ABBYY FineReader editor features two document viewing modes: full mode (the full layout is
displayed) and draft mode.
In full mode blocks with recognized text, tables and pictures are displayed exactly as they are
to be found on the original image. The complete original layout is retained: columns, tables,
pictures and dropped capitals (oversized letters that are several line widths high). The block
where the pointer is located is the active block. If the pointer is moved using the arrow keys,
the order of navigation between blocks is determined by their numbering on the original
image. If editing makes the amount of text inside a particular block too large to be contained
in the block, parts of other inactive blocks may become invisible. The borders of these block(s)
will be displayed with red markers. When a block is active, its borders are enlarged to display
all of the text.
Draft mode displays the following text features: left indent; paragraph alignment (all para
graphs are aligned to the left); and text and background color. Draft mode uses a predeter
mined font size (12pt by default) throughout to display text. Effects (bold, italic, underlined,
superscript and subscript) are retained.
Switch between draft and full modes by clicking the (full mode) or (draft mode)
buttons in the Text window.
To change font size in draft mode:
1. Select the Options item in the Tools menu.
2. Set your preferred font size by selecting in the Draft editor font size item
on the View tab.
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Chapter 7. Checking and Editing Text