User Guide

Working with the Same Batch over a Network

(Available only in ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Corporate Edition)

1. Create or open a batch and set up the necessary scanning and recognition

options.

Run ABBYY FineReader and open the batch to be processed on all of the

involved computers.

2. Run Background recognition (Process>Start background recognition) on

all computers involved in recognizing the batch.

3. Start the scanning on the computer with an ADF scanner.

Tip : If your highspeed scanner doesn’t support TWAIN, scan your pages directly into the

ABBYY FineReader batch folder. To do this, scan the images with any scanning applica

tion on the local computer to which the scanner is attached and save the images to the

ABBYY FineReader batch folder. The scanned images must then be named according to

the following rule: the files must be named (in the order they are scanned) 0001.tif,

0002.tif, 0003.tif..., etc. ABBYY FineReader will automatically detect and process all of the

scanned images.

4. You may edit the recognized text and save it to a file or send it to a selected

application.

You may monitor the status of the page (scanned, recognized, edited or exported) in the

Batch window. This information is displayed in the corresponding columns in the Details

batch page view. To set up the Details page view:

● Click on the Standard toolbar, or

● Rightclick the Batch window and select the View>Details item in the local

menu.

Customize the Details page view by specifying the columns you want to display in the Batch

window or selecting a column to sort the pages on:

● Rightclick the Batch window and select the View>Customize. Set the

desired options on the Details tab of the Batch View Settings dialog.

If several computers process the batch, ABBYY FineReader will automatically distribute the

workload between them. As each scanned page becomes available, the first free workstation

running the background recognition will begin processing it. All other computers are locked

out of the page. Refresh the batch page list by pressing F5 or by selecting Update page list in

the Batch menu. At the same time, any of the workstations can open already recognized pages

for checking, editing and saving. All users of the batch can access the changes made by other

users.

Chapter 9. Network Document Processing