ABBYY FineReader PDF 15

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ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideContentsIntroducing ABBYY FineReader . 8About ABBYY FineReader . 9What's New in ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 . 11The New Task window . 14Viewing and editing PDFs . 16Quick conversion . 18Creating PDF documents . 21Creating Microsoft Word documents . 23Creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets . 25Other formats . 27Advanced conversion . 28Comparing documents . 31Scanning and saving documents . 34Scanning to the OCR Editor . 37Scanning to PDF . 39Scanning to Microsoft Word . 41Scanning to Microsoft Excel . 43Scanning to image files . 45Scanning to other formats . 47PDF Editor . 48Viewing PDF documents . 49Viewing modes . 50Navigating PDF documents . 53Background recognition . 55PDF security features . 56Searching PDF documents . 56Keyword search . 57Search and replace . 59Search and redact . 61Copying data from PDF documents . 62Copying an area as an image . 62Copying an area as text . 63Copying an area as a table . 65Reviewing PDF documents . 67Comments . 68Marking up text . 68Drawing shapes . 71Adding a Text block annotation to a PDF document . 74Collaborating on PDF documents . 753

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideContentsAdding stamps . 80Working with PDF content . 83Inserting and editing text . 84Inserting and editing pictures . 92Inserting and editing hyperlinks . 93Recognizing text . 95Working with pages . 96Adding bookmarks . 100Adding headers and footers . 102Adding watermarks . 105Adding file attachments . 106Viewing metadata . 107Enhancing page images . 108Working with interactive PDF forms . 109Filling out forms . 110Creating forms . 112Editing forms . 114Text field . 120Drop-down list . 125Check box . 130Radio button . 133Button . 136Signature field . 146List box . 149Signing PDF documents . 153Digital signature . 154Text signature . 156Picture signature . 157Protecting PDF documents with passwords . 157Passwords and permissions . 158Deleting confidential information from PDF documents . 159Creating PDF documents . 160Creating PDF documents from selected pages . 160Using a virtual printer to create PDF documents . 160Saving and exporting PDF documents . 161Saving PDF documents . 162Saving in PDF/A . 163Saving in other formats . 165Reducing the size of your PDF documents . 166Sending PDF documents to the OCR Editor . 1674

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideContentsE-mailing PDF documents . 167Printing PDF documents . 168Splitting PDF documents . 168Splitting by file size . 169Splitting by page count . 170Splitting by bookmarks . 171OCR Editor . 172Launching the OCR Editor . 172OCR Editor interface . 173Obtaining documents . 177Opening images and PDFs . 178Scanning paper documents . 179Recognizing documents . 180OCR proj ects . 181Group work with OCR proj ects . 186Improving OCR results . 187If your document image has defects and OCR accuracy is low . 188If areas are detected incorrectly . 191Editing area properties . 195If the complex structure of a paper document is not reproduced . 196If you are processing a large number of documents with identical layouts . 197If tables and pictures are not detected . 198If a barcode is not detected . 201If an incorrect font is used or some characters are replaced with "?" or " " . 202If your printed document contains non-standard fonts . 203If your document contains many specialized terms . 206If the program fails to recognize certain characters . 207If vertical or inverted text was not recognized . 209Checking and editing texts . 210Checking recognized text . 211Using styles . 214Editing hyperlinks . 215Editing tables . 216Removing confidential information . 216Copying content from documents . 217Saving OCR results . 218Saving in PDF . 220Saving editable documents . 221Saving tables . 223Saving e-books . 2245

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideContentsSaving in HTML . 225Saving images . 226Sending OCR results to the PDF Editor . 227E-mailing OCR results . 228Sending OCR results to Kindle . 229Integration with other applications . 229Integration with Windows Explorer . 230Integration with Microsoft SharePoint . 233Cloud storage . 234Automating and scheduling OCR . 235Automating document processing with ABBYY FineReader . 236ABBYY Hot Folder . 239ABBYY Compare Documents . 244Launching ABBYY Compare Documents . 245Comparing documents . 246The main window . 248Improving comparison results . 249Viewing comparison results . 251Saving comparison results . 253ABBYY Screenshot Reader . 254Reference . 258How to set ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 as your default PDF viewer . 259Types of PDF documents . 261Scanning tips . 264Taking photos of documents . 267Options dialog box . 270Format settings . 273PDF settings . 274DOC(X)/RTF/ODT settings . 278XLS(X) settings . 281PPTX settings . 282CSV settings . 282TXT settings . 283HTML settings . 284EPUB/FB2 settings . 285Dj Vu settings . 286Supported OCR and document comparison languages . 288Supported document formats . 2956

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 User’s GuideContentsDocument features to consider prior to OCR . 298Image processing options . 301OCR options . 304Working with complex-script languages . 307Recognition of text written using a Gothic script . 310Supported interface languages . 313Current date and time on stamps and in headers and footers . 314Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages . 317Regular expressions . 319Using the command line . 321Command line parameters for converting documents . 321Command line parameters for comparing documents . 323Saving the results via the command line . 326LangName parameter values for the command line . 329Installing, activating, and registering ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 . 337System requirements . 338Installing and starting ABBYY FineReader . 339Activating ABBYY FineReader . 340Registering ABBYY FineReader .

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 User's Guide oScan and convert PDF and paper documents into editable and searchable formats (including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, searchable PDF, PDF/A, PDF/UA, and many