Steps of custom automated tasks

Steps of custom automated tasks

Custom automated tasks offer a wider range of steps compared to quick tasks. The order of steps in your custom automated tasks should correspond to the document processing stages in ABBYY FineReader. Steps such as image acquisition, recognition and saving are mandatory, while other steps such as result checking and page layout analysis are optional.

When creating a new custom automated task, select one of the available actions for each step:

Getting an image
This is always the first step in an automated task. At this step, ABBYY FineReader retrieves the images to be processed.

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Select how you would like to retrieve the image:
- Scan Images
  Scanning is performed using current application settings.
- Open Images
  Specify the folder from which images will be added into the application when the task is started.
- Open FineReader Document
  Specify the ABBYY FineReader document from which images will be processed when the task is started.
  Notes:
  1. If images are added to a document that already contains images during task execution, only the added images will be processed. If a new document will be processed during task execution, all of the images from the document will be processed.
  2. If the task involves processing an ABBYY FineReader document that contains both recognized pages and pages on which areas have been labelled, the recognized pages will not be re-processed, and the pages with labelled areas will be recognized.
Page layout analysis
This step is optional. Page layout analysis is used to customize area templates.

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- Load Areas Template
  Specify the path to the area template file.
- Analyze Layout
  After the image is retrieved, ABBYY FineReader will analyze the layout of the image and label its areas. If you need to manually draw areas, enable the Draw areas manually option.
Recognition
At this step, ABBYY FineReader performs OCR on the images.

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- Read Document
  Recognition is executed using ABBYY FineReader 10's current settings.
Checking recognition results
This step is optional. It lets users customize the settings for recognition result checking.

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- Check Results
  Select your preferred method for checking recognized text.
Saving recognition results
At this step, ABBYY FineReader saves the text to a file or sends it to the selected application. An automated task may include several saving steps.

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- Save Document
  Specify the desired file name, format, the folder in which the file with recognized text will be saved, and the file options.
  
  Note. To avoid having to specify a new folder every time you run this step (i.e. re-setting the task), select the Create time-stamped subfolder option.
- Save document in another format
  Select the desired format from the drop-down menu.
  You can specify the file name, the folder in which the file with recognized text will be saved, and the file options.
Adding advanced steps to an automated task allows you to send the recognized text to another application, attach the retrieved image or the recognized text to an e-mail message, or save the ABBYY FineReader document.
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- Send Document To…
  Select the desired application from the drop-down menu.
  During task execution, the recognized text will be saved into a new file opened in the selected application.
  
  Important! In this case, the recognized text will not be saved to the disk.
- E-mail Document
  Select the desired file format from the drop-down menu.
  You can select the page saving option. The recognized text will be saved in the format of your choice, and the files will be attached to your e-mail message.
- Save Images
  Select the desired format from the drop-down menu.
  Select the desired file name, format, the folder in which the file with images will be saved, and the file options.
  Note. In order to save all of the images into one file, select the Save as one multi-page image file option (available for TIFF and PDF formats only).
- E-mail Images
  Select the desired format from the drop-down menu.
  Specify the desired file name, format, the folder in which the file with images will be saved, and the file options. The images will be saved in the format of your choice, and the files with images will be attached to your e-mail message.
- Save FineReader Document
  Specify the folder in which the ABBYY FineReader document will be saved.

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