The Options Dialog Box

Important! The options dialog box is under the Tools>Options… menu. It can also be accessed from the options toolbar, dialog boxes for saving data in different formats, the dialog boxes used to open images, and the toolbar's shortcut menu.

The dialog box has 6 tabs. Each tab contains options for certain program functions:

• Document

  Use this option to customize the following:

  • Document languages (the languages in which the input document is written)
  • The document print type
  • Document properties (the file name, author, and keywords)

• Scan/Open

  Use this option to customize the general options for automated document processing, and the settings for pre-processing images when scanning and opening documents, such as activating/deactivating the following:

  • Automatic analysis of document layout (identifying layout areas and types)
  • Automatic image conversion
  • Automatic image pre-processing
  • Automatic identification of page orientation
  • Automatic separation of facing pages

  You can also select your scanner driver and scanning interface.
  For details, see Customizing Scanning and Image Opening Settings, Disabling Automatic Image Processing, Selecting the Scanning Interface, and Scanning facing pages.
  

• Read

  This option contains recognition settings:

  • Recognition can be set to either "fast" or "detailed".
  • You can also determine whether or not you wish to use a custom template during recognition.

  For details, see OCR Options, Training User Patterns, and Paper Document Contains Decorative (Non-Standard) Fonts.
  

• Save

  This option lets you select the format in which the output document will be saved:

  • RTF/DOC/DOCX
    For details, see Saving in RTF/DOC/DOCX.
  • XLS/XLSX
    For details, see Saving in XLS/XLSX.
  • PDF
    For details, see Saving in PDF.
  • PDF/A
    For details, see Saving in PDF/A.
  • HTML
    For details, see Saving in HTML.
  • PPTX
    For details, see Saving in PPTX.
  • TXT
    For details, see Saving in TXT.
  • CSV
    For details, see Saving in CSV.

• View

  This option contains:

  • Settings for the page view in the Pages (Thumbnails or Details) window
  • Options for the Text window, including the option to highlight uncertain characters and words (and the highlighting color), whether non-printable characters (e.g. line feed) should be displayed, and what font should be used to display plain text
  • The settings for the colors and thickness of borders enclosing various types of areas in the Image window
    For details, see Editing area types and borders.

• Advanced

  This option contains settings for:

  • The selection of fonts used in the output document
  • The spell checker for recognized text
  • The path to the folder where user languages will be saved
  • Opening the most recently used document when the application starts up
  • The program interface language
  • The button used to save the current full option set into a file
  • The button used to load the full option set from a previously saved file saved
  • The button used to reset the option set to default options

  For details, see Working With ABBYY FineReader Documents, Checking Spelling, and User Dictionary: Adding and Removing Words, and Creating an OCR Language.