Working with ABBYY FineReader Documents

When working with an ABBYY FineReader document, you can:

• Create a new document

  • On the File menu, click New FineReader Document, or
  • On the main toolbar, click .

• Delete a page from the current document

  • In the Pages window, select the page you wish to delete and then select Delete Page from Document from the Page menu, or
  • In the Pages window, right-click the page you wish to delete and then select Delete Page from Document from the shortcut menu, or
  • In the Pages window, select the page you wish to delete and press the DELETE key.

  To select several pages, hold down the CTRL key and click each of the pages to delete one by one.

• Open a document

  At launch, ABBYY FineReader automatically creates a new document.

  Note: If you wish ABBYY FineReader to open the last document on which you were working in the previous session, select Tools>Options…, click the Advanced tab, and then select Open the last used FineReader document when the program starts.

  To open a document:

  1. On the File menu, click Open FineReader Document…
  2. In the Open Document dialog box, select the document to open.

  Note: You can also open an ABBYY FineReader document directly from Windows Explorer by right-clicking the desired document folder (document folders are displayed as ) and selecting Open with ABBYY FineReader from the shortcut menu.

• Add images to the current document

  • On the File menu, click Open PDF File/Image…
  • In the Open Image dialog box, select the desired images and click Open. The image will be appended to the end of the current document and its copy will be saved in the folder that stores the document.

  Note: You can also add images directly from Windows Explorer:

  • In Windows Explorer, select the desired image files, right-click the selection, and select Open with ABBYY FineReader from the shortcut menu.

    If ABBYY FineReader is running, the selected files will be added to the current document. Otherwise, ABBYY FineReader will be launched and the selected files will be added to a new document.

• Save the current document

  1. On the File menu, click Save FineReader Document…
  2. In the Save Document dialog box, type in a name for your document and specify a storage location.

  Note: Saving an ABBYY FineReader document will save the page images, the recognized text, the trained patterns, and the user languages (if any).

• Close the current document

  • To close a page of the current document, select the page and then select Close Current Page from the Document menu.
  • To close the entire document, select Close FineReader Document from the File menu.

• Save user patterns and languages

  To save your user patterns and languages in one file:

  1. Select Tools>Options… and click the Read tab.
  2. Under User patterns and languages, click the Save to File… button.
  3. In the Save Options dialog box, type in a name for your file and specify a storage location.

  This file will contain the path to the folder where user languages, language groups, dictionaries, and patterns are stored.

• Load user patterns and languages
  1. Select Tools>Options… and click the Read tab.
  2. Under User patterns and languages, click the Load from File… button.
  3. In the Load Options dialog box, select the file that contains the desired user patterns and languages and click Open.