General

A new ABBYY FineReader document is opened by default when you start ABBYY FineReader. You can either start working with this new document or open an existing ABBYY FineReader document.

All document pages are displayed in the Pages window. The pages in the Pages window can be displayed either as thumbnails or as page icons.

To change the display mode:

Click View>Pages Window. Then select Thumbnails or Details.
On the shortcut menu of the Pages window, select Pages Window and then select either Thumbnails or Details.
On the View tab of the Options dialog box (Tools>Options…), in the Pages Window group, select either Thumbnails or Details.

To open a page, click its thumbnail in the Pages window (in Thumbnails mode) or double-click its number (in Details mode). In the Image window you will see the page image and in the Text window you will see the recognition results (if the document was recognized).

Note: When opening FineReader documents created in earlier versions of ABBYY FineReader, the program attempts to convert them into its new format. As this conversion cannot be undone, ABBYY FineReader will prompt you to save the converted document under a new name. All recognized text will be lost in the process.