To create your custom automated task, select one of the actions available for each step:

1. FineReader document

   This is always the first step in an automated task. Once you select it, it will be moved to the right-hand pane.

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   Select one of the following commands:

   • Create new document
     A new FineReader will be created when the task is launched.
     Specify the options to be used when creating the document, processing images, and recognizing texts:

   • Use the document options selected in the program when the task is launched
   • Use custom document options

   • Select existing document
     Specify the FineReader document that contains the images to be processed.
   • Use open document
     Images from the opened FineReader document will be processed.

2. Acquire images

   This step is optionl if at the previous step you selected Select existing document or Use open document.

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   • Open image / PDF
     Specify the folder from which ABBYY FineReader will take images when the task is launched.
   • Scan
     The scanning settings selected in ABBYY FineReader at the time of scanning will be used.

   • Note:

     1. If images are added to a document that already contains images, only the newly added images will be processed. If a new document is added, all images in the document will be processed.
     2. If an ABBYY FineReader document to be processed contains already recognized pages and already analyzed pages, the recognized pages will not be processed anew and the analyzed pages will be recognized.
3. Analyze

   At this step, the program analyzes images to identify text areas, picture areas, table areas, or barcode areas. The Analyze step will be added automatically when the Read step is selected.

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   • Analyze the layout automatically, then adjust areas manually
     ABBYY FineReader will analyze the images and identify the appropriate areas on them.
   • Draw areas manually
     ABBYY FineReader will ask you to draw the appropriate areas manually.
   • Use an area template
     Specify the area template to be used by ABBYY FineReader to analyze the images. For more about area templates, see Using Area Templates.
4. Read

   The options used for recognizing images depend on the options selected at the FineReader document step.

5. Save / Send

   At this step, you can select the formats to which ABBYY FineReader should save the recognition results. You can also program ABBYY FineReader to send the results to a certain application, send the acquired images or text by e-mail, or create a copy of the ABBYY FineReader document. An automated task may have more than one saving step.
   Specify the saving options to be used:

   • Use the saving options selected in the program when the task starts
   • Use custom saving options

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   • Save document
     Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, and the folder where the file should be stored.

     Note: To avoid specifying a new folder each time the task is launched, select Create a time-stamped subfolder.

   • Send document
     Here you can select the application in which to open the resulting document.
   • E-mail document
     Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, and the e-mail address to which the file should be sent.
   • Save images
     Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, and the folder where the image file should be stored.

     Note: To save all images to one file, select Save as one multi-page image file (only for TIFF and PDF).

   • E-mail images
     Here you can specify the name of the file, its format, and the e-mail address to which the image file should be sent.
   • Save FineReader document
     Here you can specify the folder to which the ABBYY FineReader document should be saved.