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)
  • Document print type
  • Color mode
  • Document properties (the file name, author, and keywords)

  This tab also displays the path to the active ABBYY FineReader document.

• 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 tab contains recognition options:

  • "Fast" or "thorough" recognition
  • Whether a user pattern should be used for OCR
  • Where to store the user patterns and languages
  • Which fonts to use in recognized text
  • Whether barcodes should be recognized

  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/ODT
    For details, see Saving in RTF/DOC/DOCX/ODT.
  • 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.
  • E-book
    See Saving E-Books for details.
  • DjVu
    See DjVu format for details.

• 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
  • 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

  Here you can:

  • Select verification options for unreliably recognized characters
  • Specify whether spaces before and after punctuation marks should be corrected
  • View and edit user dictionaries
  • Select the language of the FineReader menus and messages
  • Specify whether the last ABBYY FineReader document should be opened when you start the application
  • Specify whether document warnings should be displayed in a separate pane
  • Select if you wish to participate in ABBYY's software improvement program
  • Reset the options to the program defaults

  For details, see Working With ABBYY FineReader Documents, Checking with the Verification dialog box, and User Dictionary: Adding and Removing Words, and Creating an OCR Language.