The File Menu

Menu item: What does it do:
Open Image Adds an image to the batch. The image is copied into the batch folder.
Scan Image Scans an image.
Scan Multiple Images Scans images until you stop scanning. Select the Stop Scanning item in the File menu to stop scanning.   
Stop Scanning Stops scanning. 
Hot Folder (Corporate Edition only) Opens the Hot Folder dialog that is used to launch folder monitoring (all images that are added to the specified folder will be automatically opened in the FineReader window).
Disable Hot Folder (Corporate Edition only) Turns off folder monitoring.
New Batch Creates a new batch.
Open Batch Opens the Open Batch dialog. You may select the batch you want to work with in the dialog. If you want FineReader to open the last batch you worked with at startup: 
  • Select the Open the last batch at startup item on the General tab (Tools>Options).
Save Batch As Saves the current batch. 
Close Batch  Closes the current batch. The batch you close is automatically saved. 
Save Wizard Opens the Save Wizard so you may select the application for saving the text and also set the saving options.  
Save Text As Saves the recognized text to a disk file.  
Send Selected Pages to> Sends the recognized text into the application you select without saving it on disk. If you'd like to export only certain batch pages select them first.

Note If you've edited the recognized text in FineReader text editor or changed some saving options after you've copied this text to the Clipboard, then if you select Paste in another application you'll get the changed text pasted, not the one copied previously to the Clipboard, and the changed options will be used.
Send All Pages to> Sends all the recognized pages into the application you select without saving them on disk.

Note If you've edited the recognized text in FineReader text editor or changed some saving options after you've copied this text to the Clipboard, then if you select Paste in another application you'll get the changed text pasted, not the one copied previously to the Clipboard, and the changed options will be used.
Save Image As Saves the page image or selected block images.
Print image Opens the Print dialog. You may use it to print the image of the current page or images of the selected pages.
Print text Opens the Print dialog. You may use it to print the text of the current page or text from pages selected in the Batch window.
Exit Quits FineReader.