How to Create a New Language

To create a new recognition language:

1. Select the Language Editor item in the Tools menu.
2. Click the New button and in the resulting dialog select the Create a Copy of the Language button, then select your preferred source language.
3. The Simple Language Properties dialog will open.

Set the following language parameters for the new language (all parameters are entered in the Simple Language Properties dialog):

1. The new language name.
2. The basic alphabet to be used by the new language. This parameter is set in the Alphabet field. If necessary, edit the alphabet by clicking the button. 

3. The dictionary to be used by the application (for both recognition and spelling check purposes). You may choose one of the following:

   • None (no dictionary to be used).
   • Built-in (the dictionary supplied with FineReader)
   • User dictionary

     To add words to the dictionary or to use an existing user dictionary or text file in Windows (ANSI) or Unicode encoding (the only requirement is that words be separated by spaces or other non-alphabetic characters) click the Edit Dictionary button.

     Note: The spelling checker will consider user dictionary words to be correct if they are found in the text in one of the following capitalizations: dictionary set capitalization; lowercase only; uppercase only; first letter - capital, remaining letters small. Examples include:

     Dictionary set  capitalization:	Correct occurrences of the word:
     abc	abc, Abc, ABC
     Abc	abc, Abc, ABC
     ABC	abc, Abc, ABC
     aBc	aBc, abc, Abc, ABC

   • Regular expression (used to specify the grammatical rules of the new language; see Regular Expressions for details).

Notes: 

1. Click on the Advanced button in the Simple Language Properties dialog to set advanced properties for the new language e.g. characters to be ignored, prohibited characters, etc.
2. By default, all new user languages are saved into the batch folder. Note that ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition allows you to specify the folder to which the language should be saved. For more information on group work with user languages and dictionaries, see under "Group work with the same user languages and user dictionaries".