Setting Up a Hot Folder

Run ABBYY Hot Folder & Scheduling and click the New button on the toolbar. This will launch the ABBYY Hot Folder & Scheduling wizard which will guide you through the setup process.

Step 1. Open Images

Here you need to select the folder with images to be processed. Also at this step, you need to specify how often ABBYY FineReader must check this folder for new images.

In the drop-down list at the top of the dialog, select folder type:

Select Open images from folder if you wish ABBYY FineReader to process images form a local or a network folder.
Note: You may select an ABBYY FineReader batch in this field.

Select Open images from FTP folder if you wish ABBYY FineReader to process images from a folder on an FTP server. Enter the FTP login and password if the server requires authorization. Otherwise, select the Anonymous login option to use an anonymous connection.
Note: You may select an ABBYY FineReader batch in this field.

In the Folder field, provide the full path to the hot folder.
In the Files of type field, select the formats of image files to process.
Select Split dual pages to split the images of book pages into two separate batch pages. The recognition quality will increase, and you will be able to save each page to a separate file in this case.

Under Time settings, select one of the two available options:

Select Check once at start time to process only the images that will be available in this folder when the scheduled task begins. Any images that may be added to this folder after that will not be processed.

Select Continually watch folder for incoming images to monitor the folder and process new files as they arrive. ABBYY FineReader will check the folder for new images every 60 seconds.
Note. In this mode, output files with recognized text will be named as their source images.

In the Start time field, select the time when ABBYY FineReader must start processing images in the folder.

Start now starts the processing as soon as the hot folder has been set up.

Start at specified time allows you to select the start date and time.

Paused postpones the task.

Under Processed image settings, specify whether ABBYY FineReader should delete the images from the hot folder if the operation was successful.

Select Do not remove from folder to keep the images in the hot folder.

Select Remove from folder to delete the images after they have been processed.

Step 2. Read All Images

Step 3. Save Document

Here you need to select a folder where the resulting documents will be stored and select a file format for the documents.

Tip. You can add several saving steps to save recognition results in multiple formats. In the Save as type drop-down list, click (Select multiple formats) and in the dialog that opens select the formats in which you wish to save recognition results.