The Legacy Options Dialog

To open the Legacy Options dialog, click the Legacy Options... button on the Generaltab in the Optionsdialog.

Option name

Option description

View group
Open image during scanning Use this option to control the scanning quality more directly.  When the scanner is finished scanning a page, it will be displayed in the Image window.
Show scaled black and white images as gray Set this option to display scaled black and white images as gray in the Image window. The image becomes more readable. This option does not affect the recognition quality in any way.
Show image during recognition This option is set by default. Clear it if you do not want the image to be displayed during recognition of several batch pages.
Scan/Open group
Invert image Some scanners invert images (turning black color into white and vice versa) during scanning.
You may want to apply the Invert Image option to make the document appearance standard, i.e. black font against a white background.
Convert color and gray images to black-and-white Use this option to reduce the disk space occupied by your batch; useful if there are no color pictures/color font/color background on your image or if you don't want to retain the color in the recognized text.
Read group
One line of text per cell in table Set this option if you only recognize tables with one line of text per each cell. The table layout will be analyzed more readily.
No merge cells in table Set this option if you only recognize tables with no merged cells. The table layout will be analyzed more readily.
Look for barcodes Set this option if you want ABBYY FineReader to recognize barcodes on your documents. ABBYY FineReader will create separate barcode type blocks for them; the barcode will be displayed as a series of letters and numbers in the recognized text. 
This option is not set by default.
Read as plain text formatted with spaces Set this option if you wish to save the recognition results as plain text. The recognized text will be formatted in one column and set in monospaced font of a same size. In the recognized text, left indents will be represented as spaces; every line will be made a separate paragraph and the original paragraphs will be separated by empty lines. Use this option if, say, you recognize code printouts.
Print type

Specifies the print type for processed documents. The following choices are avaliable:

  • Autodetect
     Set this option to have the text print type to be detected automatically. This option is set by default. It suits all print types.

  • Typewriter
     Set this option if you recognize a typewriter printout. The recognition quality increases in this case.

  • Dot matrix printer
     Set this option if you recognize a dot matrix printer printout. The recognition quality increases in this case.
Check spelling  group
Stop at compound words If you set this option, the spelling checker will stop at such words that are not found in the dictionary but may be made up according to the available morphological models. Available only if Stop at words not found in dictionary option is set.
Correct spaces before and after punctuation marks If you set this option, the spelling checker inserts missed spaces after punctuation marks and removes unnecessary spaces before punctuation marks automatically. The punctuation marks in question are: , : ; .