Opening Imagesand PDF Files

You can recognize image files without using a scanner (see the list of supported image formats under "Supported Image Formats").

To open an image:

• Click on the downward-pointing arrow to the right of the 1–Scan button and select the Open Image item in the local menu. An Open caption will replace the Scan caption on the button.
• Select Open Image from the File menu.
• In Windows Explorer, right–click the image file you want to open and select Open with ABBYY FineReader from the local menu. If ABBYY FineReader is running, the image will be added to the current batch. Otherwise, the program will be launched and the most recently used batch opened before the image is added.
• In Microsoft Outlook or Windows Explorer, click on the image file you want to open and drag it onto the minimized ABBYY FineReader window. The image will be added to the current batch and opened in the Image window.

  Select one or several images in the Open dialog. The selected images will be displayed in the Batch window, and the last selected image displayed in the Image and Zoom windows. All selected images are copied into the batch folder. See the "General Information on Working with Batches" section for more information on batch organization and a description of how pages are displayed within batches.
   

Tip: If you want the opened images to be recognized right away, select the Open&Read mode:

1. Select the Open&Read item in the Process menu or just press CTRL+SHIFT+D. The Open dialog will open.
2. Select the images for recognition in the Open dialog.

Opening PDF files

The author of a PDF file can limit access to his PDF file. For example, the author may protect his file by a password or restrict certain features such as extracting text and graphics. It would be a violation of the author's copyright to access these restricted features, therefore ABBYY FineReader will ask you for a password to open such files.

	Working with image
	Saving image
	Reading image