Other Recognition Options

Recognition mode

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 allows you to choose speed or quality during the recognition process. Two recognition modes are available:

• Thorough
  In this mode, ABBYY FineReader will analyze and recognize both simple documents and documents with complex layouts, in particular documents with text on a color or raster background and documents with complex tables (including tables with white grid lines and tables with color cells).
  Note: As compared to the Fast mode, the Thorough mode consumes more time but ensures better recognition quality.
• Fast
  This mode is recommended for processing large amounts of documents with simple layouts and good image quality.

You can set up the recognition mode on the the Read tab in the Options dialog (menu Tools>Options).

PDF recognition

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 extracts text data from PDF files and uses these data for recognizing PDF documents. Text data extraction speeds up the recognition process up to 2 - 3 times. However, PDF files may have non-standard encoding. In this case text content can only be recovered with OCR. If you are not satisfied with the recognition quality of a PDF document:

• On the Read tab in the Options dialog (menu Tools>Options), select the Recognize PDF as image option in the PDF recognition group and re-read the document.

Barcode recognition

If you want ABBYY FineReader to recognize barcodes on your documents automatically, make sure that the Look for barcodes option is selected in the Read group of the Legacy Options dialog. ABBYY FineReader will create separate barcode type blocks for them; barcodes will be displayed as a series of letters and numbers in the recognized text. The full list of the barcode types supported by ABBYY FineReader 8.0 see in Block Types.

Note: To open the Legacy Options dialog, click the Legacy Options button on the General tab in the Options dialog (Tools>Options).

Show image during recognition

When processing large numbers of pages, recognition is invariably faster if the processed image is not displayed on-screen. To run recognition without displaying the image:

• Clear the Show image during recognition item in the Legacy Options dialog (to open the Legacy Options dialog, click the Legacy Options... button on the General tab in the Options dialog).

Text orientation

If the application incorrectly recognizes blocks containing vertical text (a text block or a table cell):

• Right-click on the block with vertical text and select the Properties item in the local menu. The Properties dialog will open on the Block tab. Select the relevant item in the Text orientation list in the dialog and re-recognize the image.

Inverted or flipped block

If the application incorrectly recognizes blocks containing inverted or flipped text (a text block, a table cell, or a whole table):

• Right-click on the block and select the Properties item in the local menu. The Properties dialog will open on the Block tab. Select the necessary item in the Invertion drop-down list and select the Flipped item and re-recognize the image.