ABBYY FineReader 10 User's Guide

ABBYY FineReader 10 User’s Guide
If only a part of the image is blurry, try setting a higher aperture value. Shoot from a greater distance at maximum optical zoom.
Focus on a point anywhere between the center and the border of the image.
When shooting in automatic mode in poor lighting, the camera will set slower shutter speeds, which adversely affects image
sharpness. In this case, try the following:
● Enable the anti–shake system, if available.
● Use the self–timer. This will help prevent the shaking that often happens when the shutter button is pressed. Shake–related
issues may occur even when shooting from a tripod.
The flash causes a large highlight area in the middle of the frame.
Turn off the flash. Or try using other light sources and shoot from a greater distance.
Automatic Image Preprocessing
OCR quality may be affected by distorted text lines, document skew, noise, and other defects commonly found on scanned images
and digital photos.
ABBYY FineReader offers an image preprocessing feature to deal with image defects of this kind. When activated, the image
preprocessing feature automatically decides what action to take depending on the input image type and applies the correction.
Adjustments include removing noise from digital photos, deskewing, straightening text lines, and correcting trapezium distortions.
Note. These operations can be very time consuming.
To activate automatic preprocessing when images are scanned and opened:
1. Open the Options dialog box (Tools>Options…).
2. Make sure to check the Enable image preprocessing option on the Scan/Open tab in the Image Processing group.
Important! The automatic preprocessing option may also be toggled in the image opening dialog box (File menu>Open PDF
File/Image…) and in the ABBYY FineReader scanning dialog box. For more information, see Selecting the Scanning Interface.
Note. If the Enable image preprocessing option was turned off while scanning or opening images, the image can be processed
manually using the Edit Image dialog box.
Editing Images Manually
ABBYY FineReader 10 offers automatic image preprocessing, which means that the program decides if any correction is needed
and applies it to the image.
However, some images may require manual editing. For example, when only a part of an image needs to be recognized or if you
need to process only some of the pages in a document.
To edit an image:
1. Open the Edit Image dialog box (Page>Edit Page Image…).
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