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Originally Posted by ittiandro
Well, there is no OCR button or function in the menu and also I don’t understand the difference between OPEN, READ and ANALYSE.
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Open - This is how you get a PDF/whatever to open up in Finereader. Normally, you would only feed a single PDF into it, BUT, you are also free to open up multiple PDFs/images at once (for example, I recently fed in an entire journal, where each article was split into separate PDFs).
Analyze - This does only the step of recognizing which areas are Text/Images/Tables. This goes through a page and puts the Light Green/Red/Blue recognition boxes. Also, if you mark any areas with a "Recognition Area" box (Gray), it will look at that specific section, and determine if what is in the Gray Box is Text/Images/Tables.
Read - This actually does the actual OCR. And if you haven't ANALYZED the page yet, it will encompass that step as well. This turns all of those Light Green/Red/Blue boxes into Dark Green/Red/Blue boxes.
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Originally Posted by ittiandro
In fact as soon as I open the document and the pages start scrolling, it says that the pages are being RECOGNIZED, so they must have been read somehow! Why then a separate READ button?
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Depends on how you have your Finereader set up. For example, I have mine set to do NOTHING when I open up a document.
I run the Analysis and Reading separately as manual button presses... when you are working on very large documents, it would be a huge waste of CPU power to Analyze + Read (OCR) the entire document, only to go through it and do manual fixes, only to run those steps all over again.
If this bothers you, you are free to change this setting under Tools - Options - Scan/Open. You can then set:
- "Automatically read acquired page images"
- "Automatically analyze acquired page images"
- "Do not read and analyze acquired page images"
I personally prefer option 2 or 3.
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Originally Posted by ittiandro
If anybody wants to lend me a helping hand, I’d more than happy to hear from you or other experts , possibly familiar with the ABBYY Fine Reader software.
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Feel free to look at my post above as well. I made nice images for you, that was a lot of hard work.
