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Abbyy Finereader tuneability | Screenshot reader

Emma Goldsmith — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:47:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: Abbyy Finereader tuneability
Poster: Emma Goldsmith
Post title: Screenshot reader

One great feature that was introduced in version 10 or 11 was the Screenshot reader. It's very useful for taking a screenshot in a non-editable format (image in Word or a PDF) and getting ABBYY to read it and then send it to the clipboard in text or table format.
IMO, it's worth upgrading just for that.

Re columns and tabs - I usually select plain text output in ABBYY 11 so that I can format it myself in Word, otherwise columns/fonts/kerning all takes ages to correct. However, as Vicotr and esperantisimo mention, if you draw tables in ABBYY itself, they will be reproduced accurately in plain text output.

HTH,
Emma

Abbyy Finereader tuneability | Finding the settings

Victor Dewsbery — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:32:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: Abbyy Finereader tuneability
Poster: Victor Dewsbery
Post title: Finding the settings

Hi, I recently moved up from FR8 to FR11. My subjective impression is that the text recognition has improved. I have used the automatic functions to do a quick scan of a couple of jobs for a quotation (before I know whether it is worthwhile to do a more careful job), and in the one case which I did in both FR8 and FR11, far more text was recognised in FR11.

When you open FR11, the first thing you see is a big box with a selection of automatic functions. But you can, in fact, close this box and use the menu items, which certainly offer more flexibility than the fully automatic functions. I am still getting used to FR11 and there are some options that I haven't yet found. But you can certainly define a block manually as a table and ask FR11 to analyse the table layout. I seem to remember it taking me one or two extra mouse clicks to do so, but it is possible. I haven't yet explored to see if FR11 adds options which I was missing in FR8 (e.g. splitting a table column or table cell into two).

Abbyy Finereader tuneability | Stick to 8

esperantisto — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:03:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: Abbyy Finereader tuneability
Poster: esperantisto
Post title: Stick to 8

In my experience, FR 9 and later demonstrates worse (albeit slightly) text recognition as compared to FR 8, so I still stick to it.

[quote]not create multi-column text but tabulator-separated lines[/quote]

I don’t quite understand what you need, but why not mark up the segments for recognition as text tables?

Abbyy Finereader tuneability

Heinrich Pesch — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:58:00 +0000

Forum: Software applications
Topic: Abbyy Finereader tuneability
Poster: Heinrich Pesch

I would like to hear about experiences with Finereader newer versions. I have version 8, but the output is not always optimal. Is it possible in version 11+ to set the output so that the software does not create multi-column text but tabulator-separated lines? These columns need much editing when the final text is of different length after translation.
Thanks for more info.

(I know I can try the software but my trial period is over).