ABBYY FineReader — how to make your documents searchable

[Fieldhurst8]

What version of Finereader is this ?

[yexiTixey]

@Fieldhurst8 That was FineReader 10. The latest version is 11th and it can do all demonstrated things + a bit more :)

[1adyishtar]

If the "paper report" consist of 80 pages. Then I scan each page, one at a time.

And then I have to PROCESS OCR EACH PAGE AT A TIME ???

[yexiTixey]

@1adyishtar No. You scan your pages, select them all and press Read selected pages. ABBYY FineReader will recognize all of them at once (no need to recognize one-by-one). I've recorded a short video for you which explains how to do it youtu.be [slash] 1YajNl5Tdgs

[linsita87]

Hi, thanks for sharing this tutorials! now I have a question: is there a way to recover unsaved Abby FR documents? I just scanned some images (a lot of them) and my computer shut down and I don't know why it isn't there!! the bad thing is that I never saved it because I was working on it :-( I hope there's way. Thanks in advance for any help :-)

[yexiTixey]

@linsita87 Every time you launch FineReader, it creates a temporary document in user’s %tmp% folder. It is kept until the moment you save FineReader document. Usually when there is a program or operating system failure, this temporary document is not removed and remains available in %tmp% folder (except cases when %tmp% folder is erased automatically at every system reboot). This temporary document should contain all your images.

[yexiTixey]

Also recent versions of ABBYY FineReader try to recover last document automatically after every program failure.

[atracaelo]

@yexiTixey thx but i solved this problem by reinstaling, i use abby finereader 10

[solo55flight]

Thanks so much!

I agree w/ @virtualpersonal - very clear & articulate presentation.,

it's helping me to get productive w/ ABBYY more quickly.

So I went on to study your other tutorials also - please continue to share!

[yexiTixey]

@solo55flight thank you! There are 2 more screencasts in pipe. One about ABBYY PDF Transformer, another one about ABBYY Recognition Server. After that I'm planning to show new feature of ABBYY FineReader 11 - conversion of scanned books to fp2 format.

[yexiTixey]

Could you send screenshot of error message, version of Operating System and FineReader you are currently using to my e-mail ( Nikita_T@abbyy.com )

[atracaelo]

to me nothing appear when i finish to scan, and when i want to save it is show this error "Some of the pages have not been recognized and cannot be saved" . How i can do a task ( to convert to pdf) or i must begin from begin and pray that this time every goes well

[yexiTixey]

@atracaelo Please let me know which version of FineReader do you use? Probably this is a bug which was fixed in later releases?

[neopainkiller]

Nice Presentation.

[yexiTixey]

@neopainkiller Thanks and stay tuned - there will be more examples of possible applications of the FineReader and other ABBYY products!

[yexiTixey]

You'll probably enjoy this one bit.ly / qYUHi4 as well. I'm showing how I converted all my studying materials into searchable and instantly accessible archive.

[yexiTixey]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

[virtualpersonal]

This was the best and clearest tutorial on youtube. Thank you.