ABBYY FineReader — how to make your documents searchable

— scanning of order and its conversion into MS Excel
— automated conversion of all documents saved in folder from image formats (jpg, png, tiff, pdf) into searchable pdf
— searchable documents: how to find a clause in a big agreement quickly
— searchable documents: finding documents using text inside the document
— one click conversion from pdf into MS Word
— can be bought in ABBYY on-line shop http://bit.ly/eUhaP9

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ABBYY
• FineReader
• searchable documents
• conversion of images
• automation
• OCR
• PC
• MAC

[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]

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

[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.

[atracaelo]

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

[yexiTixey]

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

[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.