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How to disable column select in FineReader 8
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Samuel Murray
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Sep 3, 2009

G'day everyone

I want to scan and OCR a glossary with FineReader 8.0. FineReader automatically detects columns and scans them separately, which is often a good thing, but in the case of a glossary (which is typed in a table without table borders) it is a bad thing.

See, if FineReader gets a source file with this:

cat[tab]kat
dog[tab]hond
horse[tab]perd

then it outputs a text file that looks like this:

cat
dog
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G'day everyone

I want to scan and OCR a glossary with FineReader 8.0. FineReader automatically detects columns and scans them separately, which is often a good thing, but in the case of a glossary (which is typed in a table without table borders) it is a bad thing.

See, if FineReader gets a source file with this:

cat[tab]kat
dog[tab]hond
horse[tab]perd

then it outputs a text file that looks like this:

cat
dog
horse
kat
hond
perd

which is of no use to me.

Do you know of a way in FineReader 8.0 to disable this automatic column selection? I know I can select the blocks myself, manually, but there are 200 pages here and I don't want to spend time setting blocks manually. I want FineReader to assume that the entire page is one block to be scanned as-is. Do you know if this is possible?

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Egidijus Slepetys
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Tools -> Options -> Legacy options ... Sep 3, 2009

try to check "Read as plain text formatted with spaces".

Good luck,
Egidijus
 
Adam Łobatiuk
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Doesn't that depend on the output file settings? Sep 3, 2009

I use version 9 and I haven't had such a problem, but I would expect FR to produce an acceptable Word file with a strict formatting option, like "Editable copy". Then it would be quite easy to manipulate the content in Word.
 
Samuel Murray
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Thanks, but... Sep 3, 2009

Adam Łobatiuk wrote:
I would expect FR to produce an acceptable Word file with a strict formatting option, like "Editable copy".


The problem is that FR first creates the blocks, then reads them, and then creates the output format. Even if I select "strict formatting", the formatting is only done in the third step, and steps 1 and 2 (create blocks, read blocks) are done without taking the final formatting into account.

There are two ways to ensure that FR reads the page as a table. The first is to draw a block manually on the page, right-click it and select "Analyze table structure" and then OCR it. The second is to select Image, then Choose a Tool, then Table Block, and then draw a block manually on each page. The block is purple, and when it is read, it is OCR'ed as a table.

Saving a table from FR into plaintext yields the desired result.

Now... I have to write an AutoIt script to automate the page selection process. *sigh*
 
Selcuk Akyuz
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Legacy options Sep 3, 2009

Egiz wrote:
Tools -> Options -> Legacy options ...

try to check "Read as plain text formatted with spaces".

Good luck,
Egidijus


Tools -> Options -> General -> Legacy options
 
Samuel Murray
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I wish... Sep 3, 2009

Selcuk Akyuz wrote:
Tools -> Options -> General -> Legacy options


Wow... I wish I had seen this setting earlier -- I would have scanned all my previous work with this setting enabled. As it is, I'm almost done with my scanning and I don't see myself re-OCR-ing 20000 pages.
 


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