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>        I have used the product but the results are varied, with formatting of 
>the word document dramatically changing sometimes while at times it is 
>same. Ditto with the spelling, the level of accuracy is not very high. Which 
>version of ABBY FineReader do you use? 

Results are "varied" because real-world scanned documents are varied. This is not a 
problem with your software. Perfect automated conversions for 99% of pages are still 
years away.

Having said that, you can dramatically improve your results by...

++ Ensuring your scans are at LEAST 300 dpi.  If your document includes small (<9 
point text), then 600 dpi is strongly preferred.

++ Ensure that your settings for contrast and brightness are such that the characters 
on the page are neither too faint or too "bold" for the OCR to get a good grip.

++ Ensuring that the scanned page is as clean of specks, edge-artifacts, crud and 
other blemishes BEFORE OCR.

++ Ensuring minimal skew in the scanned image

All of these things take time and effort.  However, they all substantially reduce the 
time and effort spent in dealing with bad OCR results... and that benefit persists for 
the life of the document.  

Duff Johnson
Document Solutions, Inc.
www.document-solutions.com


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