OCR FEATURES
ABBYY FineReader’s superb OCR Editor is the editing tool I use most with the
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interface. This interface has a left sidebar showing thumbnails of each page, a
large pane with an image of the current page, another large pane with the text
that the app has read via OCR from the current page, and at the foot of the
window, a close-up panel with a large-scale image of the part of the current
page that you’re working on at the moment.
You can adjust the app’s initial OCR by unselecting areas with text, markings, or
images that you don’t want to retain in the output. If the app mistakenly
interpreted some text as a table, or the reverse, you can correct it with a couple
of mouse clicks, too.
If you’re dealing with badly made images—say, old Xerox copies of printed
pages—you can open the app’s Image Editor, which acts like a special-purpose
photo editor designed to enhance scans. You can correct trapezoidal distortion,
straighten text lines, split an image into separate pages, change brightness and
contrast levels, erase stray images, remove color-ink markings, and much more.
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I’ve never seen anything remotely like it for enhancing document images.