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Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
Page Files
Explains the procedures we use to get the best quality OCR of each page.
Settings
Recommended settings for all options in ABBYY FineReader
OCR Tab
Settings for the OCR tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.

Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
- Organization
  How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
- Page Files
  Explains the procedures we use to get the best quality OCR of each page.
  - AFR Interface
    Learn about the main elements of the program interface
  - Create a Page-Inventory File
    Create a page-inventory file.
  - Create an Image Collection
    Organize image files for scanning.
  - Create an OCR-Project
    How to create and manage an OCR-Project.
  - Settings
    Recommended settings for all options in ABBYY FineReader
    - General Tab
      Settings for the General tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
    - Image Processing Tab
      Settings for the Image Processing tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
    - Languages Tab
      Settings for the Languages tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
    - OCR Tab
      Settings for the OCR tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
    - Format Settings Tab
      Settings for the Format Settings tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
    - Areas and Text Tab
      Settings for the Areas and Text tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
    - Other Tab
      Settings for the Other tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.
  - Draw Boxes
    Manually creating text recognition boxes improves accuracy
  - Page Recognition
    Excellent page recognition depends on preparing pages properly.
  - Save and Output
    How to output your OCR results.
  - TEI-XML
    This introduction to Oxygen XML Editor shows you how to navigate the interface and perform standard procedures on the Encyclopedia files.
- Entry Files
  Procedures for converting single pages into Encyclopedia entries.
- Master Files
  After creating entry files, we run an automated metadata generation process to add index terms to each entry.

OCR Tab

Settings for the OCR tab in the ABBYY FineReader Options window.

To access the Options window, select Tools > Options....

For PDF recognition mode, select Use OCR.
Set OCR speed and accuracy to Thorough recognition. Set Document type to auto.
Uncheck everything in Detection of structural elements and Barcodes.
Set Use of patterns and training in OCR Editor to Use user patterns > Also use built-in patterns>. See remarks in OCR Training.
>ABBYY FineReader needs to know where to locate the shared user patterns and language files for the edition. Select Load Patterns and Languages.... Navigate to the _afr-user/UserPatterns folder in the edition folder, and select the FBT file located there. For example, if you are working on eb03, it will be located in ebnn/eb03/_afr-user/UserPatterns.
Click OK when finished, to save all settings in the Options window.