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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
Other Tab
Settings for the Other 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.

Other Tab

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

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

Use the default options, except uncheck Show special offers and turn off Enable JavaScript in PDF documents.
Figure 1. The Other tab.
Click OK when finished, to save all settings in the Options window.