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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.
Draw Boxes
Manually creating text recognition boxes improves accuracy
Reorder Areas
How to order areas correctly for text output.

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
  - Draw Boxes
    Manually creating text recognition boxes improves accuracy
    - Text Areas
      How to draw text areas
    - Reorder Areas
      How to order areas correctly for text output.
    - Modify Areas
      Areas must be drawn in a basic box shape, but they can be altered to subtract or add to part of the box.
    - Footnote Areas
      Footnotes always output as the last areas on the page.
    - Table Areas
      Creating table areas improves recognition
    - Headers
      How to treat two-column entry titles
    - Illustrations
      When drawing boxes, leave out illustrations and their captions.
    - Catchwords
      Leave out the extra word at the bottom of the page in eb03
    - Author Initials
      Always include author indicators at the end of articles
    - Pages without Text
      When to include pages without text in the output
    - Special Cases
      Situations requiring a note in the page-inventory file.
  - 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.

Reorder Areas

How to order areas correctly for text output.

If text areas are ordered incorrectly, ABBYY FineReader will output sections of text or entire text columns in reverse order, making it unreadable.

The order of the areas determines the order in which AFR will output the text on the page. It remembers the order in which they were drawn, but it also has a way to reorder the blocks at any time. To check or change the order, use the Reorder Areas tool in the icons panel. This causes the order number to appear in the upper-left corner of each block.

Figure 1. Page showing the order of areas.
With the Reorder Areas tool selected, click within each box in the order you want them to output. AFR reorders them sequentially, beginning with #1.