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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
Text Areas
How to draw text areas

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.

Text Areas

How to draw text areas

Select the Draw Text Area tool in the icons panel above the Image pane.
For a simple two-column page, draw two text blocks around the body text, one for each column. Always begin with the left column, before drawing the right column. Ignore running headers, marginal call-outs, and page numbers.
In the zoom pane, check the top of the page and adjust your box margins. If the box is cutting off parts of letters, your recognition accuracy will be poor. Then check the bottom of the page the same way.

Figure 1. Simple page with two text columns.