Toolbars

ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio provides five toolbars for working with projects, extracted objects, blocks, layouts, and images. The Standard toolbar contains buttons that correspond to standard commands such as creating, opening, and saving FlexiLayouts.

Screenshot of the Standard toolbar in ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio, showing the Open, Save, Cut, Copy, Paste, Previous Page, Next Page, Previous Document, and Next Document buttons.

Button	Description
Open	Opens the Open Project dialog box, where you can select a project file to open.
Save	Saves the current project.
Cut	Deletes the selection and places it on the Clipboard.
Copy	Copies the selection (text in the Properties window, blocks in the Image window, pages in the Batch window, blocks or elements in the FlexiLayout window) to the Clipboard.
Paste	Pastes the selection from the Clipboard.
Previous Page	Opens the previous page in the project.
Next Page	Opens the next page in the project.
Previous Document	Opens the previous document in the project.
Next Document	Opens the next document in the project.

The Extracted Objects toolbar contains buttons that show or hide the objects detected during pre-recognition.

Screenshot of the Extracted Objects toolbar in ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio, showing the Recognized Words, Recognized Lines, Separators, Barcodes, and Raw Objects buttons.

Button	Description
Recognized Words	Displays only the objects classified as Text during pre-recognition.
Recognized Lines	Displays only the objects classified as Recognized Lines during pre-recognition.
Separators	Displays only the objects classified as Separators during pre-recognition.
Barcodes	Displays only the objects classified as Barcodes during pre-recognition.
Raw Objects	Displays only the objects that the program managed to classify during pre-recognition.

The Block-Drawing Tools toolbar contains buttons that let you edit the reference layout.

Screenshot of the Block-Drawing Tools toolbar in ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio with its buttons labeled, including Select Region, Measure Rectangle, Scroll Tool, Create New Block, Create New Element, Draw Location, Add Box Part, Cut Box Part, Delete Box, Add Vertical and Horizontal Separator, and Delete Separator.

Button	Description
Select Region	Selects a region on the image and moves the selected block. Sometimes a block may be too small to be moved, because its borders are very close together and pointing at any of them activates the “change size” mode. Hold down Ctrl to move such blocks.
Measure Rectangle	Detects the coordinates and sizes of objects on the image and copies them to the Clipboard. To measure an object on the current image, activate the Measure Tool and select the rectangular area to be measured: right-click one corner of the area, drag the mouse diagonally into the opposite corner, and release the mouse. The Measure Tool dialog box displays the coordinates and the width and height of the measured object in the user-defined units of measurement. If you select Automatically copy results to Clipboard in the Measure Tool dialog box, the coordinates of the rectangle are copied to the Clipboard so that you can easily paste them, for example, on the Search Constraints tab in the Properties dialog box of any element to define its search area.
Scroll Tool	Scrolls the image in the Image window.
Create Element	Creates a new block or element and lets you specify its properties based on the pre-recognized image.
Draw Location	Draws an area on the image corresponding to the selected block or element.
Add Block Part	Adds a rectangular area to the selected area.
Cut Block Part	Cuts a rectangular area from the selected area.
Delete Box	Deletes a block or element from the image.
Add Vertical Separator	Adds a vertical separator to the selected Table block.
Add Horizontal Separator	Adds a horizontal separator to the selected Table block.
Delete Separator	Deletes a separator from the selected Table block.

The Draw Location, Add Block Part, Cut Block Part, Delete Box, Add Vertical Separator, Add Horizontal Separator, and Delete Separator buttons are available only in Reference layout mode and Training Mode. The Layout toolbar contains buttons that display the test images in different modes.

Screenshot of the Layout toolbar in ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio, showing the Matched layout, Reference layout, and Difference layout buttons.

Button	Description
Matched layout	Displays the image in Matched layout mode. Use the arrow to the right to select the objects to display: blocks, elements, or both.
Reference layout	Displays the image in Reference layout mode.
Difference layout	Displays the image in Difference layout mode.

The Image Tools toolbar contains buttons that correspond to standard commands such as rotating and scaling the selected images.

Screenshot of the Image Tools toolbar in ABBYY FlexiLayout Studio, showing the Rotate Clockwise, Rotate Counter-Clockwise, Rotate Upside Down, Correct Page Orientation, Invert, Despeckle, Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Scale buttons.

Button	Description
Rotate Clockwise	Rotates the image 90° clockwise.
Rotate Counter-Clockwise	Rotates the image 90° counter-clockwise.
Rotate Upside Down	Rotates the image 180°.
Correct Page Orientation	Automatically corrects the orientation of pages. The correct orientation is selected automatically based on the selected pre-recognition language and the settings in the Options dialog box (Tools → Options).
Invert	Inverts the image (turns black into white and vice versa).
Despeckle	Removes excess dots from the image.
Zoom In	Makes the image twice as large.
Zoom Out	Makes the image half as large.
Scale	Scales the image.

When you perform image operations, all pre-recognition and FlexiLayout matching results are deleted. When you rotate or flip images, the Reference Layout is also deleted.

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​Standard toolbar

​Extracted Objects toolbar

​Block-Drawing Tools toolbar

​Layout toolbar

​Image Tools toolbar

Standard toolbar

Extracted Objects toolbar

Block-Drawing Tools toolbar

Layout toolbar

Image Tools toolbar