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You view and change a project’s properties in the Project Properties dialog box. To open it, select Project → Project Properties in the main window.

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General tab

(Distributed) The General tab displays the general properties of the project: the project name, the path to the project files, a project description, a default batch priority, and image display quality. You can also specify the root folder for exporting to files in the Export root path field and configure tool settings. (Standalone) The General tab displays the project name, the path to the project files, and a project description. You can also configure batch type tools. Click the Edit tool button to open the Batch Type Tool Settings dialog box.

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Stage Tools tab

(Distributed) The Stage Tools tab lists the stage tools you can use in the Advanced schema of the Workflow setup. A stage tool is a stage with a set of scripts and a customizable interface. You can edit base stage tools and create custom tools. For more information, see Stage Tools.

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Image Processing tab

The Image Processing tab displays the image pre-processing options, which apply to images added manually from a file. (Distributed) You can change these options if required. For more information, see Image pre-processing options.

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Recognition tab

On the Recognition tab, specify the language of your documents. By default, only the languages for which dictionaries are provided are shown. To see all available languages, select the Show all languages option. Languages marked “ICR” can recognize handwritten and hand-printed text as well as machine-printed text. If the language of your documents is not known in advance, specify several candidate languages, and ABBYY FlexiCapture chooses the right one at the recognition stage.
Specifying too many languages may slow down document processing and cause recognition errors.
On this tab, you can also add a FlexiLayout classifier to your project.

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Advanced recognition settings

  • Select one or more Correct page orientation options to rotate a page 180°, 90° clockwise, or 90° counterclockwise when its orientation is detected automatically.
  • In the Text type section, specify how a blank form is printed (Typographic, Matrix printer, or Typewriter), and select Use pattern to add a sample pattern.
Set the barcode processing parameters:
  • Disable barcode extraction – Do not search for barcodes on images. This speeds up recognition considerably.
  • Extract 2D barcodes: Data Matrix, Aztec, QR Code – Search for these barcode types. If this option is off, they are not found.
  • Extract post barcodes – Search for postal barcodes. If this option is off, they are not found.
Extracting postal barcodes slows down recognition.
For CJK pre-recognition:
  • Separated furigana mode – Improve recognition of phonetic tips (furigana) in Japanese.
  • Named entity recognition: Extract named entities – Extract information using NLP methods.
Named entity recognition requires an NLP module and a specific license type.
For vertical text extraction:
  • Extract for all languages – Detect vertically oriented text in any supported language.
  • Do not extract – Prevent detection of vertically oriented text.
  • Extract for CJK languages – Detect vertical text in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean.

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Distortion correction

Click the Advanced button to configure correction of linear and nonlinear image distortions, specify the direction of the scanner’s automatic feeder, and so on.
Select Correct linear distortion to specify parameters of image spreading or compression by height and width. Images are scaled by existing anchors (black square, cross, or corner) and by horizontal and vertical separators.

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Classification

In the Classification section, specify whether the project uses a classifier or a script.

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Verification tab

On the Verification tab, select Group fields on Field Verification to group fields in this stage. Fields are grouped by the field or group name specified in the verification properties.

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Export Destinations tab

On the Export Destinations tab, you can specify, view, or modify export settings for documents that were not recognized. Recognized documents are exported using the export setting specified in the respective Document Definition.

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Workflow tab

On the Workflow tab, you set up your workflows for the default batch type. For more information, see Workflow setup.

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Event Handlers tab

The Event Handlers tab lists the events that can be handled with a script. To create an event handler, select an event from the list and click the Edit Script button. In the Script Editor window that opens, write the script. For more information, see Event Handlers.

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User Roles tab

(Distributed) On the User Roles tab, you add and edit user roles, which define users’ permissions to access documents, batches, and tasks in various stages, including stages created from a custom stage tool.

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.NET References tab

On the .NET References tab, you add external assemblies to use in scripts and global modules. You can use both standard and compiled user assemblies. To add an assembly, click Add. In the dialog box that opens, select the type (Standard assembly name or Attached file), and then either enter the standard assembly name or browse to an assembly file. For more information, see External assemblies.

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Environment Variables tab

On the Environment Variables tab, you specify environment variables to use in rules, export settings, and scripts. For more information, see Environment variables.