Sakhr Arabic OCR User's Guide

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Sakhr Software Co.
www.sakhr.com
Integrates Omni Page OCR by ScanSoft
© 1994-2004 ScanSoft, Inc.

Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................... 1
What Is OCR?................................................................................................................................... 2
ARABIC Language: An OCR Perspective.................................................................................. 2
OCR Applications ....................................................................................................................... 3
Data Entry.............................................................................................................................. 3
Desktop Publishing................................................................................................................ 3
Automatic Indexing ............................................................................................................... 3
Main Features.................................................................................................................................... 4
High Accuracy & High speed................................................................................................ 4
Using Frames......................................................................................................................... 4
Saving Files ........................................................................................................................... 4
Using E-Mail ......................................................................................................................... 4
Image Auto Rotation.............................................................................................................. 4
Frames Layout ....................................................................................................................... 4
Multi-Tasking ........................................................................................................................ 5
Supporting New Scanners ..................................................................................................... 5
Working on Different Platforms............................................................................................ 5
Interface................................................................................................................................. 5
Detecting Images Automatically............................................................................................ 5
Recognizing Bilingual Images............................................................................................... 5
Recognizing Colored Images................................................................................................. 6
Automatic Wizard.................................................................................................................. 6
Non-Arabic Image Auto Rotation.......................................................................................... 6
Natural Language Processing (NLP)..................................................................................... 6
Multi Languages Support ...................................................................................................... 6
System Requirements........................................................................................................................ 8
Installation......................................................................................................................................... 8
Authorization Request ...................................................................................................................... 9
Initiating Your Authorization Manually...................................................................................... 9
Initiating Your Authorization Request by Electronic Purchase .................................................. 9
Applying Your New Authorization........................................................................................... 13
Using your new site key to unlock your protected software ..................................................... 14
Automatic Reader License Transfer................................................................................................ 15
Moving Automatic Reader License from One Computer to Another ....................................... 15
Option 1: using a shared folder............................................................................................ 15
Option 2: using a floppy disk............................................................................................... 17
Selecting Scanner System............................................................................................................... 19

Selecting Program's Options............................................................................................................21
Main Options .............................................................................................................................21
General.................................................................................................................................21
Framing ................................................................................................................................22
Recognition ..........................................................................................................................23
Engines.................................................................................................................................24
Corrector ..............................................................................................................................25
Output Page..........................................................................................................................26
Output HTML ......................................................................................................................27
Fonts.....................................................................................................................................28
Colors...................................................................................................................................29
General Options.........................................................................................................................30
Profile Configuration.......................................................................................................................31
Creating your Own Profile.........................................................................................................31
Selecting Predefined Item..........................................................................................................33
Scanning/Opening/Recognizing Image...........................................................................................34
Scanning Image/Multiple Images ..............................................................................................34
Scanning and Recognizing/Loading and Recognizing ..............................................................34
Opening Image File ...................................................................................................................34
Deleting Image Frames Margins..........................................................................................35
Opening Multiple Images Files..................................................................................................35
Editing the Resulted Text File.........................................................................................................37
Dealing With Unrecognized Characters ....................................................................................37
Correcting Text..........................................................................................................................37
Editing Inside Text File .............................................................................................................38
Exporting Text File To Word Processor....................................................................................39
Saving Text File.........................................................................................................................39
Displaying Text Page Information .......................................................................................40
Printing File ...............................................................................................................................40
Learning Operation..........................................................................................................................41
Improving Recognition..............................................................................................................41
Modify..................................................................................................................................41
View.....................................................................................................................................41
New Library .........................................................................................................................42
New Font..............................................................................................................................42
Learning Unrecognized Word or Character...............................................................................42
Learning New Font....................................................................................................................43
Batch Operations .............................................................................................................................46
Types of Batch operations .........................................................................................................46
Scan and Recognize .............................................................................................................46

Multiple Scan....................................................................................................................... 46
Load and Recognize ............................................................................................................ 46
Running the Program from other Applications (Available only in Platinum Edition).................... 47
Sending Mail................................................................................................................................... 48
Supported Scanners......................................................................................................................... 48
Unique Features .............................................................................................................................. 49
Tables and Page Layout ............................................................................................................ 49
Marking Images......................................................................................................................... 50
Converting to Inclusion Frame/to Image Frame........................................................................ 51
Diacritics ................................................................................................................................... 51
Stuck Characters........................................................................................................................ 53
Broken Words ........................................................................................................................... 53
Low Image Quality.................................................................................................................... 54
Selecting Resulted Text Style.................................................................................................... 54
Correcting.................................................................................................................................. 54
Using Arabic Linguistic Rules ..................................................................................................54
Recognizing Bilingual Images .................................................................................................. 55
How To ........................................................................................................................................... 56
Select Unrecognized Characters.......................................................................................... 56
View Image.......................................................................................................................... 56
Display Page Scale .............................................................................................................. 56
Detect Font Type ................................................................................................................. 56
Select the Appropriate Font for a New File......................................................................... 57
Improve Recognition Results............................................................................................... 58
Learn Files Containing Diacritics........................................................................................ 58
Improve Program's Progress................................................................................................ 59
Learn Diacritics with Characters ......................................................................................... 59
Select Default Frame ........................................................................................................... 60
Display Type of Loaded Recognition Engine...................................................................... 60
Select Scanner System......................................................................................................... 60
Recognize Arabic Numbers in Arabic Files ........................................................................ 60
Show/Hide Toolbar and Status Bar ..................................................................................... 61
Program's Glossary ......................................................................................................................... 63
Trouble Shooting ............................................................................................................................ 69
Integrating with other Programs (Available only in Platinum Edition) .......................................... 70

Automatic Reader 1
Introduction
Sakhr has worked hard to give its new Automatic Reader version with new
features that combine the ease of use with high precision. This manual
accompanies the user step by step, beginning with installing the program,
running it, scanning an image till saving it as a text file. Moreover, it displays
the program's main features and terms, and contains trouble shooting section
that answers some questions or troubles that may face the user.

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What Is OCR?
A simple idea about OCR can be shown by comparing scanned images
versus electronic text. Scanned images are obtained through scanners which
are much like copy machines. Scanners translate the scanned page into a grid
or a map of millions of dots. The scanner wizard assigns a value for the dot
which is known as "bit" in computers. For black and white scanners, the value
will be either "0" representing the empty dots, or "1" representing the full dots.
The number of dots forming the page map depends on the so called scanner
resolution. This map of dots looks like photographs. Any modification
depends only on the dot level, where you can change colors.
Text characters are assigned Identity codes, which are commonly known as ASCII
codes. Different code sets can be assigned to characters and are referred to as Code
pages. All word processors, spread sheets, databases, and other Text processing
systems, basically manipulate these text codes. Modification in text files is thus
possible on the character level rather than on the dot level as in images.
OCR is thus the process of converting the bitmap of a scanned page
containing text to text codes (ASCII). At a first novice glance, the OCR
process might seem simple, when compared to human reading. In computer
domain, however, OCR is a sophisticated heavy application.
ARABIC Language: An OCR Perspective
The big difference between the nature of Arabic printed text and, English or
other languages has a direct impact on the OCR process. The main technical
challenge faced is cursiveness of Arabic text, this is a fact since
concatenation of isolated Arabic characters is unacceptable, and is not a
normal way of Arabic writing. Therefore, the major problem that has to be
resolved is the segmentation of words into characters. The concern in English
OCR is rather different, where the recognition of characters for different
fonts and sizes occupies the major focus.
Other difficulties occur in many fonts in Arabic. Characters OVERLAP on
top of each other, either in one solid form or overhanging form. In addition,
characters may vary their shapes depending on their position within the
word, which implies a larger pattern classes to be recognized relating to
English and other languages.
It is important to point out that there are some Arabic characters, which are
highly ambiguous in shape, particularly when OMNI font is considered.
Typical examples are some middle shape characters of "‫,"ﺹ‬ "‫,"ﻡ‬ "‫."ﻉ‬ There is a
considerable confusion among these characters in different fonts. Arabic
human reading, however, relies on language experience for disambiguation
among these characters.

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OCR Applications
Data Entry
The major bottleneck in many large scale business applications nowadays, is
how to get data embedded in documents INSIDE the machine. This requires
data to be keyed in; and key entry was (and still is) an expensive, repetitive,
time consuming process for large amounts of text. Also recent results of
ergonomic research has shown that excessive keyboarding caused some
physical problems for the data entry person. OCR can provide a reasonable
practical solution, and can be used to generate full text data banks.
Desktop Publishing
Extracting text from input documents, which can later be exported to another
documents, after being OCRed. The recognized text can then be published
within different environments.
Automatic Indexing
There is a growing need for efficient automatic indexing of incoming
documents. Indexing actually defines a link between the images stored, and
the information those images contain. Typically, the operator of an input
station feeds documents into the scanner and then types in a logical index.
The OCR process when focused on a certain zone can do this task, with
minimal human intervention.

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Main Features
High Accuracy & High speed
The Automatic Reader is distinguished with an accuracy of 99% in medium
quality documents approaching 99.8% with learning taking not more than 10
minutes. As for low quality documents, the program gives an accuracy of
about 98% rising up to 99% after learning.
Moreover, the Automatic Reader accurately recognizes the diacritics and has
a recognition speed of 400 character/second.
The recognition speed and accuracy have increased in English images and for
the other European languages, due to ScanSoft version.
Using Frames
The program is flexible in dealing with frames so that you can include,
exclude or assign separations points for the frame. Also, you can use a very
easy way to set the frames sequences.
Saving Files
You can save the output files resulting from the characters recognition
process in HTML and Unicode formats.
Using E-Mail
Using the Electronic Mail Guide, you can send your output text files through
E-Mails programs.
Image Auto Rotation
If there was an error in the image position in the scanner during the batch
recognition process, the Automatic Reader rotates the image to be in the
proper position.
Frames Layout
Text Boxes
Using text boxes, you can recognize the text which is placed only inside
rectangles.

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Formed Tables
Using formed tables, the program will recognize the text only in tables that
include cells of different sizes, for example, merged cells and columns.
Non-Rectangular Shapes
Using non-rectangular shapes, the text size, inside any frame with any shape
but a rectangular one, will be precisely set even if it interferes with the image
or the table.
Multi-Tasking
The Automatic Reader is a multi-tasking program. You can simultaneously
perform more than one operation, the matter which will save your time in
executing different tasks. For example, you can open, edit and modify an
output text when running the batch recognition.
Supporting New Scanners
The program supports a large number of scanners to cover all the users needs.
Working on Different Platforms
You can run the Automatic Reader under Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP.
Interface
• Easy to use
• Having a floating toolbar
• While right-clicking on the image and text windows, a menu appears
listing the most important commands for the image and the text, in order
to make it easy to use.
Detecting Images Automatically
The program automatically detects images in the file and shows them in the
output text.
Recognizing Bilingual Images
The Automatic Reader can recognize bilingual image files (Arabic/English,
Farsi/English and Arabic/French), even if both languages were in one page.

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Recognizing Colored Images
The Automatic Reader can recognize colored images, not only the Arabic
ones, but supports in the same way the English images and the other
European languages.
Automatic Wizard
The program guides you step by step, starting from scanning or loading the
image till saving it as a text file. This is done via the automatic wizard that
you can run by clicking its icon from the main toolbar, or by selecting the
"Automatic Wizard" command from the "Tools" menu.
Non-Arabic Image Auto Rotation
The program enables you to automatically rotate the image during the batch
operation to place it properly. This is applied to English images and the other
European languages.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
This is an integrated technology with OCR and works after the page
recognition. It has the following features:
• Recognizing the words the The Automatic Reader couldn't recognize
correctly and correcting them, hence improving overall recognition
accuracy.
• Based on Sakhr linguistic advanced technologies such as the
Morphological Analyzer, Morphological Synthesizer, Arabic Language
Model and many others.
• Constantly improving recognition accuracy across future OCR versions,
as this is the first one, and it's planned to release subsequent versions with
enhanced accuracy.
Multi Languages Support
The Automatic Reader supports a large number of languages. It can
recognize them via its many recognition tools.
In addition to Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto (Afghanistan) and Jawi, the
program supports 17 European languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish,
French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish,
Hungarian, Greek, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Czech.

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Note
Regarding Farsi, Urdu, Pashto and Jawi, the program works with a special
protection for these add-on languages. Contact Sakhr Co. for these
languages license.
Moreover, the Automatic Reader new version supports the Indonesian
language.
Note
In addition to recognition tools, the Automatic Reader contains 26 Arabic
font libraries.

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System Requirements
• 100% IBM Compatible PC
• Pentium 4 processor or higher
• 128 MB RAM
• CD ROM Driver
• Scanner System (Optional)
• Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP.
• 350 MB space on the hard disk
Installation
1- Insert the CD in the driver.
2- Select the "Run" command from the "Start" menu.
3- Type D:Setup, supposing that the name of the CD-Drive is "D".
4- Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.

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Authorization Request
You can authenticate your product whether by Electronic Purchase or
manually.
Click the program icon. The "Automatic Reader Authorization" will appear,
showing your site code.
Initiating Your Authorization Manually
To get the product authorization manually, do as follows:
1- Copy the site code from the "Site Code" field.
2- You can get the Site key whether by sending the Site Code and the serial
number (found at the front cover of the user's guide) by e-mail to
(support@sakhr.com) or by calling the company on (202)2749929, or by
sending a fax to (202)2740044.
3- Once you get the Site Key, type it in the "Site Key" text box then click
the "Validate" button.
Initiating Your Authorization Request by Electronic Purchase
You will use a serial number to apply for authorization, and you can send
your authorization request by either Internet message or email message.
1- Click the "Electronic Purchase" button to display the dialog box entitled
"Welcome".

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2- Click "Next" to display the following dialog box to type the serial
number. If you don’t have one, you can get it from Sakhr Software
Company before continuing.
3- Once you have finished, click "Next". The following dialog box will
appear.
4- The above dialog box contains personal information fields, many of
which you must fill in, in order to advance to the next one. Type values
into the fields in the above window, then click "Next".

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5- The "Verify Email Address" dialog box appears as shown below when
you complete the procedures.
6- It contains the email address you specified in the personal information
dialog box.
• If the address is incorrect, click "No". The "Verify Email Address"
dialog box will disappear, and you will be able to re-input the fields
whichever applies.
• If the address is correct, click "Yes" to display either:
• A dialog box initiating an Internet message, or
• A dialog box initiating an email message
The Wizard uses Sakhr configuration of your protected software to
determine which dialog box is displayed.
7- While sending your authorization request by Internet message, Sakhr
configures your software license for Internet connection. The following
dialog box appears automatically.
8- While this dialog box remains onscreen, the system displays a dialup
window where you enter the necessary Internet connection information
(the appearance of this dialog box depends on your installation). After
you log onto the Internet successfully, your Internet authorization-request

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message will be sent, and a dialog box appears where you click "Finish"
to continue.
9- If the Internet connection fails or if you click "Cancel" while the above
dialog box is displayed, the following error message appears.
10-Click "OK" to display the following dialog box.
11-While sending your authorization request by Email, Sakhr configures
your software license for email communication. A dialog box appears
telling you that the Wizard will now attempt to send your authorization
request.
Note
You can send your authorization-request email automatically or
manually. The automatic method is the default.
12-To send the request email automatically, click "Next" in the dialog box
mentioned in No. 11. The system attempts to send the license-request
email.

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13-If an error occurs in the transmission, the following message appears
14-Click "OK" to launch the manual email function (see No. 12). If the
automatic email transmits normally, a dialog box will appear where the
"Status" field will continue to update until the connection is complete.
15-When the connection is completed, the Wizard displays a dialog box
where you click "Finish" to end the authorization-request process and
close the Wizard.
16-To send the request email manually, click the "Manually send email"
checkbox in the dialog box mentioned in no 12. Series of dialog boxes
appear. Each of which is self-explanatory and contains instructions for
completing a portion of your email message.
17-Click "Finish" to end the authorization-request process and close the
Wizard.
Applying Your New Authorization
If your authorization request was sent in an Internet message, Sakhr server
processes your request and — if the transaction was successful — sends your
site key directly to the Wizard on your computer. This usually takes less than
15 seconds. While you will not see the message containing the site key, the
Wizard will display a message in the licensing window, indicating that you
are now authorized to use the protected software.
If your authorization request was sent in an email message, Sakhr server
processes your authorization request and - if the transaction was successful -
sends you a return email containing your site key. You can then apply the site
key to the protected software on your computer.
If the server encounters an error while processing your request, the server's
response will depend on whether your request was sent via Internet message
or email message:

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• Internet message request: the server sends an error message, rather than a
site key, directly to the Wizard. The Wizard will display a message in the
licensing window, indicating that you are not authorized to use the
protected software. At this point, you will need to re-initiate your
authorization request.
• Email message request: the server sends an email to you, containing an
error message.
Using your new site key to unlock your protected software
To use your new site key (received by email) to unlock your protected
software, do as follows:
1- Click the program icon. The "Automatic Reader 7.1 Authorization"
dialog box appears.
2- In the "Site Key" text box, type (or paste) the site key you received by
email.
3- Click "Validate". The existing restrictions are removed from your
software and replaced by a new set of restrictions, defined by Sakhr in the
site key.
4- You can now use the software.
Note
You should keep these 5 license files names found on the application
directory to use them while re-installing OCR. You should also re-install at
the same application directory.
• ARABOCR.41s
• ARABOCR.ckn
• ARABOCR.ent
• ARABOCR.key
• ARABOCR.rst

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Automatic Reader License Transfer
Moving Automatic Reader License from One Computer to Another
If both computers are connected to a LAN or network, you can use a shared
folder as in Option1; otherwise you will need to use a floppy disk as in
Option 2.
Option 1: using a shared folder
1- Copy the "MTLicense" folder from the source machine to the destination
machine.
MTLicense is the default folder that contains the license files.
Its location is:
<PROGRAM FILES>CommonFilessakhrMTLicense
i.e. C:program filescommon filessakhrMTLicense
You can get the license folder from the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARESakhrCommonPath
2- Run the "setupex.exe" file on the destination machine.
3- Create a shared folder in the destination machine (with read/write
access).
4- Run the "SakhrSitekey.exe" file on the destination machine.
"SakhrSitekey.exe" is located in the "Utility" folder on CD.

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5- Click the "Transfer" button (on destination machine) to display
the "Transfer License In (Step 1 of 3) dialog box.
6- You will be asked for the location where the transfer will occur; you
will specify the shared folder.
7- Then you will be asked to remove the floppy disk from destination
machine and insert it in the source machine, just Ignore it (do not close
the wizard on the destination machine)
8- Copy the "SakhrSitekey.exe" file located in the "Utility" folder on CD to
the Automatic Reader setup folder on the source machine, and then run
the file.

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9- Click the "Transfer" button (on the source machine) to display the
"Transfer License Out (Step 1 of 2) dialog box.
10-You will be asked to insert the transfer floppy disk; you will specify the
shared folder.
11-Continue so that the license files will be copied to the shared folder.
12-After the license files have been successfully copied to the shared folder,
Click "Next" on destination machine to continue the wizard.
13-The license will be transferred to the destination machine, and removed
from source machine.
Option 2: using a floppy disk
1- Copy the "MTLicense" folder from the source machine to the destination
machine.
2- Run the "setupex.exe" file on the destination machine.
3- Insert a floppy disk in the destination machine.
4- Run the "SakhrSitekey.exe" file on the destination machine.
"SakhrSitekey.exe" is located in the "Utility" folder.
5- Click the "Transfer" button (on destination machine) to display the
license transfer wizard dialog.
6- You will be asked for the location where the transfer will occur; you
will choose the floppy disk.
7- Then you will be asked to remove the floppy disk from destination
machine and insert it in the source machine (do not close the wizard on
the destination machine)

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8- Copy the "SakhrSitekey.exe" file located in the "Utility" folder on CD to
the Automatic Reader setup folder on the source machine, and then run
the file.
9- Click the "Transfer" button (on the source machine) to display the
license transfer wizard dialog.
10-Continue so that the license files will be copied to the floppy disk.
11-After the license files have been successfully copied on the floppy disk,
take the floppy disk back to the destination machine.
12-Click next on destination machine to continue the wizard.
13-The license will be transferred to the destination machine, and removed
from source machine.

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Selecting Scanner System
Before you begin recognition, you must first select the scanner system. To
add the scanner you want to use, click the "Choose Scanner Driver" icon to
be able to select the scanner driver you want to use.
Note
• To be able to run the scanner driver installation program, you should
first insert the scanner driver CD in the CD Driver.
• If you don’t find the scanner driver you want, the scanning system will
be selected from inside the program; whether Kofax or Twain.
) To select the scanner system, do as follows:
Select the "Select Scanner" command from the "File" menu. The "Select
Scanner System" dialog box appears.
No Scanner If there is no scanner loaded.
Scanner Drivers When you choose this command, the "Loading Driver
Names" dialog box appears to load the scanner
drivers.
The "Scanner Selection" dialog box appears
afterwards displaying the different scanners you
selected using the "Choose Scanner Driver" function
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TWAIN or KOFAX When selecting one of these commands, the "Select
Scanner" dialog box appears, displaying the available
and compatible scanners to the selected system.
Select To choose and run the selected scanner and close the
dialog box.
Cancel To cancel the settings and close the dialog box.

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Selecting Program's Options
Setting the program options means to select the appropriate options, such as:
selecting the average noise size, setting the recognition options, selecting the
symbol for the unrecognized character, detecting the image quality, selecting
whether to ignore or recognize the cashida, finding tables, using one line,
displaying layout page, using Arabic linguistics rules and selecting the
diacritics options.
Main Options
To select the program's options, select the "Options" command from the
"Tools" menu to display the "Options" dialog box containing the following
tabs:
General
Use the "General" tab to set the program's general options.
Display "LayOut" Window To display the layout of each image file
inside an appropriate window on opening
image file.
Display Color Images To display colored images as they are.
Fix Loaded Images To fix the loaded images before recognition.
Fix Scanned Images To fix the scanned images before recognition.

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Auto Rotate Loaded Images To fix the images rotation automatically
when being loaded.
Auto Rotate Scanned Images To fix the scanned images rotation
automatically.
Set Default To retrieve the default settings.
Framing
Use the "Framing" tab to set the Frames' options.
Find Tables In Auto Framing To find the tables and include them inside
"Mark Inclusions", if the image file
contains tables.
Default Frame To specify the default frame file whether by
typing the path in the text box, or by
clicking the browse button to display the
"Select Default Frames File" dialog box
and select the required file.

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Recognition
Use the "Recognition" tab to set the Recognition options.
None If the document doesn't contain diacritics.
Skip To skip recognizing the diacritics in the
document.
Recognize To recognize the diacritics in the document.
Average Noise Size (pixels) To select the accepted average noise size.
Automatic Style Detection To automatically detect the Arabic style,
whether normal or bold .
Use Arabic Linguistics Rules To use Arabic linguistics rules while
recognition.
Document has broken words To handle the printing defects resulted from
the spaces between the word's characters.
Neglect Cashida To neglect the cashida while recognition.
Low Image Quality To detect the image quality to be taken into
consideration while recognition.
Remove Underline To remove the underlines from the text.
Use NLP support It is the short for Natural Language
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that deals with analyzing, understanding and
generating the languages that humans use
naturally in order to interface with computers
in both written and spoken contexts using
natural human languages instead of computer
languages.
Failure Character To select a symbol for the unrecognized
character.
Engines
Selecting the engines is one of the most important steps before starting
recognition. Use the "Engines" tab to load the required OMNI engines before
starting the image recognition.
1- From the "Current OMNI Engine" drop-down list, select the required
engine. In case you select Arabic or Farsi OMNI engines, select the font
type: Naskh or Kofi.
2- When selecting the required engine, click the "OK" button.

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) To add fonts to OMNI engines, do as follows:
1- Click the browse button to display the following dialog box:
2- Select the font you want to add, and then click "Add".
The added font appears in the selected engines list.
Corrector
Use the "Corrector" tab to select the corrector options you want to use in the
program.
Language Type To select the language type, whether modern or
modern and classic.

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Characteristics To select the required characteristics: ignoring the
dotted YAA, showing diacritics or ignoring the
HAMZA at the beginning.
Auto Suggestion To enable or disable the automatic suggestion of
correct words.
Maximum Suggestions To specify the maximum number of suggestions;
the maximum is 63.
Output Page
Use the "Output Page" tab to select the output page options, in case of using
any of the "Export" or "Save" commands to save the page as text file *.RTF
and modify the page layout to fit the program to which the page is exported.
Page Size To select the page size whether automatic or
custom or standard.
Automatic To automatically resize the page.
Custom To resize the page with the appropriate size.
Width in cm To select the page width in cm.
Height in cm To select the page height in cm.

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Standard To select the page size according to the standard
size used in all pages.
Portrait To select the page direction to be portrait.
Landscape To select the page direction to be landscape.
Layout type To display the options of the resulted *.RTF files
only.
None To display the text file without a layout.
Logical To analyze the text design and sequence, translate
it into columns and segments and justify the spaces
between the segments.
Visual To create a page layout using the frames, put them
in their places in accordance with the page without
analyzing the text sequence.
Include Images To display the images, if the recognized file contains
in Output Page images.
Set Default To retrieve default settings.
Output HTML
Save Images To save images in a non-recognized image file.
Image File Format To select the format you want.

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Where to save Images? To select the image files location.
The same path To save files in the same HTML file path.
of HTML file
Use another path To select another path to save the file.
Relative to To select the path for saving image files when
saving HTML files, either with reference to
HTML files, or with alias, or to the web root.
Fonts
Use the "Fonts" tab to select the way of displaying the available OMNI
engines as you can not select the recognized font to be either normal or bold.
Available OMNI Engines To select the required engine.
Windows Font Mapping To select the windows font.
OMNI Engine description To display a description for the selected OMNI
Engine.
Display Text in One Font To display in one font the text that contains
many fonts.

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Colors
Use the "Colors" tab to select the colors you want to use in the program.
Recognized To select a color for the recognized text.
Added To select a color for the manually added text.
Failure To select a color for the failure characters.
Changed To select a color for the text that has been changed
by the Corrector, Find and Replace options.
Unlearned To select a color for the unlearnt characters, in the
"Learn font or font library" dialog box.
Partially Learned To select a color for the partially learnt characters,
in the "Learn font or font library" dialog box.
Fully Learned To select a color for the fully learnt characters (in
its different statuses), in the "Learn font or font
library" dialog box.

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General Options
The program enables you also to set other general options in terms of the
directories containing the different files and the program interface language.
Select the "General Options" command from the "Tools" menu to display a
dialog box with the same name.
The dialog box contains two sections: Directories and Interface Language.
Select the font, image and text directory, and then select the program
interface language (Arabic/English).

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Profile Configuration
After being introduced to how to set the program options, now let's deal with
another feature related to this subject. The Automatic Reader enables you to
create your own profile. In other terms, you can configure some of the
program options to create a customized. The program offers you also the
ability to add more than one profile, each one includes different customized
options.
In addition to configuring your own profile, the program offers you 7
predefined profiles, including 1 Default with set options. All you have to do
is to select the profile that best suits your needs.
Creating your Own Profile
As we previously mentioned, you can configure your profiles in case you
want to scan other types of papers or you want to set options other than set
by the program, etc… You'll be able then to set some of the program options
for each added profile, rename or remove it or update its options.
) To create your own profile, do as follows:
1- From the "Tools" menu, click the "Profiles Customization" command to
display a dialog box with the same name.

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2- Type the new profile name in the "Profile Name" text box and click the
"Add" button.
3- Click the "Options" button to select the profile settings in terms of output
page, output HTML, fonts, colors, general options, framing, recognition
and engines. For more information on how to set these options, refer to
the previous topic (Selecting the Program's Options).
4- To save the new added profile, click the "Export" button to open the
"Save As" dialog box. The profile will take the .opt extension.
Note
You can select more than one created profile and export them to be
saved in one file.
5- To open a created profile, click the "Import" button to display the "Open"
dialog box. Select the file and click "Open".
6- You can set the new profile as the default one to be used when launching
the program. To do this, select the desired profile and then select the "Set
selection as default" check box.
Note
The profiles drop-down list appears at the end of the Automatic Reader
toolbar.
7- You can copy a predefined profile and change the options. To take a
copy, select the profile and click "Add".
8- The copy appears at the end of the list with the same name accompanied
with an underscore. You can rename it in the text box.
9- If you want to delete your created profile, select it and click the
"Remove" button.
10-when finished, click "OK".
Note
The program doesn't support more than 100 entries.

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Selecting Predefined Item
The coming lines show you how to deal with the predefined profiles.
) To select a predefined profile, do as follows:
1- In the "Profiles Customization" dialog box, you find the list of profiles
that are set by the program; each one has got its special predefined
options.
2- Select from the list the profile you want to apply and then click the "OK"
button.
Note
You can view the predefined options of the selected profile by clicking the
"Options" button.

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Scanning/Opening/Recognizing Image
After setting the program's options and selecting the OMNI engine, you have to
scan an image or open an image file to be recognized and converted into text file.
Scanning Image/Multiple Images
You can scan an image or multiple images and save it/them automatically in
an image file to be recognized later.
) To perform this, do as follows:
Select the "Scan Image"/"Scan Multiple" commands from the "File" menu,
and then follow the steps that appear on the screen.
Scanning and Recognizing/Loading and Recognizing
You can scan and recognize the image automatically, in addition to loading
and recognizing number of image files.
Select the "Scan and Recognize"/"Load and Recognize" commands from the
"Recognize" menu, and then follow the steps that appear on the screen.
Opening Image File
The Automatic Reader enables you to open an image file so as to recognize
the image and convert it into text file.
1- Select the "Open" command from the "File" menu to display the "Open a
File" dialog box.

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• The Automatic Reader provides the following image file formats that
you can select from the "Files of type" drop-down list: *.TIF, *.BMP,
*.DCX, *.GIF, *.PDA, *.PNG, *.XIF, *.PDF, *.SIM, *.ART.
• The "Default Dir" button enables you to return to the program's
default directory, in case of changing the directories selected in the
"General Options" dialog box that you access from the "Tools" menu.
• The "Info" button displays information about the selected image file in
terms of the name, width, height, number of colors used in the file,
size, image size (if the file contains images), format and number of
pages in the file.
2- Select the file you want to open. Notice that you can open an image file
with different formats.
Note
To edit a text file from the program, save the recognized image file in
*.ART format.
Deleting Image Frames Margins
If you want to delete the image frames margins at any direction, right-click
on the image and select, from the context menu, the "Clear Frame Margin"
command to display a dialog box with the same name.
Type the number of pixels you want to decrease from the frame, and then
click the "OK" button.
Opening Multiple Images Files
The user can open multiple images simultaneously via an option called ''Thumbnail
Bar" that displays the unrecognized selected images at the same time.

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1- From the "View" menu, select the "Thumbnail Bar" command to display
the list of images at the left pane of the window.
2- Select "Open" from the ''File'' menu. The "Open a File" dialog box appears.
3- Select the group of images files you want to open.
4- Click the image you want to recognize its characters, and then click
from the main toolbar or click the "Start" command from the "Recognize"
menu.
5- The right pane will be divided into two windows. The upper one displays
the unrecognized image, while the lower one displays the output text.
6- If you want to add a new one, right-click on any place in the left window
then select the "Add new" command from the context menu.
7- To delete an image, right-click on it then choose "Clear" from the context
menu.
8- If you want to delete all the images, right-click on any one then choose
"Clear all" from the context menu.
Note
The lower window displays respectively the output texts, separated by
page breaks.

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Editing the Resulted Text File
After recognizing the image file and converting it into a text file, you can
modify its contents. Open the Automatic Reader text file by selecting the
"Open" command from the "File" menu. Select the Automatic Reader text
files from the "Files of type" list. The modifications include: undo/redo, find
unrecognized characters, find, replace, cut, copy, paste and delete text,
correct the text content, etc. Moreover, you can display a recognized word in
the text window in its original status in the image window.
Dealing With Unrecognized Characters
You can find the unrecognized characters in the text file by:
• Moving to the next unrecognized character (from the cursor's position) by
selecting the "Next Failure" command from the "Edit" menu.
• Moving to the previous unrecognized character (from the cursor's
position) by selecting the "Prev Failure" command from the "Edit" menu.
Correcting Text
The Automatic Reader contains a bilingual corrector (Arabic/English). You
can correct the text starting from the cursor's position till the end of text.
Note
Before using the corrector, you have to select its options. (Refer to:
Selecting the Program's Options/Main Options/Corrector).
To activate the corrector, select the "Corrector" command from the "Tools"
menu. A dialog box with the same name appears and displays the following
sections and buttons.
Not in Dictionary To display the wrong word.

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Change To To write the correct word or select one of the words the
program suggests.
Ignore To ignore the word displayed in the "Change To" text box
and to proceed in correcting.
Ignore All To ignore the word displayed in "Change To" text box
and all its repetitions in the document.
Change To replace the wrong word by the word displayed in
"Change To" text box.
Change All To replace the wrong word's repetitions by the word
displayed in the "Change To" text box.
Suggest To display the Corrector's suggestions to correct the
wrong word.
Learn To learn the selected word. When finished learning, you
return to the "Corrector" dialog box.
Editing Inside Text File
You can manually add a text inside the text file, in addition to selecting a
specific font to use in the text file.
1- Select the "Select Font" command from the "Edit" menu.
2- The "Select Editing Font" dialog box appears enabling you to select the
required font.
Note
This option will not be active if you select the "Display Text in One
Font" check box in the "Fonts" tab located in the "Options" dialog box.

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Exporting Text File To Word Processor
You can export a text file to any of the word processors that the program
supports, which are: Microsoft Word and the Internet publishing program
(NasherNet).
1- Select the "Export" command from the "File" menu.
2- Select the available word processor you want to export the text to.
Saving Text File
1- Select the "Save As" command from the "File" menu to display the "Save
Text As File" dialog box.
2- Select the location of saving the text.
3- From the "Files of type" drop-down list, select the format you want to
save the text file in. The program supports many text file formats which
are:
• Automatic Reader Text Files (Text File *.ART)
• Text File *.TXT DOS
• Text File *.TXT DTP
• Text File *.RTF
• HTML Files.
4- Select the appropriate code menu from the "Code Page" drop-down list.

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Displaying Text Page Information
While you are on the text file, you can display its image file name. Besides,
you can display the font library name and location, recognition engine used
in recognizing the file in addition to the recognized image name and location.
) To display the text page information, do as follows:
1- Select the "Text Page Info" command from the "View" menu.
2- A dialog box with the same name appears.
Printing File
The program enables you to print the current opened text file via the "Print"
command that you select from the "File" menu. Moreover, you can select the
printer, printing range and quality and the number of copies. Besides, the
"Properties" button helps you select the printer's properties.

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Learning Operation
Improving Recognition
Some image file characters may not be recognized, or are not recognized
correctly.
) In this case do as follows:
1- From the "Recognize" menu, select the "Learn" then the "Improve"
commands. The "Add Font" dialog box appears in case you didn't load
any font before.
2- Click the "Font Manager" button to display four buttons: Modify, View,
New Library and New Font.
Modify
You can modify the existing font as follows:
1- Click the "Modify" button to display a dialog box containing the selected
font or library file properties and data. You can modify the same font size
or style (if the font is AFN), or you can add a new font for the same
library in case of selecting the font library file (AFL files).
2- Click the "Save" button to save the font or library file modifications with
the same name, or click the "Save As" one to save it in a new file.
View
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New Library
Use this feature to create a new font library.
1- When clicking this button, the "New Font Library" dialog box appears
enabling you to create a new font library and select its properties in terms
of fonts names, sizes and styles.
2- Select the font you want to include in the library.
3- Click the "Add" button.
4- Type the font library description.
5- Click the "Save As" button to save the font library with a new name.
New Font
1- When you click the "New Font" button, the "Create New Font File"
dialog box appears.
2- Select the closest font to the one you want to create a file for. This
selected font properties appear in terms of the language type, style and
size in addition to the font sample.
3- Select the font type, style and size.
4- Type the font's name and description.
5- Click the "Save As" command to save the font file with a new name.
Note
The created font will be added to the OMNI engines.
Learning Unrecognized Word or Character
When you want to learn a new unrecognized word or character, select the
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from the "Recognize" menu. The "Learn font or font library" dialog box
appears (Refer to: Learning New Font), but it will not display the characters
pallet. The cursor will stop over the unrecognized character or word and you
will have to type the character you want to learn using the keyboard.
Learning New Font
You can learn new font library if there was not a font file that fits the image
file you want to recognize.
) To learn new font (Full Learning), do as follows:
Note
Before learning new font, you have first to select or create a new font.
1- Select the "Font Manager" command from the "Tools" menu.
2- Select the font file or create a new font.
3- After selecting or creating the font, you have to add it in the "Engines"
tab located in the "Options" dialog box.
4- Click the browse button to display a list of the font file names. Select the
font you selected from the "Font Manager", and then click the "Add"
button.
5- Click the "OK" button in the "Engines" tab.
) To learn a new font, do as follows:
1- From the "Recognize" menu, select "Learn" then "Full".
2- The "Learn font or font library" dialog box appears displaying the
following:
Character To display, or type the character you want to learn, in
case of using the keyboard in the learning process.
Ligature To display the ligatures in the "Character" text box. The
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pressing the "Ctrl" key and double-clicking the required
character (in the pallet displayed in the dialog box) using
the mouse.
Start To start the learning process. When clicking this button, it
changes to "Stop" to be used to stop the learning process.
Accept To accept the character that the program recognizes in case of
learning the character before. When you type a new character,
this button changes to "Learn" to learn this character. When
you stop learning, the button changes to "View" to display the
learnt characters samples.
To select the Fast Learn mode which is used to learn the
characters in the fonts file that were learnt before.
To select the Step by Step mode which is usually used to
learn new fonts.
Save To save the learnt fonts.
To return to the previous segment.
To move to the next segment.
To return to the previous line.
To move to the next line.
To return to the previous frame.
To move to the next frame.
To extend the box range which contains the character under
learning or recognition process in the image file. When you
click it, the box range extends to contain the next character.
To decrease the box range which contains the character
under learning or recognition process in the image file.
When you click on it, the box range decreases to contain
the previous character.
To extend the box range which contains the learnt or
recognized part in the image file. When you click it, the
box range extends to the last character of the part.

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To decrease the box range which contains the learnt or
recognized part in the image file. When you click it, the
box range decreases to the first character in the part.
To extend the box range that contains the cashida to be
extended to the right side.
To decrease the box range that contains the cashida to be
extended to the left side.
To decrease the box range that contains the cashida to be
decreased to the right side.
To extend the box range that contains the cashida to be
decreased to the left side.
You can move between different characters' pages using Alt + 1,2, or by
clicking on them.
Important Tips while Learning:
• In the Step by Step learn mode, the system will stop at each character in
the file to be learnt. Double-click the character that matches to the
character in the image file in the character's pallet.
• You can learn the character using the keyboard without the mouse, by
typing the required one in the "Character" text box located in the "Learn
font or font library" dialog box.
• The character will be correctly learnt according to its place in the word
whether at the beginning or at the middle or at the end of the word, or
even if it is separately located.
• When you're learning a ligature, you should type the ligature characters
or double-clicking them while pressing the "Ctrl" key.
• The program displays a window containing the different character's
statuses to check the selection of the appropriate character type and
location. You can display this window by double-clicking the character
while pressing the "Ctrl" key.
• When finished learning, click the "Save" button in the "Learn font or font
library" dialog box to save the learnt characters in the file used in the
learning process.

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Batch Operations
Batch operation means running more than one operation in one step.
Types of Batch operations
Scan and Recognize
Means scanning number of images and recognizing them automatically.
) To scan and recognize an image, do as follows:
1- Select the "Scan and Recognize" command from the "Recognize" menu.
2- Follow the steps that appear on the screen.
Multiple Scan
Means scanning a set of images and auto-saving them in image files to be
recognized later.
) To scan and auto-save multiple images, do as follows:
1- Select the "Multiple Scan" command from the "File" menu.
Load and Recognize
Means loading number of scanned image files and recognize them
automatically.
) To load and recognize an image file, do as follows:
1- Select the "Load and Recognize" command from the "Recognize" menu.

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Running the Program from other Applications
(Available only in Platinum Edition)
You can run the Automatic Reader from any other application on your
system.
) To run the Automatic Reader from an application, do as follows:
1- Open the application you want to run the Automatic Reader from.
2- Switch to the Automatic Reader, and then select the "Register
Applications" command from the "Tools" menu to display a dialog box
with the same name.
3- The opened application name appears in the "Unregistered Applications"
list.
4- Select the application, and then click the "Add" button to add the program
name in the "Registered Applications" list.
5- If you want to cancel your selection, select the application and click the
"Remove" button.
6- After selecting the required application, select the "Enable Aware" check
box, and then click "OK".
The Automatic Reader command appears then at the bottom of the "File"
menu in the selected application. By selecting this command, the automatic
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Sending Mail
After finishing the recognition operation, you can email the output text, by
using the "Send" command from the "File" menu. The "Send Mail Wizard"
dialog box appears displaying the following:
Attach To attach the text with the mail.
Mail contents To make the current text the mail without adding
another items.
If you select the "Attach" radio button, the following screen appears:
File Type To select the attached file type.
Code Page To select the attached file code page.
Supported Scanners
In addition to many scanners via TWAIN and KOFAX, the program supports
a large number of scanners.

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Unique Features
This section will explain in details the Automatic Reader unique features.
Tables and Page Layout
The Automatic Reader enables you to save the tables with the same style in
the resulted text file.
1- Select the "Open" command from the "File" menu to open the image file
containing the tables.
2- Select the file name from the "Open a File" dialog box, and then click
"Open".
3- Select the "Options" command from the "Tools" menu to display the
"Options" dialog box.
4- Click the "Framing" tab, and then select the "Find Tables in Auto
Framing" check box.
5- Select the "Create Automatically" command from the "Frame" menu, to
include the parts that the program selects to be recognized.
6- Select the "Start" command from the "Recognize" menu to start the
recognition process.
7- After recognizing the image file and having a text file, select the
"Options" command from the "Tools" menu, and then click the "Output
Page" tab in the "Options" dialog box to display the different options of
the resulted page layout.
8- Select the "Automatic" radio button to select the page size automatically,
or select "Custom" to type your measures, or select "Standard" to select
the standard page size used in all pages.
9- Select the "Logical" radio button to analyze the table's design and
sequence in the page, translate it into columns and segments and justify
the spaces between the segments, or select "Visual" to let the program use
the frames to create the page design and locate them in their locations
according to the page without analyzing the text sequence.
You can include images in the output page from the recognition process.
10-From the "File" menu, select the "Export to MS Word" or "NasherNet"
commands, or select "Save As" from the "File" menu, and then select the
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You can select and recognize the table(s) in the image file only by doing as
follows:
1- From the "Frame" menu, select the "Mark Inclusions" command, and then
select the table or tables in the image.
2- Select the "Options" command from the "Tools" menu, and then click the
"Framing" tab from the "Options" dialog box.
3- Select the "Find Tables in Auto Framing" check box in the "Framing" tab.
4- Select the "Optimize Frames Sequence" command from the "Frame"
menu, and then follow the previous steps starting from No (6).
Marking Images
You can keep the image in the resulted text file through the "Mark Images"
command as the program automatically selects the image in the file.
) To save the image in the selected text manually, do as follows:
1- Select the "Open" command from the "File" menu to open the image file.
"Open".
3- Select the "Mark Images" command from the "Frame" menu.
4- Click wherever you want to start your frame, drag the mouse till you
complete the frame, and then release the mouse button.
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Note
Check the sequence of the frames.
6- Select the "Options" command from the "Tools" menu, and then click, in
the "Options" dialog box, the "Output Page" tab to select the output page
different options and the way of displaying the image in the resulted text.
7- Select the "Export to Word" command from the "File" menu, or select
"Save As" from the same menu, and then select the file format to be
Word *.RTF.
Converting to Inclusion Frame/to Image Frame
Use this toggle command to convert an Image frame into an Inclusion frame,
or vice versa.
) To do so, do as follows:
1- Select the "Open" command from the "File" menu to open the image file.
"Open".
3- Select "Create Automatically" from the "Frame" menu to include the parts
the program selects to be recognized.
4- Click on any part of the frame and then select:
• The "Convert to Image Frame" command from the "Frame" menu to
convert the Inclusion frame into Image one, or right-click on the
frame and select the same command.
• The "Convert to Inclusion Frame" command from the "Frame" menu
to convert the Image frame into Inclusion one, or right-click on the
frame and select the same command.
Note
The program recognizes automatically if the frame is of Inclusion or Image
type.
Diacritics
The image file may contain diacritics. You can recognize the diacritics with
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) To display diacritics, do as follows:
1- From the "File" menu, select the "Open" command to open the image file.
"Open".
3- From the "Tools" menu, select "Options" to display the "Options" dialog
box.
4- Click the "Recognition" tab. Select the "Recognize" radio button from the
"Diacritics Evaluation" section, and then click "OK".
Note
In case of learning an image file containing diacritics, select the "Skip"
radio button from the "Diacritics Evaluation" section to learn characters
without diacritics. If there were no diacritics in the image, select
"None" from the same section.

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Stuck Characters
The Automatic Reader can recognize image files that contain stuck
characters whether they are Arabic or English.
Broken Words
The Automatic Reader can recognize an image file containing broken words.
) To recognize broken words, do as follows:
1- Select the "Options" command from the "Tools" menu.
2- Click the "Recognition" tab.
3- In the "Recognition Options" section, select the "Document has Broken
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Low Image Quality
The program can recognize the low image quality.
) To recognize the low image quality, do as follows:
3- In the "Recognition Options" section, select the "Low Image Quality"
radio button.
Selecting Resulted Text Style
You can select the text style resulted, whether it is normal or bold.
) To select the text style resulted, do as follows:
3- In the "Recognition Options" section, select the "Automatic Style
Detection" radio button.
Correcting
The program contains a bilingual corrector (Arabic/ English) allowing you to
correct the resulted text file.
) To select the Corrector options do as follows:
2- Click the "Corrector" tab.
3- Select the Corrector's different options.
Using Arabic Linguistic Rules
You can benefit from Sakhr technologies and use Arabic linguistic rules
while recognizing an image file.
) To use Arabic linguistic rules do as follows:
3- In the "Recognition Options" section, select the "Use Arabic Linguistic
Rules" radio button.

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Recognizing Bilingual Images
The Automatic Reader can recognize bilingual image files (Arabic/English,
Farsi/English), even if both languages were in one page.
In addition, the program supports bilingual image files (Arabic/French).

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How To
This section gives answers for some questions you could ask while using the
program.
Select Unrecognized Characters
You can use the keyboard to select the unrecognized characters.
• To select next failure, press the "Ctrl" +"F3" keys.
• To select previous failure, press the "Alt" + "F3" keys.
View Image
The program links the text file resulted with the image automatically. You
can view the image that matches the text resulting from the recognition
process, even if the image file is closed, through the following:
• Select the "Get Image" command from the "Tools" menu.
• Press the "F12" key.
Display Page Scale
You can display the page scale in different views by selecting the required
option from the "Zoom" command that you select from the "View" menu.
• Displaying the normal size of the image by selecting 100%.
• Selecting another image scale.
• Letting the page's size fit the window's one by selecting the "Fit In
Window" option, or by clicking in the main toolbar.
• Maximizing or minimizing the image view by pressing (+) or (-)
respectively.
Detect Font Type
) To detect the font type, follow the next steps:
1- Select "Detect Font Type" from the "Recognize" menu.
2- The font type detection process will detect the font type matching the font
you want to recognize, either Naskh or Kofi.
3- A message appears informing you that either the Kofi or Naskh font type
was detected.
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Select the Appropriate Font for a New File
In some cases, the font file may be unknown to the user, or the font is not
available in the recognition engines. In this case, you will need to use the
"Detect Font" command, so that the program suggests the appropriate font.
Besides, you can display the detection results.
) To detect the font, do as follows:
1- From the "Recognize" menu, select "Learn" then "Detect Font". The
"Detect Font" dialog box appears.
2- Select the font files you want to use.
3- Select the directory.
4- Select the Stop Percentage that the font detection process stops at, when a
font file matching the font you want to recognize with that percentage is
found.
5- Select the Ignore Percentage to set a percentage for ignoring mismatched
fonts.
) To display the detection results, do as follows:
1- From the "Recognize" menu, select "Learn" then "Detection Results".
The "Detect Font Results" dialog box appears.
2- The dialog box displays the detection results according to the selected
accuracy percentage, whether Ignore or Stop Percentage. You can add
any font with specific size and style from the results box to any font
library you select, by clicking the "Add To Font Library" button.
3- The "Add To Font Library" dialog box appears. Select the font library
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Improve Recognition Results
) To improve the recognition results, do as follows:
1- Select the appropriate recognition engine for the file after scanning or
loading it.
2- Launch the recognition process.
3- When you find errors while revising the recognition results, put the
cursor on the wrong word and press the "F9" key, or select, from the
"Recognize" menu, the "Learn" then the "Improve" commands.
4- If there was not a font file loaded before, the "Add Font" dialog box
appears.
5- Click the "Font Manager" button. Four buttons will appear: Modify,
View, New Library and New Font.
6- Click the "New Font" button to display the "Create New Font File" dialog
box. Select the characteristics of the font resulting from recognition in
terms of the type, style and size, and then click the "Save As" button to
save the font with a new name.
7- Select the created font, and then click the "Add" button. The "Learn
Word" dialog box appears enabling you to learn the wrong word or
character. When finished, click "Save" to save the modifications, then
"Exit" and start recognizing once more.
Learn Files Containing Diacritics
When you learn a file containing diacritics, do as follows:
1- Select "Options" from the "Tools" menu to display the "Options" dialog
box. Click the "Recognition" tab, and then select the "Skip" radio button
in the "Diacritics Evaluation" section.
2- In the "Options" dialog box, click the "Engines" tab and select the font or
the font library file.
3- Start learning by selecting, from the "Recognize" menu, "Learn" then
"Full".
4- When finished learning and before starting the recognition process, select
the "Options" command from the "Tools" menu. Click the "Recognition"
tab, and select the "Recognize" radio button if you want to display the
diacritics, or "Skip" if you want to recognize characters and words
without diacritics.

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Improve Program's Progress
You can improve the program's progress by disabling some commands in
special cases:
Diacritics Options
If the file doesn't contain diacritics, disable this command by doing as
follows:
2- Click the "Recognition" tab, and then select the "None" radio button in
the "Diacritics Evaluation" section.
Document has Broken Words
If there was not a space between the word's characters, disable this command
by doing as follows:
2- Click the "Recognition" tab, and then select the "Document has Broken
Words" radio button in the "Diacritics Evaluation" section.
Low Image Quality
If the image is clear, disable this command by doing as follows:
2- Click the "Recognition" tab, and then select the "Low Image Quality"
radio button in the "Diacritics Evaluation" section.
Learn Diacritics with Characters
In case of learning the diacritics wrong, you can make the corrections from
the "Learn font or font library" dialog box. Type the character, select the
diacritics you want to correct, and then press the "Ctrl" key and double-click
the correct diacritics.

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Select Default Frame
You can use a frame file and apply it to all opened image files, in case of
opening one image or during batch process.
Note
If there was a frame file with the same image file name, the program
ignores the default frame and uses the frame file having the same file
name. (In batch operations).
Display Type of Loaded Recognition Engine
The loaded recognition engine type is displayed in the status bar.
Select Scanner System
The scanner system is specified through the "Select Scanner" command that
you select from the "File" menu. The "Select Scanner System" dialog box
appears.
When you select "TWAIN" or "KOFAX", the "Select Scanner" dialog box
appears displaying the available and compatible scanners to the selected
system. When you select "Scanner Drivers", the "Loading Driver Names"
dialog box appears loading the scanner drivers. Then the "Scanner Selection"
dialog box appears displaying the different scanners to select the required
one.
Recognize Arabic Numbers in Arabic Files
If there are only Arabic numbers in the Arabic files, you will not need to load
the English recognition engine with the Naskh one. All you have to do is to
load the ARBNUM.AFL font library (a font library whose Arabic fonts have
been totally learnt) located within the font library group that has been learnt
before with the Naskh recognition engine to get a correct recognition of the
Arabic numbers with the recognized text.

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Show/Hide Toolbar and Status Bar
You can show or hide the main toolbar (which contains the smart icons at the
top of the program's window) and the status bar (which contains information
on the file language, whether the file contains diacritics or not, on the font
library name being loaded and the loaded recognition engines names).
) To display the main toolbar, do as follows:
Select the "Main Toolbar" command from the "View" menu.
Automatic Frame
Clear Frame
Inclusion Frame
Exclusion Frame
Image Frame
Edit Sequence
Optimize Frame Sequence
Add BreakPoint
Remove BreakPoint
Add to Frame
Subtract from Frame
Tile Vertically
Open
Automatic Reader
Wizard
Print
Send Mail
Save
Scan
Zoom in
Fit in
Zoom out
Correct
Options
Profiles List
Current OMNI Engines
Profiles Customization
Recognize
Help
Tile Horizontally
Point & Click
Export to Microsoft Word
Register Applications
(Available only in Platinum Edition)

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) To display the status bar, do as follows:
Select the "Status Bar" command from the "View" menu.
Note
When the image file is active, the status bar will change as follows:
Display Commands Help
File name, Style and Size
No. of Pages/Page no
Column no.: Line No.
Display Commands Help
Diacritics Options
Recognition Engines

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Program's Glossary
Batch Operations Statistics
A command used to display the batch operations statistics.
Colors
A command selected from the "Options" dialog box, through which you can
change the colors of some elements, for example: Recognition results.
Convert to Image Frame
Converting an Inclusion frame into an Image frame.
Convert to Inclusion Frame
Converting an Image frame into an Inclusion frame.
Corrector
A command in the "Tools" menu used to correct the recognized text.
Corrector's Options
Before using the corrector, you have first to set the corrector's options.
Create Automatically
Means to include some parts that the program selects to be recognized and
excludes the others.
Create New Font File
If the required font is not available in the OMNI engines, you can create a
new font file by selecting the closest font to the required font, to be added to
the OMNI engines.
Default Directories
Directories that contain different files such as: font files, image files and text
files.
Default Frames
Frames created by the user where you can apply in all opened image files.

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Delete Frames
Deleting the frames in the opened image file.
Detection Results
A command used to display the detection font results, according to the
selected accuracy percentage whether Ignore or Stop percentage.
Diacritics
Selecting diacritics options: None (if the file doesn't contain diacritics), Skip
(if the file contains diacritics and you don't want to recognize them) or
Recognize (if the file contains diacritics and you want to recognize them).
Display Font File or Font Library
Displaying a name, sample and description for the selected font or font
library.
Export to Word Processor
Exporting the recognized text file to any word processor the program
supports: Microsoft Word and NasherNet.
Find Tables
Means to find the tables in the image file and include them in Mark
Inclusions frames.
Fix Image
Fixing the image in an appropriate position to be recognized.
Font Detection
Means detecting the closest font to the opened image file font to be used in
recognition.
Font Manager
A button located in the "Add Font" dialog box through which you can
modify the font or display the selected font name, sample and description or
create a new font library or save a new font.

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Full Learning
If there was not a font file that matches the image file you want to recognize,
you can learn new font libraries.
Go To
A command in the "Edit" menu used to move to the required page.
Image
The image file resulted from scanning.
Improve Recognition Results
In some cases, some characters were not probably recognized correctly or
were recognized wrong. In this case you have to improve the recognition.
Interface
Selecting the interface language to be either Arabic or English.
Invert Image Colors
Inverting all of (or a part of) the images background colors from black to
white, as the program can not recognize a black background.
Invert Selected Area Colors
Inverting the colors of the selected area of the image without inverting all the
image colors.
Justify Frames Sequence
In case of using Mark Images frames, you have to select "Optimize Frames
Sequence" from the "Frame" menu to select the recognition sequence
between Mark Inclusions and Mark Images frames.
KOFAX
A protocol used to move the image to and from the engine used.
Load and Recognize
Loading number of saved image files and recognize them automatically.

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Main Toolbar
A bar that appears at the top of the program and contains smart icons.
Mark Exclusions
Frames in the image files used to exclude the parts you don't want to
recognize.
Mark Images
Dividing the image file into frames to recognize or unrecognize the image.
Mark Inclusions
Frames in the image files used to include the parts you want to recognize.
Modify Font or Font Library
Modifying the font size or style in case of selecting the .AFN font file, or
adding a new font for the same library in case of selecting the .AFL font
library file.
Multiple Scan
Scanning number of files and save them automatically to save time.
Output Page Layout
A command used to select or modify the output page layout options, in case of
selecting the "Export to" or the "Save" commands from the "File" menu to save
text files in (*.RTF) format and modify the page layout to match the program the
page is transferred to.
Recognition Process
Process used by the program to compare between the loaded image file elements
and the properties of the characters samples in the loaded font library, to
recognize the image file characters and convert the image file into text file where
you can apply any modification in.
Recognition Statistics
A command you select from the "Recognize" menu used to display the
different recognition statistics.

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Register Applications (Available only in Platinum Edition)
Registering the applications names that will run the Automatic Reader.
Rotate
To rotate the image to an appropriate position to be recognized, as the
required image may be, sometimes, transversal.
Save Font Library
A command used in case of using the font library in the learning process.
Some modifications may have taken place in all font files, but you only want
to save the modifications in some library files.
Scan and Recognize
Scanning number of files and recognizing them automatically.
Scan
Obtaining an image file from a scanner or any other tool.
Select Engines
Loading the recognition tools used in the recognition.
Select Font
You can edit a text inside any text file. Also, you can select the font for this text.
Select Sequence
Select the "Mark Inclusions Sequence" in the image file. The recognition
process will take place according to this sequence.
Select Program's Options
To select the appropriate options such as: selecting average noise size, setting
the recognition options, selecting the symbol for the unrecognized character,
detecting the image quality, whether ignoring or recognizing the cashida.
Status Bar
A bar displaying information on the file language, whether the file contains
diacritics or not, on the loaded font library name and on the loaded
recognition engines names.

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Text
The text resulted from the recognition.
TWAIN
A protocol used to move the image to and from the engine used.
View Scale
To view the image file with different scales as you can display a part of an
image with different percentages. Also you can select the appropriate
percentage and view the whole image file.

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Trouble Shooting
• Couldn't run the scanner from the program
1- Install SCANNER DRIVER on Arabic Windows and verify that the
scanner works by itself.
2- Select the appropriate scanner from the "Select Scanner" dialog box.
• Unrecognizing the image in the batch operation
The program ignores recognizing some images in the batch operations for
the following reasons:
1- Unable to load the image file (the file path has been modified).
2- Unable to create automatic frames to the image file.
You can display the error messages after you end the batch operations
through the "Batch Operations Statistics" dialog box.
• The Corrector doesn't work
1- Check that Automatic Reader was installed correctly.
2- Check the presence of the Corrector files under the directory:
C:Program FilesCommon FilesSakhrCorrector.
3- Check the presence of CORRECTOR.INI under the default windows
directory containing the correct path of the Corrector files.
• Error in opening the file while using the "Export to Word" command
This message appears when exporting a text file to a word then using the
same command with another text without closing the first file in Word.
• Error message after recognition
This message appears when the text directory selected in the "Directories"
section (located in the "General Options" dialog box) is wrong.
• Select Inactive Font
The "Select Font" command will be inactive in the "Edit" menu after
selecting the "Display Text in One Font" check box in the "Fonts" tab.
Refer to: Options/Fonts.

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• Recognition Process takes a long time
You should verify that the document language matches the recognition
engine used in the recognition process to save time.
Refer to: Improving Recognition.
Note
If you select an English recognition engine to recognize Arabic
documents, the recognition process will take a long time and the results
will not be satisfying.
Integrating with other Programs (Available only in Platinum Edition)
For the other programs to be compatible with the previous versions, they can
be integrated with the Automatic Reader through Dynamic Data Exchange
(DDE), but it is preferred to use OLE Automation. This part, only for expert
users, displays the functions used to achieve this integration.

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