WORKING WITH ABBYY FINEREADER 8.0 VIA THE COMMAND LINE

Command line syntax:

FineOCR.exe ImageFiles [/lang LangNames] [/send SendTarget] [/read] [/OptionsFile OptionsFileName]
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ImageFiles - the name of the image file to be processed in FineReader. You can specify several files (separate them by spaces). Enclose the name of the file in quotation marks if the full path to the file contains spaces.

LangName - the internal name of the recognition language. You can specify several recognition languages (separate them by spaces).

List of available recognition languages (internal names):
 
Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afrikaans
Agul
Albanian
Altai
ArmenianEastern
ArmenianGrabar
ArmenianWestern
Avar
Aymara
AzeriCyrillic
AzeriLatin
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Blackfoot
Breton
Bugotu
Bulgarian
Buryat
Catalan
Chamorro
Chechen
Chukchee
Chuvash
Corsican
Crimean Tatar
Croatian
Crow
Czech
Danish
Dargwa
Dungan
Dutch
DutchBelgian
English
EskimoCyrillic
EskimoLatin
Esperanto
Estonian
Even
Evenki
Faeroese
Fijian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Friulian
Gagauz
Galician
Ganda
German
GermanLuxembourg
GermanNewSpelling
Greek
Guarani
Hani
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ido
Indonesian
Ingush
Interlingua
Irish
Italian
Kabardian
Kalmyk
Karachay-balkar
Karakalpak
Kasub
Kawa
Kazakh
Khakass
Khanty
Kikuyu
Kirghiz
Kongo
Koryak
Kpelle
Kumyk
Kurdish
Lak
Lappish
Latin
Latvian
Lezgi
Lithuanian
Luba
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malinke
Maltese
Mansy
Maori
Mari
Maya
Miao
Minankabaw
Mohawk
Mongol
Mordvin
RomanianMoldavia
Nahuatl
Nenets
Nivkh
Nogay
Norwegian
NorwegianBokmal
NorwegianNynorsk
Nyanja
Occidental
Ojibway
Ossetian
Papiamento
PidginEnglish
Polish
PortugueseStandard
PortugueseBrazilian
Provencal
Quechua
RhaetoRomanic
Romanian
Romany
Ruanda
Rundi
Russian
RussianOldSpelling
Mixed
Samoan
GaelicScottish
Selkup
SerbianCyrillic
SerbianLatin
Shona
Chemistry
Sioux
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sorbian
Sotho
Spanish
Sunda
Swahili
Swazi
Swedish
Tabasaran
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tatar
Tinpo
Tongan
Tswana
Tun
Turkish
Turkmen
Tuvinian
Udmurt
UighurCyrillic
UighurLatin
Ukrainian
UzbekCyrillic
UzbekLatin
Visayan
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Zapotec
Zulu
Basic
C++
Cobol
Fortran
Java
Digits
Pascal
 
SendTarget - the name of the application into which FineReader must send the recognition results. ABBYY FineReader 8.0 can save recognition results in the following formats:
- MSWord - Microsoft Word
- MSExcel - Microsoft Excel
- WordPro - Lotus Word Pro
- WordPerfect - Corel WordPerfect
- StarWriter - Sun StarWriter 
- Mail application - Mail Application in MSWord format
- Clipboard - Clipboard
- WebBrowser - Default Web Browser
- Acrobat - Adobe Acrobat
- PowerPoint - Microsoft PowerPoint

/read - means that the specified images must be recognized by FineReader. If you type in the /send command, FineReader will ignore the /read command.

OptionsFileName - the path to the file containing the batch settings (*.fbt) to be used for recognition.
