Using Abbyy Finereader in the production process

Abbyy FineReader [v8.0] is Optical Character Recognition software used to extract text from PDF documents and convert them into machine-editable text for digital text production. FineReader is especially used both to clean-up documents prior to the OCR process and to perform OCR on documents. These documents can thus be saved in various formats (.doc, .txt, .htm, .pdf) for further production or provided to a student directly.

The Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) has an excellent resource for the entirety of the E-Text production process [PDF format]. This manual is available in the workspace and the appropriate pages are posted on the bulleting board above Workstation #2. What follows are the basics: