How to scan using abbyy finereader. Select a scanner in Abbyy Finereader. Undo last action

In ABBYY FineReader, you can change general options for automatic document processing, as well as options for scanning and opening document pages: enable/disable automatic analysis and automatic document recognition, image preprocessing, select a scanning interface.

You can select the necessary parameters directly in the dialogs for opening or scanning images (if you are using for scanning), as well as on the tab Scan/Open(menu Tools>Options…).

Attention! If you changed the program settings in the dialog Options, you will need to scan or open the image again. Only after this your image will be processed with the specified settings.

On the bookmark Scan/Open dialogue Options you can change the following settings:

Launching automatic analysis and recognition of received images.

ABBYY FineReader document analysis and recognition is performed automatically by default. You can change this mode if necessary. The following options are possible:

• Automatically recognize received images
  The document will be analyzed and recognized automatically.
• Automatically analyze received images
  Document analysis will be performed automatically, but recognition will need to be started manually.
• Disable automatic image analysis and recognition
  The scanned or opened images will be added to the FineReader document. Document analysis and recognition will need to be started manually. This mode is usually used for documents with a complex structure.

• Image processing methods.

  • Perform image preprocessing
    If you want to scan and recognize a book or open an image taken with a camera, enable this option. Then the program, depending on the type of input image, will perform it: remove noise from digital photographs, correct skew, blurriness, perspective distortion, and align the document along the lines of the text.
  • Determine page orientation
    Enable this option to automatically detect the orientation of pages added to a FineReader document.
  • Divide a book spread
    If you are scanning book spreads or opening images of double pages, enable this option. Then, in the process of adding pages to the FineReader document, the images will be divided into separate pages.

  Comment. Instead of using image preprocessing options when scanning or opening document pages, you can instead perform the necessary processing on an already open document using an image editor. For more details see "

Receiving and processing an image using ABBYY FineReader

The quality of recognition largely depends on the quality of the original image. In this chapter, you will learn how to properly scan a document, how to open and recognize images already existing on your computer (a list of formats supported by the system is given in the "Supported graphic formats" section), how you can process an image and eliminate some of its defects (for example, garbage , which arose during scanning), etc.

Scanning

ABBYY FineReader works with scanners via the TWAIN interface. This is a single international standard introduced in 1992 to unify the interaction of devices for entering images into a computer (for example, a scanner) with external applications. In this case, there are two options for interaction of the program with scanners via the TWAIN driver:

• through the ABBYY FineReader interface: in this case, to configure scanning options, use the ABBYY FineReader Scanner Settings dialog;
• via the TWAIN scanner driver interface: to configure scanning options, use the TWAIN scanner driver dialog.

Advantages of each mode

In the “Use TWAIN scanner driver interface” mode, as a rule, the image preview function is available, which allows you to accurately set the dimensions of the scanned area, select the brightness, and immediately control the results of these changes. The TWAIN driver dialog looks different for each scanner; in most cases, all text is in English. The appearance of this window and the meaning of the options are described in the documentation supplied with the scanner. In the Use ABBYY FineReader interface mode, options are available, such as the ability to scan in a loop on scanners without an automatic document feeder, saving scanning options to a separate file of a set of options (*.fbt), and the ability to use these options in other packages.

You can easily switch between these modes: on the Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog (Tools>Options menu), set the switch to one of the positions: Use the TWAIN interface of the scanner driver or Use the ABBYY FineReader interface.

Notes.

1. For some scanner models, the Use ABBYY FineReader interface option may be disabled (unavailable) by default.

2. To display the Scanner Settings dialog in the Use ABBYY FineReader interface mode, on the Scan/Open tab (Tools>Options menu) check the Prompt for options before scanning option.

Important! To properly connect your scanner, refer to the documentation that came with your scanner. When installing, be sure to install the required software that came with your scanner (TWAIN driver and/or scanning software).

To run a scan:

Click the 1–Scan button or select Scan Image from the File menu. After some time, the Image window with a “photo” of the scanned page will appear in the main window of ABBYY FineReader.

If you want to scan multiple pages, then on the Scan/Open tab (Tools>Options) check the Scan multiple pages option.

Comment. The Options dialog can also be opened by selecting Options in the 1–Scan button menu.

If scanning does not start immediately, one of the following dialogs is displayed:

• built-in TWAIN scanner dialog. Set the scanning parameters and click the Scan button (Final, etc., the name of the buttons depends on the specific scanner model);
• Scanner Settings dialog. Set the scanning parameters and click the Scan button (Final, etc., the names of the buttons depend on the specific scanner model).

Advice:
If you want to immediately start recognizing scanned pages:
Click the arrow to the right of the Scan&Read button and select Scan and Recognize in the button’s local menu.

ABBYY FineReader will scan and recognize the images. An Image window with a “photo” of the scanned page and a Text window with the recognition result will appear in the main program window. You can transfer the recognized text to external applications or save it in one of the supported formats.

Setting scan options

The quality of recognition largely depends on how good the image is obtained during scanning. Image quality is regulated by setting the basic scanning parameters: image type, resolution and brightness.

The main scanning parameters are:

• Image type – gray (256 gradations), black and white or color. Scanning in gray is the optimal mode for the recognition system. When scanning in gray mode, brightness is automatically selected. The black and white image type provides a higher scanning speed, but some information about the letters is lost, which can lead to deterioration in the quality of recognition of documents of medium and low print quality. If you want the color elements contained in the document (pictures, colored letters and colored backgrounds) to be transferred into the electronic document while preserving the color, you must select the color image type. Otherwise, use the gray image type.
• Resolution – use 300 dpi for regular texts (font size 10 points or more) and 400–600 dpi for small font texts (font size 9 points or less).
• Brightness – in most cases, the average brightness value of 50% is suitable. To scan some documents in black and white, you may need to adjust the brightness further.

Comment. Scanning at 400-600 dpi instead of 300 dpi, or scanning in gray or color, may take significantly longer than scanning in black and white. On some scanner models, scanning at 600 dpi takes 4 times longer than scanning at 300 dpi.

To set scan options:

• When scanning via TWAIN using the ABBYY FineReader interface: on the Scan/Open tab in the Options dialog (Tools/Options menu), click the Scanner Settings button and in the Scanner Settings dialog that opens, set the necessary options.
• When scanning via TWAIN using the TWAIN scanner driver interface, the scanner dialog is used to set scanning parameters, which opens automatically when you click the 1–Scan button. Options for setting scanning options may have different names depending on your scanner model. For example, brightness can be called brightness, threshold, and depicted as a “sun” or a black and white circle. The meaning of the options is described in the documentation supplied with the scanner.

Tips for choosing brightness

The scanned image should be legible (view the image in the Close-up window).

There is an illustration at this point in the original manual– an example of a good (suitable for recognition) image.

If you find many defects in the resulting image (tears or glued letters), then refer to the table below. It indicates possible ways to eliminate these defects.

Scanning multi-page documents

For the convenience of scanning a large number of pages, ABBYY FineReader provides a special scanning mode: Scan multiple pages. It allows you to scan several pages in a row. To enable this mode, check the Scan multiple pages option on the Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog (Tools menu > Options). Wherein:

• when scanning via TWAIN using the ABBYY FineReader interface, after scanning a page, the scanner automatically starts scanning the next one;
• When scanning via TWAIN using the TWAIN interface of the scanner driver, the Twain scanner dialog does not close after scanning the first page. You can put the next page in the scanner and scan it, etc.

You can scan a large number of pages in two ways: with or without the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF).

When using the automatic document feeder (ADF)

• ABBYY FineReader interface. In the Scanner Settings dialog, check the Load pages from the automatic paper feeder option and start scanning by pressing the 1–Scan button.
• TWAIN scanner driver interface. In the scanner's TWAIN dialog, check the option to use the automatic document feeder (this option may have different names depending on the scanner model; see the documentation that came with the scanner) and start scanning by pressing the 1–Scan button.

Comment. To open the Scanner Settings dialog, click the Scanner Settings button on the Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog (Tools>Options menu).

Without using an automatic document feeder (ADF)

1. ABBYY FineReader interface

To make it easier to scan multiple pages in a row using a flatbed scanner without an ADF:

• Set the pause value (the time from the end of scanning one page to the start of scanning the next). To do this, in the Scanner Settings dialog, check the Pause between pages option and set the pause value in seconds.
  In this case, after scanning the first page, the scanner makes a specified pause, during which you insert the next page into the scanner. The scanning then continues automatically.
• Select the Stop between pages option. To do this, in the Scanner Settings dialog, check the Stop between pages option.
  In this case, each time the page is scanned, a dialog box will appear asking whether to continue scanning. Click Yes to scan the next page and No to complete scanning.

To stop scanning, from the File menu, select Stop Scanning

Comment. To open the Scanner Settings dialog, click the Scanner Settings button on the Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog (Tools/Options menu).

2. TWAIN scanner driver interface

• Make sure that Scan Multiple Pages is checked on the Scan/Open tab of the Options dialog (Tools menu > Options). To start scanning, in the scanner’s TWAIN dialog that opens, click the Scan button (Final, etc., the name of the button depends on the specific implementation of the scanner’s TWAIN driver).
• To continue scanning, click on the Scan button in the Twain dialog of the scanner.

To complete scanning, in the Twain dialog of the scanner, click on the Close button (or something similar in meaning).

Advice: So that you can control the scan results, in the View group of the Additional Options dialog, check the Open images as you scan option. (To open the Advanced Options dialog, click the Advanced Options button on the General tab of the Options dialog.) In this case, when the page is scanned, the scanned image will appear in the Image window. If the image is not scanned correctly, stop scanning (from the File menu, select Stop Scanning) and rescan the image.

Solving scanning problems: the scanner does not support working with the Twain driver

If your scanner does not support Twain, then you can work with the program as follows:

1. Create a new package in the program, open a package, or continue working in an already open package.

2. Set recognition parameters (recognition language, page type, print type).

3. From the Process menu, select Start background recognition.

4. Without closing the program, scan the document that you want to recognize with any graphics program and save it in the folder in which you saved the created package, with the name 0001.TIF. ABBYY FineReader will automatically pick up the image and recognize it.

Comment. If, when adding pages, there were already pages in the package, then the names of the added files (as well as the numbers of the corresponding new pages of the package) will begin not with one (1), but with the page number following the last page of the package, i.e. if there were 10 pages in the package, then the new files will be given the following names: 0011.tif, 0012.tif, etc.

5. Scan the second document and save it as 0002.TIF, etc.

6. To stop recognition, from the Process menu, select Stop background recognition.

This way, all scanned pages will be recognized by the program.

Opening image and PDF files

If you do not have a scanner, you can open and recognize ready-made graphic files (for a list of openable formats, see the "Supported graphic formats" section).

To open an image:

In the Open Image dialog, select one or more images. The selected images will appear in the Batch window, and the last of the selected images will open in the Image window and in the Close-up window of ABBYY FineReader, with a copy of the image placed in the batch folder. For more information about the presentation of pages in a package and the structure of the package, see "General information on working with the package."

Advice: If you want open images to be immediately recognized, use the Open and recognize mode. For this:

1. From the Process menu, select Open and recognize. Keyboard command: CTRL+SHIFT+D.

2. In the Open dialog that opens, select images for recognition.

Features of opening PDF files

The creator of a PDF file can restrict access to their file, for example, protecting it with a password, preventing the file from being opened or text and graphics extracted from it. When opening such files, ABBYY FineReader will request a password to ensure the copyright protection of the file creator.

Adding split-page images to a batch

When scanning books, it is more convenient to scan two pages (a book spread) at once. At the same time, to improve the quality of recognition, such images should be divided into two, so that each page corresponds to a separate page of the package (analysis and recognition is carried out for each page separately, skewed lines are corrected).

To do this, before scanning or adding double pages to a batch:

On the Scan/Open tab (Tools > Options menu), check the Split book spread option.
In this case, the book spread (double pages) will be represented by two pages of the package. For more information about the package, see "General information on working with the package."

Comment. If the book spread (double pages) was divided into two pages unsuccessfully, then uncheck the Split Book Spread option, rescan or add the book spread image to the package and try to split it in the Split Image dialog (Image>Split Image menu) manually.

Adding business card images to a package

When entering information from business cards into the computer, it is more convenient to scan them not one at a time, but several at a time. At the same time, the quality of recognition will be higher (in particular, due to the correction of distortions) in the case when each business card is included in the package as a separate page. For this purpose, the system provides tools for automatic and manual splitting of images containing business cards arranged in a certain order.

Comment. It is necessary that business cards be laid out in a certain way on the scanner glass. For more information, see the "Working with Business Cards" section in "Learning by Example."

To split an image:

1. In the Batch window, select the desired image.

2. From the Image menu, select Split Image.

3. In the Split Image dialog that opens, click the Split into business cards button.

Notes.

1. The page to be cut is removed from the package; in its place new pages are added corresponding to the cut parts. For more information about the package, see "General information on working with the package."

2. If the image was cut incorrectly into business cards, try cutting it manually using the Add vertical separator/Add horizontal separator buttons.

3. To remove all delimiters, click the Remove all delimiters button.

4. To move the separator, go to Select Object mode (press the button) and move the separator.

5. To remove a separator, go to Select Object mode (press the button) and move the separator outside the image.

Shooting texts with a camera

Photographing documents requires certain preparation of the photographer, and also imposes restrictions on the characteristics of the camera and the shooting mode. This article will help you choose the camera operating mode and get a document image suitable for text recognition. The technical parameters of your camera and instructions for working with it are given in the description of the camera and other documentation supplied with the camera.

Before shooting, make sure that:

1. The entire page fits in the frame, and that it occupies it entirely (there are no unnecessary fields left).

2. The light is fairly even, without shadows on the photographed text.

3. The document being photographed is located perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens, i.e. The camera should be positioned opposite the center of the text. Uneven paper (at the spine of a book, for example) should be smoothed out if possible.

Below are the requirements for the camera and recommendations for choosing a shooting mode.

Camera requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Matrix size 2 million pixels.
• Variable focusing distance. It is not recommended to use cameras with a fixed focus (focused at the hyperfocal distance), such cameras are usually found in cell phones and PDAs.

• The matrix size is 5 million pixels.
• Possibility to turn off the flash.
• Possibility to set the aperture manually – i.e. Availability of aperture priority mode or manual mode.
• Manual focus mode.
• Lens with optical image stabilization; if it is not available, it is recommended to use a tripod.
• Optical zoom.

How to photograph texts

Lighting

If possible, provide good lighting, preferably daylight. If backlighting is used, it is better to use backlighting with two lamps from different sides to avoid the formation of shadows.

How to position the camera

It is recommended to use a tripod for document photography. It is best to shoot at maximum optical zoom, and the camera should be as far away from the text as possible. The lens should be positioned parallel to the shooting surface and centered in the image being photographed.

The camera should be so far away from the page that at maximum magnification the page fits completely within the frame. Usually this distance is about 50–60 cm.

Flash

If the lighting allows, it is best to turn off the flash, as it creates overexposed areas and harsh shadows. However, if there is not enough external light, then you can use the flash if you are shooting from a sufficient distance (~50 centimeters). Even when using a flash, it is still advisable to highlight the document.

Selecting a shooting mode

Aperture: In low light conditions, it is recommended to select small aperture values ​​(~2.3 – 4.5), i.e. open the aperture as much as possible. If you're shooting in bright daylight, it's best to increase your aperture to get a sharper shot.

Sensor sensitivity: In low light conditions, it is recommended to select a higher sensor sensitivity (higher ISO value).

Focusing: In low light conditions, automatic focus may not work well (the device cannot focus), in which case it is recommended to use manual focusing.

White Balance: If possible, set the white balance to match the color of the paper. If your camera does not allow you to customize the white balance, select the mode that best suits your shooting conditions.

In low light conditions, automatic mode uses long shutter speeds, which negatively affects the sharpness of the resulting image. Therefore, it is additionally recommended:

• Use image stabilizer.
• Use the self-timer. This will prevent the camera from shaking when you press the shutter button. Such problems can occur even with a tripod.

What to do, if...

The photo is too dark and lacks contrast.

Try to improve the lighting. If this is not possible, set a smaller aperture value.

The photo is out of focus.

Perhaps autofocus is not working well due to the lack of light. Try improving the lighting. If this doesn't help, use manual focus.

If only part of the photo is blurry, try setting a larger aperture value. Shoot from further away at maximum optical zoom. Focus on a point between the center and edge of the image.

The flash creates a blown-out area in the center of the frame.

Turn off the flash. If you can't use other light sources, shoot from a greater distance.

Checking and correcting the resulting image

1. Clear away debris

The recognized image may be heavily “littered”, i.e. contain many extra dots resulting from scanning documents of average or low quality. Dots located close to the outlines of letters may adversely affect the quality of recognized text. To reduce the number of unnecessary points, you can use the Clear Junk option. To do this: Select the Clear image from debris item in the Image>Process images menu.

If you want to clear a separate block of “garbage”, then: Select the Clear block from garbage item in the Image>Process Images menu.

Attention! If the source text was very light or the source text used a very thin font, then using the Clear image function may result in periods, commas, or thin letter elements disappearing, which degrades the quality of recognition.

2. Change image resolution

Image resolution is a parameter that determines how many pixels composing the image are per unit length. Resolution is usually measured in dpi - the number of dots per inch. For high-quality text recognition using the ABBYY FineReader system, it is necessary that the vertical and horizontal resolution of the image coincide. The recommended resolution is optimal from the point of view of recognition - 300 dpi.

Too high or too low a resolution can lead to poor recognition quality. Some image formats do not have resolution (for example, *.bmp files). Images may also have a non-standard resolution (for example, 204 * 96 dpi), which can also affect the quality of recognition.

The ABBYY FineReader system checks the resolution of each image and, if a “suspicious” image is detected, automatically corrects its resolution, while the physical dimensions of the image (its length and width) do not change. Such an image is marked with an icon in the Batch window. When you hover your mouse over such an image, a tooltip appears.

If the quality of image recognition is poor, adjusting the image resolution may improve recognition results. To correct the image resolution:

• In the Batch window, select an image with an icon. If the tooltip text indicates that the image has an incorrect resolution, then in the Image menu, select the Correct Resolution... command.
• In the dialog that opens, specify the type of image (scanned image, faxed image, or screenshot). You can also specify the exact resolution value in the Other resolution field.
• If the resolution needs to be corrected only for selected images, check the Selected images option in the Correct resolution group. If all images in a batch have the wrong resolution, check the All images in the batch option. Since in this case the resolution of all images in the package will be reduced to the same value, this operation is recommended to be used only if all images in the package are obtained from the same source.

3. Eliminate string corruption

When scanning books, lines of text may be distorted in the part of the image where the page is adjacent to the binding. In images taken with the camera, lines of text may also appear distorted at the edges of the image. To eliminate string corruption:

l click the button or select Image>Process Image>Eliminate line distortion from the menu.

Comment. This operation may take considerable time to complete.

4. Invert the image

Some scanners invert images when scanning (black is converted to white, and white is converted to black). To get a standard document view (black font on a white background): From the Image>Process Images menu, select Invert.

Comment. If you scan or open inverted images, check the Invert Image option in the Scan/Open group of the Advanced Options dialog box before adding them to the batch. To open the Advanced Options dialog, click the Advanced Options button on the General tab of the Options dialog (Tools > Options menu).

5. Rotate or flip the image

During recognition, the image must have a standard orientation: the text must be read from top to bottom, and the lines must be horizontal. By default, the program detects and corrects the image orientation automatically during recognition. If the image orientation was determined incorrectly, then on the Scan/Open tab, uncheck the Detect page orientation (during recognition) checkbox and rotate the image manually.

To rotate an image:

• 90 degrees to the right - click the button or select Rotate clockwise from the Image>Rotate/Flip Image menu.
• 90 degrees to the left - click the button or select Rotate counterclockwise from the Image>Rotate/Flip Image menu.
• by 180 degrees – select the Rotate by 180 degrees item from the Image>Rotate/Flip Image menu.

6. Erase part of the image

If you want to exclude some part of the text from recognition or there are large areas of garbage in the image, then you can erase such areas. To do this: Select a tool (on the panel in the Image window) and, by clicking on the left mouse button, select the area of ​​the image that you want to delete. Release the button, the selected part of the image will be deleted.

7. Crop the image

Sometimes scanning results in blackened margins appearing around the edges of the image. In this case, before recognition, you can crop the image, removing unnecessary fragments. Using the image cropping tool, you can also get a standard size image (corresponding to one of the standard formats, for example, A4, A5).

• 1. In the Image panel (in the Image window), select a tool (you can also use the Crop Image command in the Image menu);
• 2. The image will be opened in the Crop Image window, the outline of the image will be highlighted with a black line. In order to:
  • Select the most convenient image viewing mode, use the drop-down list located in the lower left corner of the image window;
  • To trim unnecessary edges of the image, use the mouse to drag the black line framing the image or the markers located in the corners of the image outline. The part of the image that will be cut off is highlighted in gray. Click the Crop button;
  • Set the image to standard size, select the desired format from the Set to drop-down list;
  • Don't crop the open image and move on to the next image, click Skip;
  • Always work only with the selected image (do not move to the next image in the package after finishing working with the current image), uncheck the Go to next page option.

Comment.

• 1. It is recommended to crop the image before blocks are selected in the image and the image is recognized.
• 2. The color of the frame in the Crop Image window can be changed on the View tab of the Options dialog (menu Tools > Options). In the Objects list, select Image cropping block, then click the Color button and select the desired frame color in the dialog that opens.

8. Zoom in/out

• In the Image panel (in the Image window), select the / tool and click on the image. The image will be enlarged/reduced by half.
• Right-click on the image and select Zoom from the local menu and select the scale you need.

9.Get image information

You can get the following information about the open image: width and height of the image in pixels; vertical and horizontal resolution in dots per inch (dpi); image type. To view information about an image: Right-click the image and select Properties from the local menu. In the dialog that opens, select the Image tab.

10.Print the image

You can print one image open in the Image window, multiple images selected in the Batch window, or all images. To do this: In the File menu, select Print>Image and in the Print dialog that opens, set the printing parameters (printer, number of pages to print, number of copies, etc.)

11. Undo last action

To undo your last action, in the Standard panel, click Undo.

Advice: To redo the last undone action, in the Standard panel, click the Redo button.

Page numbering when adding to a package

By default, each scanned page is assigned a number one greater than the number of the last image in the batch.

You can also specify the page number to be added manually (for example, you need to keep the original page numbering or you are scanning a stack of pages sorted in order). To do this: on the Scan/Open tab (menu Tools > Options), check the Request page number before adding to the package checkbox.

When scanning a stack of double-sided pages sorted in order:

• 1. Check the Prompt for page number before adding to batch checkbox on the Scan/Open tab (Tools > Options).
• 2. In the Page Number dialog, specify the page number from which scanning begins and select the Every other option in the Page Numbering field. Select the page numbering method: ascending or descending. Ascending or descending depends, for example, on how you place the stack in the ADF—whether the smaller or larger numbers are on top.

Options for storing images in a package

Convert a color/gray image to black and white

Check this option when scanning through the scanner's TWAIN dialog in gray mode (with automatic brightness adjustment) or when scanning in color, if the scanned documents do not contain color images, color font and background, or if you do not need color to be transferred to the output image. In this case, the images saved in the package will take up less disk space.

Comment. This option is set in the Additional Options dialog. To open this dialog, click the Additional Options button on the General tab of the Options dialog (menu Tools > Options).

When choosing a topic for this article, I thought all day that I would write about how to disassemble and clean an HP ProBook 4545s laptop. But I thought so until they came to me and asked me to help figure out how to set up the scanner. Because, when you try to scan any document, an error appears on the screen with the following text: “”.

Although, the user claimed that he did everything as before. Also, the user said that he had previously disconnected the MFP from the computer, and when he needed it, he connected it back, after which this problem appeared.

Approaching the computer, the first thing I did was make sure that the device (MFP) was connected to the PC correctly. By the way, for those who do not know how to do this, I have specially prepared an article about: . In general, the device itself was connected correctly. Sitting down at the computer, I tried to run a scan in order to see at what stage the error occurred, as a result, just by clicking on the “Scan” button, literally at the same moment the message appeared: “The parameter is set incorrectly.”

Having gone through all the parameters of the scanning window, I did not notice anything strange. Everything was set correctly, although I still tried to change a couple of points, but it did not bring any results. Also, I want to emphasize that the program was used for scanning ABBYY FineReader 10. As I later found out, most often the “Parameter is set incorrectly” error appears on this version of the software.

How to remove the error “The parameter is specified incorrectly”

Finally, having finished all the experiments with the scanning window, I moved on to the settings of FineReader itself. Because the appearance of this type of error is most often associated with an incorrectly selected driver for the scanner.

In fact, fixing such a mistake is very easy. To begin, open the ABBYY FineReader window and hover the mouse over the menu bar and click on “ Service» -> « Options..." You can also use the keyboard shortcut “ Cntr+Shift+O", which is responsible for expressly opening the settings window.

Now, in the settings window, click on the tab “ Scan\Open", where, going a little lower, we select the driver suitable for our device. As a rule, for the scanner to work correctly, you need to select a driver of this type: [Model Name] (TWAIN). I have this: Canon MF4400 Series (TWAIN). When finished with the settings, click on “ OK» to save all changes.

If this particular driver does not restore the scanner’s functionality and the “Parameter is set incorrectly” error appears again, be sure to try selecting another driver in the same way (Canon MF4400 Series (WIA)) and check the result.

In my case, everything was a little more complicated. I tried all the drivers and nothing worked. Therefore, I decided to completely remove the device and any software associated with it from the system. And then, download a new version of the software from the manufacturer’s website and restart (Here you can find an example of how to do this on Windows XP). In general, after installing all the drivers and connecting the MFP again, I did all the steps described above. And only after this, the scanner began to work as it should.

On which versions of ABBYY FineReader did you get the “Parameter is set incorrectly” error? And did the solution to the problem help you by simply selecting a driver? Leave all your answers in the comments and with their help we will be able to determine exactly what is causing the error, a program or a driver.

Error “The parameter is specified incorrectly” when scanning in FineReader

One of the most popular programs for scanning documents is Abbyy Finereader. It offers wide functionality for working with images, DOC, PDF files, as well as paper documents of any type. Many decide for study or business. And because of the importance of the software, problems in its operation are acutely felt. There are often difficulties with choosing and connecting a scanner, which makes it impossible to process paper materials. But these problems can be solved if we approach the problem comprehensively.

PC and equipment requirements

First of all, it is important to note that for the software to work fully, your computer and the equipment you use must meet a number of requirements or technical specifications. The minimum is as follows:

• operating system Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10;
• processor with a frequency of 1 GHz;
• RAM RAM from 1 GB;
• WIA or TWAIN compatible device.

If they are not followed, the program may not work correctly. This means that you will not be able to perform multi-page scanning, configure the necessary work items, and generally launch the software.

Problem solving

To troubleshoot problems, try the steps below.

1. Update your drivers. Most often the problem occurs due to the use of outdated drivers. You can download them from the official website.
2. Check if your current user on the system has the required access level.
3. Install the latest version of the program.
4. Make sure the software can see the scanner. How to choose a scanner in Abbyy Finereader? As a rule, the program itself should detect the device when launched. If this does not happen, then open the menu, go to settings, select “Driver - Printer” (or Tools - Options - Scan).
5. If this does not help, then open the task manager and look at the available devices. If there is a yellow exclamation mark next to the equipment, then the problem may be in the equipment itself. In this case, you need to contact the service center.

You can also contact the technical support service of the company itself through the official website. Here you can ask a question, for example, about why duplex scanning does not work. Describe the situation in detail, and you will be provided with comprehensive information.

Changing the interface

There are two options available for working with the equipment in the program: through the interface of the software itself and through the menu of the scanner’s TWAIN driver (or WIA driver). By default, the first item is selected. But if you need to change the operating mode, then setting up the Abbyy Finereader scanner will help you. To do this, open the “Options” menu item on the “Scan/Open” tab, go to the “Scanner” section and select the desired switch position. After this, the operating mode must be changed. You can go back through the same menu.