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 used 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 Most often the problem occurs due to the use of outdated drivers.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 it doesn't help, then open the task manager and look at available devices. If the yellow light is on in front of the equipment Exclamation point, then the problem may be in the technology 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.

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 use 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 "

If you often have to work with text for work or study, then you probably have specialized software for this. For example, many people decide to use a program that allows you to scan text and convert it into digital format, digitize documents, edit them, and much more.

This software is incredibly useful. And therefore, all sorts of problems associated with his work are very acutely felt. For example, the program does not see the scanner. Or only part of the text is scanned. Fortunately, all this can be solved.

Possible problems in Abbyy Finereader and their elimination

When working with the program, you may experience following problems and errors:

• The software cannot connect to the scanner or other equipment;
• the program does not see documents;
• Abbyy Finereader only scans part of the page;
• TWAIN source cannot be opened;
• A source initialization error is detected.

What are they connected to? First of all, you should check the available equipment. In particular, the condition of cables and other components. If everything is in order here, then the errors may be of a software nature. Remember that it is recommended to use only licensed software. Hacked versions may not work correctly due to changes in the code. It is also worth trying to update the program to the latest current version. This should also include updating the drivers of the hardware itself. If Abbyy Finereader does not scan, then in most cases this approach solves the problem. The latest versions are downloaded from the manufacturer's official website. Very often, problems arise when the required access level for the user is not available (needs to be increased).

Some problems can be resolved in the program settings. For example, an error indicating that the parameter is set incorrectly. If this appears, you need to do the following:

• open the “Tools” menu, go to the “OCR editor” item;
• go to settings - basic;
• go to the section “Selecting a device for acquiring images”;
• find the drop-down list with drivers;
• check the operation of the program and scanner with each of them in turn;
• leave the driver with which there are no failures.

In most cases, this list of actions solves 90% of problems. Including a situation with an error indicating that the image could not be opened” (the latter may also be due to an incorrect file format or its corruption).

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 which is associated with it. And then, download from the manufacturer’s website new version Software and again (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