General: Miscellaneous Keys

--largePagesWarning

  • New CLI 11 R6
  • The key can be used for getting a warning if any of input files contain pages larger than DIN A4 format and for stopping the execution of the command.
  • E.g. using -lpw 1 a warning (including filename and number of pages it intends to count) will be thrown and processing stopped, if the input document will contain a page larger than DIN A4.
  • For more information on how pages are calculated in CLI Tool see the article: Page Count and Paper Size
Key Parameters Default
-lpw integer number from 0 to 32767 0
- -integer number from 0 to 32767

--viewLicenseParameters

  • New CLI 11 R2
  • This option allows viewing the following license parameters:
    • expiration date
    • CPU cores limit
    • allowed/remaining processing units volume per refreshing period (for example, pages volume per month)
Key Parameters Default
-vlp activated license serial number
- -viewLicenseParameters

--pageFlushingPolicy

  • New CLI 11 R2
  • This option specifies whether temporary files of document pages are created on disk or not.
    When this option is set to Auto, if there are no more than 30 pages in the document, the document is kept in memory. Otherwise, temporary files of document pages are created on disk.
    When temporary files of document pages are kept in memory, please note that you should have enough free space in /run/shm (/dev/shm) as it is used for keeping these temporary files in memory.
Key Parameters Default
-pfp Auto
FlushToDisk
KeepInMemory
Auto
- -pageFlushingPolicy

--loadPredefinedProfile

  • The predefined processing profiles were introduced in CLI 11 R1.
  • The key loads the specified predefined profile. It must be used before all other keys.
  • New in CLI 11 R6: BarcodeRecognition_Accuracy and BarcodeRecognition_Speed profiles are added.
  • The BarcodeRecognition profile available in previous releases is now equivalent to the new BarcodeRecognition_Accuracy profile.
  • For detailed description of the predefined processing profiles please refer to the article Predefined Processing Profiles.
Key Parameters Default
-lpp DocumentConversion_Accuracy
DocumentConversion_Speed
DocumentArchiving_Accuracy
DocumentArchiving_Speed
BookArchiving_Accuracy
BookArchiving_Speed
TextExtraction_Accuracy
TextExtraction_Speed
BarcodeRecognition_Accuracy
BarcodeRecognition_Speed
Version9Compatibility
HighCompressedImageOnlyPdf
EngineeringDrawingsProcessing
default settings
- -loadPredefinedProfile

--multiProcessingMode

  • New CLI 11 R1
  • This key sets multi-processing mode.
Key Parameters Default
-mpm Auto
Parallel
Sequential
Sequential
- -multiProcessingMode

--recognitionProcessesCount

  • New CLI 11 R1
  • This key sets recognition processes count (actual only in case the -mpm option is set to Auto and Parallel). When it is set to 0, it means that the number of processes will be equal to the minimum of the following values:
    • number of available physical or logical CPU cores (depending whether the -unopc option is enabled)
    • number of free CPU cores available in the license
    • number of pages in the processing document
Key Parameters Default
-rpc number of parallel recognition processes 0
- -recognitionProcessesCount

--useNotOnlyPhysicalCPUCores

  • Note: Starting from release 2 this option is obsolete. Using it does not affect processing.
  • This key enables using not only physical but also logical cores. This option makes sense only if the -rpc option is set to 0.
Key Parameters Default
-unopc no
- -useNotOnlyPhysicalCPUCores

--progressInformation

  • This key enables writing progress information.
Key Parameters Default
-pi no
- -progressInformation

--skipEmptyPages

  • New CLI 11 R1
  • With this key empty pages are detected and excluded from export.
Key Parameters Default
-sep no
- -skipEmptyPages

--dontRecognizePdfWithTextLayer

  • With this key the input PDF that has text layer will not be recognized and will be simply copied to the destination PDF path.
  • Please note that to use this key it is required to have a single input file and the specified export formats must include the PDF format.
  • Export to other specified formats will not be performed if the input PDF has text layer.
  • New CLI 11
Key Parameters Default
-drpwtl no
- -dontRecognizePdfWithTextLayer

--injectTextLayer

  • New CLI 11 R1
  • With this key text layer is injected to input image-only and image-on-text PDF.
  • To use this key, it is required to have a single input image-only or image-on-text PDF and the specified export formats must include the PDF format.
  • Export to other specified formats will not be performed.
Key Parameters Default
-itl no
- -injectTextLayer

--tempFileFolder

  • Change CLI 11 R1
  • This key sets the folder for the ABBYY FineReader Engine’s temporary files.
  • This folder should exist and the user under which CLI runs should have permissions to create and delete files in this folder.
Key Parameters Default
-tmp folder path standard temporary files folder path
–tempFileFolder

--help

  • Dumps some help info to stdout.
Key Parameters Default
-? no
–help
  • Note. Full keys are marked by italic.