Question

What access rights are required for files and folders?

Answer

If there is a very strict internal files and folder access right policy or very strict antivirus software, please make sure that the user has access to the following files:

• <ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 Installation Folder>\Bin
• <ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 Installation Folder>\Bin64
• C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY SDK\12\License Server
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ABBYY\SDK\12\Licensing
• %ProgramData%\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine\Inc\.NET interops
• %ProgramData%\ABBYY\SDK\12\Licenses

Also, please check that all folders and registry branches mentioned in the Developer's Help > System Requirements are accessible:

The following registry branches should be accessible from the workstation:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine — full control
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\SDK\12 — full control for installation only
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ABBYY\SDK\12 — full control for installation only

The following folders should be accessible from the workstation:

• Folder with ABBYY FineReader Engine binary files — access for reading
• %TEMP% folder — full control access
• folder %ProgramData%\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine — full control access
• folder %ProgramData%\ABBYY\SDK\12\Licenses — full control access