Adding a new Evidence Cruncher serial
Prerequisites
This article assumes you have already installed the Evidence Cruncher and are activating it after purchasing, or adding a new serial number either to increase the monthly OCR page count or to add a specific number of pages perhaps for a large dataset.
Start the Abbyy Licence Manager
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From the Start Menu's MasterFile group click on Abbyy License Manager. You can also click on Start and search for Abbyy as above.
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In the dialog box below,
- Enter new serial number you received from MasterFile.
- Click 'Add', and
- The serial will appear in 'Added serial numbers',
- Click OK.
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Click 'Next' on the screen below.
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The license manager displays your newly added serial and its status as 'Active'. Any other active, expired or inactive serials will also be shown; if you have more than one active serial, all will be used to calculate your monthly or countdown OCR page limits.
Click 'Close'.
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Click Close.