FineReader

New Features

New Features in FineReader 10

Improved accuracy and performance

• Improved OCR accuracy for documents with background interference and poor quality text and images
• Scan camera phone quality photos and convert them to OCR text. Finereader automatically adjusts images to generate the best quality before processing. (Note: Requires 2MP+ camera/ camera phone)
• Improved OCR accuracy for Asian and European languages
• Improved export to PDF speed by up to 50% and improved compression to reduce exported PDF file sizes

Updated ADRT technology for multi-page documents

• ADRT (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) helps to convert multi-page documents with greater accuracy by intelligently recognising document wide formatting and structure
• Convert any documents and export them to Microsoft Office, maintaining table of contents, headers and footers, page numbers, footnotes and more
• Improved recognition of complex page elements - for example, detect text placed on an image and recreate both the text and image in output documents

New User Interface

• Improved Quick Tasks menu provides easy access to document conversion tasks, grouped by output choice

Improved HTML Export

• The HTML Export functionality can now export documents in a way that makes them easily readable on an e-book reader, complete with table of contents
• Export documents to a flexible layout which is easy to modify and publish on the Web

Support for Korean and Yiddish

• Updated language support, now supports 186 languages

Support for Windows 7

• ABBYY FineReader 10 delivers full compatibility with the newest Microsoft Windows 7 operating system

Includes latest version of ABBYY Screenshot Reader for FREE

• Quickly capture anything on your screen including images and texts from opened documents, pictures, file menus, Web pages, presentations, or PDF files with just several clicks.

Features

Powerful, accurate OCR technology

Convert your paper based documents and image files to fully editable, fully formatted text documents. With highly accurate recognition technology, even on documents such as faxes, and the retention of formatting of tables and images, FineReader allows you to move to electronic documents with no retyping or reformatting.

Unique ADRT technology

Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT) is a technology specific to ABBYY that intelligently analyses multi-page documents and can accurately reconstruct the original layout. ADRT can reconstruct complex features such as headers and footers, page numbering, captions, footnotes, table of contents and more and export them to Microsoft Office.

Digital image recognition

Produce OCR text from digital photographs captured by cameras or even camera phones (2MP+ photo size required). FineReader provides a number of tools to adjust digital photos before processing to ensure the highest quality image for OCR processing. This includes: ISO noise correction, blurred image correction, image deskewing and despeckling, line straightening and more.

Multi-lingual support

OCR technology recognises over 180 languages including a variety of Latin and Cyrillic languages, Greek, Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Hebrew, and Korean. FineReader 10 automatically identifies the appropriate languages and supports spell-checking capabilities for 39 languages (and supports Microsoft Office Word's custom dictionary).

Easy to use interface

Quick Tasks allow you to quickly select the required task and get the converted file with just a mouse click. The automated Quick Tasks dramatically reduce amount of steps typically required to process a document and helps to increase productivity.

Integrates with Microsoft Office

Export your OCR documents to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat or Reader. In addition, recognized text can be saved in a variety of file formats, including PDF, PDF/A, HTML, Microsoft Word XML, DOC/DOCX, RTF, XLS/ XLSX, PPTX, CSV and TXT. You can also launch FineReader directly from Office.

PDF Support

Save OCR documents to a text-based PDF that makes text search and retrieval easy. New PDF compression methods help to decrease the size of the produced PDF file whilst retaining the visual quality and the low file sizes and optimised content mean they can be published on the Web. FineReader also supports the creation of password-protected PDF files and other permission settings and complies with the latest encryption standards.

Barcode Recognition

ABBYY FineReader 10 reads both 1-D and 2-D barcodes. It recognises a barcode and displays its value.

High speed processing

FineReader leverages the full potential of multi-core processors to recognise multipage documents with maximum efficiency provided you have a multi-core processor. This feature is especially useful for high-volume document conversion.

FREE - Screenshot Reader

Capture areas of the screen (make screenshots) and recognize text and tables on them. Screenshot Reader is also an ideal “quick OCR' tool when you want to pull small quotes or a few sentences of text from a PDF or image file.

Editions

ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition
ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition is an intelligent, professional level OCR software for creating editable and searchable files from scanned documents, PDF files and digital camera images. ABBYY FineReader gives you the power to unlock the data inside paper-based documents, images, and PDF files to substantially enhance your productivity and efficiency. It is the only OCR application featuring ABBYY’s Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT).

• Superior recognition accuracy and layout retention
• Re-creation of document logical structure and formatting with ADRT — Get ready-to-use documents with native Microsoft Office formatting elements.
• Digital Camera OCR — Convert snapshots into editable files in one step. The second-generation technology enables automatic line straightening and image resolution correction.
• Unmatched productivity — ABBYY FineReader features an intelligent Results-Driven Interface guiding the user to the best OCR result in fewer clicks. With automatic language detection and optimisation for multi-core processor machines, performing any OCR task is quicker and easier than ever.
• Supports Windows 7, Vista and XP.

ABBYY FineReader 10 Corporate Edition
The ideal solution for small and mid-sized companies or individual departments looking for a cost-efficient OCR solution with workgroup functionality for centralised small business networks.
It delivers all the functionality of FineReader Professional Edition plus powerful networking features:

• Concurrent licenses — Can be shared among several users, offering organisations significant savings.
• Automated installation from the server onto several workstations, supports network scanning devices (MFPs and all-in-one devices) and OCR processing in a network.
• Distributed OCR divides OCR processing steps across the company network. Allows each user to perform a single step in the OCR process, distributing the workload.
• 'Hot Folders' and mailbox watching to automatically run tasks on files dropped in specific folders.
• Multi-selection and group operation on Hot Folder tasks.
• Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.

ABBYY FineReader 10 Site License Edition
The perfect solution for large organisations and government institutions which need individual and flexible OCR license volumes and automated software roll-out within distributed networks.
It delivers all of the core features of FineReader Corporate Edition with added support for a high volume, automated roll-out among multiple workstations across a large enterprise:

• Automated roll-out installation — many licenses can easily be installed on multiple computers. Every user has his own license that can be used at any time.
• Distributed OCR — divides OCR processing steps across the enterprise network. Allows each user to perform a single step in the OCR process, distributing the workload.
• Attractive discount structure for purchasing larger volume licenses and additional services.
• Ideal OCR solution for decentralised networks.
• Supports Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.

ABBYY FineReader Express for Mac
Highly accurate and easy-to-use multilingual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) application designed specifically for Mac users. Based on ABBYY’s intelligent document recognition technologies, FineReader Express for Mac quickly turns any scanned paper document, PDF files and digital camera images into editable and searchable formats while keeping the original layout and formatting in tact.

System Req.

Windows System Requirements

Processor: PC with 1GHz processor or higher
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher recommended)
Size of RAM: 512 MB of RAM, plus 256 MB of RAM for each additional processor core
Hard-disk Space: 650 MB of hard-disk space for typical installation and 650 MB of hard-disk space for program operation
Supported Scanners and MFPs: ABBYY FineReader supports all TWAIN-compatible scanners, multi-function peripherals (MFPs) and all-in-one devices.
Supported Digital Cameras: ABBYY FineReader can recognise TIFF and JPEG files created by any digital cameras. It's recommended to use a 5-megapixel+ digital camera (2-megapixel digital camera minimum requirement).
File Format Support:
Input:- BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, PNG, TIFF, PDF, XPS, Djvu, GIF, WDP
Output:- DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTX, RTF, PDF, PDF/A, HTML, CSV, TXT
Save (image):- BMP, TIFF, PCX, DCX, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, PNG

Mac System Requirements

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5.
Memory: 256 MB RAM.
Hard disk space: 500 MB for typical program installation and 1 GB for program operation.
Scanner: TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera or fax modem
Other: Video card and monitor (min. resolution 1024 by 768 pixels), Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.

Note: ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac does not support scanners, cameras and fax modems that use emulated drivers.