ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition is an all-in-one solution for your entire document archiving needs. It is capable of producing electronic searchable PDF files out of your paper documents, thanks to its powerful OCR engine, and transforming into MS Word files all your PDF and image files, or, for that matter, any document that you can capture using a scanner.
Though high-quality scanning and Optical Character Recognition is what has made of FineReader a reference in this field over the years, this new version 11 not only comes with improved and enhanced OCR and ADRT technologies, but also with a handful of extra functions and utilities that will allow you to create EPUB e-books, convert PDF documents into OpenOffice files, and save your images as DjVu files.
When it comes to producing searchable electronic documents, you can either use existing PDF or image files or a freshly-scanned document as source. Either way, the program’s OCR engine and its new ADRT technology will work together to produce a new electronic document that is both searchable and good looking. Its enhanced OCR technology is now capable of recognizing up to 189 languages – these include some “dead languages”, and 45 of them come with dictionary support for higher accuracy. The recognition accuracy has been increased to an astonishing 99.8% (subject to the quality of the source document, of course), which guarantees an accurate rendition of the document’s contents. The Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT), on the other hand, will use that accuracy to produce a clone of the original structure of the document based on its layout. Thus, it will reproduce the original hierarchical structure, the table of contents, headers and footers (including page numbers and footnotes), fonts and font styles, vertical headers, the logical text flow, table cells, spreadsheets, etc. But the great thing about it is that all these tasks and processes are now carried out even faster than ever, thanks to its support for multi-core processing.
PDF (including PDF/A) is still FineReader’s star format, but it is not the only one. Now you can also save your archive documents using the DjVu specification, which is capable of storing high quality images in smaller containers. New PDFs can now be tagged and made more accessible for blind and visually impaired users, too.
Besides, and following today’s trends, FineReader 11 offers you the possibility of creating your own e-books without leaving the application. It can now produce high-quality EPUB and FB2 e-books out of any of your existing or newly-scanned documents.
Oh, and there is one more thing, FineReader 11 comes with an even better version of ABBYY’s Screenshot Reader, for you to capture any section of your screen – you can then use FineReader’s magic to extract all the information in the screenshot easily and accurately.
v11.0 [Sep 8, 2011]
What’s New
ABBYY FineReader 11 combines intelligent document analysis with higher speed, better recognition, and support for more file formats to give you the smartest and most versatile way to turn scans and PDFs into editable and searchable documents.
Gain Speed, Raise Quality
ABBYY FineReader 11 now converts scans, PDFs and digital camera images into editable and searchable formats up to 45%* faster than before with new Black and white processing mode. Improved Fast Reading mode is up to 70%* faster than Thorough Reading mode, and documents with Asian languages can now be processed up to 40%* faster.
Enjoy More Accurate Formatting with Enhanced ADRT®
Complex documents with tables or charts — such as financial reports are no match for FineReader’s enhanced Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT). The new technology detects and preserves vertical headers, accurately re-creates text in margins and preserves overall layout and formatting when converting to your preferred file format.
Convenient E-book Creation
Convert paper books, articles and other files you want bundled together into EPUB and FB2 formats, optimized for e-readers and smartphones. Send electronic books directly to your Amazon KindleTM account or electronic archive.
Scan and Convert Documents to OpenOffice.org™ Writer
Convert images and PDFs directly to OpenOffice.org Writer format (ODT), with their native layout and formatting accurately preserved.
Enhanced Interface for Intuitive Use
Increase your productivity with intuitive interface guiding you directly to the result. An enhanced Verification and improved Style Editor tools make it easy to manage text styles and verify accuracy.
Easier Bulk Document Processing
Scan a batch of mixed-type documents all at once and arrange them into separate files with our new Split Document Tool.
Advanced Camera OCR For Better Text Capture on the Fly
Enjoy improved accuracy and layout retention of photos with text or documents, taken with standard digital or smartphone cameras.
More Powerful Image Editing
Improve image quality with new image-processing tools including brightness and contrast selection and tonal values adjusting for an optimal OCR result. Apply changes to all or selected pages at once.
Enhanced PDF Conversion for Reliable Archiving
Benefit from one of three pre-defined PDF saving modes: Best Quality, Compact Size or Balanced. Enhanced MRC compression reduces file size up to 80%* better than the previous version with virtually no quality degradation.
New Recognition Languages: Arabic, Vietnamese and Turkmen (Latin)
Convert multilingual documents in any combination of 189 languages including new Arabic (Modern Standard), Vietnamese and Turkmen (Latin).
Export to DjVu for easy reading or archiving
ABBYY FineReader 11 enables saving to DjVu, delivering high-quality, readable images requiring minimum of space.
Enhanced Screenshot Reader
Instantly capture images and texts on the screen – and now preserve the exact size of the original screenshot. Available for registered users.
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