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.
v12.0 [Mar 21, 2014]
Faster conversion and higher accuracy
- Providing up to 99.8% recognition accuracy, FineReader 12 delivers up to 15% faster document processing than before. FineReader also offers up to 30% better retention of charts and graphs, to simplify working with business documents. New and improved language capabilities help to raise accuracy even further.
Enhanced recognition technology for Arabic and Asian languages
- Along with significantly improved accuracy for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, FineReader 12 continues to lead the market with support for 190 languages – 48 of them featuring dictionary support.
Instant document opening and background processing
- FineReader 12 allows immediate access to the documents you open, while the time consuming and resource intensive OCR process runs in the background. This means that while FineReader is working on recognition, you can view content, rearrange pages, edit recognized areas or even select snippets for immediate citation.
Quick quotes extraction
- Extracting sections of text or tables now takes mere seconds with FineReader. Just select an area you need to copy and right-click on it to pull the quote – no need to wait while the rest of the document’s pages are being processed. FineReader will convert the selected area immediately, allowing you to insert it into another document.
Seamless conversion of tables and numerical data
- FineReader 12 improves table conversion by up to 40% saving engineers, financial professionals and educators significant time and effort correcting results.
Image Enhancement technology for better appearance of archived copies
- Turn photographed documents into scan-quality images using the new automatic image pre-processing options, manually apply improvements such as auto-crop of multiple images or whiten background of old documents, which have turned yellow or grey with time. Enhance the reading and printing experience for searchable PDFs by using the PreciseScan technology which smooths pixelated characters, improving the visual quality of your documents. Plus, the tool for removing color stamps and pen marks assures better recognition quality and improves the appearance of basic business documents.
Faster and easier results verification and correction
- The enhanced Verification tool now allows you to apply both spelling and formatting corrections, with intuitive hot keys and tab controls that make it easy to navigate through the verification process.
Send and retrieve files from the Cloud more easily
- You can easily access popular cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and more, opening or saving documents by using native Windows dialogs. In addition, FineReader 12 enables seamless document sharing through direct integration with Microsoft SharePoint Online/ Office 365.
Designed in a Windows 8 look and feel
- FineReader 12 is Windows 8 certified and utilizes new options provided by the operating system to make your work easier. Now you have quick access to one-click conversion tasks right from the Windows 8 start screen and can use basic touch gestures to scroll and zoom on laptops with touch screens.
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