Abbyy FineReader 10 Professional

ABBYY FineReader 10 is a professional OCR software for individual users and business professionals that turns scanned documents, PDFs and digital camera images into searchable and editable formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and searchable PDFs. Its advanced recognition capabilities provide you a full access to information locked on paper and images by virtually eliminating retyping or reformatting.

• Exceptional recognition accuracy and layout retention -- digitize your documents without retyping and reformatting with proven technology which delivers up to 99% accuracy.
• ADRT (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) for re-creation of document's logical structure and formatting -- get original documents with precisely reproduced formatting attributes that will appear as native formatting in final Microsoft Word document: tables of contents, hierarchical headings, headers and footers, footnotes, page numbers, captions of tables/diagrams and font styles.
• Advanced Digital Camera OCR for Standard and Mobile Phones Cameras -- recognize digital photos of documents taken on the go with enhanced image-correction and processing capabilities for better OCR results, including correction of ISO noise, blurred images and image distortion.
• Comprehensive work with PDFs - save your documents to searchable PDF or PDF/A for long-term archiving. Protect it with password or compress it up to 1:10 file size with enhanced MRC technology.
• Unmatched productivity -- benefit from automatic language detection and intelligent proofreading tool. Save your time processing documents via pre-defined Quick Tasks for automatic performing of most typical OCR tasks, by converting documents directly from within Microsoft Office and with fast access directly from Windows Explorer. To fully use the power of your PC the application is optimized for multi-core processor computers.

What's New in ABBYY FineReader 10

• Achievements in OCR Accuracy and Performance
• ADRT analyses a multipage document as a single entity
• 3rd Generation Camera OCR: Reads Phone Camera Photos
• Enhanced Usability - New Quick Tasks and Interface Revisions
• Saving E-books to HTML Chapters and Flexible HTML
• Powerful PDF Compression
• Further Improvements in Page Layout Analysis
• New Recognition Languages - Korean and Yiddish

FEATURES

OCR Accuracy and Layout Retention

• Superior Recognition Accuracy Enhanced! - Provides exceptional recognition results on:
  • multi-page documents
  • multilingual document
  • documents with complicated layout
  Also including legal documents, faxes, documents with tables, and photos captured with digital and phone cameras.
• Multilingual Document Recognition
  • ABBYY FineReader processes documents in 186 languages including multilingual documents with any combination of the supported languages.
  • The software includes dictionaries with spell-checking capabilities for 39 languages allowing verification of the recognized text directly in the Fine Reader's Text Editor.
• Automatic Language Detection - The application automatically detects the appropriate document recognition language. This helps a user to reduce number of steps in the OCR process.
• Integration with Microsoft Word Custom Dictionary - Enables to create own customized word list for processing industry specific texts or professional documents.
• Creation of Morphological User Dictionaries - A user can add words and create own custom dictionary. While adding new words ABBYY FineReader offers proposals including word forms for convenient usage.
• Fonts Recognition
• Recognition of Table Cells Properties - A user can specify cells properties (text orientation, images, language or numbers) to improve recognition results.
• Processing of Documents with Signatures, Company Stamps and Line Numbering
• Fast Reading Mode - When processing high quality images with a simple layout, a user can choose the Fast Reading Mode to increase recognition speed up to 2.5 times*.
• Intelligent Background Filtering - Prior to OCR recognition the application employs dynamic threshold technology to automatically adjust contrast when converting grayscale and color document images to black and white to provide better recognition results.
• Recognition of Vertical, Colored and Inverted Text
• Barcode Recognition - FineReader reads 1-D and 2-D barcodes including newly added 2 barcode types - Aztec Code and Data Matrix.
• Recognition Mode for Faxes and Type-written Documents - The program allows users to specify document's "print type" and then applies this type to the entire document, selected blocks, or table cells for best recognition result. 

Document Structure Reconstruction and Editability

• The Second Generation of ADRT (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) NEW! - ABBYY ADRT enables re-creation of logical structure and formatting elements in multi-page documents. The technology analyses and processes a multi-page document as a single entity rather than a batch of individual and independent pages and converts paper documents, images and PDF files to the Microsoft Word format more accurately than ever.
  Reconstruction of Document Logical Structure and Formatting:
  • Heading hierarchic structure -- NEW!
  • Table of Contents -- NEW!
  • Headers and footers
  • Page numbering 
  • Footnotes -- Enhanced
  • Fonts and Font Styles -- Enhanced
  • Captions to Images/tables/diagrams
  • Logical Text Flow
• Re-creation of Bullet Points and Numbering
• Accurate Recognition of Magazine-style Pages Enhanced! - Provides automatic and accurate conversion of complex page images with text upon them. It also allows users to mark text areas inside the image areas manually. The feature is very useful for users processing documents containing background graphics.
• Retention of Hyperlinks
• Table Structure Re-creation - ABBYY FineReader accurately recognizes and re-creates tables and spreadsheets including multi-page tables. As a result, tables re-created by FineReader are fully editable within Word or Excel.
• Saving Books to Separate HTML Chapters NEW! - A user can save chapters of a book or document as individual HTML files for reading on E-book devices or placing them on Web sites. The program also automatically creates a Table of Contents for easier navigation through the HTML files.
• Saving to HTML with native elements NEW! - Documents can be saved as flexible HTML with native elements for easy editing, indexing, searching and reading.

Efficiency and Productivity

• Results-Driven interface - Key functions are grouped together and easily accessible at the "top-level" with minimum searching through "drop down menus." 
• Intelligent Quick Tasks Enhanced! - New pre-programmed Quick Tasks include most typical conversion tasks and make OCR performing easier.
• QuickPreview Window - A visual preview of documents before opening.  Makes it easier to select the pages or documents a user needs when opening files to be processed.
• One-Step Conversion from within External Applications
  • Access from Microsoft Office (from Microsoft Word, Excel and Microsoft Outlook)
  • Right-Click Access from Windows Explorer
• Direct Export to Multiple Applications and Clipboard - including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Writer and Adobe Acrobat/Reader. FineReader also supports export to e-mail applications, Web browsers and Clipboard.
• Broad Range of Interface Languages
• Image Pre-processing Tools - All image pre-processing functions, such as Rotate, Deskew, Crop, and Invert Image, are grouped together and can be quickly accessed from the Edit Image window. A window also contains tools for photo correction such as ISO noise reduction (NEW!), motion blur removing (NEW!), trapezium distortion correction (NEW!) and text lines straightening.
• Proofreading Tool - FineReader 10 highlights uncertainly recognized characters or words that are absent in its dictionaries and offers alternatives for substitution. For Asian languages it provides alternatives for ideographic characters.
• Text Editor - The multi-column WYSISYG editor allows users to review the document layout and easily correct it if necessary.
• Full-Text Search/Search-and-Replace Tool - Special tool enables searching and replacing words or phrases directly in the program without the need to first save it to an external application.
• Automation Manager - Special tool automates conversion tasks and enables quick and easy processing of recurring tasks.
• Automatic Recognition - Automatically performs OCR as soon as the document is scanned or opened.
• Printing Directly from ABBYY FineReader
• Hand Tool NEW! - With this special tool, a user can move the image in process within the Image Window.
• QuickTips - FineReader 10 guides users towards improving results throughout the OCR process with interactive tips.
• High Speed Multi-core Processing - Processing of multi-page documents is divided and executed in parallel that helps to streamline the business workflow and increase processing speed.
• Recognition of Selected Pages
• ABBYY Screenshot Reader -- Bonus for Registration! (New version) - A new version of the popular and useful utility that allows users to create screenshots and quickly retrieve texts or tables from any screen area such as Windows Explorer file menus, error messages, Web pages, or flash presentations.

Digital Camera OCR
The 3rd generation Digital Camera OCR technology intelligently identifies images taken with digital cameras and even mobile phone cameras and automatically applies necessary image pre-processing and recognition.

• Automated Image Pre-processing Functions
  • Straightening curved text lines
  • Splitting dual pages
  • Deskewing
  • Detection of page orientation
  • Correction of image resolution
  • 3D perspective distortion correction -- NEW!
• Manual Image Editing Tools
  • Splitting images into multiple pages
  • Rotate (90°, 180°, 270°)
  • Crop
  • Invert
  • Correction of image resolution
  • ISO noise correction -- NEW!
  • Trapezium crop -- NEW!
  • Blurred images correction -- NEW!
• "Convert Photo to Microsoft Word" Scenario - This special option in the Quick Task menu allows users to get quick and accurate results when processing images captured with a digital camera.

 PDF Conversion, Saving and Archiving

• Saving to Searchable PDF
• MRC Compression for Archiving PDFs Enhanced! - Reduces the size of the resulting PDF file up to 10 times compared to the original image without a loss of visual quality - for better sharing and archiving.
• PDF/A Output with New Options NEW! - ABBYY FineReader 10 supports output to PDF/A with the following options:
  • Text-under-image 
  • Text-over-image
  • Text and pictures
  • Image only
• Saving to Password-Protected PDF:
  • Follows assigned passwords for document opening.
  • Allows setting permission passwords to restrict printing, content extraction, editing, adding comments or adding/removing pages.
• Processes Any Type of PDF* - Even scanned PDFs without text layer of PDFs with non-standard encoding.
• Saving as Tagged PDF Documents - Tagged PDFs are optimized for handheld and screen-reader devices. In this format, the text is automatically reformatted and "reflows" to the current screen size.
• Creates PDF Files Accessible to Visually Impaired Users - ABBYY FineReader converts documents into searchable PDFs making paper documents and photographs of text accessible for people with visual impairments.
• PDF for Web Publishing - PDF documents created by FineReader are in linearized PDF format optimized for web publishing.
• Document Properties Extraction - While converting PDF files, ABBYY FineReader can extract the following type of metadata: title, subject, author, and key words.
• Detection of Internal Links and Hyperlinks in PDF - The program retains internal links and hyperlinks of processing PDF files in output documents.
• Making Changes in PDFs - FineReader allows users to make necessary changes in PDF files directly in the FineReader text editor and save back it into PDF.

Networking Features in ABBYY FineReader Corporate and Site License Editions

• Automated Network Installation - Allows administrators to remotely install the software from the server onto workstations using Active Directory, Microsoft Systems Management Server or the command line.
• Concurrent Licensing - The utility for managing licenses in a network environment allows the administrator to monitor the use of ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition on workstations, assign licenses to particular workstations, and add new licenses. The FineReader's License Manager enables monitoring concurrent licenses in use.
• Distributed Document Processing - Businesses and organizations with multiple workstations can share OCR processes allowing multiple users on a network to scan, recognize, and proofread the documents simultaneously.
• Terminal Server Support - The application supports Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
• Shared Languages and Dictionaries - Allows multiple users to simultaneously access the same set of user languages and dictionaries available on the network. In addition, Corporate Edition enables users to add words like names, acronyms, and industry lingo to shared dictionaries.
• Export to SharePoint - Recognized documents could be saved directly to Microsoft SharePoint that facilitates information sharing and improves company's efficient processes.
• Hot Folder and Scheduling - Allows users to designate a folder location on a local drive, network drive or FTP server to be monitored or "watched" by FineReader and automatically process any file placed in them. A user can run, stop, and delete several selected tasks in the Hot Folder simultaneously.
  Users who need to process large volumes of documents after work hours can define the exact processing task and processing time.
• Subfolder Watching NEW! - Enables users to divide the incoming to Hot Folder documents into different subfolders according to user's needs.
• Mailbox Watching - Allows users to monitor input folders or schedule OCR processing with the Mailbox Watching function. The program automatically recognizes attachments received by email, like those sent automatically by many multifunction printers (MFPs).

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