August 24th, 2011· 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 Advanced 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, Vietnamese and Turkmen (Latin).
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.
October 8th, 2009· 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
December 28th, 2008· Breakthrough Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT)
· ABBYY’s newest Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT) treats an entire document as a single entity, rather than the more error-prone and time-consuming method used by previous generations of OCR technology which process each page individually.
· ADRT makes converting paper documents, images and PDF files to the Microsoft Word format more accurate than ever. By intelligently “seeing” the document in its entirety, the program identifies various elements of document structure such as heading, body text, columns, tables, graphics, and page numbers. After the processing, documents contain accurately digitized text, while retaining the document’s logical structure and layout in native Microsoft Office formatting elements for easy editing and changing.
· Headers/footers, page numbering, heading, footnotes, and lists are all expertly re-produced. For example, after processing with FineReader 9.0, header text is identified as part of the header “field” and subsequently placed in the corresponding formatting section of Microsoft Word document so that headers are created as a single element to allow them to be edited or deleted on all pages simultaneously. ADRT also enhances recognition and retention of fonts and font styles.
· Enhanced Recognition Accuracy and Performance
With ADRT, the newest version of ABBYY's Optical Character Recognition software delivers significant accuracy enhancements, especially on documents containing tables, legal documents, multilingual documents, and digital camera captured images. Overall accuracy has been improved by as much as 35 percent * compared to the previous version. Other enhancements include:
· Recognition of Signatures, Company Stamps, and Line Numbering in Legal Documents
· ABBYY FineReader 9.0 automatically identifies the specialized elements and formatting found typically in legal documents. For example, the program automatically locates and preserves signatures or company stamps in contracts and recognizes and reproduces line numbers in pleading documents.
· Automatic Language Detection
· FineReader cuts an additional step in the OCR process by automatically detecting the appropriate document recognition language.
· New Recognition Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Hebrew
· The new version of ABBYY FineReader supports 184 recognition languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Hebrew. The program provides unmatched accuracy when processing multilingual documents including those with mixed ideographic and alphabetical languages (e.g. Chinese and English). Program Interface enhancements include the updated verification tools and intuitive options specifically adapted to handle and edit Chinese and Japanese texts as well as “right-to-left” Hebrew texts.
· Second-generation Digital Camera OCR
· ABBYY FineReader 9.0 incorporates second-generation Digital Camera OCR. This single-step digital camera OCR saves time for users capturing document with a camera. Not only does FineReader 9.0 automatically identify an image taken with a camera, but it applies necessary image pre-processing and recognition operations with a single step process.
· The new FineReader interface offers a special Convert Photo to Microsoft Word option to get quick and accurate results processing images captured by a digital camera. With this enhancement, ABBYY FineReader can automatically identify the image resolution and correct possible image distortions using functions that include line straightening, and angle correction.
· Enhanced Image Processing
· The program also offers enhanced image processing for digital photo images including better line straightening, image distortion correction, and automatic resolution calculation and correction. FineReader detects the page curve in photographs of book or magazine pages and automatically straightens lines on the image to boost accuracy.
· Results-Driven Interface – Less Clicks, Greater Efficiency
The Results-Driven interface simplifies and shortens the recognition process and automatically highlights the best strategies for optimizing OCR results. The new interface reduces the number of mouse clicks needed for popular document conversion tasks by as much as 40 percent. In FineReader 9.0, key functions are more easily accessible at the “top-level” with less need to search through detailed “drop down menus.” Key functionality is grouped together in special dialog boxes to make it easier to perform key tasks:
· QuickTasks
· This option further increases user efficiency and accuracy. Users can access popular OCR tasks such as “Scan to PDF”, “Scan to Microsoft Word”, or “Convert PDF/ Images to Microsoft Word” using FineReader’s new QuickTasks window which automatically appears once the program is launched. QuickTasks can now also be launched directly from the Window’s Start menu. Now, users can execute these tasks from start to finish with a single mouse click. Users can also create customized QuickTasks by using the Automation Manager tool.
· One-click Access within Microsoft Office
· The ABBYY's Optical Character Recognition software seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office applications. From Microsoft Word, Excel and Microsoft Outlook, users can easily scan, open and process images and then open the recognitized document in the same application.
· Right-Click Access from Windows Explorer
· From Windows Explorer, users can use the right mouse button to select images or PDF files to convert (and send results directly to application, or save as documents).
· Enhanced Text Editor
· A newly enhanced Text Editor allows for easy review while the enhanced editing toolbar supports quick font and font style adjustments and adds additional editing capabilities. Users can preview in real time and then choose from four output preferences (exact copy, editable copy, formatted text and plain text).
· QuickPreview window makes it easier to select the pages or documents a user needs when opening files to be processed. Users now have a visual preview of documents before opening.
· QuickTips
· FineReader 9.0 offers intelligent and interactive tips to guide users toward improving results throughout the OCR process. Not only will FineReader identify areas in which accuracy can be enhanced, but it offers “actionable buttons” such as “re-scan” that lets users quickly take correction measures.
· Easy Image Enhancements
· All image pre-processing functions, such as Rotate, Deskew, Crop, and Invert Image, can be quickly accessed from a single “Edit Image” window. Users can easily apply changes made to a single image page to all pages of a document with one click.
· Automatic Recognition and Background Processing
· FineReader 9.0 automatically performs OCR as soon as the document is scanned in or opened (without the need for users to click “Read”). The default background processing allows users to start working on the first recognized pages while FineReader continues processing. (Experienced users have the option to turn this function off.)
· Compatibility with Latest Microsoft Environment and Office Applications
· ABBYY FineReader 9.0 is Microsoft Windows Vista certified and supports Microsoft Office 2007. The program also provides support for Windows XP 64 Bit Edition.
· Support for New Input and Output Formats
· DOCX and XLSX Output
· With direct support for Microsoft Office 2007, FineReader 9.0 can save files in the new DOCX and XLSX using compression and based on the XML language for small file sizes and more secure documents that can be easily accessed by a variety of information systems.
· PDF/A Output
· New version supports output to PDF/A, an archiving format recommended as a standard for long-term preservation of documents.
· XPS and GIF Input
· FineReader 9.0 also supports input of images in GIF and XPS (XML Paper Specification), a new format for document viewing and storage developed by Microsoft.
· Optimized Performance on Multi-core Processors
· Intelligent algorithms effectively divide document processing steps for parallel execution for 1.6 times faster* processing on systems with dual-core processors such as Intel and AMD and 3.2 times faster on systems using quad-core technology (based on internal ABBYY testing).
· Mailbox Watching in the Hot Folder & Scheduling Functions
· Corporate users can monitor input folders or schedule OCR processing with the new Mailbox watching function which allows FineReader to recognize attachments received by email, like those sent automatically by many multifunction printers (MFPs).
October 16th, 2007· Based on a breakthrough new recognition platform with Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT), ABBYY FineReader 9.0 is intelligent enough to automatically deliver editable files in native document formatting.
· It has been also enhanced with second-generation Digital Camera OCR, and offers enhanced task-driven processing, new output formats, and support for Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.
· In addition, FineReader 9.0 improves recognition accuracy by up to 35 percent* and layout retention by 32 percent* compared to the previous generation of the software.
· The new version also focuses on superior usability. The all-new Results-Driven user interface maximizes usability and efficiency through straightforward user guidance, anticipation of a users logical next step, and a 40 percent* reduction in the number of required mouse clicks to accomplish a task.
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