What's new in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 16.0.14.7295

Aug 13, 2023
  • PDF Editor could crash when opening documents with a certain type of digital signature.
  • Internal program errors when opening PDF documents containing Type3 fonts in PDF Editor or OCR Editor.
  • Internal program error when saving some PDF documents as searchable in PDF Editor.
  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters were replaced with rectangles if BIZ UDGothic font was applied when editing a document in PDF Editor.
  • Internal program error that might happen when preparing PDFs containing text in Arabic and/or ligatures for editing in PDF Editor.
  • “Open document” option in “Save As” dialogue didn’t work for saving into searchable PDF.
  • Internal program error that happened when saving multiple pages into a new PDF from the “Organize pages” mode (tab) in PDF Editor.
  • In OCR Editor, if the user adjusted the order of recognition areas manually and then clicked “Recognize page” or “Recognize” buttons, the order of areas would reset to the automatically detected by the software.
  • “Image quality” setting didn’t work when saving to Searchable PDF with MRC off which could result in loss of quality of images in the output PDF document.
  • The PDF version could be lowered when editing a PDF document (for example, a document with PDF v1.7 could become v1.5 after editing) or saving it in another PDF standard.
  • When converting documents in Hebrew into DOCX, order of numbers and adjacent Hebrew words could be reversed in the converted document.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 16.0.14.6157 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • Blank pages detection in PDF Editor, OCR Editor and HotFolder. In PDF Editor and OCR Editor, it displays automatically found blank pages to the user to review them and select those to delete. In HotFolder, an option to detect and delete all found blank pages has been added.
  • Image preprocessing control has been improved. New “No preprocessing” mode has been added to the existing “Auto” and “Manual” to make it easy to turn off all image preprocessing in one click, and afterwards as easily turn it back on into Manual or Auto mode.
  • Possibility to select pages by dragging a frame with a mouse has been added to the Organize Pages tool in PDF Editor.
  • New default OCR mode, Pull&Recognize has been applied in PDF Editor, OCR Editor, Compare Documents, and Hot Folder. When converting normal PDFs or preparing them for comparison, the new mode ensures correct digital text extraction even if the document language(s) isn’t(aren’t) set correctly by the user. From PDFs with mixed content (when some of the text is digital, some is in images), the new mode can extract digital text and recognize the texts in the images, providing better overall quality of conversion, without uncertainly recognized characters in the digitally extracted parts.
  • GlyphRecovery technology is applied for PDF Editor. It reconstructs encoding of characters in normal PDFs with incorrect text encoding, and thus allows editing such PDF documents and copying texts directly from them. It increases average accuracy of text extraction from PDFs with incorrect encoding by 36%. The technology successfully reconstructs text encoding in approximately two of each three PDFs with incorrect encoding.
  • Editing of Thai language in PDFs has been improved.
  • HotFolder user interface design has been updated to the current FineReader PDF 16 style.
  • In OCR Editor, it is now possible to manually assign “Heading” role to any style, including user-defined. This allows automatic creation of bookmarks from the texts with such styles when saving the converted document into a PDF with “Create bookmarks from headings” options on.
  • The setting “Number of processor cores used for OCR” now defines this also for background OCR processes in PDF Editor (background recognition, preparing PDF for editing).
  • End-User License Agreement has been updated.
  • What’s Fixed:
  • Even if all image preprocessing options were turned off in Manual mode, some other image preprocessing options, not listed in the settings dialogue window, applied anyway.
  • Image preprocessing option “Correct page orientation” could incorrectly set orientation of pages with vertical texts in Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages.
  • “Use one paper size for all page images” option didn’t work when combining PDFs with pages of different sizes.
  • Screenshot Reader could capture a wrong screen area on high resolution monitors.
  • Preview of PDFs in Microsoft Outlook didn’t work in case of x86 Microsoft Office being used in x64 Windows OS.
  • FineReader PDF sometimes could not recognize strikethrough text.
  • Discontinued features:
  • PDF X-Change virtual printer component has been removed.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 16.0.13.4766 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Problems with product updates: config.permanent.xml replacing
  • Incorrect recognition of text with fracture
  • Screenshot Reader failing to recognize text with diacritics
  • Unexpected reordering of pages in OCR project
  • Occasional crashes in specific user scenarios, including the use of View Mode in PDF Viewer with German or Hungarian UI language

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 15.0.117.9681 (Dec 17, 2021)

  • New features and improvements:
  • Updated “Rate FineReader” tool with a new user feedback form.
  • List of the bugs fixed:
  • Some PDFs might be displayed as black squares or might not be displayed at all (with the message “Cannot Show the PDF Page”) in PDF Editor and OCR Editor.
  • Errors when using “Chinese and English” and “Arabic and English” document language settings.
  • An error when transferring a resulting PDF to the default PDF viewer.
  • Errors when opening documents from mapped SharePoint folders.
  • Other program errors.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 15.0.114.4683 (Sep 17, 2020)

  • An error when drawing separators in tables in OCR Editor.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 15.0.113.3886 (Jun 18, 2020)

  • Fixed: Incorrect update installation process.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 15.0.113.3764 (Jun 5, 2020)

  • New features and improvements:
  • The product name has changed: ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
  • Form Editor: creation and editing of interactive (fillable) PDF forms
  • Gothic (Fraktur) OCR support for converting old books printed in 18th – early 20th century (see the list of supported languages here).
  • Update of the OCR technology core.
  • Improved conversion to searchable PDF: resulting PDF file size is reduced while keeping the same or better visual quality.
  • Improved PDF form filling: calendar is supported, some bugs fixed.
  • Improved PDF editing: visual alignment assistant that helps to align a text block or a picture with other elements on the page.
  • Free trial period for individual trial of FineReader PDF 15 is 7 days.
  • List of the bugs fixed:
  • Stylus (Ink tool) support: sometimes, it was not possible to write a vertical stroke with a stylus.
  • Installation failure when installing PDF-XChange virtual printer.
  • PreciseScan feature did not work properly.
  • FineReader printing settings could rewrite system printing settings and affect other applications.
  • Various program errors

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 15.0.18.1494 Release 2 Update 1 (Sep 19, 2019)

  • Changes in ABBYY FineReader 15.0.18.1494 Release 2 Update 1 (2019-08-23):
  • Bugs fixed: Sort By and Filter tools for comments become unavailable.
  • What’s New in ABBYY FineReader 15.0:
  • Edit all of the PDF:
  • With FineReader 15, editing PDFs of any kind, including scanned documents, has become almost as easy as with a text editor. You can edit entire paragraphs, change the text formatting, edit table cells, and even rearrange the whole layout.
  • Export document comparisons:
  • In addition to exporting the differences between two versions of a document as comments in a PDF, you can now also export the results as a Word document in track-changes mode. This allows you to easily accept or reject the edits and finalize the document (for FineReader 15 Corporate only).
  • Get more accurate document conversion:
  • The latest improvements in ABBYY’s AI-based OCR technology provide higher accuracy for Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters and better automatic tagging for PDF and PDF/UA creation. The intelligent detection of text-layer quality for digitally-created PDFs allows for more accurate results when converting into editable formats.
  • Make an impact across the organization:
  • New Remote User licenses allow organizations to use FineReader with desktop and application virtualization solutions. New options have been added to customize FineReader settings during deployment using Group Policy Objects.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 12.0.101.264 (Feb 19, 2014)

  • Improved recognition accuracy:
  • The new version of ABBYY FineReader delivers more accurate OCR and better recreates the original formatting of your documents thanks to improvements in ABBYY's proprietary Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT). The program now better detects document styles, headings, and tables, so that you don't have to fix the formatting of your documents once they are recognized.
  • Recognition languages:
  • ABBYY FineReader 12 can now recognize Russian texts with stress marks. OCR quality has been improved for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew.
  • Faster and friendlier user interface:
  • Background processing
  • It may take quite some time to recognize very large documents. In the new version, time-consuming processes run in the background, allowing you to continue working on those parts of the document which have already been recognized. Now you don't have to wait for the OCR process to complete before you can adjust image areas, view non-recognized pages, force-start the OCR of a particular page or image area, add pages from other sources, or change the order of pages in the document.
  • Faster image loading
  • Page images will appear in the program as soon as you scan the paper originals, so that you can immediately see the scanning results and select pages and image areas to recognize.
  • Easier quoting
  • Any image area containing text, pictures or tables can be easily recognized and copied to the Clipboard with a click of the mouse.
  • All the basic operations, including scrolling and zooming, are now also supported on touchscreens.
  • Image preprocessing and camera OCR:
  • The improved image preprocessing algorithms ensure better recognition of photographed texts and produce text photos that look as good as scans. The new photo correction capabilities include automatic cropping, correction of geometrical distortions, and evening out of brightness and background colors.
  • ABBYY FineReader 12 allows you to select the preprocessing options you wish to apply to any newly added image, so that you won't need to correct each image separately.
  • Better visual quality for archived documents:
  • ABBYY FineReader 12 includes new PreciseScan technology, which smoothes characters to improve the visual quality of scanned documents. As a result, characters do not look pixelated even when you zoom in on the page.
  • New tools for manual editing of recognition output:
  • Verification and correction capabilities have been expanded in the new version. In ABBYY FineReader 12, you can format recognized texts in the verification window, which now also includes a tool for inserting special symbols not available on standard keyboards. You can also use keyboard shortcuts for the most frequent verification and correction commands.
  • In ABBYY FineReader 12, you can disable recreation of such structural elements as headers, footers, footnotes, tables of contents, and numbered lists. This may be necessary if you want these elements to appear as normal text for better compatibility with other products, e.g. translation software and e-book authoring software.
  • New saving options:
  • When saving OCR results to XLSX, you can now save pictures, remove text formatting, and save each page on a separate Excel worksheet.
  • ABBYY FineReader 12 can create ePub files compliant with the EPUB 2.0.1 and EPUB 3.0 standards.
  • Improved integration with third-party services and applications:
  • Now you can export your recognized documents directly to SharePoint Online and Microsoft Office 365 (FineReader 12 Corporate only), and the new opening and saving dialog boxes provide easy access to cloud storage services, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and SkyDrive.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 11.0.102.481 (Aug 24, 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.

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 10.0.101.47 (Oct 8, 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

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 9.0.0.1019 (Dec 28, 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).

New in ABBYY FineReader Corporate 9.0.0.662 (Oct 16, 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 user�s logical next step, and a 40 percent* reduction in the number of required mouse clicks to accomplish a task.