ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac

• Mac OS X 10.4 and later (including Mac OS X 10.7 Lion)
• Memory: 256 MB RAM
• Hard disk space: 500 MB for typical program installation and 1 GB for program operation

Yes, it does.
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Yes, it is. ABBYY FineReader Express runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

TWAIN is an acronym for “Technology Without An Interesting Name”, a standard software protocol and application programming interfaces (API) that regulate communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras.

Yes, it does. For instance, a poor fax copy can cause recognition problems, as well as a low-contrast scan or a document image that has a lot of speckles on it. ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac delivers special image pre-processing features that help to eliminate the speckles and skewing of the original image. Skewed scans and speckled images will make your OCR program work harder and may increase a number of errors.

Recognition languages
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac recognizes documents in 171 languages and provides dictionary support for 36 languages.

Interface languages
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac supports 8 interface languages:
English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.

Yes, you can. Moreover, you can select up to three recognition languages at a time from the full list of all supported languages.

If recognition results contain many errors try some of the following solutions: 
1. Change scanning brightness:

• If the image letters are smudged, stuck together or dark you should increase brightness (i.e. make the image lighter). 
• If the image letters are torn or light and thin then try to decrease brightness (i.e. make the image darker).  

2. Set up scanning resolution: 

• Select 300 dpi for texts in 10pt fonts or lager.
• Select 400-600 dpi for texts in 9pt fonts or smaller.

3. Try a different scanning mode – Grayscale or Black&White.
4. Make sure you have selected the right recognition language in the Language menu. 
5. If you see that a table appears as simple text without table formatting or that a part of a picture is represented as a text and so on - this means that ABBYY FineReader Express has drawn the area incorrectly. To cope with the problem, draw the areas (“text”, “table” or “image”) and select their types manually.

Yes, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac can recognize color documents. For maximum recognition quality, specify color pictures as Picture areas.

No, you cannot edit text directly in ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac.  To be able to edit recognized document, save it on your Mac, open in any suitable application for spell-checking and polishing.

There is no need to worry about that. ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is the most easy-to-use and friendly OCR software and you don’t need to be an OCR professional to work effectively with it.

All registered ABBYY customers are entitled to free technical support. Detailed information about technical support terms and conditions, as well as the contacts, can be found at http://www.abbyy.com/support/

Yes, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac provides an opportunity to recognize several documents at once. During recognition they will be merged into one resulting file.

Yes, digital photos can be recognized, as well as scanned documents and PDFs. Thanks to ABBYY’s intelligent OCR technologies, FineReader Express Edition for Mac deskews and despeckles digital images before recognition, clears noise and straitens curved text lines.

With ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac you can recognize any type of PDF documents (even image-only), except secured PDFs.

ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac outputs searchable PDF (text-under-image). This enables text searchability.

Searchable PDF is a PDF file which contains searchable and selectable text. Text from searchable PDF files can be used during indexing and full-text search (including desktop search), and is also available for copying using Adobe Reader and other PDF viewers.