ABBYY FineReader Sprint

Features

FineReader 9.0 Sprint

FineReader 11
Professional Edition

Document Recognition

 Superior recognition accuracy

Yes

Yes (Improved) 

 Retention of document layout and formatting

 Excellent

 Excellent (Improved)

 Retention of document structure including consistent text flow, headers and footers, footnotes and image captions on multi-page documents

 Yes

 Yes (Improved)

 Exact electronic document reconstruction incl, fonts and font styles

 Yes

 Yes (Improved)

 Convert documents in multiple languages

 only 2 languages can be chosen simultaneously

 any combination can be chosen simultaneously

 Automatically detect languages

 Yes

 Yes 

 Supported recognition languages

 179

 189

 Ideal for frequent document conversion and processing multiple documents

 No

 Yes 

 Convert PDF files into Microsoft Office formats

 No

 Yes

User Interface

 Interface type

Easy-to-use interface with preset Quick Tasks

Professional interface: preset Quick Tasks and advanced OCR and automation tools

 Preset Quick Tasks for one-click conversion: scan to Word, scan to Excel, scan to PDF

 Yes

groups: of tasks Convert to Word, Convert to PDF, E-book creation, etc.  

 Preview input documents

 No

 Yes 

 Edit and proofread recognition results

 No

 Yes 

 Live preview for saving results in the program

 No

 Yes 

 Edit recognition areas

 Basic tools

 Advanced tools 

 Fast access directly from Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Windows Explorer

 Yes

 Yes 

 Saving recognition results

 Save to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, TXT, RTF, HTML

 Yes

 Yes 

 Save in latest XML based document formats: DOCX, XLSX

 No 

 Yes 

 Save to Searchable PDF

 Yes

 Yes 

 Save as different PDF types, incl. PDFs optimized for Web, tagged PDF and PDF/A for long term archiving

 No

 Yes 

 Send results directly to Adobe Reader or Acrobat, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

 No

 Yes 

Advanced OCR Functions

 Adjustment tools to improve results

 Basic tools

 Advanced 

 Create recognition languages and patterns

 No

 Yes

 Several saving modes in Word (exact copy, editable copy, formatted text, plain text)

 No

 Yes

 Advanced tools for professional OCR - image editing, creating area templates, recognition pattern training, barcode recognition and others

 No

 Yes

 Bonus application: ABBYY Screenshot Reader

 Yes

 Yes 

 Creation of Electronic Books

 Ebooks creation in popular formats: EPUB and FB2

 No

 Yes 

 Send results to Amazon Kindle account

 No

 Yes