Next Generation of FineReader Enables Fast, Accurate Document Scanning and Conversion and Delivers Intelligent Tools to Increase Productivity When Working with Documents
ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, today announced ABBYY FineReader 11, an intelligent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software application for efficient document scanning and conversion. FineReader 11 enables businesses and individuals to bring their productivity to a new level with a significant enhancement in OCR performance, including a new black-and-white mode that increases document processing speed up to 45 percent*. To streamline document conversion processes, FineReader further improves its unique capability to reconstruct native formatting of multi-page documents and also supports easy creation of electronic books in the most popular formats. Additionally, it expands its industry-leading language support to make the award-winning solution available for new global markets such as Arabic**.
“ABBYY FineReader helps people to accomplish more in the shorter time with less effort — whether it is used for regular processing of office documentation or occasional tasks,” explained Sergey Popov, director of the FineReader Product Department at ABBYY. “For many professionals ABBYY software has become an integrated part of ongoing business processes. With the newest enhancements, the program now easily masters tasks which used to be considered to be really difficult and time-consuming.”
ABBYY FineReader provides intuitive tools for scanning documents and readily converting images of documents such as scans, photographs, and PDF files into editable and searchable electronic formats. A time-saving alternative to manual retyping, FineReader text recognition delivers precision accuracy in converting almost any type of printed document including books, magazine articles with complex layouts, tables and spreadsheets, and even faxes.
The new version of ABBYY FineReader delivers a powerful set of features and tools aimed to simplify, speed-up and optimize everyday work with documents and images. The key new features include:
ABBYY FineReader 11 delivers an overall increase of processing speed with up to 25 percent* faster results on European languages (e.g. English, German, Russian, etc.) and up to 40 percent* speed-up on Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. In addition, users can further increase and optimize the solution’s performance by using FineReader 11’s dedicated processing modes:
ABBYY FineReader 11 allows users to convert paper documents and images of text to a variety of formats supported by e-book readers, tablet PCs and smartphones, including the newly added Electronic Publication (.ePub) and FictionBook (.fb2) formats. Additionally, texts converted with ABBYY FineReader 11 can be sent directly to the user’s Amazon® Kindle™ account.
With the enhanced ABBYY ADRT® technology, FineReader 11 provides more accurate reconstruction of the document’s original formatting, including table of contents, headers and footers and other attributes commonly found in multipage documents. The new version delivers significant improvements in the detection of vertical headers, as well as margin notes, diagrams, tables, and styles, minimizing the effort typically required for manual correction.
In addition to Microsoft Word documents, ABBYY FineReader 11 now accurately re-creates headers, footers, page numbering and table of contents across all pages in resulting OpenOffice.org Writer (ODT) files. When saving to PDF, the application intelligently identifies and reproduces the document’s content outline bookmarks with live links for better navigating and reading.
ABBYY FineReader 11 offers an improved, flexible user interface that helps users achieve faster results when working with documents:
The new version adds support for Arabic**, Vietnamese and Turkmen (Latin) covering a total of 189 recognition languages and, as a result, providing the broadest language coverage in the industry.
ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition, designed for medium-sized businesses, departments and workgroups in large enterprises, provides additional collaboration and productivity tools. Corporate Edition supports centralized installation from a server onto multiple workstations, distributed document processing with the capability to share workflows across the network, and offers a flexible licensing scheme designed specifically for corporate customers. FineReader 11 Corporate Edition includes a range of new powerful enhancements, such as:
ABBYY FineReader 11 will be available in two editions (Professional and Corporate Editions designed to meet the needs of different user groups and throughput requirements) through various online stores, selected retail outlets and resellers worldwide. For detailed product information or to download a free trial version of the application, visit: http://finereader.abbyy.com.
*According to internal ABBYY testing. Accuracy and formatting results can vary depending on factors such as document quality and scanner settings.
** Some local versions of ABBYY FineReader 11 do not support Arabic OCR.