ABBYY
Contact Sales

ABBYY FineReader Engine

The most comprehensive OCR SDK for software developers

Integrate AI-powered OCR features into your applications
Schedule a demo
FRE_Visual

Powerful PDF processing tools

The SDK allows conversion of scans, digital photos, Tiff, JPEG, BMP and other image formats into many types of searchable PDF and PDF/A formats. In addition, it allows importing PDF and PDF /A files and processing them in different ways.

For both types of PDF processing - the conversion of documents into PDF as well as processing of PDFs and PDF/A files, ABBYY FineReader Engine offers a broad range of options and tools and allows to process and create electronic documents according to the PDF/A-3 standards and ZUGFeRD-compliant electronic invoices.

PDF input and processing

Intelligent PDF processing
Capture of internal PDF information
Extraction of attachments from PDF/A-3
FE_2

PDF output

PDF security and encryption support

ABBYY FineReader Engine supports a variety of PDF security settings:

  • "Open File" password settings designed to prevent unauthorized access to a document.
  • Ability to restrict certain operations, such as printing, editing or extracting file content, by assigning permission passwords.
  • Support for the latest encryption standards.
Metadata export
ABBYY FineReader Engine enables export of metadata (bookmarks, hyperlinks, cross-references, etc.)
Conversion to PDF/A format
PDF/A format is a standard for long-term preservation of documents. ABBYY’s technologies allow saving documents to PDF/A formats of different compliance levels: PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u and PDF/A-3a and PDF/A-3b.
Output in Tagged PDF format
A tagged PDF can be "reflowed" to fit different page or screen sizes such as screens of smartphones, tablets or reader devices used by visually impaired users.
Chinese, Japanese, Korean to PDF export
Enables conversion of documents in Chinese (both simplified and traditional), Japanese and Korean into PDF format.
Page size settings
Ability to set the size for all pages of an output file.

PDF (PDF/A) MRC compression

  • A special compression technology called MRC (Mixed Raster Content) is used to minimize the size of PDF and PDF/A files. Compressed files are significantly smaller while maintaining the original’s visual quality. MRC PDF compression technology is ideal when color documents are scanned and processed. The MRC technology offers better document appearance and up to 8-10x smaller file size than JPEG compression.
  • Document image files can be large due to image background, which often makes up to 90% of the file size. The MRC compression technology locates the color background and compresses to a high degree. Picture objects (diagrams, graphs, logos, photos, drawings, stamps, signatures, etc.) are also slightly compressed, but only to the extent, that does not lower visual quality. The resulting PDF is significantly smaller.
  • Document image files can be large due to image background, which often makes up to 90% of the file size. The MRC compression technology locates the color background and compresses to a high degree. Picture objects (diagrams, graphs, logos, photos, drawings, stamps, signatures, etc.) are also slightly compressed, but only to the extent, that does not lower visual quality. The resulting PDF is significantly smaller.

pdf conversion

PDF export profiles: quality and speed tuning

To achieve the optimal PDF conversions results, developers can use predefined export profiles that contain pre-set options for different requirements.
Documents_Approved

MaxQuality

Optimizes the PDF (PDF/A) export to deliver the highest visual quality of the output file.
Digital_Connections

Balanced

PDF (PDF/A) exports settings are balanced between the visual quality of the resulting file, its size and the time needed for processing.
Documents_Pages

MinSize

PDF (PDF/A) exports are optimized to deliver minimum file size.
Rocket

MaxSpeed

PDF (PDF/A) exports are optimized to reach the highest processing speed.

Request a demo today!

Schedule a demo and see how ABBYY intelligent automation can transform the way you work—forever.

Loading...