ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Feature List
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Recognition and Accuracy
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Superior Recognition Accuracy 
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 delivers highest recognition accuracy and
layout retention, even on difficult-to-read and low-quality images such as
faxes and digital photographs. The program allows uses to convert scanned
images, digital photos and PDFs into editable and searchable electronic
documents with literally no retyping and reformatting. In the 9.0 version,
the overall accuracy has been increased by as much as 35 percent*, especially on
documents containing tables, legal documents, multilingual documents, and
images from digital cameras.
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Multilingual Recognition
ABBYY continues to lead in the OCR language support. With ABBYY
FineReader, users can process documents in 179 languages including
Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin. FineReader also recognizes scripting
languages and simple chemical formulas. The software includes dictionaries
with spell-checking capabilities for 36 languages allowing
verification of recognized text directly in the FineReader Editor.
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Automatic Language Detection 
FineReader cuts an additional step in the OCR process by
automatically detecting the appropriate document recognition language.
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Text within Graphics
FineReader allows users to manually draw text areas inside the
graphics areas of document images. This feature is useful when users want to
output documents that contain graphics, charts and screenshots into
searchable PDFs. This way, FineReader uses the text zoning to create
underlying text for search-ability.
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Processing Documents with Signatures, Company Stamps, and Line
Numbering
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.
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Fast Mode Recognition
When processing good quality images with simple layout, a user
can use the Fast Mode Recognition option to increase recognition speed up to
2.5 times*.
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Intelligent Background Filtering
FineReader’s background filtering system employs dynamic
threshold technology to automatically adjust contrast when converting
grayscale and color document images to black and white prior to OCR
recognition. This feature optimizes recognition even when processing
low-contrast images and documents.
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Vertical, Colored and Inverted Text Recognition
ABBYY FineReader is the only OCR application that reads vertical
text. It recognizes text that is colored or inverted and retains those
attributes in the output document.
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Barcode Recognition
ABBYY FineReader reads both 1-D and 2-D barcodes. It also offers
the option to treat barcodes as images (default) or recognize a barcode and
display its value. User can change the defoult setting to allow FineReader
automatically analyze and recognize barcodes.
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Special Recognition Mode for Dot Matrix and Type-written Documents
With its special mode for recognizing dot-matrix print and
type-written documents, ABBYY FineReader is useful if a user need to convert
legacy documents. The program allows you to specify document’s “print type”
and applies that type to the entire document, selected blocks, or table cells
for best recognition result.
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Custom Dictionaries:
- Integrated Microsoft Word
Custom Dictionary
ABBYY
FineReader enables users to create their own customized word list for
processing industry specific texts or professional documents.
- Creation of Morphological
User Dictionaries
FineReader
allows users to add words and create custom dictionaries. When adding
new words, FineReader will prompt them to enter additional word forms
that stem from the same root.
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Format Retention/Editability
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Key Technology Breakthrough: Adaptive Document Recognition Technology
(ADRT™)
ABBYY’s
ADRT, the newest Adaptive Document Recognition Technology, 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. With ADRT, ABBYY FineReader recognizes not just the
text and basic layout, but the logical structure of a document across
multiple pages producing an improvement in layout retention by up to 32
percent*. ABBYY's ADRT provides:
- Re-creation of Document
Logical Structure and Formatting
ADRT
makes converting paper documents, images and PDF files to the Microsoft®
Word format more accurate than ever. The program, by intelligently
“seeing” the document in its entirety, identifies various parts 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, layout and formatting.
FineReader
produces output documents in native
Microsoft Office formatting elements that are easy to
edit and change. It can determine how certain formatting elements should
be treated when sending to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel®. As a
result, the headers and footers, page numbering, footnotes, fonts and
styles of the original are retained.
- Text Flow Consistency
With
ADRT, ABBYY FineReader maintains even the most complex layouts, whether
single or multi-column. By detecting document formatting elements and
reconstructing them as native Microsoft Office formatting elements, the
software provides truly editable documents with consistent text flow
between pages and columns.
- Retention of Fonts and Font
Styles
ADRT
enables FineReader to re-create font styles of the original document. By
analyzing the whole document with all its pages at once, FineReader
gathers information about the font styles of the original document and
then accurately re-creates them.
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Saves Non-Rectangular Pictures and Text Flow in Microsoft Word
FineReader recognizes non-rectangular pictures and text flow
around pictures, preserving the original document layout in Microsoft Word.
The software maintains even the most complex layouts, whether single or
multi-column.
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Retains Table Structure
FineReader accurately recognizes and recreates true Word- or
Excel-generated tables and spreadsheets including multi-page tables. As a
result, tables created by FineReader are fully editable within Word or Excel.
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Pictures within Table Cells
Many magazine articles include tables that use icons or graphics
in the header row/column. With ABBYY FineReader, converting these types of
tables is easy - the program accurately preserves their original look.
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Retains Bullets and Numbering
With the new ADRT, FineReader recognizes and reconstructs
bullets and numbered lists with original styles and logic (as native
Microsoft Word elements).
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Results-Driven™ Interface — Less
Clicks, Greater Efficiency
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The FineReader's 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.
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QuickTasks™
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 interface comes with pre-programmed QuickTasks for the most common
document processing routines such as “Scan to
PDF”, “Scan to Microsoft Word”, or “Convert PDF/ Images to Microsoft Word”. The FineReader’s new QuickTasks window automatically appears
once the program is launched. QuickTasks can also be launched directly from
the Window’s
Start menu. Users can also create customized QuickTasks by using
the Automation Manager.
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One-click Access within Microsoft Office
FineReader seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office applications. From
Microsoft Word, Excel and Microsoft Outlook, users can easily open, process
and import images directly into their applications.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Ease-of-Use and Productivity
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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. (Power
users have the option to turn this function off.)
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Optimized Performance on Multi-core
Processors
Intelligent algorithms effectively divides 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).
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ABBYY Screenshot Reader
This simple utility captures screen shots and the text they
contain. It allows users to conveniently and quickly pull text, tables, or
images from Windows Explorer file menus, error messages, Web browser pages,
or Flash presentations.
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Sending Results Directly to Applications and
Clipboard
FineReader allows users to send recognition results directly to
applications with one click of a button without having to save the files
first including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint,
and Adobe Acrobat/Reader. FineReader also supports export to e-mail
applications, Web browsers and Clipboard.
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Microsoft® Windows Vista® Certified, Support for Windows XP 64-bit
Edition
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 is certified for previous as well as latest
versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Microsoft Office 2007 Support
FineReader 9.0 supports new DOCX and XLSX saving formats 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.
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XPS Support
FineReader 9.0 supports input of images in XPS (XML Paper
Specification), a new format for archiving and storage purposes developed by
Microsoft. Full list of the supported input and output formats is available
here.
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Printing Directly from FineReader
This shortcut enables users to quickly make minor changes using
FineReader’s text editor and print without having to first export the OCR
results to another application.
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Changing Interface Language On-the-Fly
Multi-lingual users can change FineReader’s interface language
on-the-fly.
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Automation Manager
Along with pre-defined QuickTasks, FineReader offers a special
tool for creating your own custom automated tasks.
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Output to Database
FineReader supports output to DBF and CSV.
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Full-text Search
ABBYY FineReader provides a tool for searching words or phrases
in documents. Open a document in FineReader, launch the search function and
get the required information without the need to first save the recognized
document to an external application.
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Digital Camera OCR
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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 incorporates second-generation Digital
Camera OCR technology. 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:
- Convert Photo to Microsoft
Word
The
new FineReader interface offers a special option (QuickTask) to get
quick and accurate results processing images captured by a digital
camera.
- 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.
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PDF Creation and Conversion
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Creation of searchable PDF files
ABBYY FineReader converts scanned images and PDFs to searchble
PDF files keeping the text information as a separate layer from the image
(text under image) and making it available for search and retrieval purposes.
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PDF/A Output
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 supports output to PDF/A, an archiving format
recommended as a standard for long-term preservation of documents.
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PDF Security Settings and Encryption Support
To protect valuable data, a user can set document Open and
Permissions passwords and restrict printing, contents extraction, editing,
adding comments or adding/removing pages. ABBYY FineReader supports various
encryption levels including 128-bit encryption.
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Creation of Tagged PDF
Tagged PDF are optimized for handheld and screen-reader devices.
In this format, the text is automatically reformatted and “reflows” to the
current screen size.
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Creation of Accessible PDF Files
Making documents accessible for people with visual impairments,
ABBYY FineReader allows creation of accessible PDF files.
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Linearized PDF
All PDF documents created by FineReader are in linearized PDF
format optimized for web publishing.
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Extraction of Document Properties
ABBYY FineReader can extract the following type of metadata: title, subject, author, and key words from PDF
files. A user can edit this information in FineReader prior to saving or can
change it later. This data can also be transferred to a similar location when
outputting to DOC/DOCX, RTF, XLS/XLSX, HTML, and PDF formats.
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Detection of Internal Links and Hyperlinks in PDF
ABBYY FineReader captures and re-creates internal links and
hyperlinks in PDF files. Users can easily edit, remove the detected
hyperlinks or create new ones directly in the FineReader text editor.
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Editing PDF files
ABBYY FineReader makes it easy to perform minor editing of a PDF
file. Just open it, make necessary changes directly in FineReader text editor
and save back into any type of PDF format supported by FineReader.
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