Key Features

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 delivers superior accuracy in converting almost any type of documents, including various office documents, tables and spreadsheets, magazine articles, books, and even faxes and digital photographs. With its new ADRT™, an Adaptive Document Recognition Technology, FineReader is capable to recognize not only the text and basic layout of document images, but the logical structure of a document across multiple pages. The key features of ABBYY FineReader 9.0 include:

 

 

Superior Recognition Accuracy and Layout Retention – Enhanced

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 delivers highest recognition accuracy and layout retention, even on difficult-to-read and low-quality images such as faxes. In the 9.0 version, overall accuracy has been increased by as much as 35 percent, especially on documents containing tables, legal documents, multilingual documents, and digital camera captured images. With the new document analysis algorithms, it also produces an improvement in layout retention by up to 32 percent.

Re-creation of Document Logical Structure and Formatting – New!

With its intelligent Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT), ABBYY FineReader 9.0 analyzes the entire document rather than each page individually, and precisely reconstructs it with original layout, style and formatting attributes.

By intelligently “seeing” the document in its entirety, the program identifies various parts of document structure such as heading, body text, columns, tables, graphics, footnotes and page numbers and reconstructs them as native Microsoft Office formatting elements for easy editing. Text flows, logical structure and original style of a document are maintained across multiple pages. FineReader 9.0 also retains additional formatting elements including line numbering, signatures, and stamps found in legal and other documents.

Multilingual Document Recognition – Enhanced

ABBYY FineReader continues to lead in OCR language support and recognizes documents on 179 languages, including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, scripting languages, and chemicals formulas. FineReader 9.0 simplifies OCR process by automatically detecting the language of a document and also allows users to select any combination of languages to recognize multilingual documents. It also includes dictionaries with spell-check capabilities for 36 languages. With the integrated Microsoft Word custom dictionary, FineReader also correctly recognizes texts including user specific words.

In addition, ABBYY FineReader supports barcode recognition, including recognition of PDF-417 2D barcodes, ideal for companies that need to process and index a large number of documents for archiving.

Results-Driven Interface – New!

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 offers a redesigned Results-Driven Inteface that simplifies and shortens the recognition process and automatically highlights the best strategies for optimizing OCR results. Key functions of the program are easily accessible at the “top-level” with less need to search through detailed “drop down menus”. Key functionality is grouped together in special dialogue boxes to make it easier to perform key tasks. The new interface reduces the number of mouse clicks needed for popular document conversion tasks by as much as 40 percent. 

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”, and “Convert PDF/ Images to Microsoft Word”. With the QuickTasks, you can perform complete conversion tasks with a single click of the mouse. You can also create your own customized tasks using the Automation Manager tool.

Second-Generation Digital Camera OCR – Enhanced

FineReader is the first recognition application that has introduced digital camera OCR capabilities. ABBYY FineReader intelligently identifies photographed documents and applies its adaptive recognition technology for camera images to ensure the best OCR results. With the digital camera OCR, FineReader gives you wider possibilities to quickly capture documents and convert them into editable and searchable electronic files even when you are on the go.

Using a digital camera for OCR, you can overcome the limitations set by traditional scanning devices: capture text from large posters or pages from thick, bound documents such as books, which are hard to scan.

Accurate, Fast and Secure PDF Conversion – Enhanced

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 is an ideal PDF conversion and creation tool. The key PDF conversion features include:

Creation of Searchable PDFs – FineReader keeps the text information as a separate layer from the image (text under image), making it available for search and retrieval purposes.

Creation of Secured PDFs – ABBYY FineReader supports PDF security settings and allows users to set document Open and Permissions passwords in order to prevent unauthorized opening of documents or to restrict certain operations. It also complies with the latest encryption standards and respects access right protection.

PDF for Web Publishing and Tagged PDF – All PDF files created in FineReader are optimized for publishing on the Web. In addition, with ABBYY FineReader you can create tagged PDF files optimized for handheld devices and screen-reader utilities.

Instant Screenshot OCR – Enhanced

FineReader 9.0 includes ABBYY Screenshot Reader utility for instant OCR. Screenshot Reader is an easy-to-use utility that lets you quickly capture screen images and allows you to perform “instant” OCR from the screen. It is ideal for pulling text, tables, or images from Web browser pages, flash presentations, Windows Explorer file menus, or error messages. Screenshot Reader is also an ideal “quick OCR” tool when you want to pull small quotes or a few sentences of text from a PDF or image file. ABBYY Screenshot Reader ships with ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition as a bonus application for registered users.

Direct Export to a Variety of Applications – Enhanced

When you are converting documents for editing, ABBYY FineReader 9.0 exports the results directly to your favorite applications including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat/Reader. In addition, recognized text can be saved in a variety of file formats, including PDF, PDF/A, HTML, Microsoft Word XML, DOC/DOCX, RTF, XLS/ XLSX, PPT, DBF, CSV, TXT, and LIT.

You can launch ABBYY FineReader from within Microsoft Word, scan paper documents and put the recognized text into the document you are currently working on without leaving Word.