ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 is a professional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) that allows you to convert a variety of paper documents and PDFs into electronic files that can be edited, archived, sent by e-mail or published on the Web.

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition delivers even higher recognition accuracy by applying ABBYY's new and innovative recognition algorithms. This excellent time-saving solution intelligently analyzes elements in the documents and accurately retains the layout and formatting of the originals. FineReader allows you to convert and edit various scanned images, digital photographs and PDF files, such as pages from books, magazines and newspapers, legal documents, contracts, faxes, letters, brochures, etc.

Key Features

Excellent Recognition Accuracy and Layout Retention
Digital Camera OCR
Accurate, Fast and Secure PDF Conversion
One-Click OCR with Automation Manager
Multilingual Recognition
Send Results Directly to Microsoft Word, Excel and More
Bonus ABBYY Screenshot Reader Utility for Instant OCR
Integration with Microsoft Word
WYSIWYG Text Editor
Full-Text Searches with Morphology Suppor
Image Splitting Tool
Barcode Recognition
Easy to Use

Excellent Recognition Accuracy and Layout Retention

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 delivers superior recognition accuracy and layout retention, even on difficult-to-read or low-quality documents. FineReader flawlessly captures and re-creates all formatting elements of the originals (including columns, tables, lists and graphics) – you don’t have to retype or reformat.

Digital Camera OCR: Turns Digital Cameras into Portable Document Capture Devices

Now you can use your digital camera to capture documents and convert them into reusable information. ABBYY FineReader intelligently identifies photographed documents and applies ABBYY’s new adaptive recognition technology for camera images to ensure the best OCR results. With 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. You can capture text from large posters or pages from thick, bound documents such as books, which are hard to scan. In addition, using a digital camera to capture documents is very efficient. You can capture documents several times faster than it takes to scan them.

Accurate, Fast and Secure PDF Conversion

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 is an ideal PDF conversion tool. It offers three different PDF conversion functions in one application:

• Open a PDF file and convert it into editable formats (such as Microsoft Word or Excel).
• Open a PDF file, perform minor text editing, and then save it back to PDF.
• Create searchable PDFs from paper documents.

Secure PDF

ABBYY FineReader complies with the latest encryption standards. With FineReader, you can create secure PDFs with up to 128-bit encryption with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). FineReader also respects access right protection: when opening a PDF file for conversion, FineReader prompts the user to enter the password before proceeding.

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. One-Click OCR with Automation Manager

With new Automation Manager, you can perform complete conversion tasks with a single click of the mouse. ABBYY FineReader comes with pre-programmed tasks for the most common document processing routines, including Scan (and OCR) to Word, Scan to PDF, and PDF to Word.

You can also create your own customized tasks using the Automation Wizard. The Wizard guides you through the steps of creating new tasks. Tasks can be customized and fine-tuned using the commands and options in ABBYY FineReader 8.0, so you can quickly and easily automate even the most specific task. For example, you can specify a task to scan documents, load a template, perform OCR, and then save the results in Word and PDF, as well as the original image, in different folders. All this can be done with a single mouse click.

Automated tasks can be easily imported and exported. Once you have created some useful automated tasks, you can export them as a file and share with your colleagues and friends.

Multilingual Recognition

ABBYY FineReader 179 languages, including English, German, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Malay, Indonesian, and others. Built-in spell-check is available for 36 languages. This simplifies document conversion for people working with a variety of different countries and cultures.

Send Results Directly to Microsoft Word, Excel and More

When you are converting documents for editing, ABBYY FineReader 8.0 exports the results directly to your favorite applications, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Lotus Word Pro, Corel WordPerfect, Sun StarWriter and Adobe Acrobat/Reader. In addition, recognized text can be saved in a variety of file formats, including PDF, HTML, Microsoft Word XML, DOC, RTF, XLS, PPT, DBF, CSV, TXT, and LIT.

Bonus ABBYY Screenshot Reader Utility for Instant OCR

ABBYY 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 8.0 Professional Edition as a bonus application for registered users.

Integration with Microsoft Word

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.

When exporting documents to Microsoft Word 2003, FineReader automatically opens an embedded view of the original document, allowing you to edit and view your documents at the same time, thus eliminating the need to switch between the two applications.

WYSIWYG Text Editor

The multicolumn WYSIWYG (“what you see is what you get”) text editor allows you to view the full layout of the scanned document during editing, so that you can quickly check the file before exporting it.

Full-Text Searches with Morphology Support

Any batch created in ABBYY FineReader can be used as a small database with full-text search capabilities. You can search for words in all their grammatical forms. This feature is available for 36 languages that have dictionary support.

Barcode Recognition

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

Image Splitting Tool

The image splitting tool allows you to split the image into several areas and save each area as a separate page. This mode is particularly handy for recognizing books and PowerPoint handouts.

Easy to Use

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 has a new intuitive, user-friendly interface that guides you through the OCR process. Whether you are new to OCR or an advanced user, working with FineReader 8.0 is simple and easy.