Document conversion.
FineReader Engine provides document recognition and document conversion functionality, so that any paper document can be transformed into an electronic document in any of the most popular formats: PDF, RTF/DOC, HTML, XLS, XML, etc. Compared to document imaging technology, where paper documents are simply scanned without subsequent OCR, document conversion technology produces electronic documents which are searchable, editable, and re-usable. Moreover, the market for document conversion solutions is growing faster than the document imaging market.

Comprehensive recognition and data capturing SDK.
In one SDK, it includes all the technology for creating intelligent document recognition, document conversion, data capturing applications. In other word, it is the SDK that includes recognition (OCR, ICR, OMR, Barcode), structured and semi-structured form processing, image manipulation and preprocessing, and PDF conversion technologies. With the modular approach, developers can choose the recognition/data capturing components/technologies for their specific project needs.

Service bureaus' benefits on BPO market.
With the document conversion, data capture and form processing capabilities in one platform, ABBYY provides powerful and flexible tool for service bureaus to take on the BPO market (business process outsourcing organizations). Regardless the projects are for structured, semi structured forms, or document or PDF conversion, the service bureaus will have all the tools on their hand to process any projects at any fixed time.

Superior recognition accuracy and layout retention.
With ABBYY's innovative IPA Technology and Multilevel Document Analysis (MDA), FineReader Engine delivers unprecedented recognition accuracy and retains the exact look of printed documents. It preserves the layout and formatting of original documents, including wrap-around texts, columns, tables, non-rectangular pictures, vertical text, varying fonts and spacing between characters. ABBYY's Adaptive Binarization and Intelligent Texture Filtering technologies ensure high accuracy even on “difficult-to-read” documents and documents with complex layouts, such as text printed over an image, low-contrast documents with color text printed on a color background, and poorly scanned pages. Products based on FineReader technology have received more than 100 awards in numerous comparative tests conducted by leading IT magazines. It is beneficial because it fits to major end users' requirements to receive the accurate and exact-looking results after document conversion procedure.

International solutions.
ABBYY FineReader Engine is multilanguage OCR/ICR; it supports 186 OCR languages (including Latin, Greek, Armenian, Cyrillic alphabets, and Chinese, Japanese and Korean) and ICR for 90 languages. The additional advantage is that Engine delivers almost the same high accuracy of

Forms processing.
With FlexiCapture Studio and FormReader‘s broad application for data capturing, the Engine expands a developer's ability to support new markets. There is an emerging market with strong demand for semi-structured (variable) and fixed forms processing solutions in all types of vertical markets including government, education, trade, healthcare, manufacturing, insurance, banking, and many more.

Ease-of-use of FlexiCapture Studio.
It can be used even by people who have had no programming experience. FlexiCapture Studio uses visualized environment that simplifies the process of creating, editing and testing FlexiLayout, which describes a certain type of semi-structured form and document.

Independent from project scale.
FineReader Engine 7.1 is tested and proven to be efficient in a variety of project scale – from very small projects for a couple of working places to large-scale projects with a distribution of work between servers and workstation in a network.

No user interface – ready to be integrated anywhere.
Low-level access to data capture and document conversion functions allows to build up any solution from scratch under own trademark.

Proven technology, validated by industry leaders.
ABBYY is well known for its cutting-edge OCR technologies, credibility and high profile in the document conversion industry. ABBYY's FineReader OCR technology has been chosen by such industry leaders as Kofax, Toshiba, Lexmark, Verity, and NSi. ABBYY products have been selected by more than 600 developers, VARs, system integrators and corporate IT departments. ABBYY's long record of success helps to sell solutions with ABBYY OCR technology inside.

Flexible and reliable services.
ABBYY has flexible licensing policy and offers technical support, subscription programs, and professional consulting service that make beneficial and comfortable working with ABBYY and its products.

Ease-of-use for fast development.
FineReader Engine 7.1 contains many programming samples, which could be used as a source for development, saving the time and easily clarifying the usage. It also has command line interface (CLEI) for rapid integration, where in one command line call it is possible to set up a complete task.