Full Feature List

Fast document recognition with over 99% accuracy!* Convert scanned documents, PDF and digital camera images into editable and searchable formats with unmatched document recognition accuracy and layout retention.  Results match the original—with no surprises.

*Accuracy results can vary significantly depending on factors such as document quality and scanner settings

Multilingual Text Recognition
ABBYY continues to lead in the OCR language support. With FineReader 10, users can process documents in 186 languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew, Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin. FineReader 10 also reads scripting languages and simple chemical formulas. The text recognition software includes dictionaries with spell-checking capabilities for -39 languages allowing verification of recognized text directly in the FineReader Editor.

Automatic Language Detection
FineReader 10 cuts an additional step in the OCR process by automatically detecting the appropriate document recognition language.

Magazine Page Recognition
FineReader 10 also introduces new recognition algorithm for processing documents with background images, and image-rich documents, such as magazine pages. Graphics and charts are detected and preserved in their entirety.

Text within Graphics
FineReader allows users to manually draw text areas inside the graphics area 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 10 uses the text zoning to create underlying text enabling it to be searched.

Processing Documents with Signatures, Company Stamps, and Line Numbering
FineReader 10 automatically identifies the specialized elements and formatting typically found 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.

Fast Mode Recognition
When processing high quality images with simple layout, a user can use the Fast Mode Recognition option to increase recognition speed up to 2.5 times*. 

Intelligent Background Filtering
FineReader 10’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. 

Vertical, Colored and Inverted Text Recognition
FineReader reads vertical, colored, and inverted text, and retains those attributes in the output document.

Barcode Recognition
FineReader 10 reads 20 types of barcodes, both 1D and 2D barcodes, and offers the option to treat them as images (default) or recognize barcodes and display their value. Users can change the default setting to allow FineReader to automatically analyze and recognize barcodes.

Special Recognition Mode for Typewritten and Fax Documents
FineReader 10 has a special mode for recognizing typewritten text for converting legacy documents. FineReader 10 also introduced a special mode for processing faxes to handle common problems in fax documents, such as printing artifacts and low resolution. The program allows you to specify a document’s “print type” and applies that type to the entire document, selected blocks or table cells for optimal recognition results.  

Automated Area Order Detection
FineReader will automatically rearrange the order for analyzed areas to ensure true text flow, no matter what users remove, add or redraw in any analyzed areas.

Custom Dictionaries:

• Integrated Microsoft Word Custom Dictionary
  As a professional-level text recognition software, FineReader 10 enables users to create their own customized word list for processing industry-specific text or professional documents.
• Creation of Morphological User Dictionaries
  FineReader 10 allows users to add words and create custom dictionaries. When adding new words, it will prompt them to enter additional word forms that stem from the same root.

* According to internal tests

No more retyping and reformatting. With its advanced ADRT® (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology), original documents are precisely reproduced into electronic files, accurately retaining attributes such as tables of contents, hierarchical heading structures, headers, footers, footnotes, page numbers and font styles.

• 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 tables of contents, hierarchic heading structures, headers and footers, page numbering, footnotes, fonts and styles of the original are retained.
• Text Flow Consistency
  ABBYY FineReader 10 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 10 to recreate 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 matches them with the closest fonts available in users’ systems.  The recognized font styles will match the commonly used style names in Microsoft Office applications.  Users can easily edit or change the style in FineReader’s Text Window.

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.

Retains Table Structure
FineReader 10 accurately recognizes tables, with or without grids.  The product accurately recreates truly editable Word- or Excel-generated tables and spreadsheets without additionally breaking information into separated tables or worksheets.

Pictures within Table Cells
Many magazine articles include tables that use icons or graphics in the header row or column. FineReader 10 accurately converts these types of tables and preserves their original look.

Retains Tables of Contents
With ADRT, FineReader 10 accurately detects the heading and bookmarks corresponding to the items in the table of contents of a document.  As a result, users can easily navigate the results in Microsoft Word or use for book publication.

Retains Hierarchic Heading Structure
FineReader 10 accurately detects the text body and the heading based in a document.  The heading structure (sections and subsections), font size and style leading levels are also recognized and preserved in the output Microsoft Office formats.

Retains Headers, Footers, Page Numbers and More
With its advanced ADRT, original documents are precisely reproduced into electronic files, accurately retaining attributes such as hierarchical headers, footers, footnotes, page numbers, tables of contents and font styles.

The FineReader's Results-Driven interface simplifies and shortens the recognition process and automatically highlights the best strategies for optimizing OCR results. Key functions are more easily accessible in the toolbars 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.

Quick Tasks™
The FineReader 10 interface comes with pre-programmed Quick Tasks that are grouped into 4 major categories with the most common document processing routines or output formats. FineReader’s Quick Tasks window automatically appears once the program is launched and can be easily re-launched by clicking on the New Task icon in the toolbar.  The most common QuickTasks can be launched directly from the Window’s Start menu. Users can also easily create customized QuickTasks by using the Automation Manager.

One-click Access within Microsoft Office
FineReader seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office applications, so users can easily scan, open and process images and then open the recognized document in the same application—whether in Microsoft Word, Excel or Outlook.

Easy-to-use Main Toolbar and Quick Access Bar
FineReader 10 has redesigned its interface to appear like Microsoft 2007, with quick access to the most commonly used tools in the main toolbar. The program also comes with a Quick Access Bar to offer the most common tools, such as customized view, cut, copy, paste, do/undo and language selection, etc. 

FineReader 10 comes with advanced image preprocessing tools to automatically help adjust images for the best OCR results, no matter how these images are scanned from a scanning device or captured from cameras or cell phones. FineReader provides all image pre-processing functions, such as correction of motion blur, ISO noise, 3D distortion, curved text line, rotate, de-skew, crop and invert image, and 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.

Digital Camera OCR
FineReader 10 incorporates third-generation Digital CameraOCR technology enabling more data to be captured with digital cameras with enhanced image-correction and processing capabilities for better OCR results.
Not only does FineReader 10 automatically identify an image taken with a digital or mobile phone camera, but it applies necessary image pre-processing and recognition operations with a single step process:

• Supports Stardard Digital Camera and Cell Phone Cameras
  FineReader automatically identifies images captured from digital cameras and cell phone cameras and applies necessary image adjustments for the best OCR result.
• Convert Photo to Microsoft Word
  FineReader offers a Quick Task option to get quick and accurate results processing images captured by a digital camera.

Correction of 3D Image Distortion
It is common to capture a document at an angle.  The result is that the top of the captured images often look larger than the button, or vice versa.  FineReader provide an automatic 3D image correction tool and trapezium crop function to correct the image distortion for better OCR processing.

ISO noise Correction
FineReader offers a unique tool to remove the ISO noise commonly appearing on digital camera images due to the low light or incorrect camera ISO sensitivity settings.

Blurred Image Correction
There are many causes for image blur, such as hand movement, object movement, zooming or low camera sensitivity.  FineRedaer is able to reduce the image blur for any of these reasons and improve the image quality.

Wide Range of Image Correction Tools
FineReader 10 offers a wide range of automated processes to enhance image quality for best OCR accuracy. These tools include despekle, deskew, rotate, 3D perspective distortion, straighten curved text line and correction of resolution, etc.  The product also has many manual tools, such as crop, invert, split page and erase, to allow users to adjust images for best recognition process.

Automatic Recognition and Background Processing
FineReader 10 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.)

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).

ABBYY Screenshot Reader
This helpful tool 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.

Sending Results Directly to Applications and Clipboard
FineReader 10 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, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe® Acrobat®/Reader. FineReader also supports exporting to e-mail applications, Web browsers and the clipboard.

Certified for Microsoft Windows 7
FineReader 10 is certified for previous as well as the latest versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
 
Microsoft Office 2007 Support
FineReader 10 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.

Advanced HTML Saving for Web Publishing and e-book Reading
FineReader provides various HTML saving options, including saving with native HTML formatting elements.  As a result, the HTML file is fully editable and available for search or indexing.  FineReader also automatically saves different chapters of a document as individual HTML files and creates a table of contents with links to these separated HTML files.  It is ideal for book publication or reading any e-book device.
 
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. 

Changing Interface Language On-the-Fly
Multi-lingual users can easily change FineReader’s interface language on-the-fly. 
 
Full-text Search
FineReader 10 provides an easy tool for searching words or phrases in documents. Simply open a document in FineReader, launch the search function and get the required information without having to first save the recognized document to an external application.

Creating searchable PDF files
FineReader 10 converts scanned images and PDFs to ISO-standard PDF files (searchable PDFs) keeping the text information as a separate layer from the image (text under image) and making it available for search and retrieval purposes.

PDF/A Output
FineReader 10 provides a full set of options for PDF/A, an archiving format recommended as a standard for long-term preservation of documents: text under image, text and pictures, text over image and image only.

PDF Compression for Easy Sharing
FineReader 10 can optimize the size of output PDF documents for efficient archiving and sharing. ABBYY’s new MRC technology can reduce the size of an output PDF up to 10 times, while keeping its visual quality untouched and preserving valuable storage space.

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. FineReader 10 supports various encryption levels including 128-bit encryption.
 
Creating 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.
 
Creating Accessible PDF Files
Making documents accessible for people with visual impairments, FineReader 10 allows the creation of accessible PDF files.
 
Linearized PDF
All PDF documents created by FineReader are in linearized PDF format optimized for web publishing.

Extracting Document Properties
FineReader 10 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.
 
Detecting Internal Links and Hyperlinks in PDF
FineReader 10 captures and re-creates internal links and hyperlinks in PDF files. Users can easily edit and remove the detected hyperlinks or create new ones directly in the FineReader text editor.
 
Editing PDF files
FineReader 10 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.

The following features are only available in FineReader Corporate Edition and Site License Edition.

Network Installation
FineReader 10 allows administrators to remotely install the software from the server onto workstations using Active Directory or Microsoft Systems Management Server.

Flexible Licensing to Meet Business Needs

• Concurrent Licensing (Corporate Edition only)
  This is an ideal solution for small to mid-size companies looking for a cost-effective OCR solution. The utility for managing licenses in a network environment allows the administrator to monitor the use of FineReader Corporate Edition on workstations, assign licenses to particular workstations, and add new licenses. In addition, with concurrent licensing, users can install FineReader on as many workstations as necessary. The FineReader’s License Manager enables monitoring of concurrent licenses in use.
• Open Licensing (Site License Edition only)
  FineReader Site License offers a special network license for large enterprise or a de-centralized environment that requires high volume OCR processing. It allows organizations to put FineReader on every desktop that needing an OCR solution without the limitation of shared licenses.
   
  Distributed Document Processing
  Businesses with multiple licenses and multiple workstations can share OCR processes allowing multiple users on a network to scan, recognize and proofread the same batch of documents simultaneously--essentially creating their own an OCR production line.
   
  Support for Network Multifunction Peripherals
  Ideal for work groups sharing multi-function peripherals (MFPs) and digital copiers, FineReader 10 allows administrators to connect the software with networked scanning devices using hot folders or command lines to automatically process incoming images.

Hot Folder and Scheduling
FineReader 10 offers fully automated batch processing of images for work groups using networked scanning devices like digital copiers or fax servers.  The Hot Folder & Scheduling function allows users to designate a folder location on a local drive, network drive, FTP server or a mailbox folder to be monitored or "watched" by FineReader.  FineReader will automatically process files in the background using the pre-defined settings.   Users who need to process large volumes of documents during off hours can use the scheduler function to define the processing task and processing time.  For example, a company may wish to schedule processing for large volumes of documents after-office hours when the computer is not overloaded by other tasks.
 
Nested Subfolder Watching
FineReader 10 allows users to monitor input folders, including nested subfolders for more efficient OCR conversion projects.
 
Shared Languages and Dictionaries
FineReader 10 allows multiple users to simultaneously access the same set of user languages and dictionaries available on the network. It also enables users to add words like names, acronyms and industry lingo to shared dictionaries. The added words help expand the spell-check capabilities and also increase the recognition quality, since FineReader uses the dictionaries during the OCR process.