ABBYY FineReader

FineReader
Developer(s) ABBYY
Initial release July 1993 (1993-07)
Stable release
14 / January 2017 (2017-01)
Operating system Windows, Mac OS, Linux
Type OCR
License Commercial proprietary software (Retail or volume licensing)
Website www.abbyy.com/finereader/

ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) application developed by the Russian company ABBYY.

The program allows the conversion of image documents (photos, scans, PDF files) into editable electronic formats. In particular, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Rich Text Format, HTML, PDF/A, searchable PDF, CSV and txt (plain text) files. Starting with version 11 files can be saved in the djvu format. Version 14 supports recognition of text in 192 languages and has a built-in spell check for 48 of them. [1]

There are more than 20 million users of ABBYY FineReader worldwide.[2][3][4] Based on FineReader optical character recognition, ABBYY licenses the technology to several companies such as Fujitsu, Panasonic, Xerox, Samsung[5][6] and others.

Version 12 of the software has received an "Excellent" rating by PC Magazine.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "ABBYY FineReader 14 Technical Specifications". ABBY. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. ↑ ABBYY выпустила 12 версию своего флагманского продукта FineReader
  3. ↑ Вектор модернизации: обзор обновленного ABBYY FineReader 12
  4. ↑ Группа компаний ABBYY
  5. ↑ Radyuhin, Vladimir (19 January 2008). "IT opportunities and challenges in Russia". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "С технологией ABBYY смартфон Samsung Galaxy S4 распознает текст с фотографий". Archived from the original on 14 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "ABBYY FineReader 12 Professional". PC Magazine. Retrieved 22 September 2014.


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