Comparison & Features of Abbyy FineReader Corp & Pro Editions

ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional and ABBYY FineReader 10 Corporate Editions

Just added to our catalogue, Abbyy Fine Reader 10 Corporate Edition; see the comparison chart at the end of this post, which documents all features available in each product. Abbyy FineReader is  highly intelligent OCR software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs. ABBYY FineReader 10 gives you the power to unlock data in documents and images and transform them into manageable and accessible information. We couldn’t leave out a quote from Steve (below) not only pleased with the product, but also the delivery method and contact experience.

Steve” from Leicestershire – January 2010
“The ability to download even large software files now that broadband speeds are sufficiently high really appeals to me; but it’s often frustratingly not available. Well, all that has now changed. My Google search brought up a company I’d never heard of, “Downloadbuyer”, and, well, my contact with them has proved to be as good a purchasing experience as I’ve ever had on the Internet. Communications with the seller were first rate and the whole experience was one of life’s little pleasures – not least because the product (Abbyy FineReader) has been so extraordinarily good compared with the Omnipage I was trying to manage with. Well done Downloadbuyer – a highly recommendable 5* experience.”

The application reaches beyond typical OCR capabilities such as page by page recognition by processing complex, multipage documents including their original structure.

► What’s New in ABBYY FineReader 10

• Achievements in OCR Accuracy and Performance
• ADRT® analyses a multipage document as a single entity
• 3rd Generation Camera OCR: Reads Phone Camera Photos
• Enhanced Usability – New Quick Tasks and Interface Revisions
• Saving E-books to HTML Chapters and Flexible HTML
• Powerful PDF Compression
• Further Improvements in Page Layout Analysis
• New Recognition Languages – Korean and Yiddish

► Key Features

• Outstanding OCR Accuracy and Format Retention
• Intelligent Reconstruction of Complex Document Structure and Formatting
• Recognition of Digital Camera and Mobile Phone Camera Images
• Comprehensive Language Support
• Intelligent Interface with Quick Tasks
• Complete Integration with Popular Office Applications
• PDF Conversion, Archiving and Securing
• Barcode Recognition
• High Speed Multicore Processing
• Powerful Networking and Collaboration Features
• Useful Bonus Application – ABBYY Screenshot Reader

►Features in detail

OCR Accuracy and Layout Retention

► Superior Recognition Accuracy – Enhanced!
Provides exceptional recognition results on:

• multi-page documents
• multilingual documents
• documents with complicated layout

Also including legal documents, faxes, documents with tables, and photos captured with digital and phone cameras.

► Multilingual Document Recognition

• ABBYY FineReader processes documents in 186 languages including multilingual documents with any combination of the supported languages.
• The software includes dictionaries with spell-checking capabilities for 39 languages allowing verification of the recognized text directly in the Fine Reader’s Text Editor.

Fonts Recognition

► Automatic Language Detection
The application automatically detects the appropriate document recognition language. This helps a user to reduce number of steps in the OCR process.

► Integration with Microsoft Word Custom Dictionary
Enables to create own customized word list for processing industry specific texts or professional documents.

► Creation of Morphological User Dictionaries
A user can add words and create own custom dictionary. While adding new words ABBYY FineReader offers proposals including word forms for convenient usage.

► Recognition of Table Cells Properties
A user can specify cells properties (text orientation, images, language or numbers) to improve recognition results.

► Processing of Documents with Signatures, Company Stamps and Line Numbering

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

► Intelligent Background Filtering
Prior to OCR recognition the application employs dynamic threshold technology to automatically adjust contrast when converting grayscale and color document images to black and white to provide better recognition results.

► Recognition of Vertical, Colored and Inverted Text

► Barcode Recognition
FineReader reads 1-D and 2-D barcodes including newly added 2 barcode types – Aztec Code and Data Matrix.

► Recognition Mode for Faxes and Type-written Documents
The program allows users to specify document’s “print type” and then applies this type to the entire document, selected blocks, or table cells for best recognition result.

* According to internal ABBYY testing.

Reconstruction of Document Logical Structure and Formatting:

• Heading hierarchic structure — New!
• Table of Contents — New!
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering
• Footnotes — Enhanced
• Fonts and Font Styles — Enhanced
• Captions to Images/tables/diagrams
• Logical Text Flow

► Re-creation of Bullet Points and Numbering

Retention of Hyperlinks

► Accurate Recognition of Magazine-style Pages – Enhanced
Provides automatic and accurate conversion of complex page images with text upon them. It also allows users to mark text areas inside the image areas manually. The feature is very useful for users processing documents containing background graphics.

► Table Structure Re-creation
ABBYY FineReader accurately recognizes and re-creates tables and spreadsheets including multi-page tables. As a result, tables re-created by FineReader are fully editable within Word or Excel.

► Saving Books to Separate HTML Chapters – New!
A user can save chapters of a book or document as individual HTML files for reading on E-book devices or placing them on Web sites. The program also automatically creates a Table of Contents for easier navigation through the HTML files.

► Saving to HTML with native elements – New!
Documents can be saved as flexible HTML with native elements for easy editing, indexing, searching and reading.

Efficiency and Productivity

► Results-Driven interface
Key functions are grouped together and easily accessible at the “top-level” with minimum searching through “drop down menus.”

► Results-Driven interfaceIntelligent Quick Tasks — Enhanced
New pre-programmed Quick Tasks include most typical conversion tasks and make OCR performing easier.

► Results-Driven interfaceQuickPreview™ Window
A visual preview of documents before opening. Makes it easier to select the pages or documents a user needs when opening files to be processed.

► Results-Driven interfaceOne-Step Conversion from within External Applications

• Access from Microsoft® Office (from Microsoft Word, Excel® and Microsoft Outlook®)
• Right-Click Access from Windows Explorer

► Results-Driven interfaceDirect Export to Multiple Applications and Clipboard
including Microsoft® Word, Microsoft Excel®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, OpenOffice.org™ Writer and Adobe® Acrobat/Reader. FineReader also supports export to e-mail applications, Web browsers and Clipboard.

► Results-Driven interfaceBroad Range of Interface Languages

► Image Pre-processing Tools
All image pre-processing functions, such as Rotate, Deskew, Crop, and Invert Image, are grouped together and can be quickly accessed from the Edit Image window. A window also contains tools for photo correction such as ISO noise reduction (New!), motion blur removing (New!), trapezium distortion correction (New!) and text lines straightening.

► Proofreading Tool
FineReader 10 highlights uncertainly recognized characters or words that are absent in its dictionaries and offers alternatives for substitution. For Asian languages it provides alternatives for ideographic characters.

► Text Editor
The multi-column WYSISYG editor allows users to review the document layout and easily correct it if necessary.

► Full-Text Search/Search-and-Replace Tool
Special tool enables searching and replacing words or phrases directly in the program without the need to first save it to an external application.

► Automation Manager
Special tool automates conversion tasks and enables quick and easy processing of recurring tasks.

► Automatic Recognition
Automatically performs OCR as soon as the document is scanned or opened.

► Printing Directly from ABBYY FineReader

► Hand Tool — New!
With this special tool, a user can move the image in process within the Image Window.

► QuickTips™
FineReader 10 guides users towards improving results throughout the OCR process with interactive tips.

► High Speed Multi-core Processing
Processing of multi-page documents is divided and executed in parallel that helps to streamline the business workflow and increase processing speed.

► Recognition of Selected Pages

► ABBYY Screenshot Reader — Bonus for Registration! (New version)
A new version of the popular and useful utility that allows users to create screenshots and quickly retrieve texts or tables from any screen area such as Windows Explorer file menus, error messages, Web pages, or flash presentations.

Digital Camera OCR

The 3rd generation Digital Camera OCR technology intelligently identifies images taken with digital cameras and even mobile phone cameras and automatically applies necessary image pre-processing and recognition.

► Automated Image Pre-processing Functions

• Straightening curved text lines
• Splitting dual pages
• Deskewing
• Detection of page orientation
• Correction of image resolution
• 3D perspective distortion correction — New!

► “Convert Photo to Microsoft Word” ScenarioManual Image Editing Tools

• Splitting images into multiple pages
• Rotate (90°, 180°, 270°)
• Crop
• Invert
• Correction of image resolution
• ISO noise correction — New!
• Trapezium crop — New!
• Blurred images correction — New!

► “Convert Photo to Microsoft Word” Scenario
This special option in the Quick Task menu allows users to get quick and accurate results when processing images captured with a digital camera.

PDF Conversion, Saving and Archiving

► Saving to Searchable PDF

► Saving to Searchable PDFMRC Compression for Archiving PDFs – Enhanced
Reduces the size of the resulting PDF file up to 10 times compared to the original image without a loss of visual quality – for better sharing and archiving.

► Saving to Searchable PDFPDF/A Output with New Options – New!
ABBYY FineReader 10 supports output to PDF/A with the following options:

• Text-under-image
• Text-over-image
• Text and pictures
• Image only

Saving to Password-Protected PDF:
Follows assigned passwords for document opening.
Allows setting permission passwords to restrict printing, content extraction, editing, adding comments or adding/removing pages.

► Saving to Searchable PDFProcesses Any Type of PDF
Even scanned PDFs without text layer of PDFs with non-standard encoding.

► Saving to Searchable PDFSaving as Tagged PDF Documents
Tagged PDFs are optimized for handheld and screen-reader devices. In this format, the text is automatically reformatted and “reflows” to the current screen size.

Networking Features in ABBYY FineReader Corporate and Site License Editions

► Mailbox WatchingAutomated Network Installation
Allows administrators to remotely install the software from the server onto workstations using Active Directory, Microsoft® Systems Management Server or the command line.

► Mailbox WatchingConcurrent Licensing
The utility for managing licenses in a network environment allows the administrator to monitor the use of ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition on workstations, assign licenses to particular workstations, and add new licenses. The FineReader’s License Manager enables monitoring concurrent licenses in use.

► Mailbox WatchingDistributed Document Processing
Businesses and organizations with multiple workstations can share OCR processes allowing multiple users on a network to scan, recognize, and proofread the documents simultaneously.

► Mailbox WatchingTerminal Server Support
The application supports Microsoft Windows Server® 2003 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

► Mailbox WatchingShared Languages and Dictionaries
Allows multiple users to simultaneously access the same set of user languages and dictionaries available on the network. In addition, Corporate Edition enables users to add words like names, acronyms, and industry lingo to shared dictionaries.

► Mailbox WatchingExport to SharePoint®
Recognized documents could be saved directly to Microsoft SharePoint that facilitates information sharing and improves company’s efficient processes.

► Mailbox WatchingHot Folder and Scheduling
Allows users to designate a folder location on a local drive, network drive or FTP server to be monitored or “watched” by FineReader and automatically process any file placed in them. A user can run, stop, and delete several selected tasks in the Hot Folder simultaneously.
Users who need to process large volumes of documents after work hours can define the exact processing task and processing time.

► Mailbox WatchingSubfolder Watching – New!
Enables users to divide the incoming to Hot Folder documents into different subfolders according to user’s needs.

► Mailbox Watching
Allows users to monitor input folders or schedule OCR processing with the Mailbox Watching function. The program automatically recognizes attachments received by email, like those sent automatically by many multifunction printers (MFPs).

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Photo Image Processing
ABBYY Camera OCR:	3rd Generation	3rd Generation	3rd Generation
● Recognition of Digital Camera images	●	●	●
● Recognition of Mobile Phone Camera images — New!	●	●	●
Automatic image preprocessing:
● Straighten curved text lines	●	●	●
● Split dual pages	●	●	●
● Deskew, despeckle	●	●	●
● Detect page orientation	●	●	●
● Correct image resolution	●	●	●
● 3D perspective distortion correction — New!	●	●	●
Manual image editing tools:
● Splitting images into multiple pages	●	●	●
● Rotate (90°, 180°, 270°)	●	●	●
● Crop	●	●	●
● Invert	●	●	●
● Correct image resolution	●	●	●
● ISO noise correction — New!	●	●	●
● Trapezium crop — New!	●	●	●
● Blurred images correction — New!	●	●	●
Importing files and saving results
Send results directly to Microsoft® Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, E-mail Client, Lotus® Word Pro®, Corel® Word Perfect®, OpenOffice.orgTM Writer, web browser, clipboard	●	●	●
Saving in DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPTX, RTF, HTML, PDF, PDF/A, TXT, CSV	●	●	●
Flexible HTML layout for editing, indexing, searching and viewing in e-book devices — New!	●	●	●
Network Features
Hot Folder & Scheduling with mailbox watching (and subfolders watching — New!)		●	●
Multiselection and group operation on Hot Folder tasks — New!		●	●
Automatic network installation		●	●
Distributed document processing
Terminal server installation		●	●
Concurrent licensing		●	●
Automatic roll-out among multiple workstations			●
Supported OS
Microsoft Windows 7	●	●	●
Microsoft Windows Vista®	●	●	●
Microsoft Windows XP	●	●	●
Microsoft Windows Server® 2003		●	●

Available for users of ABBYY FineReader Corporate and Site License Editions. Users of ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition need to register their version first.

Features	Professional Edition	Corporate Edition	Site License Edition
Recognition Accuracy and Layout Retention
Superior recognition accuracy	●	●	●
ADRT® (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) – Recreates document logical structure:	2nd Generation	2nd Generation	2nd Generation
Text flow/columns	●	●	●
Page numbering	●	●	●
Headers and Footers	●	●	●
Footnotes — Enhanced	●	●	●
Hierarchical heading structure — New!	●	●	●
Table of contents — New!	●	●	●
Font and font style matching — Enhanced	●	●	●
Table structure retention	●	●	●
Capture and recreate links: footnote links, internal links (bookmarks), hyperlinks	●	●	●
Vertical text recognition	●		●
Recognition languages/languages with built in spell check (Korean and Yiddish — New!)	186/39	186/39	186/39
Multilingual documents recognition	●	●	●
Document language auto-detection	●	●	●
Recognition of low-quality documents (e.g. faxes and photos) — Enhanced	●	●	●
Re-creation of magazine-style pages — b	●	●	●
Barcode recognition (Aztec Сode, Data Matrix — New!)	●	●	●
PDF Conversion
Convert any type of PDF to editable and searchable formats	●	●	●
Save to PDF (image-only, searchable, password-protected and tagged)	●	●	●
MRC compression — Enhanced (up to 10:1 file size reduction)*	●	●	●
PDF/A support for long-term archiving	●	●	●
Flexible PDF/A saving options (text-under-image, text and pictures, text-over-image, image only) — New!	●	●	●
Productivity and Efficiency
Results-DrivenTM user friendly interface	●	●	●
Intelligent Quick Tasks — Enhanced	●	●	●
Automation Manager	●	●	●
One-step conversion from within 3rd party applications:
● Microsoft® Office application	●	●	●
● Windows® Explorer	●	●	●
Sending results directly to applications and clipboard	●	●	●
Image preview in Open dialog	●	●	●
Built-in Text Editor	●	●	●
Interactive Quick Tips to achieve better results	●	●	●
Multi-core processors support	●	●	●
Fast Reading mode	●	●	●
Section 508 compliance	●	●	●
ABBYY Screenshot Reader for instant OCR* — New Version!	●	●	●