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WELCOME!
Thank you for choosing ABBYY FineReader!
We all need to input text into our computers from time to time, whether it be
newspaper/magazine articles, contracts, business letters, faxes, price lists, or questionnaires. For
years there was only one way to input printed documents – you had to type them in from the
keyboard. Remember the long hours you spent typing in text from one document or another?
What a great thing it would have been had the computer been able to read the text by itself,
straight from the sheet of paper.
Sometimes dreams do come true! FineReader Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software
enables your computer and scanner to do just this - to read printed text by themselves.
But can’t the scanner do the job on its own?
No. The scanner only takes a photograph of the text and converts it into a set of black and
white dots (an image file), which cannot be edited using word processing applications such as
MS Word, WordPerfect, Word Pro, etc. What is needed instead is an OCR system that looks for
symbols in each set of black and white dots, “recognizes” the letters in each symbol, and, final-
ly, converts the image into text that text editors and desktop systems are able to deal with.
So now I can input documents into my computer automatically?
Yes, now you can input documents into your computer automatically, without having to retype
them all out on your keyboard.
Enjoy!