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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

Introducing ABBYY FineReader 12

ABBYY FineReader is an optical character recognition (OCR) system that converts scanned

documents, PDF documents, and image files (including digital photos) into editable formats.

ABBYY FineReader 12 advantages

Fast and accurate recognition

 The OCR technology used in ABBYY FineReader quickly and accurately recognizes and

retains the original formatting of any document.

 Thanks to ABBYY's Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT®), ABBYY

FineReader can analyze and process a document in its entirety, rather than one page at a

time. This approach retains the source document's structure, including formatting,

hyperlinks, e–mail addresses, headers and footers, image and table captions, page

numbers, and footnotes.

 ABBYY FineReader is largely immune to printing defects and can recognize texts printed in

virtually any font.

 ABBYY FineReader can recognize text photos obtained with a regular camera or a mobile

phone. Additional image preprocessing can greatly improve the quality of your photos,

resulting in more accurate OCR.

 For faster processing, ABBYY FineReader makes efficient use of multi–core processors and

offers a special black–and–white processing mode for documents where colors need not be

preserved.

Supports most of the world's languages*

 ABBYY FineReader can recognize texts written in any of the 190 languages that it supports,

or in a combination of those languages. Among the supported languages are Arabic,

Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, and Hebrew. ABBYY FineReader can

automatically detect the language of a document.

Ability to check OCR results

 ABBYY FineReader has a built–in text editor which allows you to compare recognized texts

against their original images and make any necessary changes.

 If you are not satisfied with the results of automatic processing, you can manually specify

image areas to capture and train the program to recognize less common or unusual fonts.

Intuitive user interface

 The program comes with a number of preconfigured automated tasks that cover the most

common OCR scenarios and enable you to convert scans, PDFs, and image files into

editable documents with a click of a button. Integration with Microsoft Office and Windows

Explorer means that you can recognize documents directly from within Microsoft Outlook,

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel or simply by right–clicking a file on your computer.

 The program supports the usual Windows shortcut keys and touchscreen swipes, e.g. to

scroll or zoom in and out of images.

Quick quoting

 You can easily copy and paste recognized fragments into other applications. Page images

will open instantly, and will be available for viewing, selection, and copying before the

entire document has been recognized.