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ABBYY FineReader 12 User’s Guide

What's New in ABBYY FineReader 12

Below follows a brief overview of the major new features and improvements that have been

introduced in ABBYY FineReader 12.

Improved recognition accuracy

The new version of ABBYY FineReader delivers more accurate OCR and better recreates the original

formatting of your documents thanks to improvements in ABBYY's proprietary Adaptive Document

Recognition Technology (ADRT). The program now better detects document styles, headings, and

tables, so that you don't have to fix the formatting of your documents once they are recognized.

Recognition languages

ABBYY FineReader 12 can now recognize Russian texts with stress marks. OCR quality has been

improved for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Faster and friendlier user interface

 Background processing

It may take quite some time to recognize very large documents. In the new version, time–

consuming processes run in the background, allowing you to continue working on those

parts of the document which have already been recognized. Now you don't have to wait for

the OCR process to complete before you can adjust image areas, view non–recognized

pages, force–start the OCR of a particular page or image area, add pages from other

sources, or change the order of pages in the document.

 Faster image loading

Page images will appear in the program as soon as you scan the paper originals, so that

you can immediately see the scanning results and select pages and image areas to

recognize.

 Easier quoting

Any image area containing text, pictures or tables can be easily recognized and copied to

the Clipboard with a click of the mouse.

 All the basic operations, including scrolling and zooming, are now also supported on

touchscreens.

Image preprocessing and camera OCR

The improved image preprocessing algorithms ensure better recognition of photographed texts and

produce text photos that look as good as scans. The new photo correction capabilities include

automatic cropping, correction of geometrical distortions, and evening out of brightness and

background colors.

ABBYY FineReader 12 allows you to select the preprocessing optio ns you wish to apply to any newly

added image, so that you won't need to correct each image separately.

Better visual quality for archived documents

ABBYY FineReader 12 includes new PreciseScan technology, which smoothes characters to improve

the visual quality of scanned documents. As a result, characters do not look pixelated even when

you zoom in on the page.

New tools for manual editing of recognition output

Verification and correction capabilities have been expanded in the new version. In ABBYY

FineReader 12, you can format recognized texts in the verification window, which now also includes

a tool for inserting special symbols not available on standard keyboards. You can also use keyboard

shortcuts for the most frequent verification and correction com mands.