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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 print
ed 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 sym
bol, and, finally, converts the image into text that text editors and desk
top 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!