The FineReader 12 Professional Upgrade from ABBYY allows you to create editable, searchable files and e-books from scans of paper documents, PDFs, and digital photographs. ABBYY FineReader Professional provides text recognition and document processing for your home or office. ABBYY FineReader 12 Professional also improves on the speed and accuracy of text recognition and conversion from its predecessor, eliminating the need to retype or reformat your documents.
FineReader 12 Professional Features
Faster Conversion & Higher Accuracy
Providing up to 99.8% recognition accuracy, FineReader 12 delivers up to 15% faster document processing than before. FineReader also offers up to 30% better retention of charts and graphs, to simplify working with business documents. Improved language capabilities help to raise accuracy even further
Enhanced Recognition Technology for Arabic and Asian Languages
Along with significantly improved accuracy for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, FineReader 12 alos supports 190 languages - 48 of them featuring dictionary support
Instant Document Opening & Background Processing
FineReader 12 allows immediate access to the documents you open, while the time consuming and resource intensive OCR process runs in the background. This means that while FineReader is working on recognition, you can view content, rearrange pages, edit recognized areas or even select snippets for immediate citation
Quick Quotes Extraction
Extracting sections of text or tables is fast with FineReader. Just select an area you need to copy and right-click on it to pull the quote - no need to wait while the rest of the document's pages are being processed. FineReader will convert the selected area immediately, allowing you to insert it into another document
Improved Conversion of Tables & Numerical Data
FineReader 12 improves table conversion by up to 40% saving engineers, financial professionals and educators significant time and effort correcting results
Image Enhancement Technology for Archived Copies
Turn photographed documents into scan-quality images using the automatic image pre-processing options, manually apply improvements such as auto-crop of multiple images or whiten background of old documents, which have turned yellow or grey with time. Enhance the reading and printing experience for searchable PDFs by using the PreciseScan technology which smooths pixelated characters, improving the visual quality of your documents. Plus, the tool for removing color stamps and pen marks assures better recognition quality and improves the appearance of basic business documents
Faster Results Verification & Correction
The enhanced Verification tool now allows you to apply both spelling and formatting corrections, with intuitive hot keys and tab controls to navigate through the verification process
Send & Retrieve Files from the Cloud
You can access popular cloud storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and more, opening or saving documents by using native Windows dialogs. In addition, FineReader 12 enables seamless document sharing through direct integration with Microsoft SharePoint Online/ Office 365
Designed for Windows 8
FineReader 12 is Windows 8 certified and utilizes options provided by the operating system to make your work more productive. Now you have quick access to one-click conversion tasks right from the Windows 8 start screen and can use basic touch gestures to scroll and zoom on laptops with touch screens
OCR Accuracy and Layout Retention
Enhanced Recognition Accuracy
The FineReader 12 delivers up to 99.8% recognition accuracy
Document Layout Retention
Retains almost all document layout elements, such as charts, diagrams, text columns, images, tables, and more
Multilingual Document Recognition
Process documents with any combination of the 190 supported languages. 45 of the 190 languages also have dictionary support
Integration with Microsoft Word Custom Dictionary
Create customized word lists for processing industry- or profession-specific documents
Custom User Dictionaries
Add words or create your own dictionaries
Table Cell Content Recognition
Specify the cell type as well as its properties, such as text orientation, images, language and numbers in the "Image" window of FineReader 12
Intelligent Background Filtering
Employ dynamic threshold technology, prior to OCR recognition, to adjust contrast when converting grayscale and color images to black and white for better recognition results
Recognition Mode for Faxes and Typewritten Documents
Specify a document's "print type" and apply it to the entire document, selected blocks, or table cells
Other Features
Multi-Page Document Reconstruction
Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT)
To preserve the structure of the original, ABBYY ADRT analyzes and processes each multi-page document as a single entity, rather than as a batch of independent pages. This enables the reconstruction of formatting elements, such as hierarchic heading structures, table of contents, headers, footers, vertical headers, page numbering, footnotes, fonts, font styles, image captions, table captions, diagram captions, logical text flow, and margin notes
Accurate Recognition of Magazine-Style Pages
The FineReader 12 Professional provides automatic and accurate conversion of complex page images with integrated text. You can manually mark text areas for efficient processing of documents with background graphics
Table Structure Recreation
The FineReader 12 Professional can accurately recognize and recreate tables and spreadsheets, including multi-page tables, that are fully editable in Microsoft Excel
Other Features
Efficiency & Productivity
Automatic Recognition
The FineReader 12 Professional can automatically perform OCR as soon as a document is scanned or opened
Fast Processing Mode
Recognition is up to 70% faster in Thorough mode
Black & White Processing Mode
Black & White mode is ideal for smaller documents and is up to 30% faster than Full Color mode
High-Speed, Multi-Core Processing
Processing multi-page documents is divided and performed in parallel to streamline workflow and increase speed
Full-Text Search with Search-and-Replace Tool
You can find and replace words or phrases without saving to an external application
Shared Languages & Dictionaries
The FineReader 12 Professional allows multiple users to simultaneously access the same set of user languages and dictionaries available on the network. Users can also add names, acronyms, industry terms, and other words to shared dictionaries
ABBYY Screenshot Reader (Registered Users Only)
If you're a registered ABBYY user, you can quickly retrieve text or tables from any area on the screen including Windows Explorer file menus, error messages, Web pages, flash presentations, and more
Archiving & PDF Conversion
Pre-Defined Profiles for Saving Files
You'll be able to save files using one of the three pre-defined profiles, best quality, compact size, and balanced
Saving to Different Types of PDF & PDF/A
FineReader 12 Professional allows you to save to different types of PDF and PDF/A, which are text under image, text over image, text and pictures, and image only
MRC Compression for Sharing & Archiving PDFs
FineReader 12 Professional provides up to 80% smaller file sizes than the previous version with minimal quality degradation
PDF Outline Creation
Automatically reconstruct PDF outlines for comfortable navigating and reading of a PDF
Comprehensive PDF Processing
Process any type of PDF, even scanned files without a text layer (image only PDFs) and files with non-standard encoding
Saving as Tagged PDF Documents
Tagged PDFs are optimized for handheld devices and screen readers. In this format, text is automatically reformatted to fit the current screen size
Access for Visually Impaired Users
Searchable, converted documents are more accessible than the originals for people with visual disabilities
Document Properties Extraction
While converting PDF files, the FineReader 12 Professional can extract the following type of metadata, title, subject, author, and keywords
Detection of Internal Links and Hyperlinks in PDF
Retains internal links and hyperlinks in output documents
Making Changes to PDFs
Allows users to make changes to PDF files directly in the FineReader text editor
Export to DjVu for Easy Reading or Archiving
FineReader 12 Professional enables saving to DjVu, which delivers high-quality, readable images requiring minimal storage space
Other Features
Ease of Use
Interface Driven by Results
Key functions are grouped together for easy access at the top level
Intelligent Tasks
Pre-programmed tasks make it easier to perform the most common OCR tasks
Quick Preview of Opening Documents
You can preview documents before opening them so you can quickly select the pages or documents you need to process
One-Step Conversion from within External Applications and Windows Start Menu
You'll be able to access Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), right-click from Windows Explorer, or access the FineReader folder in the Windows Start menu
Direct Export to Multiple Applications & Clipboard
FineReader 12 Professional supports applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, OpenOffice.org Writer, and Adobe Acrobat/Reader. FineReader also supports export to email applications, web browsers, and clipboard
Image Pre-Processing Tools
All image pre-processing functions for photo correction are grouped together and can be quickly accessed from the "Image Editor" window
Verification Tool for Proofreading
Highlights questionable characters and words that aren't found in dictionaries and offers alternatives for substitution. Alternatives for ideographic characters in Asian languages are also provided
Text Editor
The smart Text Editor allows you to review document layouts and easily correct them before saving
Split Document Tool
The split document tool facilitates bulk conversion of mixed-type documents
Document Pages Re-Numbering
FineReader 12 Professional enables easy page re-numbering after duplex scanning or splitting book pages
Other Features
Camera OCR for Digital Photo Recognition
Automatic Digital Photo Pre-Processing
Automatically apply pre-processing functions on images captured with standard digital and smartphone cameras before recognition. These pre-processing functions include: Detection of page orientation Straightening curved text lines Splitting dual pages Deskewing Correction of image resolution 3D perspective distortion correction
Manual Image Editing Tools
E-Book Creation
EPUB & FB2 Formats
You'll be able to enable e-book creation in the most common formats, EPUB and FUB2
Send to Amazon Kindle Account
You'll be able to send your e-book to your Amazon Kindle account (not included, sold separately)
Saving to HTML with Flexible Layout
You'll be able to save to flexible HTML with native elements for easy editing, indexing, searching, and reading