ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the latest version of the award-winning FineReader desktop product. The intelligent OCR and document conversion application is ideally suited to professionals who demand the highest level of recognition accuracy. FineReader helps you quickly and easily convert a variety of PDF files and scanned and camera-captured images (books, magazines, contracts, newspapers, brochures, reports, faxes, etc.) into an electronic format. You can edit, reuse and search documents using familiar applications or simply email the recognized results to colleagues for easy collaboration.

Highlighted Features…
Accuracy and Layout Retention
 
Average 35% recognition accuracy enhancement Enhanced
Up to 32% improvement in layout retention Enhanced
Automatic recognition language detection New
Retain spreadsheets and tables Enhanced
Fast recognition mode
Multilingual recognition in 179 languages
Meet the needs for recognition of legal documents Enhanced
Barcode recognition
Vertical, color and inverted text recognition
Recognition of dot-matrix and type-written documents
Retain bullets and numbering
 
Adaptive Document Recognition Technology New 
Recreate Microsoft Word and Excel documents with true header, footer and page numbers New
Preserve true footnotes reference marks and corresponding links New
Retain original caption of tables and images New
Produce editable formats with true text flow New
Recognition of table structure Enhanced
Font and font style matching New
 
Digital Camera OCR
 
Second-generation CameraOCR Enhanced
Automatically identify digital camera images Enhanced
Automatic page curve straightening Enhanced
Automatic image distortion correction New
One-click CameraOCR New
 
Result-Driven™ Interface New
 
Automatic recognition and background processing Enhanced
One-Click QuickTasks New
QuickEditor™ New
QuickPreview™ New
QuickTips™ New
Easy Image enhancements New
 
PDF Conversion
 
Intelligent PDF input/output
PDF security settings and encryption support
Create searchable PDF with PDF/A support Enhanced
Creates tagged PDF files
Extra PDF properties
Preserves internal links and hyperlinks
Support MRC compression New
Send result directly to Adobe® Acrobat®
 
File Formats support
 
Send results directly to applications Enhanced
Save results in multiple file formats Enhanced
Microsoft Office 2007 support New
PDF/A output New
XPS format support New 
 
Integration with Microsoft Office applications
 
Direct access within Microsoft Office applications Enhanced
One-click access from Windows Explorer Enhanced
 
Special features
 
Optimized performance for m ulti-core processors New
Full-text search with morphology support
Instant screenshot OCR
Section 508 compliance New
Certified for Microsoft ® Windows Vista®, support for Windows XP 64-bit Edition New

Average 35% recognition accuracy enhancement
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition has further enhanced its recognition algorithms that deliver an average accuracy enhancement of 35%, compared to the previous version. This version has strengthened its capabilities in accurately recognizing digital camera images, legal documents and documents with tables.

Up to 32% improvement in layout retention
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition enhances the accuracy of layout retention up to 32%, even with documents comprising of complex-layout. The resulting documents precisely preserve the original layouts, including columns, tables, bullet points, graphics, etc. You save time in retyping and reformatting.

Automatic recognition language detection
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the first OCR solution that intelligently detects languages in the documents without pre-selecting the recognition languages. You save extra steps of manually selecting the appropriate document recognition language.

Retain spreadsheets and tables
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition automatically recognizes spreadsheets and tables with or without printed grid lines. This latest version accurately detects and reads tables in vertical or horizontal orientations. As a result, you can easily convert the information into an Excel format or a database file.

Fast recognition mode
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition offers a “fast mode recognition” option which increases recognition speed by up 2.5 times. This option is ideal when processing large batches of documents in which extracted text is used only for indexing (searchable archives), or large groups of documents with simple layouts and good printing and scanning quality .

Multilingual recognition in 179 languages
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition recognizes more languages than any other OCR product! It reads 179 languages and offers 36 languages with dictionary and spell-check support, including English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and more. In addition, FineReader reads scripting languages and scientific formulas, such as C/C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, JAVA, Pascal and simple chemical formulas.

Meet the needs for recognition of legal documents
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition comes with special legal dictionaries in English and German to maximize COR accuracy. This latest version automatically identifies and preserves specialized elements and formatting found in legal documents, such as signatures and stamps in contracts as well as line numbers in pleading documents.

Barcode recognition
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition includes special functionality to analyze and recognize barcodes. You choose whether to treat barcodes as images or read their values. It is ideal for processing and indexing a large number of documents for company archives.

Vertical, color and inverted text recognition FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the only OCR application that reads vertical text. In addition, it recognizes text that is colored or inverted and retained those attributes in the output documents.

Recognition for dot-matrix and type-written documents
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition offers a special mode for reading dot-matrix print and type-written documents. When converting legacy documents, FineReader allows you to specify document’s print type for the entire documents, selected blocks or table cells.

Retain bullets and numbering
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition recognizes and recreates shapes and sizes of various bullet-point formats as outlined in standard Microsoft Word fonts.

Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT™)
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the first and only OCR application featuring the revolutionary Adaptive Document Recognition Technology which elevates the OCR processing from traditional page-by-page approach to recognizing multiple-page document as a single entity. Using ADRT, FineReader analyzes a document’s logical structure, and identifies formatting elements and styles with its original attributes. Now you can reuse information more efficient than ever before.

Recreate Microsoft Word and Excel documents with true header, footer and page numbers
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the only OCR solution that recreates editable formats with native Microsoft Office formatting elements. In the resulting Word and Excel files, these elements ( header, footer, and auto
numbering, etc.) do not appear as a ‘small letter size frame’ placed at the top or bottom of each page. Instead, they are identified as part of the header “field” and subsequently placed in the corresponding formatting section of Microsoft Office document so that headers are treated as a single element to allow them to be edited or deleted on all pages simultaneously.

Preserve true footnotes reference marks and corresponding links
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the only OCR software identifies footnotes from the original documents and reconstructs them as true footnotes in output Microsoft Word documents. Other OCR applications use smaller font sizes in Word files to represent footnotes. FineReader correctly preserves all the footnote formats and corresponding links. You can easily view the footnotes by simply clicking the footnote reference marks within the text.

Retain original captions of tables and images
With ADRT, FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is able to retain true captions information and formats for tables and images in ready-to-use Word files. You can easily add, delete or remove captions and the changes will apply to the entire document. .

Produce editable formats with true text flow
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition analyzes a multiple-page document as an entity. As a result, FineReader is able to retain true text flow from page to page for easy editing.

Recognition of table structure
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition has enhanced it table recognition. The converted tables are fully editable and retain all attributes when sending to Word or Excel files, including text alignment in cell, text colors, and text orientation.

Font and font style matchingFineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is able to identify the fonts and font styles in the original documents and recreates the results with exact fonts and styles. If a user’s system does not have certain fonts, FineReader will match fonts and styles as close as possible to the original.

Second-generation CameraOCR
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition has leveraged the technology breakthroughs from version 8.0 to enhance its accuracy and usability further. With an average of 35% accuracy improvement and enhanced image-preprocessing features, this latest version delivers better results faster.

Automatically identify digital camera images
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition automatically distinguishes the images are captured from digital cameras. No need to manually select a specific image category, FineReader gives you the same accurate results more efficiently.

Automatic page curve straightening
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition ’s enhanced CameraOCR technology is able to automatically detect the page curve in photographs of book pages and straighten the image to boost accuracy.

Automatic image distortion correction
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition automatically adjusts image distortion and increases the accuracy of our results. Now you can capture documents on the go and let FineReader to fine-tune the images and give you the best recognition results.

One-click CameraOCR
Now you can use your digital camera as a portable “scanning” device to capture documents and have FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition to convert it into editable Microsoft Word with only a click of a mouse.
 
Results-Driven interface
FineReader 9/0 Professional Edition’s new Results-Driven Interface simplifies and shortens the recognition process and automatically highlights best-practice strategies for optimizing OCR results. This user-friendly interface reduces the number of mouse clicks needed for popular document conversion tasks by as much as fifty percent compared to similar products .

Automatic recognition and background processing
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition automatically performs OCR as soon as the document is scanned in the system (without the need for users to click “Read”). The default background processing allows users to start working on the first recognized pages while FineReader continues processing.

One-Click QuickTasks
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition’s is equipped with six pre-defined QuickTasks™ that further increases user efficiency and accuracy. You can access these commonly used OCR tasks such as “scan to PDF”, “Scan to Microsoft Word”, or “PDF or image to Microsoft Word” from the program or Window’s Start menu with only a single mouse click. You can also create customized QuickTasks of your own frequently used tasks.

QuickEditor FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition provides a new Text Editor – QuickEditor – to allow you easily preview the recognized results with output preferences in real time. QuickEditor features the enhanced editing toolbar supports quick font and font style adjustments and adds additional editing capabilities.

QuickPreview
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition now provides a preview window while opening an document. This approach makes selection of documents or page ranges within documents easy.

QuickTips
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition provides intelligent and interactive tips to help improve your results throughout the OCR process and allow you to readily implement changes.

Easy Image enhancements
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition offers all image pre-processing functions, such as Rotate, Deskew, Crop, and Invert Image, in QuickEnhance™ window for quick and easy access. You can easily apply changes to a single image page to all pages with a single click.

Intelligent PDF input/output
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is the ideal tool to work with PDF files. You can simply open and convert PDF files into editable formats, modify the text, and then save them back as PDFs, or create searchable PDFs from images.

PDF security settings and encryption support FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition allows you to set document permissions, passwords and security options for PDF files. You can set restrictions on accessing, printing, editing or extracting the content of a document. FineReader 9.0 supports RC4-based 40-bit and 128-bit encryption as well as the newest AES-based 128-bit encryption.

Create searchable PDF with PDF/A support
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition lets you converts paper and images into searchable PDF document more accurate. Now you can save the PDF files with PDF/A which is ideal for the latest long-term document archiving standard for government or industry organizations.

Creates tagged PDF files
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition supports output to tagged PDF files. This option allows you to create PDF files that are easy to read when used on handheld devices or devices with limited screen sizes.

Extra PDF properties
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition can extract the information from PDF files, such as title, subject, author and keywords. The information can be alerted in FineReader prior to saving. The data can be also transferred to a similar location when outputting to Word, Excel, RTF, HTML and PDF formats.
Preserves internal links and hyperlinks
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is able to capture and recreate internal links and hyperlinks while processing PDF documents. The information can be reconstructed in output formats, such as Microsoft Word.

Support MRC compression
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition supports Matrix Raster Content ( MRC) compression, a standard for efficient document compression, to produce much more compact PDF documents.

Send result directly to Adobe Acrobat
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition allows you to send the recognized documents directly to Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Acrobat Reader without previously saving to the hard disk.

Send results directly to applications
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition gives you the flexibility to directly export the results to Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat/Reader, Lotus Word Pro, Corel WordPerfect and OpenOffice. You don’t have to save the recognized result first before viewing it.

Save results in multiple file formats
You can output your recognized content to more formats and more applications. FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition supports numerous saving formats, including DOC, RTF, XLS, PDF, WordML, HTML, DBF, CSV, TXT, LIT, as well as the new DOCX, XLSX, PDF/A formats.

Microsoft Office 2007 support
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition supports new DOCX and XLSX saving formats using compression and based on the XML language for small file sizes and more secure documents that can be easily accessed by a variety of information systems.

PDF/A output FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition now lets you save your documents in the latest PDF/A format, commonly used for long–term document storage in archives and libraries.

XPS format support FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition also supports input of images in XPS (XML Paper Specification), a new format for document viewing and storage developed by Microsoft.

Direct access within Microsoft Office applications FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office applications. From Word, Excel and Outlook, users can easily open, process and import images directly into their application without launching FineReader. FineReader also allows you to send OCR results directly to Microsoft Office applications with a click of a button.

One-click access from Windows Explorer Now you can use the right mouse button to select images or PDF document and perform any of FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition’s QuickTasks and have your document converted at no time.

Optimized performance for m ulti-core processors FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition’s new algorithm intelligently utilizes all host-system CPUs to enhance parallel processing and eliminate downtime. FineReader allows you to instantly review the recognized results while processing continues. In addition. FineReader helps you get results up to 1.6 times faster on a dual-core machine and up to 3.2 times faster on a quad-core machine.

Instant screenshot OCR
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition comes with a bonus utility – ABBYY Screenshot Reader™ – for all registered users. Screenshot Reader allows you to capture screenshots, recognize the text and save the results to supported formats. It is ideal for capturing such information as error messages, text from flash presentations, folder lists, e-mail lists, etc.

Full-text search with morphology support
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition allows you to search for keywords or phases in an open document. The search engine makes it easy to find specific pages within a large document. (Note: This feature is available for the 36 languages that have dictionary support.)

Section 508 Compliance
FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition complies with Section 508. The software’s accessibility features include customizable keyboard shortcuts and wizards that can be easily read by screen readers; beep signals that single the end of operations; and text that is automatically scaled to the screen’s width.

Certified for Microsoft ® Windows Vista®, support for Windows XP 64-bit Edition.FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition is officially certified to run on devices using Windows Vista to ensure the program’s compatibility with the advanced features of the Windows Vista operating system.

System Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium or compatible processor 1GHz or higher
• Microsoft Windows Vista®, Windows® Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher). For working with localized interfaces, corresponding language support is required.
• 512 MB of RAM, plus 512 MB of RAM for each additional processor core
• 250 MB of hard-disk space for typical installation and 512 MB of hard-disk space for program operation
• TWAIN or WIA-compliant scanner, digital camera or fax-modem (optional)
• XGA (1024x768) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor
• Keyboard, mouse or other windows-compatible pointing device

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