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.

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.

Recognition of digital photos

� You can take a picture of a document with your digital camera, and ABBYY
FineReader 12 will recognize the text just as if it was an ordinary scan.

PDF archiving

� ABBYY FineReader can convert your paper documents or scanned PDFs into
searchable PDF and PDF/A documents.

� MRC compression can be applied to reduce the size of PDF files without
impairing their visual quality.

Supports multiple saving formats and cloud storage services

� ABBYY FineReader 12 can save recognized texts in Microsoft Office formats

(Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), in searchable PDF/A and PDF for long�term storage,
and in popular e� book formats.

� You can save results either locally or in cloud storage services (Google
Drive, Dropbox, and SkyDrive) and access them from anywhere in the world. ABBYY
FineReader 12 can also export documents directly to Microsoft SharePoint Online and
Microsoft Office.