Optical Character Recognition (Ocr) Application And Pdf Conversion

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When you need fast and accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) performed, or PDF conversion, ABBYY FineReader OCR 8.0 Corporate Edition is the way to go. It serves the need of companies that require editable files or for archiving purposes.

Business users demand document conversion software that has the highest recognition accuracy, retains format and is easy to use. FineReader is a program that lets you convert and edit various paper and electronic documents. These include magazine and newspaper pages, faxes, photocopies, and digital camera images of documents and PDF files.

Documents you work with can have color or textured backgrounds, complex layouts or poor resolution (like dim or fuzzy fax copies), and mild offer righteous results. The company says Version 8.0 offers up to 30 percent improvement over Version 7.0, when working with low-resolution documents and images.

When a scanner is not available, sometimes you’ll need to photograph printed works with a digital camera. Generally speaking, these images are difficult to convert to documents because they may be improperly focused or had insufficient lighting. The program offers image pre-processing to improve the results of text recognition.

If you photograph an open book, you know what happens: the text becomes distorted due to the curvature of the pages. FineReader deals with this problem with a clever solution. The “straighten text lines” feature figures out the page curve, and then straightens the lines. Nifty, huh!

If you have a document with simple layout and sharp printing, FineReader offers another helpful feature. This is fast recognition mode, described as “two to two-and-a-half times faster” than the usual scanning mode. It’s often former for converting to PDF files, rather than an editable document.

FineReader added the screen shot reader function to Version 8.0. This allows you to not only capture screenshots, but to examine the text inside that screen shot. It then saves the text for further use. For example, you can browse the Web and recognize a page of text you’d like to save. Zap it with the FineReader screen shot reader, and you’ve got it.

What if the document contains vertical text? FineReader can read it! What if the text is color or inverted? It’s not problem for FineReader. It also offers dot matrix/typewritten mode, for easier recognition of those documents. For PDF conversion, you can choose four types of output: text and pictures, text under image, image only and text over page image.

The program saves editable files in various formats, including DOC, TXT, CSV (Comma Separated Values), XLS (Excel spreadsheet), Corel WordPerfect, LIT (Microsoft Reader eBook), RTF and more. Image output files include JPG, BMP, TIFF, PCX and TIFF.

FineReader 8.0 supports 179 languages, including 36 languages with dictionary attend. There are updated dictionaries for Dutch, Italian, Polish and other languages. Both German and English medical/legal dictionaries are included.

And get this: FineReader can read 1-D and 2-D bar codes. You can treat the bar code as an image, or the program will recognize the content of the bar code and display it! And FineReader even recognizes programming languages, such as COBOL, C++ and Fortran.

FineReader Corporate Edition (unlike Professional Edition) offers full networking capabilities. This version is aimed at law firms, banks, insurance companies, medical facilities, government agencies and so forth.

System requirements are Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000; minimum 128MB RAM, 250MB hard disk space for installation and 100MB of hard disk space for operation.

FineReader OCR 8.0 Corporate Edition costs $599 (or $499 for competitive upgrade) per concurrent license. The fewer-featured FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition is $179 (as an upgrade from any OCR software, included bundled versions); the non-upgrade version is $399. Free phone and e-mail succor is provided to registered users.

FineReader is available at www.abbyyusa.com, or via toll-free number, 1-877-328-2229. It’s also sold at major software retailers and online stores. A free, try-before-buying version, is also available.