Released on: December 26, 2007, 5:58 am

Press Release Author: ABBYY

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Create editable & searchable files from scanned documents,
PDF and camera images

Press Release Body: Moscow, Russia (October 1, 2007) - ABBYY, a leading provider of
document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced
version 9.0 of the ABBYY FineReader document and PDF
conversion software. Based on a breakthrough new recognition platform with Adaptive
Document Recognition Technology (ADRTT), FineReader 9.0 is the first optical
character recognition (OCR) product intelligent enough to automatically deliver
editable files in native document formatting. The new version offers up to 35
percent* accuracy improvements, particularly with documents containing tables and
images from digital cameras. FineReader 9.0 combines enhanced accuracy in the
reproduction of document layouts with new tools, extended document format support,
and an innovative interface redesign to provide increased user productivity with
less steps and effort spent on OCR tasks than ever before.
ABBYY FineReader provides comprehensive and easy-to-use document conversion
capabilities which allow users to readily transform document images and PDF files
into editable and searchable electronic files. A cost-effective and time-saving
alternative to manually retyping documents, FineReader delivers precision accuracy
in converting almost any type of document, including tables and spreadsheets,
magazine articles, contracts, and even faxes.
ABBYY's unique ADRT recognizes not just the text and basic layout, but the logical
structure of a document across multiple pages, producing an improvement in layout
retention by up to 32 percent*. Because it understands a document as a whole,
FineReader is very intelligent in saving and exporting OCR results. It can determine
how certain formatting elements should be treated when sending to Microsoft® Word
and Microsoft Excel®. As a result, the headers and footers, page numbering,
footnotes, fonts and styles of the original are retained. For example, footnotes
linked with corresponding text on the page, image captions, graphics and tables are
automatically grouped with the appropriate object type. Headers and footers can be
directly edited or even removed using the Microsoft Word header and footer tools.
Text flows are maintained across multiple pages. The new 9.0 recognition platform
also recognizes and retains a variety of additional formatting elements including
line numbering, signatures, and stamps found in legal and other documents.
"Through each step of OCR development, we have been able to reproduce an increasing
amount of document parts automatically - from individual letters and text, to
formatting elements such as columns and tables," explained Sergey Popov, Chief
Product Manager at ABBYY. "Now with the ABBYY ADRT, we can analyze not just the
separate formatting elements of a single page, but also the formatting and logical
text flow across a document with multiple pages, and recreate the document as a
logical whole."


Web Site: http://finereader.abbyy.com/

Contact Details: Address: P.O. Box #54, Moscow
Russian Federation

Phone Number: +74957833700
Email: soft@abbyy.com