Supported Image Formats

ABBYY FineReader opens image files in the following formats:

PDF:
Files in PDF format (Version 1.4 or earlier)

BMP:
2-bit - black and white
4- and 8-bit - Palette 
16-bit - Mask
24-bit - Palette and TrueColor
32-bit - Mask

PCX, DCX: 
2-bit - black and white
4- and 8-bit - Palette 
24-bit - TrueColor

JPEG: 
gray, сolor

JPEG 2000: 
gray, сolor

TIFF:
black and white - uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT3FAX, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP
gray - uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP
TrueColor - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP
Palette - uncompressed, Packbits, ZIP
multi-image TIFF

PNG:
black and white, gray, color

ABBYY FineReader saves image files in the following formats:

BMP:
  black and white, gray, color

PCX:
  black and white, gray

JPEG:
 gray, color

JPEG 2000: 
 gray, сolor

TIFF:
  black and white - uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT3FAX, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP
  gray - uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP
  color - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP

PNG:
  black and white, gray, color