Supported Image Formats

ABBYY FineReader opens image files in the following formats:

PDF:
Files in PDF format (Version 1.6 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/JPEG 2000: 
gray, сolor

TIFF:
black and white - uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT3FAX, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP, LZW
gray - uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW
RGB - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP, LZW
CMYK - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP, LZW
Palette - uncompressed, Packbits, ZIP, LZW
multi-page 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/JPEG 2000:
 gray, color

TIFF:
  black and white - uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP
  gray - uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP
  RGB - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP
  multi-page TIFF

PNG:
  black and white, gray, color