Using a Digital Camera to Photograph TextsCompared to the previous version, ABBYY FineReader8.0 introduces a variety of improvements and new features to increase your productivity when working with scanned documents, images, PDF files, and faxes.
This version features intelligent technology improvements, allowing for improved reading of documents taken by digital cameras, more accurate recognition of low-resolution faxes and paper documents, better handling of document layouts, and enhanced security features in PDF files. New features like scheduled operation, recognition of screenshots and automation manager for processing recurring document tasks have been added to increase your productivity even more.
Detailed information on major product improvements and new features is given below. Features available only in ABBYY FineReader8.0 Corporate Edition are marked accordingly.
Up to 30 percent accuracy improvement on low resolution documents and faxes[1]
While ABBYY FineReader has traditionally
delivered highly accurate recognition results on documents of good
quality, there is still a possibility of documents of
lower-than-expected quality arriving at your desk. Most often these
are faxes or paper documents that were scanned at resolution lower than recommended for OCR. ABBYY FineReader
8.0 handles such documents better, delivering up to a 30 percent improvement in recognition accuracy.
Processing images taken by digital cameras
When you are on the go and no scanner is available, you may still
capture documents with a digital camera and recognize them later on
your desktop PC. Now ABBYY FineReader 8.0
includes new adaptive recognition technology for better OCR of camera images.
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Using a Digital Camera to Photograph Texts
Security options for PDF files
The new version of ABBYY FineReader
supports PDF security settings and allows you to set document
Open and Permissions passwords as well as selecting other security
options for PDF files. You can select RC4-based 40-bit or 128-bit encryption or the newest AES(Advanced Encryption Standard)-based 128-bit encryption.
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PDF Security Settings
Creating tagged PDF files
A new option for saving tagged PDF files in ABBYY
FineReader8.0 makes it possible to create PDF
files that will be easier to read when used on devices with limited screen sizes, for example handheld devices.
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Saving the Recognized Text in PDF Format
Automation Manager
This new feature allows faster processing of repeated document
tasks by grouping them into sets of consecutive operations that can
then be called by one click of a button. Several predefined
automated tasks are available and it is also possible to create
your own customized automated tasks and share them with
colleagues.
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Automated Tasks
Support for hyperlinks
The new version
recognizes hyperlinks, such as links to Web sites and e-mail
addresses, and reconstructs them in output documents. You can also add new hyperlinks into recognized documents.
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Creating and Editing Hyperlinks
Fast mode recognition
With ABBYY FineReader 8.0 you
can recognize documents 2-2 1/2 times faster using a new
fast recognition mode. This mode is recommended for documents with
simple layouts and good printing and scanning quality. For more
complex documents, the accuracy mode should
be preferred. However, recognition accuracy
obtained in fast mode will be sufficient in many cases,
for example when converting paper documents into searchable PDF files.
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Recognition
Options
Saving to Microsoft Reader e-book (LIT) format
Now you can save recognition results in Microsoft Reader’s LIT
e-book format that makes such documents suitable for reading on
handheld devices and PDAs.
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Saving
recognized text in LIT format
Defining document-related properties
ABBYY
FineReader 8.0 allows for defining additional
document properties like Title, Author, Subject and Keywords, and saving this data to PDF, DOC/RTF, XLS,
HTML, Word XML and LIT file formats. These properties can be used
by the operating system and other software for indexing and search purposes.
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Adding Document Properties
Extended language and dictionary support
The total number of
supported languages is now 179. Dictionary support and spell-check functions are available for 36 languages.
Legal and medical dictionaries for English and German languages are now included in the main English and German recognition dictionaries - there’s no need to select specialized recognition languages to work with specialized text.
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Languages Supported by ABBYY FineReader
Opening multi-page PDF and
TIFF files
If you do not need the entire
document converted, you can open only selected pages of your multi-page PDF or TIFF files in ABBYY
FineReader8.0.
ABBYY Screenshot Reader
(available in ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition after registration, in ABBYY
FineReader 8.0 Corporate Edition available by
default)
This simple and easy-to-use utility allows you to grab a part of
the screen and recognize the text in the captured image. The
utility also allows you to save captured screen areas to a file or
to the clipboard.
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ABBYY Screenshot Reader
ABBYY Hot Folder & Scheduling
(available only in ABBYY FineReader 8.0
Corporate Edition)
The previously available feature for automatically scanning folders
for incoming images and processing these images has been extended
in the new version of ABBYY FineReader.
Scheduled processing capabilities have been added to allow you to
utilize your computer for document conversion purposes when it is
not occupied by your normal activities, for example at night time.
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ABBYY Hot Folder & Scheduling