What’s New in ABBYY FineReader 10

ABBYY FineReader 10 delivers up to 99%* increase in overall OCR accuracy as well as faster document processing (see table below). It also demonstrates further improvements toward “100 percent accuracy” on high-quality images; significant accuracy increase in processing documents with multiple and complex image items (e.g. magazine pages); documents with difficult-to-read print quality (e.g. faxes); and images captured by digital and phone cameras.

The table below provides additional data on accuracy and performance enhancements* for various document types and conversion tasks:

_{* Based on internal ABBYY testing. Accuracy and formatting results can vary depending on factors such as document quality and scanner settings.}

The new ADRT not only preserves the exact look of the original structure but intelligently reproduces more logical links between formatting attributes and content of the document across all its pages. It enables FineReader 10 to accurately re-create all the most complex formatting attributes in native Microsoft® Office format while preserving a consistent text flow throughout all pages.  FineReader 10 now can recognize new formatting elements, such as table of contents and hierarchical heading structures – as well as continue to improve the recognition accuracy of page numbering, headers and footers, footnotes, styles and captions to images—introduced in the 1st generation of ADRT. For example, you can quickly change or remove the same header across all pages simultaneously or add a new chapter to the document and it will be automatically added to the existing table of contents.  The resulting Microsoft Office document is ready to use and easy to adapt for your purposes.

ADRT is an essential part of ABBYY’s OCR technology. It analyzes and processes a multi-page document as a single entity rather than a batch of separate pages, which is the method used by earlier generations of OCR software.  ADRT makes converting paper documents, images and PDF files to the Microsoft Office format simpler and more accurate than ever.

FineReader 10 incorporates the next generation of ABBYY CameraOCR™ technology. The enhanced technology allows you to achieve quality conversion results on photos captured by standard digital cameras as well as mobile phone cameras. To ensure the best possible OCR accuracy on photographed images, ABBYY FineReader 10 automatically adjusts digital photos before recognition and provides a range of new image pre-processing functions and options:

• Automatic correction of 3D perspective distortions
• Automatic ISO noise correction
• Blurred image correction
• Trapezium crop tool

With its enhanced user interface, ABBYY FineReader 10 mirrors Microsoft Windows giving you a thorough view of its functions and options from the start and guiding you directly to the result.

All the key document conversion tasks have been carefully singled out and grouped according to the output format into the extended QuickTasks™ menu to reduce amount of steps usually required to process a document. As a result, all you need to do to have your document converted is just to select the required task and press the button.

Along with pre-defined QuickTasks, FineReader offers a special tool for easily creating customized automated tasks.

Addressing the growing popularity of electronic books, FineReader 10 now includes extended capabilities to convert documents into HTML format—perfect for use with e-books. For example, it can automatically save chapters of a book as individual HTML files and create a separate table of contents with internal links to the respective chapters and files. As a result, you can easily navigate between book chapters without scrolling through a long HTML file, which makes reading e-books  easier than ever! FineReader 10 also supports exporting documents to flexible HTML layout, which can be easily edited, indexed for search or readily published on a web site.

FineReader 10 can optimize the size of output PDF documents for efficient archiving and sharing. ABBYY’s new MRC technology can reduce the size of an output PDF up to 10 times, while keeping its visual quality untouched and preserving valuable storage space.

FineReader 10 has enhanced document page layout analysis capabilities for documents containing multiple image items, text over images, charts and graphs — such as magazine pages, brochures, reports and more.

For example, ABBYY FineReader 10 automatically detects images with text on them, separately identifies the image and text areas for accurate re-creation and preserves the document’s original look.   FineReader 10 also allows users to manually change the results of page analysis.

Page layout analysis technology recognizes complex graphics and charts, such as magazine-style images/image-rich documents, and improves image and graphics recognition.

Already leading in number of supported recognition languages, ABBYY FineReader has expanded its language base with the addition of Korean, bringing the total number of recognized languages to 186.

See the full list of supported OCR languages.

ABBYY FineReader 10 delivers full compatibility with the newest Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.