FineReader

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FineReader
Basic data

developer ABBYY
Publishing year July 1993
Current  version 15
(August 2019)
operating system Windows , Mac OS X
License proprietary, chargeable
finereader.abbyy.com

FineReader is a proprietary desktop OCR software of coming from Russia company ABBYY for Windows operating systems and Mac OS X . A command line version exists for Linux. By integrating PDF Transformer from the same company, FineReader Standard and Corporate for Windows have also been offering PDF tools since 2017 .

The software offers a graphical user interface from which images can also be read in directly by scanners and processed in batches with various automation functions. The user can take corrective action in different phases of the process and, for example, correct recognized blocks in the page layout and check characters that have been recognized as unsafe. Results can be output in files of various formats (including PDF and Microsoft Office formats) or directly to word processing software. FineReader has language models for a wide variety of natural and artificial languages.

There was a special version for the recognition of German Fraktur script : FineReader XIX . Its development and sales have now been discontinued, but the Recognition Server and the online conversion FineReader Online provide the option of reading in fractional texts.

Versions of FineReader are often included with scanners.

The first version was released in July 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article from c't 4/2008 on ABBEY (sic!) FineReader 6.0 & Article from c't 11/2004 on ABBYY FineReader Home Edition 5.0 ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heise.de
  2. ↑ a b Text recognition test: Abbyy Fine Reader Express Edition for Mac , macwelt.de from October 2, 2009
  3. ↑ ABBYY FineReader 14 Redefines the Way Offices Work with Documents. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ FineReader XIX: Text recognition for Fraktur script , chip.de from March 14, 2005
  5. ↑ www.frakturschrift.de