
more intelligent PDF conversion - with smarter, faster processing and output to searchable, secure, and tagged PDF files.a significant increase in overall recognition accuracy - with up to 30 percent accuracy improvement for "difficult-to-read" images such as faxes and documents scanned at low resolution.Enhancements in version 8.0 give FineReader new intelligence, making it more accurate, flexible, and adaptable for a wider variety of users than ever before.ĪBBYY FineReader 8.0 redefines OCR accuracy and performance by delivering: The product delivers outstanding accuracy when converting a variety of document types including tables and spreadsheets, magazine articles, contracts, and faxes. There’s just one major niggle with FineReader in terms of usability: like Readiris, it doesn’t automatically save your settings on closing the program, so if you forget to save your options you’ll find yourself resetting them each time you load the program.Intelligent Product Enhancements Deliver Increased Accuracy, Digital Camera Support, Improved PDF Conversion, and Task Automation to Expand Usage Options for CustomersĪBBYY today announced the commercial release of the next generation of its FineReader desktop optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion software application, FineReader 8.0.ĪBBYY FineReader is a powerful, yet easy-to-use application for professional quality conversion of document images and PDF files to editable and searchable electronic files. It’s possible to save the files a number of times in different formats, but there’s no facility to save the scanned image for reference. There’s no ‘watch folder’ facility, so you won’t be able to scan documents all day and have them automatically read, but you can easily program an automation to take all the files from a folder, recognise and save them before deleting the original image. Both bold and indented text was perfectly reproduced, and our PDF document, in spite of the problems with the graphs and light-coloured images, showed perfect text recognition.įor SMEs, there’s an Automation Manager, as seen in Omni. If you’re just scanning text, though, you won’t have any complaints with FineReader. FineReader also tried to translate one of the pictures in our greyscale test as text. We also found that what the zone boxes show and what actually gets recognised aren’t necessarily the same thing – the headline on the PC Pro page we scanned was properly recognised, but by the time it got into Word it had been clipped at the bottom. For instance, if you draw two boxes around text that touch, FineReader won’t automatically convert them into one irregular box as Readiris does – you need to change them yourself with a different tool. Of course, you can do your own zoning, and here FineReader holds a slight advantage over OmniPage in terms of responsiveness and ease of use, but it isn’t up to the standard of Readiris.
