Mac OCR software is photo ready

July 14, 2009:ABBYY has launched FineReader Express Edition for Mac, offering optical character recognition (OCR) for Macintosh computers and new digital camera OCR technology.

The application accurately turns scanned paper documents, PDF files and camera images into popular electronic formats such as RTF documents, XLS spreadsheets, searchable PDFs, and HTML files.

It delivers text recognition in 171 languages and intelligently re-creates layout and formatting elements of the original document including tables, columns, graphics, bullets and numbering. It processes various document types andautomatically deskews and despeckles images before recognition.

Digital camera OCR technology provides the ability to extract printed text from digital photographs with the application, allowing digital cameras to be used as alternative scanning devices. This feature can be used for converting pictures of banners, posters, or timetables, as well asphotographed pages of books and other documents which are hard to scan in the usual way.

Image-only, or scanned, PDF can be transformed into searchable PDF format ideal for archiving purposes.

The most popular conversion routines (e.g. conversion to text, spreadsheet, or searchable PDF) are grouped into the QuickTasks menu enabling users to perform the entire process and get the resulting file with just one click of a button. In addition, FineReader Express Edition for Mac supports conversion of several documents at a time which will be merged and saved as a single file in the required format.