An online portal that delivers free OCR and data capture services has been launched by ABBYY.

The FineReader Online service converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF, and TXT formats.

It is free up to 20 pages per month, with additional page processing available on a pay-per-use basis.

FineReader Online provides an intuitive interface for converting images. The whole process takes three simple steps: uploading an image to the service, setting up recognition languages and an output format, and receiving the resulting document directly from the user account page.

An online version of ABBYY's dictionary software, Lingvo Online delivers updated and expanded dictionary databases with enhanced word look-up technology.

On the new ABBYY portal users can quickly submit text of any length — from one sentence to a whole document — for professional translation.

An online version of the ABBYY Aligner software tool designed for translators, language learners, and anyone who needs to compare an original text with its translation. This cloud-based service for aligning small parallel texts and creating Translation Memories finds matching segments in source and translated texts in 10 European languages: English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

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