ABBYY FineReader 11 boosts OCR speeds
ABBYY has announced FineReader 11, an intelligent OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software application featuring a new black-and-white mode claimed to increase document processing speed.
Processing speeds are promised to be up to 25 percent faster results on European languages (e.g. English, German, Russian, etc.) and up to 40 percent on Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
A dedicated new Black & White Processing Mode is able to be used using on common documents such as contracts, newspapers, books, or any other documents where colour is not needed.It is claimed to deliver hiighly accurate OCR results with up to 45 percent faster processing.
An Enhanced Fast Processing Mode, that provides up to 70 percent faster recognition as compared to the default processing mode. is suited for projects where speed is critical, such as creating searchable PDF archives.
FineReader 11 allows users to convert paper documents and images of text to a variety of formats supported by e-book readers, tablet PCs and smartphones, including the newly added Electronic Publication (.ePub) and FictionBook (.fb2) formats. Additionally, texts converted with ABBYY FineReader 11 can be sent directly to an Amazon Kindle account.
Enhanced ABBYY ADRT technology provides more accurate reconstruction of the document’s original formatting, including table of contents, headers and footers and other attributes commonly found in multipage documents. The new version delivers significant improvements in the detection of vertical headers, as well as margin notes, diagrams, tables, and styles, minimising the effort typically required for manual correction.
In addition to Microsoft Word documents, ABBYY FineReader 11 now accurately re-creates headers, footers, page numbering and table of contents across all pages in resulting OpenOffice.org Writer (ODT) files. When saving to PDF, the application intelligently identifies and reproduces the document’s content outline bookmarks with live links for better navigating and reading.
Designed for convenient batch scanning of documents, FineReader 11 gives users the ability to quickly separate and manage pages among documents. When split, documents can be processed simultaneously in separate FineReader windows for better quality of the results, while the integrity of the documents’ structure and layout is accurately preserved.
ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition, designed for medium-sized businesses, departments and workgroups in large enterprises, provides additional collaboration and productivity tools.
Corporate Edition supports centralized installation from a server onto multiple workstations, distributed document processing with the capability to share workflows across the network, and offers a flexible licensing scheme designed specifically for corporate customers.
FineReader 11 Corporate Edition includes a range of new powerful enhancements, such as:
Enhanced Hot Folder and Scheduling — Performing automated batch processing from “watched” folders (mailbox, local or network folders) the application can now flexibly schedule document conversion routines initiating the processes with pre-defined intervals (every minute, day, week or month). ABBYY Hot Folder now also saves OCR results as FineReader documents giving users more freedom for manual editing and verification before saving documents to final formats.
Custom Tasks — Enables corporate users to streamline business processes by automating their document scanning and conversion routines. They can easily create custom tasks with particular parameters such as recognition languages, output formats, and saving folders, and share those tasks with other colleagues in the network work group.
Removal of Sensitive Information with Redaction Option — Allows users to blackout and remove sensitive information in supported output documents. Confidential information can be removed and replaced with blackout bar or black dots across multiple layers of the document.
ABBYY Business Card Reader — A time-saving application that allows users of ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition to quickly and accurately convert scanned business cards and save the extracted data in vCard format or directly to Microsoft Outlookcontacts.