ABBYY has updated its FineScanner app to provide enhanced mobile capture capabilities on the iPad and iPhone.

FineScanner offers a range of settings to enhance the quality of scanned images and create one-page and multipage files that can be printed, emailed or uploaded to uploaded to online services to Dropbox, Google Docs, and Evernote for archiving and back up.

“ABBYY FineScanner virtually turns your iPhone into a handy mobile scanner, so you can get high-quality images of documents wherever you are,” commented Katya Solntseva, director of mobile platform products department at ABBYY.

ABBYY is also targetting the mobile capture app at those professionals who constantly deal with documents away from a company office, for instance insurance, financial services and the legal industry.

“This app simplifies the process of creating and sharing copies of everyday documents – such as bills, insurance certificates, prescriptions and more – and provides easy-to-use storage for all of them.”

ABBYY’s Mobile Imaging technology provides manual and automated settings to enhance the visual quality of a scanned image before character recognition. This provides settings to adjust brightness and contrast ratio, as well as automatic crop frame detection.  It can save images in colour or convert them into black and white or greyscale, with automatic detection of page boundaries.  

FineScanner enables users to create multipage files out of scanned or uploaded images from the device’s gallery by using the “grouping” feature.

To save time, a set of quality-improving functions can be manually defined for any image from the group and then applied to the rest with a single tap. Additionally, a sequence of images can be easily saved as a multipage PDF document or a series of JPEG files.

Corporate users and organisations can utilise ABBYY FineScanner as an alternate entry point to an enterprise workflow system, allowing employees traveling for business to make reliable electronic copies of handouts and paper documents and pass them to their co-workers, partners or customers.

ABBYY FineScanner for iOS is available via the Apple App Store (accessible through iTunes). Supported interface languages are English and Russian. The compatible devices include the Apple iPhone 4S and 4. For more information about the product, visit www.abbyy.com/finescanner_ios .