ABBYY has extended its Digital IQ technology platform with the release of FineReader 15, an enhanced version of its PDF application for Windows that is powered by ABBYY’s AI-based text recognition technology. The new FineReader 15 has received paragraph-level editing and layout adjustment in both digital and scanned PDFs, significant improvements in text recognition and documents comparison quality, faster viewing, and easy deployment with modern virtualization solutions.

Australian solutions provide FYB has launched a new Teams2CM connector to enable Content Manager users to upload information to and from Teams, Microsoft’s cloud-based team collaboration software.

Epson Australia has expanded its workgroup document scanner portfolio with the new WorkForce DS-970 and DS-870, its fastest-ever colour duplex document scanners designed for busy and high-volume offices of any size.

The TWAIN Working Group (TWG), a not-for-profit organization designed to provide and foster an open source, public standard for image acquisition devices and software applications, has made its first public release of its TWAIN Direct specifications.

Microsoft has announced forthcoming support for PDF/UA, the ISO standard for accessible PDF, in its core SQL Server 2019 Reporting Services product.

Enterprise search developer BA Insight has announced availability of AutoClassifier 5.0, which includes Natural Language Processing to automate extracting key information from documents. The information is then used to generate summaries and categorize and tag all of your enterprise information, including images and videos.

SafeGuard Cyber has announced a new capability to secure conversations in WeChat, providing security and realtime compliance protection for businesses that use the mobile messaging application.

iText Group has launched iText DITO, developed in order to reduce the time-consuming complexities that many developers face when creating and maintaining data-driven PDF templates.

Accusoft has released new libraries that allow UiPath, the enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, to enable users with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities in the cloud. The libraries are now available on UiGo!, UiPath's online marketplace. 

Google Photos has quietly introduced a new feature that provides automatic character recognition on all your photos and screenshots. This lets you search your Google Photos library by any text string and copy and paste the results into a document or form.