ABBYY FineReader 8'0

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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Helen Tytarenko, ABBYY
Ukraine
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Contents

• PART 1
• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 The Intelligent OCR
• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Product Line
• PART 2
• Technology Improvements
• New Product Features, New Product Usage Scenarios
• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Corporate Edition Network
  Enhancements

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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Intelligent OCR

• An intelligent OCR application
• Converts
• Images createdby scanners
• Images created by MFPs
• Images created by digital cameras
• PDFs
• ABBYY FineReader makes static information from
  paper and PDF documents editable and searchable,
  truly manageable.

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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Product Line

• ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition is a
  desktop productivity tool.
• Individual professional users processing and
  digitizing paper documents, using information
  from PDFs or editing them
• Small businesses where recognition is required
  from time to time, and this job is done by few
  appointed employees, usually one or two.

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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Product Line

• ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition OCR for
  business (network) users. It is an OCR
  application for different organizations, from
  small to large-size, that have the need to
  convert and repurpose paper documents, PDF files
  and digital photos, within LAN.
• Recognition tasks are the part of companys
  business processes, occur rather often.
• Numerous employees need to recognize and convert
  documents.

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New Usage Scenarios Camera OCR

• Now you can use digital camera to photograph
  text
• 4 Megapixel camera or higher is recommended(min
  2 Megapixel)
• Make sure a page is lit evenly with no dark areas
  or shadows
• Disable flash
• Hold camera parallel to the document plane and
  focus it as shown on the picture

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Digital camera images

• Images of pages taken with digital camera have a
  number of typical problems
• bad/irregular lighting
• text could be out of focus
• distorted text lines
• missing resolution info

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Straightening text lines

• Lines of text can appear curved near a book spine
  or on a camera image of a document
• This can now be adjusted prior to recognition
• NOTE Do not apply Straighten text lines
  to a double page. Divide it into separate pages
  first

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Using image pre-processing

• Book photographed with a digital camera
• Cropped page. Page cropping new feature useful
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• to remove dark borders
• make all pages in thebatch same size if
  necessary
• Page with straightened text lines

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Digital camera images

• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 includes new adaptive
  recognition technology for camera images and as a
  result makes 40 less mistakes on such images

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Improved PDF processing

• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 provides extraction of text
  data directly from PDF files containing a text
  layer whenever it is possible and errorless
• Processing of PDF files is more precise and up to
  two times faster
• The option Recognize PDF as image is also
  available

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PDF Saving

• Security settings for PDF
• Protect document with Open and Permission
  passwords
• Restrict printing, editing or extracting file
  content
• Support for RC4-based 40-bit, 128-bit encryption
  and the newest AES (Advanced Encryption
  Standard)-based 128-bit encryption

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PDF Saving

• Tagged PDF
• Tagged PDFs can be "reflowed" to fit different
  page or screen widths, e.g. on PDAs
• Works better with screen reader applications used
  by the disabled

Common PDF
Tagged PDF
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Saving

• New saving format Microsoft Reader (LIT) - one
  of the most popular formats for e-Books

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New Usage Scenarios Quick paper to PDA conversion

• Save recognition results in Tagged PDF for better
  viewing on a PDA
• Save electronic books in Microsoft Reader LIT
  format

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Recognition

• Fast recognition mode - 2-2.5 times faster
  recognition- Recommended for documents with
  simple layouts and good printing and scanning
  quality- Recommended for Scan to PDF (text under
  image)
• Microsoft Word custom dictionary is used during
  recognition

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Recognition

• Support for hyperlinks
• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 recognises hyperlinks such
  as http//, ftp//, file//, mailto as well as
  internal links in PDFs
• Hyperlinks can be saved to output documents in
  Microsoft Word, HTML and PDF formats

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Saving

• Send results to Acrobat/Reader
• It is possible to send results to Adobe
  Acrobat/Reader with one button-click

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Saving

• Saving meta-information
• ABBYY FineReader 8.0 can extract document
  properties information from PDF files
• Meta-information can be edited or added to output
  file manually (for all documents)
• Applies to DOC, XML, HTML, PDF and LIT formats

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New Usage Scenarios Automation Manager

• Many users have routine recognition tasks-
  scanning paper to Microsoft Word documents-
  converting PDF files to editable formats-
  converting documents to searchable electronic
  archive- recognising financial tables-
  publishing paper documents on the web
• Automation Manager automates recurrent
  recognition tasks
• There are three new pre-defined one-button
  scenarios
• Users can create custom automated tasks with help
  of Automation Manager
• Custom automated tasks can be shared with
  colleagues (.fta file)

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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Corporate Edition

• The Corporate Edition has all the capabilities
  of the Professional Edition plus
• Network support (installation, administration)
• Distributed document processing
• Support for Network MFP
• Flexible license management

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New Usage Scenarios ABBYY Screenshot Reader

• ABBYY Screenshot Reader is a new utility to
  capture and recognise text from screenshots
• Useful for- grabbing text from images- fast
  collecting pieces of text from scanned
  documents/image PDFs- converting folder lists to
  text- converting Outlook email lists to text -
  grabbing text from error messages- grabbing text
  from flash presentations/web-sites- grabbing
  data from a table column in Internet browser,
  database, etc.
• Available in ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional
  Edition after registration as a bonus. In the
  Corporate Edition - by default

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ABBYY Screenshot Reader

• Screenshot Reader has 9 modes
• Settings are available in Options menu

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ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Corporate Edition

• ABBYY Hot Folder Scheduling new application
  for automated conversion with scheduled
  capabilities
• Allows you to automatically recognize and save
  images coming to a folder from an MFP or fax
  server.

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Questions?