What is Abbyy FineReader; Uses and Functions

What is Abbyy FineReader

ABBYY FineReader is an application that make of optical character recognition (OCR), to convert scan document into editable texts, retain the formate of the original document in a high percentage. the company that developed it is based in Russian by the name ABBY.

This program will help you to convert image document into editable electronice format after it has recognized the texts into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Rich Text Format, HTML, PDF/A, searchable PDF, CSV and txt (plain text) files

Version 11, allows files to be converted into djvu format.
version 14, has a built in spell check, and support 192 languages
version 12, has received excellent rating by PC Magazine

Abbyy finereader uses and Functions

ABBY FineReader Common Image File Type

The following Common Image file type can be open using ABBYY FineReader
Common Image Files
Bitmap Files (*.bmp; *.dib; *.rle)
DCX Files (‘.dox)
DjVu Files (*.djvu; *.djv)
GIF Files (*.gif)
JBIG2 Files (*.jb2; *.jbig2)
JPEG 2000 Files (*.jp2; *.j2k; *.jpf; *.jpx;) (*.jpc)
JPEG Files (*.jpg; *.jpeg)
PCX Files (*.pcx)
PDF Files (*.pdf)
PNG Files (*.png)
TIFF Files (*.tif; *.tiff)
XPS Files (*.xps)
WDP Files (*.wdp; *.wmp)

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ABBYY FineReader Common Documents

ABBYY FineReader allow Documents to be Saved into the following list of format
Microsoft Word Document
Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document
Microsoft Excel Workbook
Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Workbook
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
OpenOffice.org Writer Document
PDF Document
PDF/A Document
HTML Document
Text Document
RTF Document
CSV Document
Electronic Publication (EPUB)
FictionBook (FB2)
DjVu Document

ABBYY FineReader Common Image

ABBYY FineReader allow Common Image to be save into the following format
Bitmap, Black and White (*.bmp; *.dib; *.rle) Bitmap, Gray (*.bmp; *.dib; *.rle)
Bitmap, Color (*.bmp; *.dib; *.rle)
DCX, Black and White (*.dcx)
DCX, Gray (*.dcx)
DCX, Color (*.dcx)
JBIG2 (*.jb2; *.jbig2)
JPEG 2000, Gray (*.jp2; * j2k; * jpf; *.jpx; *.jpc)
JPEG 2000, Color (*.jp2; *.j2k; *.jpf; *.jpx; *.jpc)
JPEG, Gray (*.jpg; *.jpeg)
JPEG, Color (*.jpg; *.jpeg)
PCX, Black and White (*.pcx)
PCX, Gray (*.pcx)
PNG, Black and White (*.png)
PNG, Gray (*.png)
PNG, Color (*.png)
TIFF, Black and White, Unpacked
TIFF, Black and White, Packbits
TIFF, Black and White, ZIP Compression
TIFF, Black and White, LZW Compression
TIFF, Black and White, CCITT Group 4
TIFF, Gray, Unpacked
TIFF, Gray, Packbits
TIFF, Gray, JPEG Compression
TIFF, Gray, ZIP Compression
TIFF, Gray, LZW Compression
TIFF, Color, Unpacked
TIFF, Color, Packbits
TIFF, Color, JPEG Compression
TIFF, Color, ZIP Compression
TIFF, Color, LZW Compression