The world leader in accuracy has just become even more accurate! ABBYY FineReader 7.0 is 25% more accurate than its predecessor. It can easily recognize and replicate even difficult documents with poor print quality or complex layouts, including multicolumn documents with pictures, wrap-around text, varying fonts, color backgrounds, bullets, and complex tables.

ABBYY FineReader can easily convert paper documents to Microsoft Word XML giving users of Microsoft Office Word 2003 powerful and flexible tools for managing their data. Thanks to XML support, now you can edit and check your documents using the usual Word tools and compare the results with the original scanned image in the FineReader Zoom window displayed right in Microsoft Word.

With ABBYY FineReader you can open, recognize and edit PDF files and save them in any of the supported formats or export the data to your favorite application. All PDF files created in FineReader are optimized for publishing on the Web.

ABBYY FineReader reads 177 languages, including English, German, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Malay, Indonesian, and others. Built-in spell-check is available for 34 languages. This simplifies the data entry process for people working with a variety of different countries and cultures.

ABBYY FineReader 7.0 includes legal and medical dictionaries for the English and German languages, which improve recognition accuracy of specialized legal and medical texts by 30-40%.

ABBYY FineReader has an intuitive and friendly interface that guides users through the OCR process. It is simple enough for a novice to master in no time. Numerous additional settings and a large number of supported formats will ensure excellent recognition results.

ABBYY FineReader supports export to popular office applications, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Lotus Word Pro, Corel WordPerfect, and Sun StarWriter. Recognized text can be saved in a variety of file formats, including PDF (with 6 saving options), HTML, Microsoft Word XML, DOC, RTF, XLS, PPT, DBF, CSV, and TXT.

The multicolumn WYSIWYG text editor will allow you to view the full layout of the scanned document during editing, so that you can quickly check the file before exporting it.

The image splitting tool will allow you to split the image into several areas and save each area as a separate page.This mode is particularly handy for recognizing business cards scanned on one page, books, and PowerPoint printouts.

You can quickly convert presentation handouts or any other document to create new presentations or edit existing ones. (PowerPoint XP and 2003 are supported).

Any batch created in ABBYY FineReader can be used as a small database with full-text search capabilities. You can search for words in all their grammatical forms. This feature is available for the 34 languages that have dictionary support.

ABBYY FineReader gives users the flexibility to change the compression ratio and resolution of pictures when saving results in DOC, RTF, Word XML, PDF, and HTML. Users can select sizes of saved pictures before sending resulting documents by e-mail, storing or publishing them on the Internet.

This application transforms a scanned form into a digital form with fields which can be defined and then saved as a template. Users simply open the template, enter the required information and print it out.

FineReader 7.0 also includes special functionality to handle barcode recognition, including recognition of PDF-417 2D barcodes.

• PC with 200 MHz or higher processor clock speed; Intel Pentium/Celeron/ Xeon, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron or compatible processor
• Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6 or later, Windows Me/98
• 64 MB of RAM for Windows XP/2000/ NT 4.0, 32 MB of RAM for Windows Me/98
• 220MB of hard-disk space for typical installation and program operation
• TWAIN-compliant scanner, digital camera or fax-modem (optional)
• Super VGA (800x600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor

ABBYY FineReader supports the most popular scanners, multi-function peripherals (MFPs) and All-in-One devices. An up-to-date list of tested equipment is available here.

ABBYY FineReader supports 177 recognition languages. For the complete list of recognition languages click here.

• BMP: black and white, gray, color
• PCX, DOC: black and white, gray, color
• JPEG: gray, color
• JPEG 2000: gray, color
• PNG: black and white, gray, color
• TIFF: black and white, gray, color, multi-image. Methods of compression: Unpacked, CCITT Group 3, CCITT Group 3 FAX (2D), CCITT Group 4, PackBits, JPEG
• PDF

• Microsoft Word 2003/XP/2000/97/95
• Microsoft Excel 2003/XP/2000/97/95
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2003/XP
• Rich Text Format
• Text; Unicode Text
• HTML; Unicode HTML
• DBF; CSV; Unicode CSV
• PDF (text and pictures only, page image only, text over the page image, text under the page image)
• Microsoft Word 2003 XML