ContentReader PDF (ранее ABBYY FineReader PDF)

2024

Avision Scanner Compatibility

The developer of AI intelligent processing solutions information Content AI computer and the equipment supplier PYRITE have agreed to cooperate in promoting their products. Companies will implement scanners Avision with the ContentReader editor for PDF corporate users of domestic. operating systems Content AI announced this on December 10, 2024.

The processing of paper documents and the use of extracted from them data is one of the key business processes in many companies. At the hands-on stage import substitution the Russian , customers need full-featured OS-compatible streaming scanning products. Linux A particularly high need for such solutions is noted in. public sector

The joint supply of two products will allow customers to realize the current task of replacing foreign software and provide them with a high-quality solution for scanning and processing paper documents.

Avision scanners are capable of performing complex scanning tasks. The scanners contain built-in auto paper feeders that hold up to 500 pages and can scan 120-240 images per minute depending on the mode. Scanned images are sent directly to the ContentReader PDF if the user needs to retrieve information or make adjustments to the document.

The multifunctional ContentReader PDF makes it easy to digitize, edit, share files, and collaborate on any type of document. The editor is included in the register of domestic software and has the status of a product with artificial intelligence. ContentReader PDF is suitable for import substitution and completely replaces foreign programs ABBYY FineReader PDF and Adobe Acrobat.

As part of the transition to domestic software, customers can now use a system solution for scanning documents based on Avision scanners and the Russian ContentReader PDF editor for Linux operating systems, said Elena Ozernaya, head of the document scanner department at PIRIT. - Taking into account the fact that two-thirds of companies in the country are planning to switch to domestic software, we are confident that the proposed solution will make this process more successful and convenient. Customers will receive not only a ready-made Linux scanning solution, but also confidence in technical support in the future.

The readiness of hardware suppliers and software developers to cooperate in adapting their Linux solutions is an important step for the market, "added Svetlana Dergacheva, CEO of Content AI. - By combining our efforts in solving import substitution problems, we guarantee our customers the stability of the entire business process for scanning and processing documents, and not just a single part of it.

Obtaining the status of an AI product in the register of domestic software

Content AI IDP-platform ContentCapture and multifunctional editor ContentReader PDF received the status of software products related to the field of artificial intelligence. A record of this appeared on the pages of solutions in the register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases. The developer announced this on July 10, 2024.

During the comprehensive assessment, the expert commission Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation confirmed the presence of artificial intelligence in Content AI solutions. AI technologies are used for text recognition, document classification and natural language processing. Customers of products with artificial intelligence included in the register of domestic software can count on a decrease in income tax payments. This measure was introduced in 2023 to support the domestic IT market and stimulate demand for Russian software products and high-tech equipment.

Intelligent technology solutions are needed by companies of all profiles in order to remain competitive in today's digital environment. As of July 2024, worthy products with developed functionality in many software classes have been developed in Russia. Large customers who switched to domestic software were able to make sure of this, - said Svetlana Dergacheva, CEO of Content AI. - The availability of tax incentives when purchasing AI products is a good incentive for companies that are only planning to introduce Russian software.

Compatibility with "MSVSphera AWS" 9

Content AI and Inferit OS, a division of the Inferit vendor (Softline Group of Companies) have confirmed the compatibility of the multifunctional ContentReader PDF editor and the MSVSphera AWS 9 OS. This will expand the capabilities of operating system users to more efficiently work with documents. Softline announced this on May 31, 2024.

The companies conducted comprehensive testing, checking the correct functioning of the ContentReader PDF bundle and the MSVSphera AWS 9.x OS in typical user scenarios. The results recorded the stable operation of solutions without failures and restrictions. All key functions of ContentReader PDF are fully available on "MSVSphera AWS" 9 OS. The details of the tests and their results are recorded in the official certificate of compatibility.

As of May 2024, the focus of our attention is the constant expansion of interaction with Russian operating systems developers. We are conducting comprehensive compatibility tests of technological products in order to promptly provide customers with effective solutions and guarantee their performance, - commented Svetlana Dergacheva, CEO of Content AI.

Expanding the ecosystem of application software around the MSVSPHERA OS is one of our key tasks. We want users to get convenient tools to solve their problems when switching to domestic software. Partnering with Content AI and supporting the innovative ContentReader PDF editor on our OS is a big step in this direction, "said Dmitry Baranov, Product Director of Inferit OS.

2023

Application for Special Project Status

At the end of December 2023, it became known that the Content AI company, created by immigrants from ABBYY, is creating a Russian analogue of popular foreign products such as ABBYY FineReader, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. Two projects have been announced - ContentReader PDF and Content AI Intelligent Search.

According to CNews, both decisions claim the status of particularly significant projects (OZP), as stated in the updated version of the roadmap "New system-wide software." The status of OZP allows you to receive state support in the form of grants or preferential loans at a subsidized interest rate.

ContentReader PDF is a cross-platform solution for viewing, creating, modifying, and converting PDF documents. Among the key functions of the product are recognition and transformation of documents in more than 190 languages ​ ​ while preserving file structure, document comparison tools, automation tools using HotFolder, as well as the ability to view and verify a digital signature, marr confidential information, etc. In addition, ContentReader PDF allows you to open and view PDF documents, add, delete and move pages, edit text in PDF at the paragraph level, work with comments and bookmarks, etc. It talks about compatibility with Windows and Linux. Overall, the product will make it easier to digitize, search, edit, share and collaborate on documents. The development of ContentReader PDF is estimated at 69 million rubles.

In turn, within the framework of the Content AI Intelligent Search initiative, AI Content will offer a solution for creating a corporate search portal, with which the user can "quickly find the necessary data and documents in the enterprise information space by combining all sources to ensure end-to-end search and navigation of all types of information." The search can be carried out both by exact match and by meaning. Thanks to the built-in OCR technology, it is possible to work with PDF files and objects in graphic formats. Support for searches on sources such as Active Directory, DBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQl, MS SQL Server), Jira, Bitrix, archives of e-mail messages in.pst,.msg and.eml formats is mentioned. The cost of the Content AI Intelligent Search project as of the end of December 2023 has not been announced.^[1]

Compatibility with Alt Workstation 10 and Alt Workstation K 10

Content AI and BASEALT on December 18, 2023 confirmed the compatibility of the multifunctional ContentReader PDF editor with the Alt Workstation 10 and Alt Workstation K 10 operating systems.

In the process of import substitution, difficulties arise when trying to assemble software from different manufacturers into a single IT landscape. Responsible developers pay great attention to checking the compatibility of their solutions and, if necessary, finalize them pointwise in order to save customers from these difficulties, - said Svetlana Dergacheva, CEO of Content AI. - We have conducted tests of varying complexity and can ensure that when migrating to Alt Workstation and Alt Workstation K, users can continue to use ContentReader PDF.

Astra Linux Special Edition Compatibility

The developer of products for intelligent information processing Content AI and Astra Group, based on the results of a set of tests, confirmed the compatibility of the multifunctional ContentReader PDF editor and OCAstra Linux. Astra Group announced this on December 11, 2023.

The universal ContentReader PDF for Linux allows you to solve everyday tasks related to the processing of paper and PDF documents. With its help, users can edit such files and convert them to other formats, combine work on the document with other users. The solution is included in the register of domestic software and fully complies with the requirements of Russian legislation for software products in terms of functioning and safety. The editor is suitable for replacing ABBYY FineReader PDF and Adobe Acrobat, which are not available on the Russian market.

During the tests, experts were convinced that ContentReader PDF functions smoothly and correctly in the Astra Linux operating system, allowing a complete set of PDF processing operations. As a result, the Content AI solution received a certificate as part of the Ready for Astra IT manufacturers' technology cooperation program.

Compatibility of ContentReader PDF and Astra Linux OS makes it possible to use the editor when forming an office software package for workplaces in government and commercial organizations, educational institutions that are actively switching to domestic software, - said Content AI CEO Svetlana Dergacheva. - Astra Linux is one of the Russian operating systems in demand in departments and companies from different industries, so it was especially important for us as a developer of applied user software to confirm the compatibility of our products with this OS.

We are actively working to ensure the compatibility of Astra Group solutions with the application software that is relevant and in demand in any organization, which also includes the document editor. In collaboration with Content AI, they tested the health of ContentReader PDF in the Astra Linux operating system environment. The result of this study confirms the stability and correctness of their joint functioning, which is a guarantee of the successful application of the software stack in the infrastructures of our customers, - commented Dmitry Tarakanov, Head of the Department for the Development of Technological Cooperation of Astra Group PJSC.

Integration with Atlant OS

On June 1, 2023, Content AI and Apple announced joint testing of their products - the multifunctional PDF editor ContentReader PDF and the Atlant operating system. Read more here.

Inclusion in the register of domestic software

The multifunctional editor for working with PDF-documents ContentReader PDF is included in the Unified Register of Russian programs for electronic computers and databases under the number 17019. This decision was made by the Ministry of Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation on March 21, 2023, representatives of Content AI told TAdviser.

Amid high demand for domestic counterparts of foreign software, Content AI has released ContentReader PDF to replace ABBYY FineReader PDF and Adobe Acrobat.

The product combines all the necessary tools for working with PDF and paper documents: editing, comparison, search and extraction of data. Optical text recognition allows you to convert scanned images, photos, and PDFs to editable electronic formats, add a digital signature or watermark, compare versions, and create a new PDF from multiple documents in different formats.

ContentReader PDF is an indispensable tool for office employees, many of whom spend up to 80% of their time working with paper and PDF documents, said Svetlana Dergacheva, CEO of Content AI. - ContentReader PDF allows users to save time on routine tasks, and business to reduce the cost of purchasing and supporting various software and training personnel. This version of ContentReader PDF contains the most popular functionality for working with paper and PDF documents on Linux. The product supports two interface languages ​ ​ and 198 recognition languages. High accuracy and speed are ensured by AI technologies.

According to the expert assessment, ContentReader PDF meets all registry requirements for software products recommended for use, including in government agencies of all levels.

Content AI solves the problem import substitution IT of products in the field of intelligent processing, information bringing to the Russian market high-tech complex solutions that contribute to the digital transformation business processes of large companies state and organizations.

2022: Renamed ContentReader PDF due to change of ownership

On October 17, 2022 Russian , the developer of solutions in the field of intelligent processing information Content AI modified the multifunctional editor -. PDFfiles Previously known on the market, FineReader PDF is now called ContentReader PDF. The modification also affected the interface of the program - it is decorated in the corporate style of Content AI.

As part of the current release, the editor was released under version 15, as it retained the basic features of FineReader PDF 15, including recognizing, editing and converting PDF documents to various formats, searching for information inside files, creating interactive forms, comparing documents of different types and Hot Folder in the Corporate license.

The FineReader PDF 15 modification and the ContentReader PDF 15 release are related to the transfer of distribution rights and the development of the PDF editing and document recognition product line to Content AI, which plans to release solutions under its own brand. Our priority goal is to maintain the availability and full performance of programs for users, - said Svetlana Dergacheva, CEO of Content AI.

Current FineReader PDF 15 users can continue to work with the product until the end of the license period, as well as receive the same amount of technical support services.

Content AI will continue to develop the ContentReader PDF product to make it even more convenient for Russian users. At the next stage, it is planned to adapt the program to domestic operating systems, - added Svetlana Dergacheva.

By the end of 2022, the company plans to modify its main products, including. FlexiCapture Development ON in the field of intelligent information processing will continue under the Content AI brand. These steps are consistent with the strategy aimed at developing solutions for the Russian market.

On November 11, 2022, it became known that ABBYY the company that bought the Russian business Content AI passed to Turkish to the owner - the company "Content AI Solutions Bilishim ve Teknolozhi Hizmetleri Anonymous Shirketi." As they write "" Sheets with reference to the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Content AI LLC changed its owner on July 14, 2022. More. here

2020

Rename to ABBYY FineReader PDF. Ability to work with any interactive forms

On June 4, 2020, ABBYY announced that it had updated ABBYY FineReader 15, an intelligent editor for working with any type of paper and electronic documents, and released this product under the ABBYY FineReader PDF brand.

According to the company, now with the help of ABBYY FineReader PDF you can not only recognize and edit PDF files, but also work with any interactive forms: create questionnaires, resumes and templates, add drop-down lists, questions with a choice of answers, hyperlinks and so on. This functionality can be useful for companies to collect and process customer data - for example, for registering with banking services, issuing insurance policies, loyalty cards, orders and requests for services, conducting surveys and marketing research, and for other tasks.

Updated ABBYY FineReader PDF features:

• Create interactive forms as in PDF documents.
• Support for fill-in text fields, drop-down lists, multiple answer questionnaires, buttons that initiate various actions - for example, forward a document, send it to print, clear the form, etc.
• Edit interactive forms in PDF-Adds, copies, and deletes features, moves, resizes, looks, and formats.
• Sets the default field properties to make it easier for the user to fill out the form.
• The ability to create required fields and read-only fields.
• Protect interactive forms with a password to prevent third parties from accessing sensitive information.
• Action support: send to e-mail in PDF, HTML, XFDF format; open a file, open a hyperlink, reset a form, go to a page, start JavaScript.
• More than 198 recognition languages, including Gothic fonts English French German:,,,,,. Italian Spanish Latvian

ABBYY FineReader 15 Corporate free licenses for 6 months to medical staff and educators

On April 15, 2020, ABBYY announced that it wants to support employees of educational and medical organizations. Many of them work much more than usual during the epidemic. In addition, they have to adapt to remote work. Therefore, until May 31, 2020 inclusive, ABBYY provides medical staff and educators with free ABBYY FineReader 15 Corporate licenses for 6 months.

The offer is only valid for new ABBYY FineReader 15 users. ABBYY may refuse to obtain or reduce the number of free licenses requested to organizations that are users of ABBYY FineReader 15 or ABBYY FineReader 14.

With ABBYY FineReader Corporate, you can:

• Edit any documents, including multiline paragraphs in PDF;
• Make edits and comments to the documents;
• Fill out forms - for example, questionnaires or questionnaires;
• Protect documents with an electronic signature;
• Recognize texts from paper documents and scans without a text layer;
• Compare versions of documents even in different formats.

2019: ABBYY FineReader 15

On August 27, 2019, ABBYY introduced the updated ABBYY FineReader, a universal program for working with paper and PDF documents. Thanks to ABBYY's internal developments in artificial intelligence and modern machine learning methods, the program has become a multifunctional editor for solving various problems with PDF. The updated ABBYY FineReader opens any files 40% faster than the previous version, even large documents with images, charts and tables. In addition, users can freely edit multiline text fragments in PDF - add, copy, move, and delete them. Working with multi-page contracts, quotations, reports in PDF is as convenient as in popular programs for editing documents.

According to the IDC study "Adressing the document disconnect," information processing takes up to 80% of the time of office employees. PDF continues to gain popularity among document formats: over the past few years, the number of such working files in the world has tripled. At the same time, about 60% of data critical for business is still edited, sent and agreed on paper. In working with information, users solve many problems: translate documents into electronic form, edit, compare file versions, and so on.

According to the developer, ABBYY FineReader 15 allows you to fully work with all data in a single stream: extract text from a paper document and convert it to any of the popular formats, edit a PDF file, comment on it, compare multiple versions, add a digital signature or watermark, protect the file with a password, hide confidential data in the text, and create a PDF document from several documents in different formats. Users can change the order, location and formatting, add and move entire paragraphs of text, search for data, add or change images and tables without having to convert a document or create a new one.

"The updated ABBYY FineReader extends the boundaries of working with PDF. In version 15, these documents can be edited as conveniently as other familiar file formats. By improving optical character recognition technologies that take advantage of the latest advances in computer vision, users will copy, edit, and comment on voluminous PDF texts even faster - whether they work with scans or files from other applications. This will free up staff time for more important tasks, " noted Dmitry Shushkin, CEO of ABBYY Russia

"ABBYY FineReader has been used at Rostelecom for more than 10 years, many employees constantly work with the program, including accounting, lawyers and human resources. In FineReader, it is convenient to edit PDF documents: add and delete individual pages, edit fragments, rotate the page 90 degrees, and so on. Sometimes in a multi-page document you need to make small changes: edit the address, phone number, name of the responsible employee, correct the typo, and so on. This is approximately 85% of the total volume of routine tasks that we solve using ABBYY technologies. We create a centralized service based on FineReader, which all employees of the company can use to read, view and edit documents, " noted' Andrey Potapov, Head of the Department of Support for Users of the Corporate Center, PJSC Rostelecom

ABBYY FineReader 15 features for users noted by the developer:

• Multi-line editing of PDFs within a paragraph: The user can make any corrections - from small edits to changes to entire pages and paragraphs.
• Complete work with the content of a PDF document: the ability to extract information from text blocks, tables, comments, forms and other elements.
• Thanks to recent advances in machine learning methods and convolutional neural networks, professional text recognition has been improved. Recognition errors of PDFs created from other applications, including PDFs with broken encodings or a poor text layer, are minimized. Improved table and header and footer recognition.
• Additional options for comparing documents - You can save the comparison results in Word format in Track changes mode.
• The speed of opening PDF documents has increased by 40%. This is especially true when working with volumetric documents with a large number of tables, graphs, images and other graphic elements.
• Improved work with tables. The program saves the boundaries between cells, filled fields and formatting, and allows you to conveniently edit text inside cells.
• Improved recognition of "non-standard fonts": Arabic elm (by 93%), Chinese (by 97%), Korean and Japanese characters (by 98%).

ABBYY FineReader 15 features for system administrators:

• Remote User Licensing Terms for Remote Users. The Remote User license allows ABBYY FineReader 15 to be used in conjunction with desktop virtualization and application solutions such as Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix XenApp, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. Named users gain access. They can work with the program when they need to. This type of license is suitable for an IT infrastructure in which the same user connects to different workstations, ABBYY emphasized.

ABBYY FineReader 15 availability and prices as of August 2019:

• Standard - for home use only. Contains the necessary tools for working with different PDF types. Cost: 8,690 rubles. for download version (perpetual license).
• Business is the optimal edition for small and medium-sized companies. Supports several types of licenses for flexible installation in companies with different IT infrastructures, supports LAN operation. Cost: 14,990 rubles. for download version (perpetual license).
• Corporate is the full edition of the program for medium and large companies. Includes ABBYY Hot Folder for automatic processing of scheduled documents and the ability to compare documents. Cost: 48,690 rubles. for download version (perpetual license).

Annual licenses are also available for all editions. Business and Corporate editions support several types of flexible installation licenses for companies with different IT infrastructures. When buying from three licenses, a discount is provided.

2017: FineReader's biggest update in 10 years

In January 2017, Abbyy introduced a new version of its FineReader product. According to Ivan Bodyagin, Vice President and Director of the Abbyy Word Recognition Solutions Department, there have not been such a scale of changes in this product for ten years.

The new product - FineReader 14 - combines the functions of several previously created Abbyy tools for working with documents. The first version of FineReader was released in 1993 and had simple functionality for text recognition. In 2004, the simple PDF converter Abbyy PDF Transformer was released, which with the 2013 update (Abbyy PDF Transformer +) became a full-fledged PDF editor. In 2014, FineReader 12 was released, and in 2015, the Abbyy Comparator tool for comparing documents.

FineReader 14 combines the capabilities of all these products. It contains four main components: a PDF editor for working with PDF documents on a daily basis, a tool for comparing documents in various formats, including paper and electronic, an OCR editor - professional capabilities for text recognition, and a Hot Folder application for automating document conversion tasks. Hot Folder was previously present in the corporate version of FineReader.

Among the new features that were not previously in the above products are improved work with tables, with graphs, improved capabilities for recognizing some languages, adding new attachments, as well as viewing, renaming or deleting them, advanced options for group operations when creating new PDF documents, password protection of any document from opening, editing and/or printing, and much more.

Ivan Bodyagin explained the decision to combine the functionality of several products at once by the fact that company employees regularly encounter several typical scenarios for working with paper and PDF documents, which require different Abbyy products. It is much easier to execute these scenarios using one universal product, the company explains. The product is designed for almost any office employee.

Initially, products were released separately, because different target audiences were bored with different scenarios. And now the markets for solutions for text recognition and working with PDF are actually merging into a single one. In order for employees to freely solve many tasks when working with documents of different types, previously companies purchased and installed a whole set of programs. Now there is a universal ABBYY FineReader 14, - said Ivan Bodyagin.

This is also convenient for system administrators, added an Abbyy spokesman. Now you can serve not several, but one product, adjusting it to the needs of users.

The new version of FineReader is available in several editions, with more or less features and prices.

Products that have merged into one new solution will continue to be available in the Abbyy line for now, with the exception of FineReader 12. The latter with the release of FineReader 14 was withdrawn from the line. The rest of the products remained, because there may be a demand for them from users who need narrow functionality, Ivan Bodyagin explained to TAdviser. However, they will develop less actively, and will gradually leave the product line, he added.

Abbyy document products also have mobile counterparts. For example, there is. document scanner for iOS and Android with recognition function. However, some processes are still more convenient to run on a PC, and so far the main focus in product development remains on the PC version, Bodyagin said.

2014

ABBYY FineReader 12

On February 12, 2014, ABBYY announced the release of a new version of ABBYY FineReader. The new version helps to quickly translate paper documents, their images and PDF files into electronic editable formats. Accelerated algorithms for processing multi-page texts are implemented. The product contains new possibilities for improving the quality of both original images of documents and their recognized copies.

According to the new version, it more accurately recreates and preserves the structure and formatting of complex documents. Table recognition is improved by 40%, charts and graphs by 33%, which is possible thanks to changes in ADRT (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) technology. For the convenience of the user, a choice of recognition modes is implemented: speed priority or quality priority. In the first case, the processing of documents is twice as fast.

New features of ABBYY FineReader 12

• Easy work with multi-page documents and text fragments

With ABBYY FineReader 12, it has become easier to copy the contents of a document: if the user only needs a small part of a multi-page document, it is not necessary to recognize it as a whole. You can immediately navigate to the desired page, select the desired area, and click Copy. The program automatically recognizes the content and saves it to the clipboard.

• The ability to copy individual fragments is also available during recognition of the entire document, which now occurs in the background. The user can not only view or copy the desired excerpt of text, but change the order of the pages or go to the program menu without waiting for FineReader to process the entire document.

• New tools to improve image quality

The updated image editor allows you to significantly improve the quality of the document photo, and therefore the result of recognition. The new version of the program is able to crop all pages of the document by borders, eliminate the yellow or gray background characteristic of photos taken by a smartphone, and remove traces of seals and marks on black and white images.

• You can change the resolution of photos, eliminate line distortions, change the orientation of pages and much more, all these settings can be made automatic.

• Saving to PDF uses a new symbol anti-aliasing technology that improves the visual quality of the document.

• Easier validation and editing of recognition results

The Validation window in the new ABBYY FineReader contains more convenient editing tools. It became possible to change the formatting of the selected word or phrase right when checking - specify the type of font, its size and style, insert special characters from the Unicode table. As before, you can select auto-correct options from the built-in dictionaries or make your own edits to the text.

• High-quality recognition in 190 languages

ABBYY FineReader 12 has a definition of stresses in Russian, which significantly increases the accuracy of recognition of educational literature. In addition, the recognition of texts in Asian languages ​ ​ (Chinese, Japanese and Korean), Hebrew and Arabic has been improved.

• The new ABBYY FineReader recognizes documents in 190 world languages ​ ​ and any combinations of them, and dictionary support is provided for 48 languages. This means that the program offers options for replacing insecure recognized words and characters, and the user can choose the appropriate one.

• Improved interaction with cloud services

By opening or saving the document, the user can access the cloud service listed among the favorite folders on the computer: Dropbox, Google Disk, Microsoft SkyDrive, Microsoft SharePoint.

• Optimized for Windows 8 devices

ABBYY FineReader 12 is certified software for the Windows 8/8.1 operating system. The new program design fits into the OC interface, and access to the most common user scripts can be obtained from the start screen and launched in one click. ABBYY FineReader 12 supports basic gestures for touch devices - scrolling or zooming.

FineReader recognizes doctor's handwriting

On April 1, 2014, ABBYY announced the addition of benchmarks to ABBYY FineReader to help recognize medical handwriting.

The developers have included the MedText module in ABBYY FineReader and product users will not have to decipher doctors' prescriptions or referrals for treatment on their own: just scan the paper version of the document and recognize it using the program.

"Users have long asked us to add the ability to recognize medical handwriting to ABBYY FineReader. And this is understandable, because we all know how difficult it is sometimes to disassemble the text written by a doctor, - said Ivan Bodyagin, director of the product department for text recognition at ABBYY. "In the 12th version of FineReader, we significantly improved the recognition of complex Arabic, and the approaches used in this helped us work with the handwriting of doctors."

For people who do not know the language, Arabic writing looks like a complex sequence of related elements: it is often visually quite difficult to distinguish individual letters in words. To recognize the Arabic language, the recognition approach is used - not individual characters, but the entire word. Similar problems usually arise when trying to disassemble the handwriting of doctors, the developers used the experience of recognizing languages ​ ​ with complex writing when creating the MedText module.

The medical text recognition system is based on probabilistic graphics models (PGM), Bayesian networks (BN) and hidden Markov models (HMM). ABBYY FineReader recognizes physician handwriting in large blocks. In the most complex cases, the program treats entire lines as one recognition object, turning the image into a graph of probability states, from which meaningful text then crystallizes.

When creating the MedText module, ABBYY first applied a new development - the Method of detecting internal writing logic. With it, you can determine which of the curls in the line correspond to the real letters, and which were added by the doctor for beauty.

The system for decoding medical abbreviations, implemented in the updated product, provides not only the translation of the recipe into readable text, but explains to the user what the medical professional meant.

ABBYY FineReader Pro для Mac

On November 21, 2014, ABBYY released the ABBYY FineReader Pro update for Mac, a professional text recognition program.

ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac

With the help of the program, you can translate images of documents and any type of PDF files into electronic editable formats without reprinting text. The new version of FineReader helps to automatically recognize and convert documents. This became possible through support for the Automator program and the AppleScript script language.

For example, if the user needs to regularly convert incoming documents or packages of documents from PDF to Microsoft Word and save them in the desired directory, or automatically recognize the screenshots created, you do not need to open ABBYY FineReader every time. The program will run automatically at the specified time or at a certain frequency, it is enough to configure the required task in Automator only once. The user can also create simple applications and run them manually by simply dragging and dropping documents into them.

ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac View

The AppleScript scripting language allows developers or advanced users to create programs and tools to automate script-based tasks. With FineReader support, these tasks can include document recognition and conversion.

The new Mac version of ABBYY FineReader Pro supports OS X Yosemite.

The program can be purchased from the Mac App Store or from the ABBYY online store. Current ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac users will receive an update for free, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac users will be able to update their version to professional at a special price.

2013: ABBYY FineReader Bank

September 10, 2013 - ABBYY announced the release of an updated version of ABBYY FineReader Bank - a solution that allows you to automate the entry of data from payment documents into the banking information system. It was developed specifically for the banking industry, taking into account its peculiarities and makes it possible to simplify the work with the most popular documents: payment orders, payment requirements and collection orders. The new version of the program has a modern architecture and supports the latest versions of operating systems. In addition, you have improved the ability to customize your product with specific business processes in mind. And for bank operators, working with the new ABBYY FineReader Bank has become even more convenient thanks to the modern interface.

ABBYY FineReader Bank allows you to enter payment documents without prior sorting: they are simply scanned in one stream, and the program automatically determines their types and extracts information from all required fields. With advanced document mining and recognition technologies, document processing takes only a few seconds. Thus, ABBYY FineReader Bank allows you to reduce processing time by up to 10 times, and bank employees have the opportunity to pay more attention to communicating with customers and solving other specialized tasks.

Many banks have already appreciated the important advantage of the ABBYY solution: after the automation of document entry, the number of data errors is reduced by at least 3 times. ABBYY FineReader Bank checks the recognized data for compliance with the established formats, rules and current databases, which guarantees the maximum accuracy of the entered information. After the automatic check stage, the data is sent for confirmation to the operator. If the program has detected that the rules established for the document have been violated, or other inaccuracies have been identified, the required fields are highlighted so that it is easier for the employee to pay attention to them and correct them if necessary.

The program interface is easy to customize according to user habits. An operationist can enter a document field value in one click, configure keyboard shortcuts for frequently used commands, and use hot folders that automatically send document scans for processing according to a given script.

ABBYY FineReader Bank is compatible with all existing banking systems and requires minimal support from the bank's system administrator. The updated version of the program is compatible with Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2012, 2008, as well as with earlier operating systems.

2012: ABBYY FineReader 11

In the 11th version, the speed of processing documents has been increased to 45%. The new black and white mode for processing business documents and books allows you to get an electronic document up to 30% faster than processing images in full color mode. In addition, the program has improved the ability to preserve the execution of multi-page documents. Also, ABBYY FineReader 11 has expanded the list of recognizable languages, including added support for Arabic, and improved the quality of recognition of documents captured by a digital camera or mobile phone.

Now ABBYY FineReader 11 users can quickly create e-books for reading on portable devices, add them to an electronic library or archive. The program supports saving to popular formats such as ePub, fb2 and others.

The corporate version of the program has added the ability to delete confidential information and an application for recognizing business cards ABBYY Business Card Reader.

ABBYY FineReader 11 is available in two versions: Professional Edition and Corporate Edition. The professional version comes in a box and as a downloadable version. The enterprise version is available as licenses and downloadable versions. ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition with Arabic support comes separately.

The cost of ABBYY FineReader 11 Professional Edition starts at 3590 rubles. The downloadable Internet version of ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition is available at a price of 8,990 rubles.

• Increased recognition speed and new performance tools. In the new version of ABBYY FineReader, the processing speed has been increased to 25% * for documents in Russian and other European languages ​ ​ and to 40% * for documents in Chinese , Japanese and Korean. At the same time, users can increase the processing speed using special modes:
  • The new black and white mode provides fast and accurate recognition of documents for which it is not important to maintain color (for example, business and financial documents or books). Black-and-white mode allows up to 30% * faster electronic document acquisition compared to standard full-color mode.
  • Improved Fast Recognition mode up to 70% * delivers results faster than the default standard mode. This mode is optimal for tasks where the speed of recognition is critical, for example, when creating archives or processing large volumes of documents with simple design.

• Ability to create e-books. The new version of the program allows users to convert paper books, PDF articles, guides and text images into popular electronic formats for reading on portable devices. Now you can save texts in ePub® (Electronic Publication), FB2 (FictionBook) and other formats supported by e-book readers, as well as smartphones and tablet computers (in particular, iPads). Ebooks created using ABBYY FineReader 11 can be sent directly from the application to the user account of the Amazon® Kindle™ device.
• Save original artwork to Microsoft® Word, PDF, OpenOffice.org® Writer, and DjVu. Thanks to the improved Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT®), the new version of the program more accurately recreates the original structure of a multi-page document, including a table of contents, headers and footers, and other elements. Improved definition of vertical headers and footers (up to 70% more accurate results), margin text, charts, tables, and styles, reducing the time required to manually adjust a document. The program has improved the ability to save recognition results in OpenOffice format and added support for recording recognition results in DjVu format, which is often used when archiving documents, when it is necessary to preserve all the nuances of design (for example, when working with historical documents). When you save the text to an ODT file, the ABBYY FineReader 11 now more accurately recreate the headers and footers, page numbering, and table of contents. When recording recognition results in PDF format, the program began to support the creation of bookmarks, which makes it more convenient to navigate through the saved document.
• Splits the scanned page stream into separate documents. This new tool will be useful when scanning several documents in a single stream at once, for example, when using network MFPs and scanners in the office. Dividing the flow of heterogeneous documents into separate documents according to their types allows not only to improve the quality of analysis of the structure of each of the documents, but also, if necessary, to time-distribute work with large volumes of documentation or distribute it among several employees.
• New Style Editor. Allows you to more conveniently and quickly make changes to the design of a recognized document directly in the program, without using a word processor. Users can view styles in the document and modify or merge them as needed. Changes are automatically applied to the entire document, which frees you from manually editing each page.
• New tools for processing document images. The improved image editor includes a complete set of tools for pre-processing document photos. Users can adjust the optimal brightness and contrast values ​ ​ of images, light and shadow intensity levels, as well as eliminate possible image quality shortcomings that occurred when shooting with a digital camera or mobile phone. For example, eliminate trapezoidal distortion, align curved lines after shooting a spread of books and magazines, crop extra edges of the image.
• Improved PDF support. Three PDF save modes are available to the user: high quality (saving the quality of the original image), minimum size (for archiving) and balanced mode (for publishing on the Internet). The new version has improved compression technology (MRC - Mixed Raster Content), which reduces the file size when saving to PDF by up to 80%. This is due to layer-by-layer analysis of the original image and the use of various information compression techniques for illustrations, text, and background images.
• Support for new languages. The new version of the application adds support for Arabic, Vietnamese and Turkmen (Latin). The total number of supported languages ​ ​ is now 189, and dictionary support is also provided for 45 languages, which provides higher quality recognition.

New features of the corporate version of ABBYY FineReader 11:

• ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition is designed for medium-sized businesses and divisions in large companies. The enterprise version supports all the main methods of network installation, makes it possible to distribute document processing with the separation of workflows in the network, and also offers a flexible licensing scheme.
• Improved automatic document processing with HotFolder. Allows users to configure jobs and schedules to automatically process documents in their absence from the computer. This makes it possible to effectively balance the load and improve performance when performing repetitive tasks for scanning and recognizing documents.
• Custom scripts. When performing the same type of document transformation tasks, you can now add your own script to the start window with scenarios, specify recognition languages, formats for saving data and folders for storing them.
• Remove confidential information from documents. This feature allows you to remove sensitive information from recognized documents, removing it in parallel with both text and image. The text is replaced by a black stripe or black dots on all layers in the document.
• ABBYY Business Card Reader. An additional application for users of the corporate version of ABBYY FineReader, which allows you to extract contact information from scanned business cards and translate it into electronic vCard format or save data directly to Microsoft Outlook contacts. The app supports 25 recognition languages ​ ​ (including Chinese, Japanese and Korean).