ABBYY FINE READER 4.0 NOW SUPPORTS .PDF FORMAT
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Standard and Professional will now save recognition results in Adobe Acrobat Reader .pdf format, allowing users to easily share and distribute documents.
Las Vegas, COMDEX, November 15, 1999 ù ABBYY USA (a member of the ABBYY Group) today announced that the award-winning ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Standard and Professional are now able to export recognition results in .pdf format. ABBYY FineReader 4.0 also supports the leading formats and office applications, including Office 2000, WordPro 9.5, and Word Perfect 9.0.
Due to the popularity of the Internet with millions of consumers and companies around the world, the number of personal and corporate homepages has grown dramatically. The .pdf format has proven to be the most popular way of publishing documents on the Web, because it keeps the layout of the original document, while allowing to search through it. Now users of ABBYY FineReader 4.0 will be able to have a pdf. document ready for publishing on the Web or an intranet in just three steps: ôScanö, ôRecognizeö, and ôExport to .pdfö. In addition, users can prepare the document for publishing on the Web just by saving it in HTML format.
ôIn the past, scanners were used mainly by corporate professionals. Now, the overwhelming trend in scanner and recognition technologies as its use by individual consumers," said Sergey Andreev, CEO of ABBYY Software House. 'According to a recent IDC report, at the beginning of the new century there will be one scanner for every two PC users. To anticipate this need, we developed ABBYY FineReader 4.0 with accurate and easy-to use OCR, that supports all popular data formats."
Users of ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Sprint (a light version that is bundled with scanners from Acer and others) can upgrade to FineReader Standard for just $99 USD.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Standard and Professional is the worldÆs leading OCR solution, winning 17 awards from leading IT magazines worldwide since it was launched. The easy-to-learn standard Windows interface is available in 12 languages, and recognizes documents in - 53 languages. FineReader supports one-button OCR (ôScan&Readö); and exports recognition results directly into MS Word, MS Excel, WordPerfect, and Word Pro or saves them in PDF, HTML, RTF, CSV or TXT formats.
FineReader's powerful OCR engine is more accurate than competing OCR products. The softwareÆs Integral Purposeful Adaptive (IPA) perception technology combines serial and parallel character recognition techniques to increase recognition on even poor quality documents created by dot-matrix printers, typewriters, photocopiers, and fax machines.
The use of advanced syntactic and semantic natural language expert systems raises FineReader's recognition accuracy to an unprecedented level. The expertise in the morphology of major languages further increases the recognition quality. For more product information, visit their web-site at
www.finereader.com.
ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Group, which publishes and distributes ABBYYÆs products in North America.
ABBYY (ABBYY Software House) specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), Intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. ABBYY's products include: the FineReader line of OCR/ICR/OMR software, which allows the automatic input of texts, tables and forms into a computer; FineReader Development Tools, which allows developers to integrate OCR into their solutions and more... Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, Sumitomo Electric Systems, L&H/Kurzweil, Banctec (Japan), Visionshape, Jet Fax, NewSoft, and Primax. For more information about ABBYY, visit web-site at
www.abbyy.com.
Nastasya Savina
Head of Information,
PR and Advertisement Service
ABBYY Software House
+7 095 234-4400 (Tel)
+7 095 263-6278 (Fax)
Nastasya@abbyy.ru
Ding Tang
President
ABBYY USA
510-226-6717 (Tel)
510-226-6069 (Fax)
dtang@abbyyusa.com
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