Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Office OCR

by Abbyy USA

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005B42M
• Item model number: FROFBW50
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,240 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Abbyy Fine Reader 5.0 Office is optical character recognition (OCR) software designed for work in the office. The Office version is specially designed for a network. Once installed on the server, it can be installed on workstations directly over the network. Images can be processed on several workstations simultaneously, allowing users to scan on one workstation and recognize them on another. With multiprocessing support, recognition speed is increased in direct proportion to the number of processors installed.

A built-in editor lets users edit the image layout manually. Edit recognized text while looking at an image of the source text in the Zoom window. The built-in spell checker will search text for misspelled words in mere seconds. Included with the Office version is the Formulator, which lets users fill in any form electronically. Just scan in a blank form and have it completely filled in onscreen and printed out in seconds.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FineReader tops OmniPage-10, August 15, 2001

By 

Robert Land (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Office OCR (CD-ROM)

I've been using Omni-10 and recently was about to remove the old Presto from my harddrive. However, I ran across the new ABBYY FineReader Office and gave it a try. For my money, it's a LOT better than Omni-10 (don't know about -11 except that it's costly).

FineReader doesn't have the text-to-voice of Omni, but I don't do any recognition of tables (where the feature is supposed to be valuable) anyway. FR's character recognition is superior, but the best feature is that it chooses a font size and kerning that really do an excellent job of reproducing the original (not choosing too-small font sizes with giant spaces, like Omni-10).

Overall, beats Omni-10 -- which in turn beats everything else!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible OCR abilities. Best OCR software I've ever used!, May 18, 2006

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DISenchanted (NM USA -Land of DISenchantment) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abbyy FineReader 5.0 Office OCR (CD-ROM)

I have used several programs over the years.
Omnipage
Textbridge
Pagemanager
Iris

Then I got ABBYY 5 pro and was blown away by it's accuracy; even with a cheap scanner, that cost only 20 bucks.

It's so nice to only have to fix 5 or less items after an OCR scan, vs the 10, 20 or more errors left after running a competitor's OCR software package.