Abbyy FineReader 10 Professional [Old Version]

by Abbyy USA

Product Features

• License Qty 1 user
• Complete package
• Platfrom Windows
• Exceptional recognition accuracy and layout retention:
• One-click conversion into various electronic formats, including Microsoft® Word, Excel®, Outlook® attachments and PDF
• Advanced Digital Camera OCR for Standard and Mobile Phones Cameras:
• Advanced Digital Camera OCR for Standard and Mobile Phones Cameras: Recognize digital photos of documents taken on the go with enhanced image-correction and processing capabilities for better OCR results.
• Exceptional recognition accuracy and layout retention: Digitize your documents without retyping and reformatting with proven technology which delivers up to 99 percent accuracy.
• Intelligent reconstruction of complex document structure and formatting
• Recognize digital photos of documents taken on the go with enhanced image-correction and processing capabilities for better OCR results.
• Recognizing 186 languages, converts multi-lingual documents with optimal accuracy.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002VPTO2W
• Item model number: FRPFW10XB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 5, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,775 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Abbyy FineReader 10 is a professional OCR /Scanning software for individual users and business professionals that turns scanned documents, PDFs and digital camera images into searchable and editable formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and searchable PDFs. Its advanced recognition capabilities provide you a full access to information locked on paper and images by virtually eliminating retyping or reformatting.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great product July 8, 2010

By Old techie

I have used this product since Version 7. Once you know about it, it is hard to imagine living without it. Although OCR is the focus of its advertisement, it is a great way to capture (and manipulate) text or figures from a variety of sources. Added bonus (how rare is this): they actually have technical support that is both accessible and knows the product (they also seem to offer the technical support indefinitely). All software should be as good as Finereader and the company.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars OCR Software January 8, 2011

By Spider Monkey

OCR software is used to import various documents or files to your computer and it then allows you to edit them for archiving or desk top publishing purposes.

This is a very impressive and easy-to-use piece of OCR software, which supports several formats of imported files (such as a scanned document, a jpeg, word document, pdf document etc), and exports them to a large variety of popular editable formats. Many scanners include software with an OCR facility, but these may not be 100% accurate and invariably won't import a mixture of text and pictures. This program allows you to do that. This allows you to view the imported document against the converted document side by side, highlighting possible changes to be made or potential errors before saving the final document. I have found the accuracy success rate to be very high, with minimal changes required.

Despite being functionally-rich, the price tag is a bit hefty for personal home use and this software is probably more suited to a small to medium business looking to scan and/or archive large volumes of documents. Nevertheless it does what it's meant to very well.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Abbyy 10's new single-page navigation scrollbar is a total disaster June 23, 2011

By Sean Oliver

Abbyy does a pretty good job of reading characters, etc, but they "improved" the way single scanned images/pages from a multi-page document are displayed, and made their good software almost useless.

Previously, a single scanned image/page was displayed, and you could zoom into a small area of the image in order to tweak layout settings, Using the scrollbar to the right, you could move around that same page and make adjustments here & there as needed, prior to OCR-ing. The window/scrollbar combination always stayed ONLY on the page you were editing. In order to go to the next page, you simply used the thumbnail window to click on it.

NOW, with version 10, some doofus at Abbyy decided it would be cool to modify the display so that if the user moves the scrollbar up or down near the top or bottom of the page/image they are working on, it automatically causes the display to jump forward or back many (MANY) pages VERY suddenly and very quickly without any warning WHATSOEVER, causing the user to immediately lose track of the page they were just working on. Now, they have to try to scroll back to that part of the book/doc they were working on. But they probably did not remember the exact page number they were on, so they have to manually scroll to locate it. This often means they unintentionally jump hundreds of pages back in THE OPPOSITE direction past the page! The scrollbar does not have a visual marker to indicate WHEN the pages will suddenly start jumping ahead or back, nor is it possible to disable this terrible and idiotic "feature", so there is no way to prevent all this scrolling around without moving the scrollbar up & down VERY SLOWLY. Needless to say, this makes editing the layout of a page/image which is part of a multipage document a total pain in the ass, and nearly impossible.

DO NOT BUY ABBYY 10 if you need to OCR books or multi-image documents requiring layout/recognition tweaks. You will find yourself screaming in sheer frustration every time you attempt to navigate around the page you are working on.