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. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

FineReader tops OmniPage-10
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! ... Read more

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It might have been the best ever !
But there was no product serial # in the box, on the CD, in the manual or on the CD jacket. Box had not been tampered with. I could not install it because the serial # is required for the installation let alone evaluate it.

Gives you a low-cost, high-performance OCR package
Abbyy's Home Edition follows the trend of software publishers to milk previous versions of their software, in this case, Abbyy's Finereader 5.0 (the current version for those with lots of money being 6). The OCR engine is solid, and the "1-button" interface is uncomplicated.

When it's time to move beyond the 1-button world, the product has a number of beyond-the-basic features, including the ability to manually identify regions of text, tables, and graphics. For much of today's complex and graphic-intensive layouts, you'll find yourself using this mode, if only to avoid annoying glitches such as parts of dense tables showing up as graphics
in the recognized file, or side-by-side columns becoming tables.

Home Edition handles both scanned files (...) and a wide range of graphic files that contain text. Fortunately, although the manual states that Home Edition recognizes only the first page of multi-page graphics files, that's not true -- all the pages of multi-page FAX TIFF files are recognized.

Recognition is good. For scans at normal resolution, 300 dpi, the total number of errors per page for a mix of type from 9 down to 7 points -- pretty small for OCR -- were the same as my old, 1999 Scansoft Textbridge Pro 8.0. However, the Home Edition errors were far easier to fix ("S" for "$" on small, 7-point type for AHE, less annoying to me than the strange concatentions or "wordifications" for TP8 (such as "Pap er" or "andPublish"). When the same material is scanned into Home Edition at 600 dpi (to add detail to the very small type), errors dropped to half that of Textbridge, which doesn't accept scans of this resolution.

A very difficult case, a second-generation FAX of a magazine article originally in tabloid and reduced to 8 1/2 x 11, was recognized surprisingly well with Home Edition, despite the fact that the type was fuzzy and 4-6 points in size -- and the bioprocessing subject matter had out-of-the-ordinary words. However, the 1-button process made tables of some of the columns, so manual marking of the original was needed.

I miss the ability to view the original scan during proof-reading in Textbrige (and the Abbyy higher-end products) -- as you move the cursor through the recognized document, these show you the same area of the scanned file. In Home Edition, you have to move between the scan and the recognized windows and find your own place. There's also no built-in spell-checker, an odd omission considering the low cost of licensing spellchecking code these days. Perhaps Abbyy is justifying the gap in pricing between Home Edition (less than[$$]) and the Professional line ([$$-$$] at the Abbyy site store). Versus the Pro Edition, Home Edition has 12 languages (121 for Pro); no pattern training for symbols; and no background or batch mode. There's apparently fewer options with HE's manual layout analysis than for the Pro Edition, but the HE options are just fine for most purposes.

Abbyy HE saves recognized text as ASCII TXT, Word, Excel, Word Pro and Word Perfect files, plus HTML and Adobe PDF. The good OCR engine, the ability to handle multiple types of graphics files, and to preserve graphics color, plus its straight-forward interface all make this a good product.

Abbyy Finereader 5.0 Home Edition
This is an example of getting what you pay for. Maybe the Professional editions would work better I do not recommend buying the Home edition. The limited edition of Omipage that came with my scanner does a better job.

Unbelievable accuracy!
I don't think there is a reader out there that can hold a candle to this program. The easiest to work with for ANYONE. You can scan all the pages and then proccess them or scan, read and spell check each as you go along. Then you simply tell it to put it in Word or your clipboard and it will put one or all the pages into one easy to use, or print format. Minimal mistakes, usually caused by poor scanning settings or dirty copy. I tried the try and buy program first and couldn't imagin being without it!

Great Software
I bought a Lexmark X73 and I was just scanning some documents,then it said that the Abbyy Finereader 5.0 software came with it so I used it.The software let me correct things on my documents and other reports that were messed up.If you are looking for a software to correct reports or other documents I highly recommend Abbyy Finereader 5.0. ... Read more

Features

• Convert, edit, and reuse a variety of paper and electronic file within minutes
• Improved recognition quality--up to 33% more accurate than version 6.0
• Retain document layout; PDF input/output; Automated network installation
• Support for networked multifunction peripherals, digital copiers, and scanners
• Dictionaries, patterns, and languages sharing over a network

Features

• All-in-one, easy-to-use, personal productivity software
• Create simple and complex documents with little effort
• Seamlessly integrates word and image processing and spreadsheets
• Read and write to and from Microsoft Word and Excel documents
• Create PDF and HTML documents; spellchecker and international dictionaries

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Tracker Pro 1
I was recomended this product by some one I know for learning "C" programming language and Java. However when I tried to purchase this CD on line, I was not sure this is the one I need to purchase as there is no indication as to what this is going to teach or exacly what this will do. ... Read more

Features

• Organize digital documents in one convenient place
• Store and access documents, photos, and images
• Edit documents; OCR; search and find files; preview images
• Supports JPEG, TIFF, BMP; reduce paper and storage costs
• Customize search by title, author, and description

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stinks
I bought this software 3 months ago and I think it is a piece of c__p. When I try to scan images in formats which are supposed to be supported, I get error messages saying the image is not supported. When I try to scan simple black and white text I get error messages saying that "gray images" cannot be scanned. what a gray image is I have no idea. You can keep this software; better yet, take mine!!! ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Abbyy Fine Reader 5 Pro for Mac is optical recognition software developed especially for the Mac and includes many features, some unique to the Mac version of the software. Toolbars, icons, and dialog boxes are all designed to work seamlessly with the Mac OS Appearance Manager. All core Apple OS technologies are supported, including QuickTime, Apple Speech Recognition, AppleScript, Drag and Drop, and Navigation Services.

A built-in editor lets you 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. Version 5 supports batch document processing, allowing you to save source images, batch options, and recognized texts in the same folder. The system supports direct launch from Microsoft Word and background recognition. You can also train the system to recognize new characters. ... Read more

Features

• Superior recognition quality with ABBYY's new IPA (Integrity, Purposefulness and Adaptability) technology
• Full retention of source document layout including columns, tables, pictures, fonts, and more
• Convert documents into Web pages with fast Internet publishing
• Save documents in PDF format
• Mac-like user-friendly interface

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OCR alternative
... It scans fairly quick, has simple directions, and sends the pages to Claris Works. It picks up drawings well and is a really great OCR program. ... Read more