In almost everything related to graphics, OS X apps tend to be more flexible and more powerful than anything you can find in Windows, with one major exception: Optical-character-reading (OCR) software for Windows has always been more powerful than Mac-based OCR apps. Now that Abbyy's FineReader Pro ($99.99) has arrived for the Mac, it's still true that Windows has better OCR software, but that's only because Abbyy's Windows-based OCR app, is even more powerful than its Mac-based OCR app. Abbyy's apps are now are our Editors' Choice OCR products for both Windows and OS X, but the OS X version hasn't caught up with all the features in the Windows version.
FineReader Pro outputs editable documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, plain text, and e-book formats—and these documents typically require only a minimum of editing to correct any mistakes the app made in reading the original text or layout. It also outputs PDF files that display either clean text instead of the original scanned image of the text, or with searchable invisible text hidden under the original picture so you get the combined benefits of accurate appearance and searchable text.
Getting Started You can use FineReader Pro either in its automated mode or in a mode that lets you adjust its settings at each stage of its operation. In automated mode, you simply choose an operation from the opening menu and let the program do its work—for example. On the left-hand side of the opening menu, you select a source—either your scanner or a file on your disk.
On the right-hand side, you choose an automated operation, such as 'Convert to Excel Spreadsheet.' A gear icon next to the name of the automated operation lets you specify some basic output options, such as image quality and whether to use CSS styles in creating HTML pages. After a few seconds, the program prompts you for an output location and file name, and your output document is written to disk. If you perform a manual operation, you first import pictures or scanned pages into a FineReader Pro document which you can modify for best results.
If ABBYY FineReader Pro 12.0.6 is frozen, you can press Cmd +Opt + Esc, select ABBYY FineReader Pro 12.0.6 in the pop-up windows and click Force Quit to quit this program (this shortcut for force quit works for the application that appears but not for its hidden processes). Oct 24, 2013 Easily turn documents of virtually any origin into information you can edit, quote, archive, search or share! ABBYY FineReader Pro complements the hassle-free efficiency of your computer by transforming paper documents, PDFs and digital photos of text into editable and searchable files.
An image editor lets you deskew images, erase or crop out parts of an image that you don't want, adjust perspective, color, and brightness and much else. The app then analyzes each page image to detect text, pictures, and tables. If, as sometimes happen with scans or pictures of printed material, the app misidentifies a smudge as a picture, or plain text as a table, use an Inspector panel to remove the smudge from the output or mark the text properly as text, not table. Then you tell the app to read the pages, and then, when you export the final document, you can fine-tune output options so that you preserve the original page layout or simply export text. As in the Windows version, FineReader Pro's OCR engine is exceptionally accurate, producing flawless results from clean copy, and excellent results even from smudgy xeroxes of old books and typescripts. Its table-recognition engine is extraordinarily effective, even though it sometimes failed to detect thin border lines and I had to reapply the border lines when opening the output in Excel or Apple's Numbers app. Not Mistake-Proof Despite these exceptional abilities, FineReader Pro still doesn't equal its Windows counterpart, because it lacks the Windows' version proofreading feature.
In the Windows version, you can open a small editing window and check every doubtful detail in the recognized text, deleting specks that were misrecognized as letters or numbers, removing italicization, and correcting spelling. This feature is completely absent from the Mac version, so you have to perform all corrections in the target app—Word, Excel, or anything else. One downside of this lack is that you can't correct the output before exporting it as a PDF. If you want to create a PDF with corrected output, you'll need to export the document to Word or Excel, make corrections there, and then export the corrected document to PDF. When you export a file, a checkbox lets you tell the app to highlight characters that it's doubtful about so that you can find them quickly in the output document, but this means you'll have to remove the highlighting after making corrections. In the Windows version, you can do all this without exiting the OCR app.
The menu structure in FineReader Pro could also use some fine-tuning. When I performed step-by-step OCR, after importing pages from my scanner, I went to the Page menu and clicked 'Read page,' at the top of the menu, in order to convert the image into text. But the app gave me an error message saying that the page had not been processed yet.
My mistake was that I should have clicked 'Analyze page' before clicking 'Read page.' But 'Analyze page' is lower down on the Page menu than 'Read page' so I didn't realize that I should start with it.
Abbyy FineReader Ocr Pro For Mac v12.1.12 (Mac OSX) 590.67 MB Easily transform paper documents, PDFs and digital photos of text into editable and searchable files with ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac. No more manual retyping or reformatting. Instead you can edit, search, share, archive, and copy information from documents for reuse and quotation - saving you time, effort and hassles. FineReader Pro combines exceptional OCR and document conversion quality, effective automation capabilities, and unsurpassed language support with an intuitive interface. Three Great Reasons To Go With FineReader Pro: - Saves you the time and trouble of having to retype text - Delivers the reliability you'd expect from a world-leader in OCR software - Provides a single effective solution for all your OCR tasks: from simple to complex The Most Accurate Text Recognition and Layout Retention Available for Mac OS X Precise text recognition and layout retention are critical for maximum productivity. And FineReader Pro's accuracy is currently the highest in the industry: up to 99.8%, according to ABBYY's internal testing.
This means it delivers editable digital copies of documents that precisely match your originals' text and layouts - ready for immediate re-use, updating and sharing without the need for manual retyping or correction. Exact Reconstruction of Document Structure and Formatting ABBYY's innovative Adaptive Document Recognition Technology® (ADRT®) precisely re-creates the structure and formatting of multi-page documents. This includes text size and font styles, tables and diagrams, columns, headers, footers, footnotes, tables of contents, page numbers and more. The result: Your converted documents look exactly like the originals, have native formatting attributes and are easy to change and update!
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World's Most Multilingual OCR for Mac FineReader Pro recognizes text in more than 180 languages - including European and Asian languages, and Hebrew and Arabic. Plus, it does so in any combination of languages. Easy Interface Raises Productivity FineReader's ease of use means you'll be working productively right from the get-go! A highly intuitive interface guides you through the entire process of scanning and converting documents. And predefined Quick Tasks mean you'll get jobs done with just a few mouse clicks -no time spent on familiarizing yourself with the software. Even better, FineReader identifies document characteristics (e.g.
Layout, languages, etc.) automatically - giving you the option of adjusting settings manually if needed. Plus, FineReader is Section 508 compliant - ensuring accessibility. Saves Documents to Virtually Any Format Easily save text recognition results in the format of your choice: as text documents (DOCX, ODT, RTF), spreadsheets (XSLX), searchable, editable and other PDF and PDF/A documents, PPTX presentations, HTML, or e-book (EPUB®, FB2) formats.
You can also send results directly from FineReader to applications including Apple Pages, Apple Numbers, Microsoft® Word, Excel® and many others. Create searchable PDFs ready for archiving With a few mouse clicks you can turn paper documents into searchable compressed PDF files for archiving. Information in such archives can be easily retrieved at any time you need it by using keyword search, while document compression reduces the amount of disk space used.
You can also save files to a PDF/A format for long-term archiving. Other essential PDF conversion features FineReader Pro enables you to add document properties; it can also create tagged PDFs optimized for portable and screen reader devices, and creates PDF outlines for fast navigation across a document. Automatic Correction of Digital Photos of Documents FineReader takes you beyond the limitations of traditional scanning by enabling you to use your digital camera or smartphone as a scanner! Just take a snapshot of any document you'd like to OCR. FineReader applies sophisticated image pre-processing tools to correct image distortions for best text recognition, then recognizes and converts the document into the format of your choice. Edit Images with Image Editor You can also correct photos of documents manually in FineReader to achieve even better recognition results.
Image Editor enables you to correct brightness and contrast, straighten curved text lines, correct trapezium distortions, reduce ISO noise and remove motion blur, split dual pages, crop images, and more. Digitize and Share Important Documents FineReader makes it fast and easy to digitize and make multiple copies of documents - plus, it offers image processing functions that improve the visual quality of original documents. So if you have a paper document with content you'd like to share, you can just scan and print as many copies as you need while removing 'noise' and other defects. Or create a PDF that you can send as an email attachment, or upload it to the cloud.
Create E-books for Reading On-The-Go! Convert books and printed documents into fully formatted electronic files optimized for reading on portable devices in the popular FB2 and EPUB formats. Advanced OCR for Complex Tasks FineReader Pro provides a variety of advanced features that enable full control over the OCR process and its output. These include managing document pages, size/quality ratio control, document export and layout retention, editing complex tables (including the ability to manage text languages, text orientation and pictures within table cells) and more.
All of which can be fine-tuned according to your needs. Process Batches of Documents and Automate Conversion Tasks Achieve new levels of productivity and enjoy greater flexibility when converting documents with support for Automator actions and AppleScript commands. With just a few easy steps you'll be able to: - Create task apps that enable drag and drop conversion of images and PDF files. Simply drag a file on to a task app icon and it will instantly be converted into the format you have specified - without you having to first launch the main FineReader application. Specify a folder for automatic conversion - all incoming files or batches of documents will then be processed as soon as they arrive at the specified folder. Schedule OCR processes to automatically run at designated dates and times.
Make Document Content Accessible for Text-To-Speech Utilities With FineReader, all you have to do is convert paper documents or PDFs into a supported electronic format and they will automatically be accessible via text-to-speech utilities. RELEASE NOTES: System Requirements: - macOS Mojave (10.14), macOS High Sierra (10.13), macOS Sierra (10.12), OS X El Capitan (10.11), OS X Yosemite (10.10), OS X Mavericks (10.9), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), OS X Lion (10.7) - A Mac computer with an Intel processor - Hard disk space: 1.5GB for typical program installation and additional 1GB for program operation - Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.