ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is a highly accurate and easy-to-use multilingual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software designed specifically for Mac users. Based on ABBYY’s intelligent document recognition technologies, FineReader Express for Mac quickly turns any scanned paper document, PDF files and digital camera images into editable and searchable formats while keeping the original layout and formatting in tact.
Superior Accuracy of Text Recognition and Layout Retention:
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac delivers outstanding accuracy when converting a variety of document types into popular editable and searchable formats, such as RTF, XLS, HTML and searchable PDF. It performs high-quality results even on difficult-to-read images like faxes, images taken with digital cameras and documents scanned at low resolution. It also precisely recreates formatting elements of original documents, such as tables, graphics, columns, bullets and numbering. When analyzing a document, the application automatically detects three types of areas: text, image and table areas, which ensures accurate layout retention. If necessary, areas can also be manually selected and corrected before recognition.
Comprehensive Language Support:
The application supports 171 recognition languages including English, German, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Malay, Indonesian, and many others. Of those, 36 languages have dictionary support to provide the best possible conversion results. It also accurately recognizes multilingual documents written in up to three different languages.
One-Click Conversion Tasks:
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac comes with four pre-defined QuickTasks for the most common document conversion procedures, including “Convert to text document”, “Convert to spreadsheet document”, “Convert to HTML document” and “Convert to searchable PDF”. QuickTasks allow documents to be opened, recognized and saved in a specified format with just a single click of the mouse.
Intelligent Re-creation of Tables and Spreadsheets:
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac automatically detects tables in original documents and precisely reconstructs them in the resulting files. In addition, this intelligent software provides special tools for editing table areas in documents that enable:
- Adding table separators
- Deleting table separators
- Splitting table cells
- Merging table rows and columns
Using these tools, even the most complex tables and spreadsheets can be perfectly reconstructed.
Ideal Tool for PDF Conversion:
It will become an ideal assistant for Mac users working with PDF documents. FineReader Express Edition for Mac converts any type of PDF document (except secured PDFs) into popular formats for further editing, repurposing or archiving. It can also be used to convert image-only (or scanned) PDFs to searchable PDF format.
Digital Camera OCR:
Have you ever thought about capturing documents with a digital camera? With ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac, you can easily convert them into text files. Go beyond the capabilities offered by traditional scanning devices, like capturing text from large posters, banners and timetables on the street, or capture pages from thick, bound documents such as books, which are typically hard to scan.
Multiple Image Processing and Merging:
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac can open and process several document images simultaneously and then merge and save them as a single file in a specified format. This feature saves time and effort when converting pages of books, magazines and any multi-page documents. It’s also useful when combining several PDFs in a single file for compiling a report or other larger document.
User-friendly Interface:
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac has an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes working with the software simple, convenient and efficient — regardless of the tasks performed.
Typical Use:
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is an ideal software tool for quickly and efficiently handling a variety of document processing and preparation routines. Mac users can quickly achieve highly accurate conversion results in no time at all:
- Share information
Convert books, articles, publications, agreements and other documents to electronic format and share them with friends and colleagues.
- Create electronic archives
Easily convert paper documents to a searchable PDF format, which is ideal for creating an efficient and highly accessible electronic archival system.
- Efficiently manage paper documents and PDFs
Make the text contained in scanned images of documents, digital photographs and PDF files easily editable. From documents previously considered inaccessible, it’s possible to extract the whole text or specific parts of a document, change formatting, correct data and misprints and save the resulting text in a variety of formats.
- Read favorite books and articles on electronic devices
With an iPod, iPhone or other similar device it’s simple to read on the go converted to Plane Text format books and notes.
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6.
Memory: 256 MB RAM.
Hard disk space: 500 MB for typical program installation and 1 GB for program operation.
TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera or fax modem.
Video card and monitor (min. resolution 1024 by 768 pixels).
Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.
Important! ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac does not support scanners, cameras and fax modems that use emulated drivers.
Interface Languages:
English, German, Russian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
Supported Formats:
Input file formats
TIFF (*.TIFF, *.TIF)
PNG (*.PNG)
JPEG (*.JPG, *.JPEG)
JPEG 2000 (*.JP2, *.J2K)
PCX (*.PCX)
DCX (*.DCX)
GIF (*.GIF)
Bitmap (*.BMP)
PDF Document (*.PDF)
Output file formats
Rich Text Format (*.RTF)
Plain Text (*.TXT)
Microsoft Excel (*.XLS)
HTML (*.HTM)
PDF Document (*.PDF)(text-under-image)
TIFF (*.TIFF, *.TIF)
PNG (*.PNG)
JPEG (*.JPG, *.JPEG)
JPEG 2000 (*.JP2, *.J2K)
PCX (*.PCX)(b/w)
Bitmap (*.BMP)
