Get Editable Text From Images Without Typing a Single Character With ABBYY FineReader

Not long ago I was faced with the tedious and arduous task of editing and formatting a text from a document that had been scanned and saved into the .jpg format. A couple of years ago, I have heard or read something about the OCR technology but had never deepened into the topic. Certainly, I had completely forgotten it. Fortunately, just as I began to grieve for this, a translator friend told me about ABBY FineReader and its benefits.

Understanding OCR
Before we talk specifically about the features of ABBYY FineReader, let us first see what OCR means and how it works.

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and this kind of programs are capable of extracting an image of the characters that make up a text to be stored in a format that text editing programs can interact with. While the characters in an image are described specifying each of the pixels that form it, when converted to text format (eg ASCII or Unicode), they are described by a single number with the ensuing significant memory space reduction. From now on the text is recognized as text and you can export the text to a text editor or other applications. Currently, along with the text, it is also recognized the format in which it was written. Just to go a little deeper, OCR is based on the three basic principles scientists believe human object recognition is: Integrity, Purposefulness and Adaptability.

A Fully Featured OCR Program
ABBYY FineReader is a powerfull OCR application capable of building formatted text from a scanner or digital camera generated image. Thus, completely eliminating the need of manually re-entering the contents of a printed text.

The operation is really simple and straightforward: ABBYY FineReader scans the document, recognizes text, images and tables that are included in the source document and then saves it in your computer in several formats.

As you can see in the next screenshot, with ABBYY FineReader the recognized document looks almost exactly like the original.

Additionally, ABBYY FineReader provides dictionary support for 38 languages. Thus, the program becomes even more accurate in the analysis and recognition of documents via the use of a amazing spellchecker.

Lots of Possible Usages
With ABBYY FineReader you can use quotes from books and magazines and extract them into your studies and papers without having to type again. Through the use of a digital camera you can capture banners, posters and timetables, and then reformat them as you like. You can enter information from paper documents and books on the same record, using your scanner. You can also use this incredible OCR software to create searchable PDF archives.

It's All About Details
One remarkable detail about ABBYY FineReader is its quickness, as a matter of fact, the entire data conversion process of original paper documents, PDFs or images takes less than one minutes to complete, and the final recognized document looks exactly like the original with its format and structure intact.

Novelties
Thanks to its advanced technology and its new clear and effective interface, OCR tasks are faster and simpler than ever. This new version also offers advanced technology for intelligent reproduction of the layout of documents with multiple pages and recognition of digital photographs. The second generation of ABBYY ADRT: a new definition of OCR technology accessible. Mobile phone images OCR recognition. Maximum efficiency through document recognition task.

Final Words
Simple, powerful and secure, these are the characteristics that make of ABBYY FineReader one of the OCR market leaders. I can say without fear of being wrong that this program is worth every penny.
You can try Abby FineReader for 15 days for free as there is a downloadable trial available.

So give ABBYY FineReader a try and tell us what you think about it by leaving a comment below.