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ABBYY FineReader 7.0 was a pretty good OCR (optical character recognition) product that garnered respectable reviews in 2003. The latest version, FineReader 8.0 Professional, takes something good and makes it even better.
FineReader takes images from a variety of sources, including PDF and - new for this release - digicams, and turns them into editable text. The new version offers nothing dramatically different from its predecessor apart from some decent tweaks - it's faster and more accurate, and offers better PDF support. Features-wise, it bears close comparison with its high-end rival OmniPage Pro, including such features as batch processing. Their interfaces are also similar.
Any decent OCR tool can handle good-quality scans with aplomb. The true test of its mettle is how well it copes with poorer sources such as multi-generation photocopies and noisy faxes. We threw a range of low-grade images at FineReader and the misrecognition rate was very low indeed.
Its ability to handle badly skewed sources was remarkable. For example, it correctly recognised the words hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal' on one finely printed, weak fax, even though they weren't in the dictionary.
Also included in the box is a utility that extracts text and images from screen grabs and copies them to the Clipboard or a range of other destinations. But if you just want to copy text from the screen the results are much the same.
With its new automation and wider range of originals that can be recognized, FineReader maintains its position as one of the best OCR programs available.
