FE ATURE OVERVIEWABBYY ® FineReader Engine 12WIN, Linux, and OS X

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BBMP, DCX, GIF, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX,scanned PDF, digitally created PDF incl. password
protection, PDF/A, PNG, TIFF, (For Windows version
only: WIC-compatible, WDP, DjVu)+++

Text documents (doc, docx, rtf, htm / html, txt, odt);
tables (xls, xlsx, csv, ods); presentations (ppt, pptx, odp)

New

Planned–OCR - Recognition of machine-printed text

210 languages

208 languages

208 languages

Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Thai,Vietnamese, Gothic OCR+++Burmese (technical preview) and Farsi OCR

NewNewNew

Georgian OCR

New

Planned–OCR for simple mathematical formulas

New

Planned–Japanese OCR

Improved

Improved

Improved

Chinese & Japanese OCR

Improved with ML––Recognition of dates, times, and addresses in Japaneseand Arabic

Improved

Improved

Improved

Recognition of Machine Readable Zones in IDs (MRZ)

New

Planned–Ready-to-use data extraction from specific document
types

Business cards

Business cards

Business cards

ICR - Recognition of hand-printed text

126 languages

Planned–OMR - Checkmark recognition+Planned–

OBR - Barcode recognition+++

Auto-cropping and auto-splitting of dual pages+++

Filtering of color stamps and marks, noise removal,
and local contrast improvement+++

Adaptive binarization+++

Camera OCR+++Recognition

Image Pre-Processing Tools

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Scanning utility

Improved++

Native 64-bit support+++

Code samples and predefined processing profiles+++

Bulit-in recognition on multi-core CPUs+++

Multithreading capability+++Parallel processing of many single-page documents+++

Parallel processing of multi-page documents+++

Ready-to-use components for creating user interface+++

Document layout reconstruction, incl. internal structureand formatting+++

Detection and recreation of balanced columns of text

NewNewNew

Detection of tables and layout reconstruction

Improved

Improved

Improved

Broad range of export settings, such as RTF, DOCX, TXT,ODT, CSV, XLS(X), HTML, PDF, PDF/A, XML, PPTX, ALTO,EPUB, FB2, vCard, image formats+++

Export to HTML5NewNew

New

Faster export to XML with non-deskewed coordinates

Improved

Improved

Improved

Direct export of list elements to XMLNewNewNew

ALTO 3.1 export format

NewNew

New

Direct export to memory+++

Export to XPS+––

Export to PDF 2.0 and PDF/UANew

New

New

Export to PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b+++

Export to PDF/A-2 (a,b,u), PDF/A-3 (a,b,u)

New: PDF/A-2b,PDF/A-3b

New: PDF/A-2b,PDF/A-3b

New: PDF/A-2b,PDF/A-3b

Easy Development

Layout Reconstruction

Export Settings

PDF Export

Ability to use Unicode characters during PDF encryption

NewNew

New

Export to Tagged PDF

Enhanced++Preservation of original annotations and bookmarksin PDF++–

Ability to detect text layer in PDFs and skip OCR++–Fast export of PDFs with many pages+++

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Document Classification powered by ML and NLP

Enhanced

Enhanced

Enhanced

Access to information about individual recognition
variants

NewNew

New

Usage of artificial intelligence and machine learning
for accuracy and layout reconstruction

NewNew

New

Ability to open the PDF, DjVu, WIC, and WDP files frommemory+PDF only–Ability to specify resolution for rasterisation during PDF
opening++–

Full support for ZUGFeRD-compliant PDF(import & export)+++

Support for Cloud (Amazon EC and MS Azure)and virtual environments

NewNew–Network licensing++–

Backup Network License Manager for higher faulttolerance++–

Technology Improvements

Licensing+ already available in the version 11– feature currently not available/ planned

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or use the online contact form.
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