Why upgrade to ($279.99 direct; Professional Edition $118.99)? After all, your scanner probably came with an optical character recognition (OCR) app on a CD, and that app is probably good enough for everyday OCR jobs like scanning business cards, magazine clippings, invoices, and old letters.

ABBYY FineReader Professional 10. ABBYY FineReader 11 now adds support for. The trial version offers only one process per document and it will expire after 15.

But if you need OCR that can handle difficult and massive jobs like converting complex tables into usable spreadsheets, or scanning a hundred-year-old book into a searchable PDF, or getting accurate text out of pages printed with weird-looking typefaces, you need ABBYY FineReader 11. Prince Paul Prince Among Thieves Rar on this page. And if you often need to copy text from images found on the Web, you need to get the most accurate possible text out of images on your disk or documents that you’ve fed to a scanner, or you want to convert a scanned document into HTML or into the ePub format used by e-readers, the app that gets those jobs done best, too, is ABBYY FineReader. I’ve used it for years in preference to all alternatives, and the latest version is its best by far. Manual Correction and More In its basic functions, FineReader works much like the other two leading OCR packages, Nuance’s and. Like them, it creates Word or Excel documents files or searchable PDFs by performing OCR on scanned documents or images on disk. What makes FineReader stand out are its manual-correction tools for the most accurate possible output, and its nifty add-on screen-reader app that lets you scrape text from anything on your screen—an especially nifty tool for anyone who uses Google Books or similar page-preview sites that normally don’t let you select and copy text. The Corporate version of ABBYY FineReader 11, which I tested, expands on the Professional version by including a hot-folder feature that lets you simply drop files into a folder that you designate, and then wait a few moments while FineReader runs invisibly in the background, automatically performing OCR on the dropped files.

I make heavy use of that feature to convert unsearchable PDFs—for example, out-of-copyright books downloaded from Google Books—into searchable PDFs, but you could also use it to create PDFs or Microsoft Office documents from image files. Law firms and government offices that still use WordPerfect will be glad to know that FineReader is the only current OCR software that can output text to WordPerfect for Windows.