Bracknell, UK (5 August, 2011) — ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture and linguistic technologies and services, today announced a new release of ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac that is compatible with the newly launched Apple® Mac OS® X v. 10.7 Lion.

Awarded “Best Professional Software” and “Editor’s Choice”* by Macworld UK magazine for its admirable speed and precision, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac delivers high quality document conversion and helps Mac users to increase their everyday productivity. Based on ABBYY’s superior recognition technologies, the application accurately turns scanned paper documents, PDF files and digital camera images into searchable and editable files, maintaining the original formatting and layout. A combination of powerful conversion functions and a highly intuitive interface makes FineReader Express Edition an ideal Mac OCR application for individual users.

ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac recognises text in 171 languages and can distinguish multilingual documents containing up to 3 languages. The application intelligently re-creates layout and formatting elements found in the original document including tables, columns, graphics, bullet points and numbering. It also supports the conversion of image-only and scanned PDFs into searchable PDF format, which is ideal for archiving purposes.

Availability and Pricing
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is available via both the Mac App Store(SM) and ABBYY’s online store. Customers who have previous releases of the product can update them free of charge by downloading the update from the ABBYY web site or the Mac App Store.

* Editor’s Choice award from Macworld UK, April 2010; named “Best Professional Software” at the Macworld Awards in June 2010.