An Easy-to-Use Online OCR Service – now available with Hebrew OCR

Bracknell, UK (10 November, 2011) — ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced a new release of FineReader Online, an online OCR (optical character recognition) and document conversion service. Designed to serve the needs of users who work in and with several languages, ABBYY FineReader Online is now offering OCR for Hebrew.

Online OCR and Document Conversion at FineReaderOnline.com
ABBYY FineReader Online converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF, ODT and TXT formats. It requires no additional software to be installed and can be accessed by any Web user, no matter which PC, laptop computer, mobile device or operating system he or she uses. It is a cost-effective solution available on pay-per-use basis and is very convenient for people who need high quality OCR from time to time.

Available in more than 40 languages (including complex languages like Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Russian), it allows you to transform multilingual document images and scans (up to 3 languages in one document) into editable formats, retaining accurately the document layout.

ABBYY FineReader Online is based on the same ABBYY OCR technology that has received international acclaim from industry experts and editors for superior accuracy of text recognition and layout retention.

A convenient OCR service for users working in several languages – now with Hebrew
The new version of ABBYY FineReader Online allows users to convert scans and photos of documents which contain text in Hebrew (alone or in combination with other languages), thus making a high-quality OCR on-the-fly available to serve the needs of individuals and small businesses, students and teachers, community groups, museum and library employees.

Free pages upon registration
Customers who register for the FineReader Online service will receive free pages as an introductory offer and can immediately start using and benefitting from ABBYY’s OCR and document conversion technologies.

FineReader Online is available at http://finereader.abbyyonline.com