Award-Winning Technologies now available for Internet Users in English, French and Russian

Bracknell, UK (2nd August, 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 ABBYY’s Web portal FineReader Online, an online OCR (optical character recognition) and document conversion service for transforming images of documents and PDF files into editable Microsoft® Office formats (DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX) searchable PDF and other text formats. Designed to serve the needs of regional markets, the Web portal is now available in English, French and Russian.

“In today’s fast-paced world people are looking for ways to simplify the process of digitising paper documents,” explained Johannes Stoepetie, Managing Director of ABBYY UK Ltd. “FineReaderOnline.com brings the company’s OCR and document conversion technologies online. This solution brings the increased efficiency and productivity of digital documents to even non-technical users, making it a great tool for individuals and small-sized business.”

Online OCR and Document Conversion at FineReaderOnline.com
ABBYY FineReader Online offers an easy-to-use and convenient service for converting document images into reusable text, thus saving the users time and effort previously spent on retyping and reformatting.

The service converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF and TXT formats.

ABBYY FineReader Online is based on ABBYY OCR technology that has received international acclaim from industry experts and media for superior accuracy of text recognition and layout retention. It accurately reads texts in 41 languages with Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian and Greek characters, and recognises texts in Chinese (traditional and simplified), Japanese and Korean. The service supports recognition of multi-page files and multilingual documents with up to three languages. In addition, ABBYY FineReader Online can process documents with any combination of popular fonts and accurately re-creates formatting elements such as bulleted and numbered lists, columns and tables.
 
ABBYY FineReader Online provides an easy to use interface for converting images. The whole process requires three simple steps: uploading an image to the service, setting up recognition languages and an output format, and receiving the resulting document directly from the user account page.

Easily accessible and available in your local language
The online OCR service from ABBYY requires no additional software to be installed and is accessible to 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 (e.g. students, scholars, teachers, freelancers, small offices, etc.). Offering a platform-independent online service, the new portal is also ideally suited to users of Linux®-based devices.

The new version of ABBYY FineReader Online was specifically designed to suit the needs of the local markets. Customers from English-speaking countries can therefore navigate through the service in the most convenient way, using their native language.

Free pages upon registration
Customers who register for the FineReader Online service are offered 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://FineReaderOnline.com in English, French and Russian.