FineReader blog

Document digitization and PDF editing made easy. Tips, trends & use cases for higher productivity.

Focusing on PDF: The latest update gives ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 a new name and expands its functionality

We are excited to announce that the new ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 is now available. The update significantly expands the solution’s capabilities that now enable the creation and editing of fillable PDF forms. We are also excited to announce that we gave our PDF software a new name, one that more closely encompasses the product’s powerful capabilities: ABBYY FineReader PDF.

3 Super Easy Convert PDF to Word Techniques

How to copy texts from PDF to Word – lines, whole paragraphs, and especially tables? Is it possible to open a PDF in Word and start editing it? How to convert scanned PDF into Word document that is editable? All office users have faced the problem of figuring out how to copy PDF to Word without Abobe Acrobat DC, and many still cannot find a proper solution.

How to make a PDF searchable?

FineReader enhances business intelligence by streamlining the processes of converting papers and PDFs into searchable, useable text. This enables you to retrieve customer, industry and internal company information more efficiently while ensuring that you never miss an opportunity to gain value from your data- thus being able to work from anywhere, anytime. 1.

How to Work from Home: FineReader 15 Helps Organizations as They Switch to Home Office

It’s a tough time. Companies and organizations close the offices; office processes are disrupted. Restoring them requires urgent measures. How to enable the employees to work from home with the same efficiency as before? How to provide them with necessary tools to process, collaborate, and share documents effectively? ABBYY FineReader 15 can help to do that quickly and effectively.

Coronavirus Remote Education

The pandemic has shut down the learning in schools and universities worldwide. Students, teachers and professors have to find ways to organize eLearning effectively. However, often the tools are missing. Not only eLearning platforms must be established but also the whole collaboration and testing process must be digitized. FineReader 15 can be of help.

ABA TECHSHOW 2020 Recap: The Time of Change Is Here

AI, automation, human skills, client experience, recession threats and challenges, cybersecurity, lawyer well-being, document productivity for legal firms — the topics at ABA TECHSHOW EXPO and Conference 2020, where lawyers and legal professionals meet technologies, were diverse.

Demystifying PDF for lawyers

As in most professional fields, PDF is the format of choice for digital documents in legal departments and law firms. However, the legal sector has some specific requirements regarding the work with this type of documents. With ABBYY FineReader you have a tool, which can handle the needs of your legal document tasks and additionally makes your paper documents digitally accessible.

Going paperless while meeting NARA compliance

A global trend towards electronic government can improve the performance of delivering services in the public sector. In addition, e-government practices have brought to light new issues with records management that have implications in further areas: one of the unavoidable effects of this trend has been the near-exponential increase both in the volume of electronic records and in the number of record-keeping formats in the years to come.

Latest FineReader 15 updates: More capable, more accurate, and friendlier

At ABBYY, we always aspire to make FineReader better. Delivering new and improving existing functionality and fixing bugs is always our main priority, so we never stop. At the very end of Summer 2019, we launched brand new version of FineReader 15, and in November 2019 we already delivered its first update containing new and improved functionality, Release 3.

Choosing a PDF tool, Part 5: How to make a PDF searchable

Paper has to be searched manually, but digital documents are instantly searchable, right? Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Between 25 and 33 percent of the PDF documents out there contain no searchable information at all. For instance, when a scan is wrapped into a PDF document, you have an image, which is not accessible to text tools.

2019: That's a Wrap!

With the year 2019 almost over, it's a perfect time to reflect back on our biggest achievements of the last 12 months. We couldn’t have come as far as we have without your support, and we hope that this year has been as successful for you as it has been for us. Let's recap... The biggest milestone we achieved this year was launching FineReader 15 (for Windows) in August.

Choosing a PDF tool – Part 4: How to edit a PDF like a pro

PDF was created as “digital paper,” with the idea of making a digital document format that looks the same across different computers and systems. Usually, when we print out a document, we don’t want it to change anymore — and accordingly, PDF wasn’t created as an editable format. However, life requires the opposite.