FineReader blog

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.

The smarter PDF solution With the latest version of its universal PDF tool for Windows, ABBYY has packed in a host of enhancements to the PDF functionality, along with smoothly integrated AI-based OCR technology for more sophisticated document conversion and a brand new export option to compare documents.

Among all the variety of different existing variants of PDF, PDF/UA is definitely the one that shall become the most widespread. In a digital era, the Web became the major way to get around with many aspects of life, and people must do more and more interactions digitally. Such entities as state authorities, suppliers of services, banks, etc., publish an increasing number of documents on their websites.

The end of the year is time for recollection and reflection. This year we have something big to be thankful and proud of: ABBYY FineReader celebrates 25 years on the market! Today a powerful PDF editing application drawing its power from exceptional quality OCR, FineReader has come a long way and undergone some transformations since its launch back in 1993.

ABBYY FineReader 14 is here with a bang! Your popular ABBYY FineReader is entering the New Year with new improvements. Thanks to your valuable feedback, we have been able to keep working on making our existing ABBYY FineReader 12 the best OCR experience for our customers. We have added some task-specific enhancements to the new ABBYY FineReader 14 to make your business processes run smoother, smarter, and faster in 2017 and beyond...

FineReader, ABBYY’s optical character recognition (OCR) application, which now has millions of users worldwide from Antarctica to Greenland and the North Pole and takes the leading places in OCR market, turns 23 this year. That is only a little less than the age of a lesser-known ABBYY product, the Lingvo dictionary application, which happens to be the company’s first product and was discontinued (end of life) in March of 2022.

Today ABBYY has made available new ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac with MAC OS X support and Native Automation Tools such as Batch Conversion and Screenshot Reading. Now, with the Automator tools and AppleScript commands, Mac users can easily set self-running OCR workflows, raising productivity when working with documents. Read more about fresh updates of new ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac.

Today we are delighted to announce the worldwide launch of the new ABBYY PDF Transformer+. The product with a 10-year history and primary mission of a PDF converter has now been transformed into a radically new product that makes it possible to work with your PDF documents as if you are working in traditional text editors.