FineReader Blog

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.

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.