User Guide
text that you see in the FineReader Text window, a text you can edit and save in any conven
ient format.
New Features of ABBYY FineReader 7.0
Recognition Accuracy
● Recognition accuracy has been improved up to 25% over the previous version.
Analysis and recognition of documents with complex layouts has been
improved, particularly, on documents with text on a color or raster back
ground and documents with complex tables (including tables with white grid
lines and tables with color cells).
● Specialized English and German dictionaries have been added that include the
most frequently used legal and medical terminology, providing unmatched
recognition accuracy of specialized legal and medical texts.
● Recognition of barcodes has been improved and support for PDF417 2D
barcodes has been added.
XML Support and Integration with Microsoft Office
● ABBYY FineReader now supports the Microsoft Word XML format.
● The program is fully integrated with Microsoft Word 2003, to allow you to
check and edit recognition results by using Microsoft Word tools. At the same
time, users can compare the exported results that have been saved in
Microsoft Word with the original image from ABBYY FineReader’s Zoom win
dow from within Microsoft Word.
● ABBYY FineReader can insert recognized documents directly within Microsoft
Word. This provides flexibility to allow you to collect and transform informa
tion from papers or PDF documents into a single electronic document.
Improved PDF Conversions
● The quality of recognition of PDF documents has been drastically improved in
version 7.0. ABBYY FineReader can extract and recognize texts that are placed
on a background from PDF file.
● The recognized PDF documents can be edited in the ABBYY FineReader edi
tor. The results can be saved in any of the supported saving formats including
PDF.
● PDF documents created by ABBYY FineReader are optimized for publishing
on the World Wide Web. The first page of the document is viewable before the
entire document has been downloaded.
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Chapter 3. General Features of ABBYY FineReader