ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is a highly accurate and easy-to-use multilingual OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software designed specifically for Mac Users. Based on ABBYY’s intelligent document recognition technologies, FineReader Express for Mac quickly turns any scanned paper document, PDF files and digital camera images into editable and searchable formats while keeping the original layout and formatting in tact.

One-click conversion tools

ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac comes with four pre-defined QuickTasks for the most common document conversion procedures, including “Convert to text document”, “Convert to spreadsheet document”, “Convert to HTML document” and “Convert to searchable PDF”. OuickTasks allow documents to be opened, recognised and saved in a specified format with just a single click of the mouse.

Intelligent Re-creation of Tables and Spreadsheets

ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac automatically detects tables in original documents and precisely reconstructs them in the resulting files. In addition, this intelligent software provides special tools for editing table areas in documents that enable: Adding table separators; Deleting table separators; Splitting table cells; Merging table rows and columns. Using these tools, even the most complex tables and spreadsheets can be perfectly reconstructed.

Advanced digital camera OCR for standard and mobile phone cameras

Have you ever thought about capturing documents with a digital camera? With ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac, you can easily convert them into files. Go beyond the capabilities offered by traditional scanning devices, like capturing text form large posters, banners and timetables on the street, or capture pages from bound documents such as books, which are usually hard to scan.

Multiple Image Processing and Merging

A_ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac can open and process several document images simultaneously and then merge and save them as a specified format. This feature saves time and effort when converting pages of books, magazines and any multi-page documents. It’s also useful when combining several PDF’s in a single file for compiling a report.

Product Features

• Superior Accuracy of Text Recognition and Layout Retention
• Comprehensive Language support
• One-click Conversion Tasks
• Intelligent Re-creation of Tables and Spreadsheets
• Ideal Tool for PDF Conversion
• Digital Camera OCR
• Multiple Image Processing and Merging
• User-friendly Interface
• File Input Formats – TIFF, PNG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, DCX, GIF, Bitmat; PDF (version 1.6 or earlier)
• Document Saving Formats – RTF, TXT, XLS, HTML, PDF

System requirements

• Operating system – MSC OS X 10.4; 10.5 and 10.6, both PowerPC and Intel
• Memory – 256 MB RAM
• Hard disk space – 500 MB for programme installation and 1 GB for programme operation
• TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera or fax modem
• Video card and monitor (minimum resolution 1024x768 pixels)