[v16.0.14, v15.2.14] ABBYY FineReader – Most famous and powerful OCR recognizer

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ABBYY FineReader is an OCR word processing software from Russia, which can scan/convert the static paper or electronic documents into manageable electronic data, thereby saves a lot of time and energy. Its excellent OCR recognition ability has won the favor of many users, and is known as the world’s best and ultimate OCR file conversion/processing solution for enterprise, government, education, academic institutions, and other office environment.

ABBYY FineReader possess excellent usability, automated document conversion function and unparalleled OCR recognition accuracy. Meanwhile, it perfectly supports multilingual text, color file recognition, allows to automatically retain original illustrations and typesetting formats, and supports the batch recognition task in background. For users who want to accurately convert the scanned images, PDF documents into editable and savable text content, they only need one-click. In a nutshell, it can spare users the trouble to switch back and forth among a variety of scanning/converting software (like OCR, Word, Excel), so as to greatly reduce the repetitive typing work, improve work efficiency.

Compared to those presented OCR software when buying a scanner, ABBYY FineReader has much higher (amazing) success rate in the recognition, that can even reach 120% for English (for other mainstream language, such as Chinese, that is still as high as 99%)! In addition to being able to accurately recognize all the English characters, it can also automatically correct the syntax errors in part of the source files – which is really magical, whether the files have hybrid languages or complex structures.

More than an OCR tool, ABBYY FineReader is also a very easy-to-use and powerful PDF document format converter. It allows to Scan to Word/Excel/PDF, Scan/Save as Image, Convert Image/PDF to Word/Excel, Convert Image File to PDF… all of the generated documents are editable, searchable and savable.

Anyhow, ABBYY FineReader can recognize and convert almost all printable document types, including books, articles along with complex layouts, tables on magazines, spreadsheet, etc., in very high accurate precision.

// Supported File Formats //

Input Formats
  • PDF, including PDF/A
  • Image formats: TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, PNG, BMP, PCX, GIF, DjVu, XPS
  • Editable formats: DOC(X), XLS(X), PPT(X), VSD(X), HTML, RTF, TXT, ODT, ODS, ODP
Output Formats
  • PDF, including PDF/A (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2u, 3a, 3b, 3u)
  • Image formats: TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, PNG, BMP, PCX, DjVu
  • Editable formats: DOC(X), XLS(X), PPTX, HTML, RTF, TXT, CSV, ODT
  • E-book formats: EPUB, FB2

// Supported Applications //

  • Microsoft Word 2016 (16.0), 2013 (15.0), 2010 (14.0), 2007 (12.0)
  • Microsoft Excel 2016 (16.0), 2013 (15.0), 2010 (14.0), 2007 (12.0)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 (16.0), 2013 (15.0), 2010 (14.0), 2007 (12.0)
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2013
  • Apache OpenOffice Writer 4.1
  • LibreOffice Writer 5.2
  • Adobe Acrobat/Reader (10.0 and later)

// System Requirements //

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0+

// Official Demo Video //

// Edition Statement //

AppNee provides the ABBYY FineReader Standard/Professional/Corporate/Enterprise Edition Portable, Repack and Setup – 3 kinds full registered versions for Windows 32-bit & 64-bit, made based on the official setup file, and have integrated the registered information and retained all the language files, documentations, program function components, etc. The portable and repack versions do not require installation or registration, without any time or function limitation.

// Universal Serial Number //

For OS Serial Number
v12.1.1x Mac FSER-1200-HIOB-HIOB-HIOB-0889

// Installation Notes //

for v15.0.113+:

  1. Download and install ABBYY FineReader as trial (uncheck the auto update option), do not run it
  2. Copy the unlocked file to installation folder and overwrite
  3. (optional) Run the “Del_Lic_Serv.bat” file to remove the licensing service
  4. Done

*** Licensing service is usually unnecessary. Therefore, if you wish, you can leave it, stop it, or delete it with the script.

for v15.0.110:

  1. Download and install ABBYY FineReader as trial (uncheck the auto update option), do not run it
  2. Block its outbound connection with your firewall
  3. Copy the unlocked files to installation folder and overwrite
  4. Done

for v14.0.x:

  1. Download and install ABBYY FineReader, do not run program
  2. Copy the unlocked files to installation folder and overwrite
  3. Done

// Prompts //

  • ABBYY FineReader will install the process (NetworkLicenseServer.exe) in the background and leave residual files in the following path:
    • C:\Program Files\Common Files\ABBYY

// Related Links //

// Download URLs //

License Version Download Size
for Windows
Corporate Edition v16.0.14 696 MB
for Mac
/ v15.2.14 882 MB
for Android
Pro Edition v15.2 80.1 MB

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