Deltalink Consulting, the exclusive southern African distributor of Russia-based ABBYY, today announced the release of FineReader 8.0, the next generation of its FineReader desktop optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion software application.
ABBYY FineReader is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, application for professional quality conversion of document images and PDF files to editable and searchable electronic files.
The product delivers outstanding accuracy when converting a variety of document types including tables and spreadsheets, magazine articles, contracts and faxes. Enhancements in version 8.0 give FineReader new intelligence, making it more accurate, flexible and adaptable for a wider variety of users than ever before.
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 redefines OCR accuracy and performance by delivering:
* A significant increase in overall recognition accuracy, with up to 30% accuracy improvement for `difficult-to-read` images such as faxes and documents scanned at low resolution.
* More intelligent PDF conversion, with smarter, faster processing and output to searchable, secure and tagged PDF files.
* Higher productivity and greater applicability, with new automation tools, fast processing options and ability to use FineReader for a wider range of tasks, including digital camera support and `instant` OCR with a new Screenshot Reader application.
"As OCR technologies become more sophisticated, the measurement of product performance moves beyond simple word accuracy improvements," commented Gerrie Terblanche, CEO of Deltalink Consulting.
"FineReader continues to evolve and become more intelligent and versatile, as today`s knowledge workers and professionals need to become more productive. Business documents have become much more complex and now contain a variety of inherent information that needs to be obtained from them. Hyperlinks, Web references and e-mail addresses contain not just special formatting but key data, and the challenge is to extract this data from these images."
"Additionally, when it comes to productivity," continued Terblanche, "users now require to work with OCR for more tasks than ever before. This includes, for example, capturing images while `on the go` with a camera, saving PDFs with internal links for archiving, recognising text from any image directly from the screen, working with secure documents in government applications and automating routine OCR processes."
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ABBYY Software House develops linguistic and artificial intelligence (AI) software providing a full line of OCR and text-processing programs and solutions.
ABBYY`s products include: FineReader OCR systems - a family of end-user programs and development tools for recognition of printed texts, tables and forms; FormReader - an ICR program for recognition and processing of hand-printed forms; and ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio - a software tool that helps to extract data from semi-structured forms and documents.
Companies that license ABBYY recognition technologies include Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, C-Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, Banctec, BenQ, Documentum, Epson, Freedom Scientific, HP, Kurzweil, Kofax, Microtek, Neurascript, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Panasonic, Saperion, Stellent, SWT, Toshiba and Verity. ABBYY Group Headquarters are located in Moscow with offices in Germany, UK, Ukraine and the US.
Deltalink Consulting
Deltalink Consulting, established in 1993, is an independent company that provides fixed content management solutions within the African market. Its solutions incorporate products from international suppliers that satisfy the need for document capture, document conversion and the sharing, managing, processing and archiving of `unstructured documents`.
Deltalink Consulting is the exclusive southern African distributor of Russia-based ABBYY`s FineReader, FormReader, FlexiCapture and FineReader SDKs; the sole South African distributor for Germany-based ImageWare`s Bookeye overhead scanners and Italy-based Buic cheque and small format scanners; and one of only two distributors in southern Africa for US-based Captaris with its Alchemy fixed content management software and its business process management solutions.
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