With this new release, ABBYY FineReader 9.0 also delivers powerful Thai OCR capabilities. ABBYY FineReader successfully performs OCR in both directions simultaneously within a single document and is on average 60 percent* more accurate processing Hebrew documents than competing OCR applications. Hebrew texts are written from right to left using the native characters, while numbers and foreign words are usually written in the opposite direction. Chinese and English).ĪBBYY FineReader 9.0 has been enhanced to process documents with “right-to-left” script and bi-directional text flow, such as those in Hebrew. It provides unmatched accuracy when processing documents with mixed ideographic and alphabetical languages (e.g. With its intelligent language detection algorithm, the program achieves exceptional results in recognizing multilingual documents with any combination of languages. For Chinese, we used millions of patterns to train FineReader to recognize tens of thousands of characters and their variants,” added Popov. “Enabling recognition support for an ideographic language is a very challenging job for developers as it requires the creation of an enormous database of character patterns. Its updated verification tool also allows users to easily verify recognized documents in Chinese and Japanese, with the ability to compare an uncertainly recognized character with its original image and to select the right character from a range of possible variants offered by the program. Its user interface now includes intuitive options specifically adapted to handle and edit ideographic text (both horizontal and vertical).

“We are proud to offer our new customers a language-enriched product that delivers the traditionally high accuracy of ABBYY’s proprietary OCR technology, even with complex languages and writing systems.”ĪBBYY FineReader 9.0 has been enhanced to accurately recognize both horizontal and vertical Chinese and Japanese script. “With the inclusion of support for these additional languages, ABBYY FineReader has now become available to nearly two billion more people from all over the world,” said Sergey Popov, director of the FineReader product department. ABBYY FineReader now recognizes a total of 184 languages and provides the broadest language support combining European, a range of Asian, African and Middle East languages in a single package. New Recognition Language Support Renders ABBYY FineReader Accessible to the Widest International User Audience EverĪBBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the newest release of its FineReader 9.0 optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application with added support for Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Japanese, Thai and Hebrew languages.

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