OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is used in a variety of professions, as you can convert a paper text to a digital text in a few seconds. The main advantage is that to do this by hand could take days, weeks or months, but thanks to OCR you can do it almost instantly.
ABBYY FineReader is a suite dedicated exclusively to OCR which offers other additional functions like conversion of documents and all types of electronic file to PDF file.
Whe performing OCR you can scan from books to magazines, newspapers, faxes, letters ... the format or dimension isnīt important. The only limit is the ability of your scanner, the essential element in OCR.
ABBYY FineReader can recognize not only text and the different basic layers of a document, but also the logical structure of a whole document over multiple pages. This makes ABBYY FineReader the leading tool in OCR.