Superior Accuracy of Text Recognition and Layout Retention
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac delivers outstanding accuracy when converting a variety of document types into popular editable and searchable formats, such as RTF, XLS, HTML and searchable PDF. It performs high-quality results even on difficult-to-read images like faxes, images taken with digital cameras and documents scanned at low resolution. It also precisely recreates formatting elements of original documents, such as tables, graphics, columns, bullets and numbering. When analyzing a document, the application automatically detects three types of areas: text, image and table areas, which ensures accurate layout retention. If necessary, areas can also be manually selected and corrected before recognition.

Comprehensive Language Support
The application supports 171 recognition languages including English, German, French, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Malay, Indonesian, and many others. Of those, 36 languages have dictionary support to provide the best possible conversion results. It also accurately recognizes multilingual documents written in up to three different languages.

One-Click Conversion Tasks
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”. QuickTasks allow documents to be opened, recognized 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.

Ideal Tool for PDF Conversion
It will become an ideal assistant for Mac users working with PDF documents. FineReader Express Edition for Mac converts any type of PDF document (except secured PDFs) into popular formats for further editing, repurposing or archiving. It can also be used to convert image-only (or scanned) PDFs to searchable PDF format.

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

Multiple Image Processing and Merging
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac can open and process several document images simultaneously and then merge and save them as a single file in 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 PDFs in a single file for compiling a report or other larger document.

User-friendly Interface
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac has an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes working with the software simple, convenient and efficient — regardless of the tasks performed.

• Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6.
• Memory: 256 MB RAM.
• Hard disk space: 500 MB for typical program installation and 1 GB for program operation.
• TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera or fax modem.
• Video card and monitor (min. resolution 1024 by 768 pixels).
• Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.

Important! ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac does not support scanners, cameras and fax modems that use emulated drivers.

Licence Types
The products offered by ABBYY through Academia are available in the following licensing models:

• Singles Licence
  Ideal for individual purchases. Either a single boxes product or an electronic software download (ESD) can be purchased
  
• Volume Per Seat Licences
  Ideal for mid-sized companies or departments requiring regular use of the software. A Per Seat Licence offers one serial number per seat and functions like a normal licence with discounts offered according to the amount of licences purchased. No additional contract is required. Either Stand Alone or Concurrent.
• Volume Site Licences
  Ideal for large corporations with decentralised networks. A Site Licence is a licence for volume usage based on a single serial number. Site Licences can be deployed automatically
  from a central location using an automated roll-out scenario. Installation is possible via command line, using Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), or using Active Directory. The number of licences in usage is defined in the contract and the licence certificate and can be easily increased at any time.