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ABBYY FineReader Online: convert images to text online!

Convert scanned documents and PDFs to editable text

Need to edit a paper document or a PDF file? Save the time normally spent on manual retyping — just upload the image to FineReader Online and receive back text that you can easily edit, or share!
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Online image recognition and conversion to editable documents

FineReader Online lets you convert files in any of the following image formats:
  • BMP
  • PCX
  • DCX
  • JPEG/JPEG 2000
  • PNG
  • TIFF/TIF (including multi-page files)
  • GIF
  • DjVu
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Convert PDFs to Word documents online and retaining the original formatting

Unlock text in scanned and image-only PDF files and convert them to Microsoft® Word, Excel®, or ODT for easy editing and updating. While converting PDF to text online OCR* service preserves the layout and formatting of the original, saving you from the tiresome process of retyping and re-formatting.
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Convert DjVu books or publications for reading on your preferred E-book device

Many books that are distributed over Internet are in DjVu, which is not supported by most of E-book readers. With FineReader Online you can convert DjVu books to PDF or other text formats and upload them to your E-book.
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* (OCR) Optical Character Recognition is a technology that enables conversion of digital images and PDF files to text documents ready for editing, quoting, search, and archiving.
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Get accurate results — save time on retyping

FineReader Online converts scans and digital images with superior accuracy, eliminating time spent on retyping and correcting mistakes. Even on documents that are usually difficult for recognition ,such as faxes, digital photos, document with complex structure and long tables, FineReader Online demonstrates very good results.
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No retyping required!
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Multilingual document conversion

A lot of documents these days are written in more than one language (even textbooks, manuals, etc.). FineReader Online provides text recognition of multilingual documents (up to 3 languages in one document) and supports 42 recognition languages:
Abkhaz
Armenian (Eastern)
Armenian (Grabar)
Armenian (Western)
Bashkir
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
German (new spelling)
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tatar
Turkish
Ukrainian
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Reconstruction of original document structure and formatting with ADRT technology

FineReader Online is powered by ABBYY’s unique Adaptive Document Reconstruction Technology (ADRT®). This technology enables the service recognize the entire multipage document with its complex structure and formatting elements. The following elements are re-created after conversion of multipage files in TIFF, DjVu and PDF to editable formats in native Microsoft Word formatting: headings (with hierarchic structure), table of contents, headers & footers, footnotes, page numbering, captions, text fonts and font styles.
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