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Abbyy finereader 14 review1/15/2023 Time and time again, FineReader came through. Some of them are pretty good quality, but a few of them have image hovers best described as "a hasty Xerox made on a Friday afternoon before Spring Break by a work-study student who was far more interested in literally anything else." Crooked, dark, speckled, you name it. I have thousands of journal articles saved as PDFs. If the most important feature of an OCR app is how well it does at recognizing text from a PDF or image file, then FineReader Pro is, by far, the best OCR app that I have ever used. Don't believe the hype, this is not a magic wand, so you might as well stick to the numerous free online tools out there.If you want fine-grained control over OCR and unmatched export options to a plethora of formats, ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac is definitely worth a close look, but the current version has some significant caveats which you should consider before spending US$100 on it. FineReader was adamant that my - was indeed a ~, whereas many areas suggested as problematic were spot on).įinal rating: 3 for "helped a bit, but nothing to call home about". Note that FineReader sometimes suggests areas where it might be incorrect, but this did not help (e.g. Would I pay £100 (today's price according to their website) for that? Heck no, I tried a freebie yesterday that didn't seem to be too good, but retrospectively, it was doing a very fine job compared to FineReader, especially since I didn't give it all the clue I gave to FineReader. Q: But it was still better than selecting plain English?Ī: NO! Or if it did, the difference was so marginal that I didn't spot it.Ĭonclusion: again, I'm not saying this software is terrible, as it did help a bit. French), but you can also choose formal languages such as C++, which I did! I told it "Recognise C/C++ code in Courier New font". Q: Ok, but maybe it's somewhat trying to translate it to plain English.Ī: Did I mention that FineReader has a language option as well? Not only can you select which language the text is in (e.g. Q: How do you expect the software to know that?Ī: Because there is an option about what font to recognise, and I specifically told the software to look for Courier New font! Hence, using ~ / O instead of 2 clearly spaced - or brackets is unexcusable, at least because it's interpreting as 1 character something which is clearly 2 characters long. As for spacing and characters layout, the document was purposedly printed using Courier New font, meaning characters spacing is constant! Q: Fonts vary in spacing, size, etc, so give it a break.Ī: All code was printed as plain text with no bold, italic, different font sizes, colours, etc. Well, actually, yes I do, and let me explain why: Now, I hear you say, "Oh, come on, you can't expect it to get some C++ code spot on". As for 1 and l, it seems to draw a dice to determine which one to use. For instance, () recognised as O, & as S, etc, and my favourite - recognised as ~ (what the heck? Not even close!). My gripe is that it misses a lot of "obvious" C++ syntax. I scanned it all, made sure the page are quite straight, cleaned up manually spots and marks on all pages and loaded them up in FineReader. I lost 40 pages worth of C++source code, and found a very good quality printout. Ok, so what's wrong? I guess that raving reviews built my expectations, and maybe I'm asking too much, but I actually don't think I do. Well, that's all fine and dandy then? Yes, if you ignore the important keywords: "10 years ago". That is, I used Omnipage about 10 years ago, used FineReader Pro v10.0 today, and the latter didn't perform worse than I could remember the former did. I read many raving reviews about this product on the Internet, and let me start by saying that it's not bad. Long time I haven't been around, but I thought I needed to share some experience.
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