Release Date V7.0: July 2004

End of Maintenance & Support:* - September 2010

Recognition quality improved by approximately 25%

Opening and processing of PDF files

New recognition languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Japanese languages

Old European languages have been added: Old English, Old French, Old German, Old Italian, and Old Spanish

Recognition of Fraktur/Black Letter fonts

Support for JPEG2000 part 1

Opening a selected page from a multipage TIFF or PDF file

New method for analysis and recognition of barcodes

Support for new types of 1D barcodes:

Microsoft Word XML and ASCII XML output

Export to MS PowerPoint

Improved DA for invoices; detection of page orientation; 1D barcode detection, including detection of barcodes at any angle

Improved detection and analysis of tables, particularly of tables without printed grid lines and tables with colour rows and columns

Improved adaptive binarization and background filtering

New dictionaries added: law and medical dictionaries for the languages English and German

Saving recognition results as linearized PDF files: the user will see the first pages of a PDF before the entire file has been downloaded

Improved saving of edited texts in PDF format

Numerous improvements of export to HTML and RTF formats

Network runtime licences available

Support for form and semi-structured document processing with support for ABBYY FormReader and FlexiCapture

New recognition languages for ICR: Hungarian, Greek, and Croatian

Arabic ICR digits

Fast Mode for ICR

FineReader 7.0 Professional

FineReader 7.0 Scripting Edition

FineReader 7.0 XIX - visit http://www.frakturschrift.com/ or http://www.frakturschrift.de/

FineReader Engine 7.0

Technology: V5, V6, V7, V8, V9, V10