The FineReader interface makes basic OCR tasks as simple or as complex as you'd like. If you can't connect to the Internet, however, FineReader will run-in a crippled state that won't save or print recognized text. If you're connected to the Internet, it's simple to complete this copy-protection step. The notable installation exception is that FineReader 7.0 now requires product activation. The FineReader OCR interface shows the original image, recognized text, and a close-up image of the scanned page. We have tested with AMD's and they just do not perform nearly as well as with the Intel chips."="" -="">/sc/30570-SS1.gif" width="300" height="225" border="0" /> But the big, big plus is use an Intel processor with a lot of threads. A solid state drives are nice because then you won't get slowed down by things being saved to a hard drive.
We have a couple of copies of it and that we're running and I also highly recommend having a strong PC for it. It's very accurate, and we absolutely love it.
Highly recommend ABBYY as being one of your choices that you look at, you may want to go through though and see what manufacturer of your scanner, assuming you're using a high end scanner to take all this stuff in, and see if that is a product that they support, and that works well with them.īut the software is fantastic. I think we had it all figured out within about two hours of tinkering with it and trying larger documents off and on though.
So that will take some adjusting and playing around. It took us a little bit of fine tuning to find just the right settings in how it would save the PDFs, what image rate it would look at them for the scanning portion of it to get the fastest speed that we could while still remaining good and accurate with our model of scanner. The installation is pretty quick and simple. But that is more slow when it was only running on one core at a time.
We also love that ABBYY has automatic processing so that you can dump PDF files into a certain folder and it will go through and look for new files every so couple of minutes, add them to the queue, and then it will process those. I highly recommend using the high end Intel processors with this software because of that and it will really show a big improvement. So each thread was actually processing a different page at the same time. Eventually we ended up with a Core i9 processor and each one of the threads gets treated separately. So speed was another factor too, at that point, when you're talking about scanning in 400 page documents, you needed to process as quickly as possible.
That was a big plus for us because we do a lot of text searching on medical records, which can be hundreds of pages.
Once we actually gave the trial a go, we found that it was very, very good at reading texts, even stuff that wasn't real clear, things that we had faxed to us that didn't have a good, clear image on them, it still managed to interpret it correctly. Main reasons we picked it were because of processing time and accuracy. So then we ended up trying out ABBYY and found that we could set it and get a version of it that ran on as many cores as you could throw at it. So we did some investigating and the next highest recommended we saw from Fujitsu was the ABBYY FineReader product. We had an eight core physical processor machine that it was running on at the time.
Then we did some research on it, dug around and found out that it only would operate on one core of the process or no matter how many you had available and that they did not have a multi-core version that went beyond two cores. At the time we used it for a short while and found that it was very, very slow in processing the OCRs. We have Fujitsu scanners, and that's actually was the recommended software from Fujitsu. We actually looked at a few different products but we ended up using ScandAll PRO. I am system administrator in the legal industry and I give ABBYY FineReader PDF a five out of five.