The smarter PDF solution

Over the last two years, the number of opened PDFs has grown exponentially by more than 300% to reach a total of nearly 20 billion documents per year, according to the PDF Association: a clear indicator of the necessity for a modern PDF tool.

While the trend towards a paperless office has been around for decades (and it is certainly gaining momentum), paper documents will not disappear anytime soon. Only 24% of companies have adopted entirely digital process so far (AIIM), and people still spend 25% of their time dealing with paper (IDC).

Often referred to as “paper light,” this occurrence shows that a combination of paper and digital documents remains a reality for most information workers and their companies. In order to increase efficiency, digital documents workflows need to be designed to include digitized paper documents as well.

Powered by ABBYY’S AI-based OCR technology, FineReader makes it easier to digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the modern working world.

A look at what’s new:

1. Edit PDFs almost like in a Word document:including text, formatting, layout, and table cells.
2. New export option added to compare documents: exporting comparison results into Microsoft® Word with track-changes mode.
3. Convert documents with higher accuracy: (in particular for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) improved layout retention and conversion of digital PDFs with a corrupt text layer.
4. Make an impact across the organization: improved options for virtualization scenarios and roll-out automation.

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