January 12, 2012

Hackensack, NJ – Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI), the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging hardware and software, today announced that ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate has been named “Outstanding OCR Solution” in BLI’s Winter 2012 “Pick” awards. Bestowed twice a year by the editors of BLI, the awards honor the top-performing solutions evaluated in BLI's lab during the previous six months. 

 

ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate Edition is an optical character recognition (OCR) solution designed to help businesses convert static image files to text-searchable, editable digital documents. Images can be imported from a digital camera, as well as from any TWAIN- or WIA-compliant scan device.

 

“FineReader 11 delivers a rich feature set and excellent ease of use,” said BLI’s Lisa Reider, senior product editor for scanners. “These strengths were backed up by all-important recognition accuracy  in the majority of our lab tests, where FineReader 11 exhibited above average OCR accuracy, as well as better than average format retention capabilities.”  

 

FineReader 11 Corporate includes a variety of editing and OCR features, such as image enhancements, custom OCR areas, vertical text recognition and the ability to recognize up to 189 languages. The program supports automated batch processing with flexible scheduling capabilities, along with customizable scan tasks for frequently used operations. Users can export converted documents into a range of file formats, including popular office suite and e-book formats. 

 

“We are thrilled to be recognized as a BLI Winter 2012 ‘Pick’ award winner,” said Dean Tang, CEO, ABBYY USA. “Our goal is to develop innovative solutions that make it easier for our customers to manage the information around them, and increase productivity. FineReader 11 Corporate’s designation as the ‘Outstanding OCR Solution’ is a true testament to our commitment to bring superior solutions to market.”

 

About Buyers Laboratory LLC

Buyers Laboratory LLC (BLI) is the world's leading independent provider of analytical information and services to the digital imaging and document management industry. For over 50 years, buyers have relied on BLI to help them differentiate products’ strengths and weaknesses  and make the best purchasing decisions, while industry sales, marketing and product professionals have turned to BLI for insightful competitive intelligence and valued guidance on product development, competitive positioning and sales channel and marketing support. Using BLI’s web-based bliQ and Solutions Center services, 40,000 professionals worldwide create extensive side-by-side comparisons of hardware and software solutions for over 15,000 products globally, including comprehensive specifications and the performance results and ratings from BLI’s unparalleled Lab, Solutions and Environmental Test Reports, the result of months of hands-on evaluation in its US and UK labs. The services, also available via mobile devices, include a comprehensive library of BLI’s test reports, an image gallery, hard to find manufacturers’ literature and valuable tools for configuring products, calculating total cost of ownership (TCO) and annual power usage. BLI also offers consulting and private, for-hire testing services that help manufacturers develop and market better products and consumables.

 

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For more information on Buyers Laboratory, please call (201) 488-0404, visit www.buyerslab.com or www.buyerslab.com/solutions, or e-mail info@buyerslab.com.