ABBYY FineReader Pro Academic for Mac (Download)

Features include:

Easy Interface Raises Productivity
FineReader’s ease of use means you’ll be working productively right from the get-go! A highly intuitive interface guides you through the entire process of scanning and converting documents. And predefined Quick Tasks mean you’ll get jobs done with just a few mouse clicks —no time spent on familiarizing yourself with the software. Even better, FineReader identifies document characteristics (e.g. layout, languages, etc.) automatically – giving you the option of adjusting settings manually if needed. Plus, FineReader is Section 508 compliant – ensuring accessibility.

Saves Documents to Virtually Any Format
Easily save text recognition results in the format of your choice: as text documents (DOCX, ODT, RTF), spreadsheets (XSLX), searchable, editable and other PDF and PDF/A documents, PPTX presentations, HTML, or e-book (EPUB®, FB2) formats. You can also send results directly from FineReader to applications including Apple Pages, Apple Numbers, Microsoft® Word, Excel® and many others.

Automatic Correction of Digital Photos of Documents
FineReader takes you beyond the limitations of traditional scanning by enabling you to use your digital camera or smartphone as a scanner! Just take a snapshot of any document you’d like to OCR. FineReader applies sophisticated image pre-processing tools to correct image distortions for best text recognition, then recognizes and converts the document into the format of your choice.

Edit Images with Image Editor
You can also correct photos of documents manually in FineReader to achieve even better recognition results. Image Editor enables you to correct brightness and contrast, straighten curved text lines, correct trapezium distortions, reduce ISO noise and remove motion blur, split dual pages, crop images, and more.

Protect PDFs with Password
Manage access to the content of created PDFs with different levels of password protection that restricts either opening the document itself, or restricts actions with its content such as printing, editing or extraction of information.

Create Industry-Standard PDFs
Turn paper documents into searchable compressed PDF files for archiving with just a few mouse clicks. Save files to a PDF/A format for long-term archiving.

Convert PDFs into Editable Formats
Quickly turn your PDFs into fully editable formats such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Apple Pages, Numbers and others. ABBYY’s intelligent OCR and PDF document conversion technologies ensure excellent accuracy, document layout and structure retention quality for further effortless editing.

Advanced PDF Conversion
FineReader Pro provides advanced tools and options for precise control and exceptional flexibility when converting PDF documents into editable file formats.

Create e-Books
Convert books and printed documents into fully formatted electronic files optimized for reading on portable devices in the popular FB2 and EPUB formats.

Advanced OCR for Complex Tasks
FineReader Pro provides a variety of advanced features that enable full control over the OCR process and its output. These include managing document pages, size/quality ratio control, document export and layout retention, editing complex tables (including the ability to manage text languages, text orientation and pictures within table cells) and more. All of which can be fine-tuned according to your needs.

Make Document Content Accessible for Text-to-Speech Utilities
With FineReader, all you have to do is convert paper documents or PDFs into a supported electronic format and they will automatically be accessible via text-to-speech utilities.

And Much, Much More!