Platform:
Windows

ABBYY FineReader 11 Professional Edition

System Requirements

Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista®/7/8, Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2.
To work with localized interfaces, corresponding language support is required.
PC with a 1 GHz or higher CPU
Memory: 1024 MB available RAM. In a multiprocessor system, an additional 512 MB of RAM is required for each additional processor core.
Hard disk space: 700 MB for typical program installation and 700 MB for program operation.
TWAIN- or WIA-compatible scanner, digital camera or fax-modem (optional).
Video card and monitor (1024×768 or higher).
Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.

An active Internet connection to activate your serial number.

Digital Camera Requirements

Minimum: 2-megapixel sensor  with variable focus lens

Recommended:

Supported Scanners and MFPs

FineReader supports TWAIN- and WIA-compatible scanners, multi-function peripherals (MFPs) and all-in-one devices.

Interface Languages

Bulgarian UI language Bulgarian German UI language German Russian UI language Russian
Chinese UI language Chinese** Greek UI language Greek Slovak UI language Slovak
Czech UI language Czech Hungarian UI language Hungarian Spanish UI language Spanish
Danish UI language Danish Italian UI language Italian Swedish UI language Swedish
Dutch UI language Dutch Japanese UI language Japanese Turkish UI language Turkish
English UI language English Korean UI language Korean Ukrainian UI language Ukrainian
Estonian  Estonian Polish UI language Polish Vietnamese UI language Vietnamese
French UI language French Portuguese UI language Portuguese (Brazilian)

**both Traditional and Simplified

Recognition Languages

ABBYY FineReader 11 supports 189* recognition languages in all combinations, 45 languages include dictionary support (marked with +):

Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afrikaans
Agul
Albanian
Altaic
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)*+ new
Armenian (Eastern) +
Armenian (Grabar) +
Armenian (Western) +
Avar
Aymara
Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)
Azerbaijani (Latin)
Bashkir +
Basic
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Blackfoot
Breton
Bugotu
Bulgarian +
Buryat
C/C++
Catalan +
Cebuano
Chamorro
Chechen
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Chukchee
Chuvash
COBOL
Corsican
Crimean Tatar
Croatian +
Crow
Czech +
Dakota
Danish +
Dargwa
Dungan
Dutch (Belgian) +
Dutch +
English +
Eskimo (Cyrillic)
Eskimo (Latin)
Esperanto
Estonian +
Even
Evenki
Faroese
Fijian
Finnish +
Fortran
French +
Frisian
Friulian
Gagauz
Galician
Ganda
German (Luxembourg)
 German (new spelling) +
German +
Greek +
Guarani
Hani
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew +
Hungarian +
Icelandic
Ido
Indonesian +
Ingush
Interlingua
Irish
Italian +
Japanese +
Java
Jingpo
Kabardian
Kalmyk
Karachay-Balkar
Karakalpak
Kasub
Kawa
Kazakh
Khakass
Khanty
Kikuyu
Kirghiz
Kongo
Korean (Hangul) +
Korean +
Koryak
Kpelle
Kumyk
Kurdish
Lak
Latin +
Latvian +
Lezgi
Lithuanian +
Luba
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malinke
Maltese
Mansi
Maori
Mari
Maya
Miao
Minangkabau
Mohawk
Moldavian
Mongol
Mordvin
Nahuatl
Nenets
Nivkh
Nogay
Norwegian (Bokmal) +
 Norwegian (Nynorsk) +
Numbers
Nyanja
Occidental
Occitan
Ojibway
Ossetian
Papiamento
Pascal
Polish +
Portuguese (Brazil) +
Portuguese +
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romance
Romanian +
Romany
Rundi
Russian (old spelling)
Russian +
Rwanda
Sami (Lappish)
Samoan
Scottish Gaelic
Selkup
Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin)
Shona
Simple chemical formulas
Slovak +
Slovenian +
Somali
Sorbian
Sotho
Spanish +
Sunda
Swahili
Swazi
Swedish +
Tabasaran
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tatar +
Thai +
Tok Pisin
Tongan
Tswana
Tun
Turkish +
Turkmen (Cyrillic)
Turkmen (Latin) new
Tuvinian
Udmurt
Uighur (Cyrillic, Latin)
Ukrainian +
Uzbek (Cyrillic, Latin)
Vietnamese + new
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Yiddish
Zapotec
Zulu

*In local editions of ABBYY FineReader 11 Arabic OCR and some other languages may be not supported.

File Input Formats

Format Description
BMP black and white, gray, colour
PCX, DCX black and white, gray, colour
JPEG, JPEG 2000 gray, color
JBIG2 black and white
PNG black and white, gray, colour
TIFF black and white, gray, colour (RGB, CMYK), multi-page
PDF PDF 1.7 and earlier
XPS XML Paper Specification (Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 required)
DjVu image compression technology designed for scanned documents
GIF graphics interchange format
WDP Windows Media Photo format (WIC or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 required)

File Output Formats

Document saving formats
Format Description
DOC Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document
DOCX Microsoft Word 2007-2010 Document
XLS Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Workbook
XLSX Microsoft Excel 2007-2010 Workbook
PPTX Microsoft PowerPoint 2007-2010 Presentation
RTF Rich Text Format
PDF, PDF/A text and pictures only, page image only, text over the page image, text under the page image
HTML HTML document
CSV Microsoft Office Excel Comma-Separated Values file
TXT
 Text Document (Windows, DOS, Mac, and ISO codepages and Unicode encoding)
ODT
 OpenOffice.org Writer format
DjVu
 File format for storing compressed scanned images
EPUB
 EPUB Document
FB2
 FB2 Document

Image saving formats

Format Description
BMP black and white, gray, colour
TIFF black and white, gray, colour (RGB, CMYK), multi-image
PCX, DCX black and white, gray, colour
JPEG, JPEG 2000 gray, colour
JBIG2 black and white
PNG black and white, gray, colour

Supported Applications

Supported Barcode Types

Code 3 of 9 Check Interleaved 2 of 5   
Check Code 3 of 9 Matrix 2 of 5
Code 3 of 9 without asterisk       Popstnet
Codabar Industrial 2 of 5
Code 93 UCC-128
Code 128 UPC-A
EAN 8 UPC-E
EAN 13 PDF417
IATA 2 of 5 Aztec Code
Interleaved 2 of 5 Data Matrix
QR Code Patch Code