Supported Scanners and MFPs
ABBYY FineReader supports TWAIN- or WIA-compatible scanners, multi-function peripherals (MFPs) and all-in-one devices.
A list of tested equipment.
Supported Digital and Mobile Phone Cameras
ABBYY FineReader can recognize TIFF and JPEG files created by any digital camera.
Minimum Requirements
Recommended Requirements
ABBYY FineReader 10 supports 186 recognition languages, including 39 languages with dictionary support. For languages with dictionary support you may use the FineReader spell-checking system.
| 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, color (RGB, CMYK), multi-image. |
| any type of PDF | |
| XPS | Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is required |
| DjVu | file format for storing compressed scanned images |
| GIF | popular image format for Web publishing |
| WDP | Windows Media Photo format. WIC or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 required. |
Document saving formats | |
| Format | Description |
| DOC | Microsoft Word Document |
| DOCX | Microsoft Word 2007 Document |
| XLS | Microsoft Excel Document |
| XLSX | Microsoft Excel 2007 Document |
| PPTX | Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Document |
| 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 | |
| CSV | |
| TXT | |
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 |
| 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 - New! |
| Interleaved 2 of 5 | Data Matrix - New! |