Does ABBYY FineReader Online differ in any way from the desktop version of ABBYY FineReader?
Yes. ABBYY FineReader Online has been designed for basic OCR tasks. If you are looking for a professional OCR solution, then ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition is the best choice. ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition offers the following features not available in FineReader Online: • Enhanced recognition accuracy and layout retention • Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT® 2.0) — re-creation of a document’s logical structure and formatting (footnotes, page numbering, headers, footers, captions to images/tables/diagrams, table of contents, hierarchy of headings) • Built-in WYSIWYG text editor • 186 OCR languages (including Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Thai) • Area Editor • Direct export to a variety of applications • ABBYY Screenshot Reader — a bonus application for registered users Learn more about ABBYY FineReader. U.S. Patent Nos. 5,258,855, 5,369,508, 5,625,465, 5,768,416 and 6,094,505.