ABBYY Fine Reader is a tool that librarians, archivists, and academic researchers use to digitize and analyze archival collections. It is installed on the computers in the Digital Media and Collaboration Lab in Carpenter Library and available when this lab is open. ABBYY Fine Reader’s advanced OCR Editor makes it possible to successfully OCR documents that more widely available tools cannot, through features such as: ABBYY Fine Reader also has a Compare Documents tool that can help researchers and archivists analyze the textual differences among multiple PDFs. For detailed instructions, see ABBYY Fine Reader user's guide. Note: Most documents written in English or other widely spoken languages can be successfully OCRed by more widely available campus tools: You only need to use ABBYY Fine Reader if these tools don’t support the language your document is written in or they fail to successfully OCR text due to issues that ABBYY Fine Reader was designed to address.
If you have any additional questions or problems, don't hesitate to reach out to the Help Desk! Phone: 610-526-7440 | Library and Help Desk hours
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Email: help@brynmawr.edu | Service catalog
Location: Canaday Library 1st floor
