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Written by: Benoit OLIVAIN on Mar 31 2010, 9:47am

Have you thought that you can capture text from a photo and transfer it to a PC?

Use differently your camera. Teach your camera to read!

Have you ever thought that you can capture text from a photo taken anywhere and then transfer it to your computer? ABBYY FotoReader makes it easy. Thus, you can of course use your camera for personnal photos but with this software your camera becomes a real scaner!

This smart application will "read" the text on your digital photos and transform it into text files which you can edit and store on your PC. Instead of taking notes in the street (Restaurant's menu, train information, pages in a book etc.), making print copies or retyping the text yourself, let your camera and FotoReader do the work.

Capture and re-use texts from photos with just a few clicks. Found some great information in an article, book, presentation or outdoor sign which you’d like to refer to or quote in another document? Simply take a photo, connect your camera to your PC and launch ABBYY FotoReader. The program will convert the photo and transfer the text from the image to computer files which you can edit or save in popular electronic formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PDF.

Clever and useful,isn't it?

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Nicolas Swiatek says:

Clever and useful, for sure but I'm waiting for a Fotoreader on mobile device. That will be a real revolution.

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Mar 31 2010, 10:44am | Report

Ivana LeTallec says:

Yes, really well thought-out!

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Apr 1 2010, 2:05am | Report

Nacim TAMINE says:

As cameras getting more powerful in mobile devices, I often use my phone to catch a text from billboards.

It might be helpful to have a mobile app that does as much as Fotoreader.

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Apr 1 2010, 8:13am | Report

Mohamed Hamdouni says:

I agree with Nacim that a Phone App doing the same would be great too 

Maybe an idea to submit to ABBYY? :)

 

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Apr 1 2010, 6:11pm | Report

Julien CRITICOPOULOS says:

I agree with you guys! It's really a good product with a powerful technology. Just missing the mobile part...

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Apr 4 2010, 11:53am | Report

Derek Mullins says:

I'm not sure what advantage this software has over any other of the popular OCR ptograms. I use OmniPage Pro and it has also regognise text in photos, etc.

Can ABBYY Fotoreader do regular text recognition, too?

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Benoit OLIVAIN

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Within a French marketing department, I am in charge of launching miscellaneous innovative products. I always like to play with computers and set up new software at home and at work...except during the summer vacations where I completely stop playing with technology and computers :-). I focus on snorkeling, and good food!

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