Teach your camera to read!

Now you can use your camera instead of retyping text, taking notes or making copies.

Would you like to use the text from an interesting book in the library, remember information on public transport schedules or take notes during an important presentation? No need to write it down. Simply photograph the appropriate text and ABBYY FotoReader transforms the digital photo text into documents that you can edit and store on your PC. It is as simple as a camera click!

Key Features & Benefits

• Turns photos of text into text documents with the original fonts and formatting intact – Texts from newspapers, magazine articles, books, presentations, signs or even billboards and transport schedules can easily be edited or stored on a PC. Photograph the text, connect your camera to your PC and use the original text directly in your preferred application. You can work with text in 184 languages! 
• Creates PDFs from photos – The PDF format provides smaller sized data while keeping the original look, can be viewed on a computer and makes the photographed text available for desktop search.
• Easy-to-use for any level of user – Just click on an icon with a pre-defined function and receive the resulting document. No training necessary!
• Converts photos into popular file formats – MS Word, Excel®, RTF, TXT, PDF and HTML. 
• Based on 2nd generation ABBYY OCR for Cameras – The proven technology used in professional OCR products allows text on photos to be read. Special algorithms correct image distortions and curved text lines typically associated with photos as well as improve the quality of the resulting document.
• Easy access from within Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook® via buttons – Insert the photographed text directly into your opened Word or Excel document. Just click on the integrated button and select the photo. Editable text will appear in the opened application.The FotoReader button on the Outlook toolbar lets you turn photographed text into the preferred format and send it by e-mail as an attachment. 
• Works with Windows Vista
• ABBYY Screenshot Reader – an additional application (upon registration) for creating
• screenshots and capturing text on the screen which can be saved, edited or sent by e-mail.

Target Group – Users of digital camera

Students & teachers – photographing text in the library instead of taking notes, copying or scanning.

Travellers – Private users who find interesting texts on signs, papers they see while on the go or business people capturing key information from documents, business cards, etc.

Private users – photographing interesting news, advertisements or job offers in newspapers, cooking recipes or historical notes in museums for later usage.