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Stewart Rogers

ABBYY FineScanner AI 8 - Smart scanner app to make your remote work easy

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ABBYY FineScanner AI is the best in class scanning app that turns your mobile device into a productivity tool to quickly capture documents and books, create digital copies in PDF and DOCX, and recognize text on scans for further editing and sharing.

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Stewart Rogers
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I've been a big fan of ABBYY's technology for some time. Working from home due to COVID-19 lockdowns, many people haven’t had access to traditional office equipment since the beginning of 2020. A majority of us will continue working remotely in 2021 and beyond. The FineScanner app is designed to make paperwork in the home office effortless and comfortable. It allows you to: • instantly scan, crop, convert and share single or multipage documents; • extract text on scans in 194 languages online or offline; • securely store and share documents via email, messaging, or cloud services. It’s 2021, we’ve been working remotely for a while and might have many photos of documents, receipts, and papers saved on our smartphones and tablets. The new FineScanner 8 uses AI to find documents in the gallery and classify them. The app also features full-text search: type any word the document contains, and the app will find it for you. What’s new in FineScanner AI 8: • First-ever full-text search in the FineScanner gallery • Document classification into 7 categories: receipts, A4 documents, books, ID, business cards, handwritten, and other. Classification and text recognition are processed offline on the device to guarantee security and privacy. • Augmented Reality Measure tool to scan custom-sized papers (iOS only)
Sofya Oronova
Wow what an update! Thanks ABBYY, I was really looking forward to this functionality. Can't believe what technologies are capable of nowadays...
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@sonikoronova thank you for positive feedback. If you managed to try our new classification & search already, we would be happy to know more how it works on your device!?
Sergey Sharov
WOW! This is amazing! Congratulations!
Maria Golub
Maker
@sergey_sharov thank you for your kind words :)
Макс Олейник
Best OCR app
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@profx5015 thank you for your high appreciation! We are proud about it.
Maxime Vermeir
This looks like an awesome update! How long does it take to process and analyze your entire photo library using this autoMagical AI?
Maria Golub
Maker
@maxime_vermeir Thank you :) It takes about 10-30 minutes for the first time. The total time of the entire gallery processing depends on the number of photos, as well as the generation of the phone.
Jane Keller
Sounds great! But I don't quite understand the security issue - does it work offline in my gallery, or will all images be uploaded to the cloud?
Maria Golub
Maker
Jane, thank you very much for support) Classification and search are securely processed offline – on-device without an Internet connection.
Elizaveta Titarenko
Thanks to ABBYY FineScanner AI I found photos of my grandfather's poems that I took on my phone a year ago and forgot about them. I saved it on my computer now. I won't lose it.
Maria Golub
Maker
@elizaveta_titarenko Elizaveta, what a cool feedback with grandpa's poem, thank you so much for that!
Catherine Johnson
Maker
@elizaveta_titarenko Best and most adorable use case ever!
Mark McGregor
So version 7 was good, but this new version 8 is great, significant productivity improvements in my daily life
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@markmcgregor Mark, thank you very much! Happy to know that our new features helpful in everyday life!
Dmitry Aldunin
That's exactly what I need to be productive while working from home.
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@new_user_1505938480 Dmitry, thank you! Good to know that FineScanner helps people while WFH.
Alena Kovaleva
Cool auto-crop quality, thank you!
Maria Golub
Maker
Alena, thank you very much for the feedback!
Tony Connell
World class Optical Character Recognition underlies this productivity tool.
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@tony_connell Tony, thank you. Yes, ABBYY OCR one of the most powerful and nowadays when we all work remotely FineScanner with recognition skill even more demanded than before.
Evan Johnson
I've used previous versions of this app and been pretty satisfied- what does this update improve upon?
Maria Golub
Maker
@evan_johnson1 Evan, we appreciate your feedback about the previous version! With the new version you can search text on photos (just type a text containing on your doc into a Search field in the FineScanner gallery, and FS will find docs that have this text) and classifying your documents into types inside FineScanner gallary.
Vladimír Seman
like the fact that your product is available for both, iOS and android. well done!
Maria Golub
Maker
@vladojsem Vladimir, thank you!
Natalia Ursinyova
Greatw new features! Finding and sorting through photos made so much simpler and so intuitive! I only tried this on a few of my photos (documents) but I am curious how accurate the classification is in general, for all types of documents? Basically what is the accuracy, depending on the type of document?
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@natalia_ursinyova Good questions, thank you! Under ideal conditions, the accuracy could be about 95%. But it depends a lot on the photos in the gallery. If they have complex background, unclear edges of documents, low quality (blurred or overexposed) - all this may prevent the neural network from detecting the document type correctly.
Maria Golub
Maker
@natalia_ursinyova Natalia, thank you for your interesting question! I checked it with our QA manager and there is no definite answer, since we have tuned our accuracy characteristics for each category, taking into account the wish to show as few unnecessary results as possible, and lose as few useful ones as possible. Each person will have different results based on his “document-like” pictures.
Jeff O
I can go from taking a photo on my phone to having a PDF with selectable text or a properly formatted Word doc. This has been really useful to me. Especially when people hand me printouts they somehow lost the original files for. A setup like DocuWare is better in absolute terms, but I can't exactly buy that as an individual or carry it around with me. So for personal use FineScanner is great.
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@jeff_o Hi Jeff! Thank you for detailed feedback. For all our hunters we prepared promo code for 1 month premium https://promo.abbyy.com/fsph.html you can use it to test FineScanner in details!
Anatoly Sharifulin
Great app and great company! ABBYY , go, go, go!
Maria Golub
Maker
@sharifulin Anatoly, thank you for your support!
Lee Fuhr
I only know of ABBYY as some seeming bloatware that came bundled with my ScanSnap. I can't tell if ScanSnap uses it, or it's an extra step I'm supposed to invoke, or what. (Anyone know?) But more to the point… any chance this magic makes its way to the ScanSnap universe? It'd be great to just throw a bunch of docs into that capable little scanner and have them automatically categorized, OCRed, deskewed, rotated and whatever other magic ABBYY can bring.
Lee Fuhr
I should have tagged ?makers ☝️
Catherine Johnson
Maker
@lee_fuhr Hi Lee, thank you for your question! We have a global partnership with Fujitsu to supply them with our text recognition technology. This is why Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners come bundled with our software. You can learn more about it here: https://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/imag... So, to answer your question, you can absolutely get your documents automatically OCRed using ScanSnap in combination with our software! Please use the ABBYY tech that comes with your scanner, and you will be able to achieve exactly that. The software that comes with your scanner won't be able to categorize your documents though, but we will consider adding this feature in the future. Please follow the link above for details on ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap. Have a wonderful day and let me know if there is anything else I can help with.
Cecilia Reed
Wow, that's awesome!
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@ceciliareed Nice feedback, we are here to help with FineScanner!
Maria Golub
Maker
Cecilia, thank you :)
Khalid Adil
This looks like a great update! Is there a chance that the app could have an update to allow access to only certain photos and not the entire photo gallery on iOS? Right now it appears that if full access to the photo gallery is not provided on iOS, the app cannot import any images at all. I'd prefer not to allow access to my entire photo gallery and will otherwise be unable to use the import feature.
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@khalidadil_ Great question and feature request. Thank you, Khalid Adil. First, we should admit that all processing is done on-device without an internet connection. You can check it in airplane mode. But our development team will consider your feature request, and if we would have more similar requests from FineScanner users, there is a chance that we will do it.
Maria Goryushkina
Sounds nice! Can you tell me more about the AR measure feature and how to use it to scan documents?
Anna Koltsova
Maker
@maria_gor Maria, thank you for your attention to this amazing FineScanner iOS feature. To measure your document using augmented reality, do the following: 1) On the “My Documents” screen, swipe left on the appropriate document and open “Properties”; 2) Select “Paper size”; 3) Tap “Measure in AR”; 4) Follow the instructions on your screen. If the size of your document corresponds to one of the standard sizes (e.g. A4 or driver’s license), FineScanner will ask you whether you want to set the document to be treated as a document of that particular size. For documents of non-standard size, you can choose to save the detected size for later use. To do so, tap the detected document measurements and switch “Save to list” to “On”. Once that is done, specify a name for your new format, for example, “Flyer”.