What's new in the latest release of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15? Below there is a short information about FineReader PDF 15 updates.
Build 15.0.114.4683
Part # 1380/13, 1381/13, 1382/13, 1395/8
Release date: 10.09.2020
Maintenance release
List of the bugs fixed:
- An error when drawing separators in tables in OCR Editor.
Build 15.0.114.4641
Part # 1380/12, 1381/12, 1382/12, 1395/7
Release date: 04.09.2020
New features and improvements:
- FineReader PDF Viewer, available for Individual users after the full-functional Trial is over, and for organizations as additional product licenses.
- Split Documents tool for splitting PDF documents by file size, number of pages or first level bookmarks.
- New document comparison languages: Greek and Chinese.
- Improved speed for some PDF operations (adding pages from another PDF, flipping through pages in a PDF).
- Open and save documents on SharePoint Online.
List of the bugs fixed:
- Update installation bugs.
- Validation of Comsign digital signatures.
- Stylus input bugs.
- Lists detection problems.
- Various other program errors.
Build 15.0.113.3886
Part # 1380/11, 1381/11, 1382/11, 1395/6
Release date: 16.06.2020
List of the bugs fixed:
- Incorrect update installation process.
Remaining issue: Release 5 and Release 5 Update 1 cannot be updated automatically. Please see this article for the solution.
Build 15.0.113.3837
Part # 1380/10, 1381/10, 1382/10, 1395/5
Release date: 08.06.2020
List of the bugs fixed:
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Incorrect functioning of user dictionaries created in previous releases.
Build 15.0.113.3764
Part # 1380/9, 1381/9, 1382/9, 1395/4
Release date: 02.06.2020
New features and improvements:
- The product name has changed: ABBYY FineReader PDF 15.
- Form Editor: creation and editing of interactive (fillable) PDF forms (more details: Creating forms).
- Gothic (Fraktur) OCR support for converting old books printed in 18th – early 20th century (see the list of supported languages here).
- Update of the OCR technology core.
- Improved conversion to searchable PDF: resulting PDF file size is reduced while keeping the same or better visual quality.
- Improved PDF form filling: calendar is supported, some bugs fixed.
- Improved PDF editing: visual alignment assistant that helps to align a text block or a picture with other elements on the page.
- Free trial period for individual trial of FineReader PDF 15 is 7 days.
List of the bugs fixed:
- Stylus (Ink tool) support: sometimes, it was not possible to write a vertical stroke with a stylus.
- Installation failure when installing PDF-XChange virtual printer.
- PreciseScan feature did not work properly.
- FineReader printing settings could rewrite system printing settings and affect other applications.
- Various program errors
Build 15.0.112.2130
Part # 1380/8, 1381/8, 1382/8, 1395/3
Release date: 26.12.2019
New features and improvements:
- Full document preview for PDFs in Windows Explorer and Microsoft Outlook: scroll through the pages before opening the document.
- Faster PDF opening
- Improved table and text extraction from PDFs: better usability, improved retention of text formatting.
- New, informative FineReader 15 update notifications in Windows 10: click “Download” to run the update or “Learn More” to find out what’s new in it.
- New in-product update notification with “Update Available” button.
List of the bugs fixed:
- Security vulnerability in “ABBYY network license server” service allowed local user to gain privileged access on local computer via manipulations involving files and using symbolic links on Microsoft Windows (CVE-2019-20383). ABBYY credits Vasily Kravets for responsibly reporting the vulnerability.
- The program could crash when merging PDF documents with bookmarks into one.
- In OCR Editor, structure of a table wasn’t retained when copying it from the Text pane.
- Text doubling when saving to searchable PDFs “text under image” type and with MRC on.
- The program could crash when converting text files with some specific fonts to PDF.
- Korean characters entered in the Search field in PDF Editor could disappear.
- Errors when printing PDFs from FineReader could happen if Adobe Reader was also installed.
- Interactive PDF form fields were not displayed when using drawing tools.
- When adjusting table grid before extracting the table from a PDF, the grid image wasn’t updated on screen.
- Fields of an interactive PDF form could remain interactive when saving it to image-only PDF.
Build 15.0.110.1875
Part # 1380/7, 1381/7, 1382/7, 1395/2
Release date: 07.11.2019
New features and improvements:
- Editing of underlined text in digital PDF documents.
- Adding underline to text in digital PDF documents.
- Reduced time for preparing PDF documents for editing.
- Improved recognition (OCR) quality and speed for Arabic.
- Improved tables detection and analysis.
- Quick Start Guide is available any time from Help menu.
List of the bugs fixed:
- An error when converting some PDF documents created by Konica Minolta MFPs.
- An error when converting MS Word files to PDF under Windows 10 x64.
- Words adjacent to some special symbols were submitted for verification as non-dictionary.
Build 15.0.18.1494
Part # 1380/5, 1381/5, 1382/5
Release date: 23.08.2019
Maintenance release (bugfix).
List of the bugs fixed:
- Sort By and Filter tools for comments become unavailable.
Build 15.0.18.1461
Part #1380/4, 1381/4, 1382/4
Release date: 27.07.2019
Maintenance release (bug fixes and usability improvements).
Build 15.0.17.1100
Part # 1380/3, 1381/3
Release date: 09.07.2019
The first release.
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