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:

• 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 18^th – early 20^th 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.

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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.

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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.

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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).