FineReader PDF for Windows

Installation and update

• Release notes
• Downloads
• Specifications
• Administrator's and User's guides

• Some files are corrupted. Please reinstall FineReader PDF 15
• Updating FineReader PDF
• Installation of FineReader PDF 16 upgrade
• “The value cannot be NULL. Parameter name: Destination folder” when installing an update for FineReader PDF
• Upgrade to FineReader PDF 16
• Service pack update to Release 2 of FineReader PDF 16 with SLE license

Activation and Licensing

• "The RPC server is unavailable" error message appears when FineReader is started
• This serial number cannot be activated automatically
• Registration of the license during FineReader PDF activation
• Offline activation not available in the License Manager of FineReader PDF 16
• Canceling license reservation in FineReader PDF
• Deactivating a Per Seat license in the License Manager

PDF Editor

• Setting FineReader PDF as a default PDF viewer
• How to resize the "Save document as" window in FineReader PDF
• How to remove highlighting from text applied in FineReader PDF 15
• Cannot find the Split Document option in FineReader PDF 15
• How to insert a hyperlink into a PDF document in the PDF Editor
• Does FineReader PDF 15 support printing in reverse order?

OCR Editor

• Page image gets curved after converting a document in FineReader PDF
• Moving specific pages from an OCR project to a new OCR project
• Does FineReader PDF 15 have a language translator?
• How to apply small capitals to text in FineReader PDF 15
• Page layout was not retained after conversion to MS Word in FineReader PDF 15
• Automatic processing and recognition of pages in the OCR Editor

Recognition (OCR)

• Is it possible to recognize Hebrew with diacritics in FineReader PDF 15?
• Recognition of vertically oriented text in FineReader PDF 15
• Recognition of fractions in FineReader PDF 15
• How to preserve the font in italic in the resulting EPUB document
• Can FineReader recognize inclined text area?
• How to recognize text in picture areas in FineReader PDF 15

Scanning

• Is FineReader PDF compatible with WIA drivers?
• How to switch to the scanner's interface in FineReader PDF
• Scanner starts scanning in FineReader PDF 15, when the camera is switched on
• How to scan in color in FineReader PDF 15
• Is it possible to do direct scan launching in the Finereader 15 PDF as in FineReader 12?
• How to scan multiple pages without confirmation to scan a page again

Import/Export

• How to convert a PDF document to Microsoft Word in FineReader PDF
• "Operation aborted" message appears when saving PDF files as Page Images
• Error code: 1283 when exporting a document to MS Word
• How to open a document automatically after saving
• "Word has encountered a problem" error message during the export in MS Word
• How to save a web page as a PDF document

Integration with Microsoft Office/Explorer

• How to Check In/Check Out files stored in MS SharePoint, if Internet Explorer does not work or MS Edge is used
• Outlook disabled the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 add-in. It caused Outlook to start slowly
• How to display the FineReader PDF 15 commands in the context menu on Windows 11
• Disabling the Microsoft Office integration during the silent installation of FineReader PDF 15
• How to repair the Widnows Explorer integration with FineReader?
• How to remove MS Office integration with FineReader PDF 15

Known Issues

• Error "Código do error: 0x578" when using FineReader
• FineReader is launched with an assert: Error code: 258
• Incorrect deskew of a page in the document processed with FineReader PDF 15
• "This file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it" when trying to preview a PDF file in MS Outlook
• Error sending text to WordPerfect. File c:\program files (x86)\abbyy finereader 15\sndtowp21.wcm not found
• Black and white conversion does not work when saving a document with the PDF-XChange virtual printer

Hot Folder

• How to close Hot Folder and disable it to run at startup
• How to disable processing of files from subfolders in Hot Folder?
• Selecting a folder from Google Drive as an input folder in Hot Folder
• How to disable creating the Hot Folder log in the output folder
• Error message: ABBYY Hot Folder is not available in this version of ABBYY FineReader PDF 15. Please activate another license.
• Keeping the original file name when saving in Hot Folder

Comparator

• Displaying the full text of differences found by ABBYY Compare Documents in the comparison report
• Saving comparison results
• Video: How to track changes in PDF vs Microsoft Word in Comparator
• Comparator specification

FineReader for ScanSnap

• Activation of FineReader for ScanSnap
• Removing text boxes in scenario "Scan to Word" with FineReader for ScanSnap
• How to save a scan in RTF format in FineReader for ScanSnap 5.5?
• How to use Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner with FineReader PDF
• Using ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 5.5 with ScanSnap Manager on Windows
• FineReader for ScanSnap 5.0 (Windows version) Update 3