FineReader PDF for Windows

Announcements

• ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 End of Sales and End of Support announcement
• ABBYY FineReader 14 End of Support and End of Life
• ABBYY Comparator 2.0 – End of Life
• FineReader 12 Sprint for Windows EOL and its replacement
• ABBYY FineReader Online End of Life
• ABBYY Comparator 2.0 – End of Sales in the US and End of Life planned

Installation and update

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

• Some files are corrupted. Please reinstall FineReader PDF 15
• FineReader PDF update
• “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
• FineReader PDF 16 License Server installation failed with the NetFx472Redist error

Activation and Licensing

• "The RPC server is unavailable" error message appears when FineReader is started
• This serial number cannot be activated automatically
• How to stop automatic renewal of the FineReader PDF subscription
• Upgrading active FineReader PDF 15 subscription to FineReader PDF 16 in ABBYY Checkout account
• How to upgrade FineReader PDF Standard subscription to FineReader PDF Corporate subscription
• Using both versions of the FineReader PDF after the upgrade

PDF Editor

• 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?
• How to recognize a specific area and remove other areas in a document in the PDF Editor

OCR Editor

• 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
• How to send a document to Amazon Kindle

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

• 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
• Scanning in Grayscale mode in FineReader

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
• How to save a web page as a PDF document
• How to convert a Microsoft Word document to PDF in FineReader PDF 15 for Windows

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 15?
• Using ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 5.5 with ScanSnap Manager on Windows
• FineReader for ScanSnap 5.0 (Windows version) Update 3