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
• Deploying FineReader PDF in LAN (installation on more than one computer)
• 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

Activation and Licensing

• "The RPC server is unavailable" error message appears when FineReader is started
• This serial number cannot be activated automatically
• "Error communicating with ABBYY Product Licensing Service on %SERVERNAME%: The RPC server is unavailable" error message in License Manager
• Registration of the license during FineReader PDF activation
• Deployment of FineReader PDF in Microsoft Azure
• Offline activation not available in the License Manager of FineReader PDF 16

PDF Editor

• Setting FineReader PDF as a default PDF viewer
• FineReader is launched with an assert: Error code: 258
• Unable to print the file in FineReader PDF Editor since Release 3
• Splitting a document in FineReader PDF
• How to resize the "Save document as" window in FineReader PDF
• How to remove highlighting from text applied in FineReader PDF 15

OCR Editor

• How to open an existing OCR project in FineReader PDF
• 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
• Incorrect deskew of a page in the document processed with FineReader PDF 15

Recognition (OCR)

• Limitations for processing or exporting files in FineReader PDF
• 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?

Scanning and Printing

• Creating a PDF file from editable document formats with FineReader PDF
• Creating a PDF using Microsoft Print to PDF printer
• Is FineReader PDF compatible with WIA drivers?
• How to switch to the scanner's interface in FineReader PDF
• Black and white conversion does not work when saving a document with the PDF-XChange virtual printer
• Scanner starts scanning in FineReader PDF 15, when the camera is switched on

Import and Export

• How to avoid image quality loss while exporting a document as a searchable PDF?
• 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

Integration with Microsoft Office and Windows 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
• "This file cannot be previewed because there is no previewer installed for it" when trying to preview a PDF file in MS Outlook
• 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
• How to repair the Widnows Explorer integration with FineReader?

Known Issues

• Inverted colors in a document converted with FineReader PDF 15
• The filename or extension is too long
• Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion
• Slow page rendering in PDF files made with FineReader
• "System cannot find the path specified" error occurs in FineReader
• Internal program data are corrupted. Please reinstall the program or contact your system administrator. Error code: 250

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
• Error appears when adding the *.doc(x) file to Compare Documents application
• 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

Announcements

• FineReader PDF 16: Editable documents to PDF conversion functions discontinued since Release 3