FineReader PDF for Windows

Integration with Microsoft Office/Explorer

• Outlook disabled the ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 add-in. It caused Outlook to start slowly
• Disabling the Microsoft Office integration during the silent installation of FineReader PDF 15
• How to remove MS Office integration with FineReader PDF 15
• Integration with MS Office applications in FineReader 14 (not supported)

Announcements

• 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

Release notes

• FineReader PDF 15 Release notes

• FineReader 14 Release Notes

Specifications

• FineReader PDF 15 specification
• Installation of FineReader 14 on Windows 11
• Windows 11 support for FineReader PDF 15
• ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 PDF Viewer. Available Functionality
• FineReader 14 specification
• FineReader 12 Sprint specification

Administrator and user guides

• FineReader Administrator's Guide
• FineReader user's guides
• System Administrator's guide for FineReader 12

Video tutorials

• How to create a PDF from Microsoft® Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
• How to convert emails to PDF
• How to Split a PDF
• How to create and edit interactive PDF forms
• How to extract text from scanned PDFs
• How to extract tables

Downloads

• Download links for FineReader PDF 15
• Download links for FineReader 14
• Download link for PDF Transformer+
• Download links for FineReader 12
• Download links for FineReader 11

Installation, update and upgrade

• Error during FineReader PDF 15 distribution kit unpacking: Some installation files are corrupt.
• Some files are corrupted. Please reinstall FineReader PDF 15
• FineReader PDF 15 update
• "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing" when installing FineReader 14 update
• The sfc /scannow command gives the error "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them"
• Error "Could not load DLL C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY FineReader 15\ShellLicensing3.dll" when installing updates

Activation

• This serial number cannot be activated automatically
• How to register FineReader PDF 15
• What is Support ID?
• "License file is intended only for workstation installation" error message appears during the activation in the License Manager
• Automatic activation is blocked after local installation of FineReader PDF 15 with a Concurrent license
• Is it possible to activate the copy of FineReader with the Support ID?

Licensing

• Should Screenshot Reader appear in the Support ID list?
• How to cancel the FineReader PDF 15 subscription
• Why subscriptions?
• Multiuser license types for FineReader (Windows)
• What is myAccount?
• Can Standalone type of license for FineReader PDF 15 be activated on non-persistent VDI?

PDF Editor

• Cannot find the Split Document option in FineReader PDF 15
• How to insert a hyperlink into a PDF document in the PDF Editor
• How to recognize a specific area and remove other areas in a document in the PDF Editor
• How to add a video to a PDF document
• How to show only Notes on the Comments pane?
• Detecting and removing objects in FineReader PDF 15

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

Tips and tricks

• Does FineReader PDF 15 support printing in reverse order?
• Page layout was not retained after conversion to MS Word in FineReader PDF 15
• Cannot access some PDF files in FineReader
• Erase tool does not fill in the selected area with white
• Removing color stamps and pen marks in FineReader
• Screenshot Reader, Hot Folder and Compare Documents not available in FineReader PDF 15 Sprint

Hot Fix

• "The RPC server is unavailable" error message appears when FineReader is started
• ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 will be terminated: A sharing violation occurred while accessing ...\Licensing.cnt
• Recovering OCR-project when FineReader quits unexpectedly
• Transferring FineReader OCR project to another PC
• Service ABBYY FineReader Licensing Service failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services
• FineReader Sprint product is displayed as a software for scanning after uninstallation

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
• Can FineReader recognize inclined text area?
• FineReader highlights images in white
• Improving the recognition quality using the Image Editor

Scanning

• 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?
• Scanning in Grayscale mode in FineReader
• Scanners compatible with FineReader PDF 15
• Internal Program Error. Division by zero when scanning a document in FineReader

How To

• How to uninstall components of FineReader PDF 15 (Screenshot Reader, Hot Folder, Compare Documents)
• How to apply small capitals to text in FineReader PDF 15
• 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
• How to preserve the font in italic in the resulting EPUB document
• Converting a PDF document to black and white in 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

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?
• Using ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 5.5 with ScanSnap Manager on Windows
• FineReader for ScanSnap 5.0 (Windows version) Update 3
• ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 4.x Update 4 (Windows version)