ABBYY Scan to Office and other multilingual OCR software
Thread poster: Andy S
Andy S
Andy S
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:43
German to English
Mar 9, 2020

I have a licensed copy of ABBYY Scan to Office 1.0 which I used for many years with Windows 7 but which now does not appear to work with Windows 10.

I was wondering if anyone had found a way of getting this app to work under Windows 10?

And if not, whether anyone could recommend a more economical alternative to ABBYY Fine Reader, of which I am now using a trial version, but which seems expensive. Especially when I had already purchased a perfectly good product from them
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I have a licensed copy of ABBYY Scan to Office 1.0 which I used for many years with Windows 7 but which now does not appear to work with Windows 10.

I was wondering if anyone had found a way of getting this app to work under Windows 10?

And if not, whether anyone could recommend a more economical alternative to ABBYY Fine Reader, of which I am now using a trial version, but which seems expensive. Especially when I had already purchased a perfectly good product from them.
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Platary (X)
Platary (X)
Local time: 16:43
German to French
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Compatibility mode? Mar 9, 2020

Hello,

I'm not an Abby user, but did you try the compatibilityy mode? If not, have a look here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZWPnaKFTP4

Hope this helps!


 
DZiW (X)
DZiW (X)
Ukraine
English to Russian
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Also Mar 9, 2020

Also many users try new and run old software under a virtual machine or even several: DOS, 3.11/W95/XP/Vista/W7/8/10 of 32/64-bit, any Linux distro, OS/2, or even MacOS--whatever your real and virtual hardware can handle.

Why, some geeks both for fun and use even run virtual clusters of such VMs.


 
VIP9N
VIP9N
Local time: 18:43
Russian to English
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There are plenty. However, not all of them are good, as FineReader Mar 10, 2020

Andrew Stucken wrote:
...copy of ABBYY Scan to Office 1.0...

It is a very obsolete product and I doubt it can be started or ensure a stable operation under Win10.

I used several times Cuneiform - an abandoned Russian-made product (ancient Abbyy competitor), which is rather good if you have no Abbyy software at your disposal. It's totally free and can be used legally by all. You will be able to found it here - https://xn--90abhbolvbbfgb9aje4m.xn--p1ai/офис/сканирование/cognitive-openocr-распознавание-текста.html
or directly on the Google disk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B92swnHd01hZRmEzMldBODBTVXM/view

Either, you may try two other free tools - Freemore OCR https://www.freemoresoft.com/freeocr/index.php
and
NAPS2 https://www.naps2.com/

I have not tried these two and cannot provide any opinion, but you might want to do so.

Good luck


 
Andy S
Andy S
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:43
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
Tried links - not much luck Mar 10, 2020

VIP9N wrote:

Andrew Stucken wrote:
...copy of ABBYY Scan to Office 1.0...

It is a very obsolete product and I doubt it can be started or ensure a stable operation under Win10.

I used several times Cuneiform - an abandoned Russian-made product (ancient Abbyy competitor), which is rather good if you have no Abbyy software at your disposal. It's totally free and can be used legally by all. You will be able to found it here - https://xn--90abhbolvbbfgb9aje4m.xn--p1ai/офис/сканирование/cognitive-openocr-распознавание-текста.html
or directly on the Google disk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B92swnHd01hZRmEzMldBODBTVXM/view

Either, you may try two other free tools - Freemore OCR https://www.freemoresoft.com/freeocr/index.php
and
NAPS2 https://www.naps2.com/

I have not tried these two and cannot provide any opinion, but you might want to do so.

Good luck




Ok, I downloaded the Russian OCR app - problem is that it is of course all in Russian"!

Googling the app, I came across: https://en.softonic.com/download/cognitive-openocr-cuneiform/windows/post-download?ex=DSK-1944.2

which appeared to install OK but does not appear in my programmes list.

Freenote OCR keeps getting automatically deleted from my Chrome download folder when I download it, No idea why - possibly this is suspect?

NAPS2 looks promising at the outset. It offers a mass of languages to download.

However when I scanned a sample document (in German) it failed to OCR it at all. Whether this is down to me or the programme I am not yet certain but on first inspection, it just does not function.

ABBYY Scan to Office meanwhile would not run under Compatibility Mode. I downloaded the app as a single .exe file and Windows was looking for a setup file.

As an aside, I also tried installing MS Works 7.0 in Compatibility Modem, with no luck.

I will watch the Compatibility Mode video again tomorrow and try all the steps again, just to make sure.

As for ABBYY, I will have a go at installing a Windows 7 Virtual machine and running it under that. Otherwise, time is money and if I am just getting nowhere I may as well just suck it up and pay UKP 105 to Abbyy for Finereader, albeit grudgingly.


 
AnnaSCHTR
AnnaSCHTR  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 10:43
English to Czech
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Abbyy is worth its price Mar 10, 2020

After my good old Adobe Acrobat finally stopped working in Windows 10 I tried several free or lower-cost options but eventually (i.e., after wasting quite a bit of time) I decided to bite the bullet and buy Abbyy FineReader. It is a tiny bit slow when opening files but otherwise it's been great. And it paid for itself, so to speak, the same day I bought it.

Andy S
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Lubosh Hanuska
Lubosh Hanuska
Australia
Local time: 02:43
Slovak to English
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There is a FREE Online solution Mar 11, 2020

For the benefit of others - there is a FREE online solution, not perfect but it worked for me for a small document I needed to convert from PDF:
https://www.onlineocr.net/

All the best!


 
Andy S
Andy S
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:43
German to English
TOPIC STARTER
Thanks Lubosh Mar 12, 2020

Thanks Lubosh that looks a viable alternative.

 


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