ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 Raises the Bar in Multi-Page PDF Conversion

New Version Delivers Intuitive Tools to Easily Convert, Create, Modify and
Secure PDF Files Empowered with Innovative Technology for Document Structure
Re-creation

MILPITAS, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY(R), a leading provider of
document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced
PDF Transformer 3.0, a new version of its award-winning PDF conversion and
creation application. This version brings groundbreaking technology
enhancements to PDF conversion making it more accurate than ever before. With
ABBYY's Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT(R)), PDF Transformer
3.0 is the only product in its class to re-create logical structure, text flow
and consistent formatting of documents across multiple pages when converting
PDFs. In addition to its superior conversion functionality, the new version
delivers greater flexibility to create and modify PDF documents according to
user needs. It also offers advanced features for secure editing and archiving
PDF files including the ability to redact sensitive information in PDF
documents, add specific attributes such as stamps and bates stamps, compress
PDFs and save documents to searchable PDF/A format for long-term preservation.

"Combining powerful technologies with a simple, intuitive interface, ABBYY PDF
Transformer provides unrivaled quality and simplicity of any operation with
PDF documents," said Sergey Popov, director of FineReader products department
at ABBYY. "It is a versatile and flexible tool designed for a broad audience
ranging from corporate users which need to streamline workflow processes and
reduce operating expenses in their organizations to individual users who want
to quickly and accurately extract information from PDF documents."

Based on ABBYY's innovative Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology,
PDF Transformer accurately converts any type of PDF files into
fully-formatted, editable documents in 184 languages. It features full
integration with the popular Microsoft Office applications and allows users to
convert and create PDFs directly from within the applications in one click.

ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 delivers significant improvements in conversion
accuracy and overall functionality:

Intelligent Re-creation of Document Structure and Formatting
Leveraging ABBYY's unique ADRT technology, PDF Transformer 3.0 intelligently
re-creates logical structure and formatting of multipage documents when
converting PDF to Microsoft Word and Excel. PDF Transformer treats a multipage
document as a single entity rather than a set of separate pages. As a result,
it accurately reproduces native Microsoft Office formatting attributes such as
headers, footers, page numbering, footnotes, captions to images, fonts and
styles and therefore enables users to easily modify the resulting document.
Page numbers are automatically updated if users add or delete pages from a
document. Footnotes and captions are intelligently linked to their
corresponding content. If the content is moved or deleted, the corresponding
footnote or caption will be moved or deleted accordingly. Fonts and font
styles from different parts of a document are detected and correctly
reconstructed in the resulting document.

Combining and Appending Documents
The program delivers extended functionality for creating and modifying PDF
documents according to the user's specific needs. A user can now easily
combine multiple documents of different formats into one PDF document or
append a new file to an existing PDF without the need to rework the document.

Powerful MRC Compression and PDF/A Support
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 offers new powerful capabilities to optimize PDF
documents for file sharing and archiving. It enables conversion of office
documents and image-only PDF files to searchable PDF/A format for long-term
document preservation. In addition, by leveraging its new MRC compression
technology, users can reduce the size of a PDF up to 10 times to preserve
valuable storage space.

Redaction of Sensitive Data
Legal firms, government agencies and departments, financial services
companies, healthcare and business customers can use ABBYY PDF Transformer to
reliably redact confidential information from both text and image layers of a
PDF document.

Stamping and Bates Stamping
With PDF Transformer, a user can easily mark and identify documents with
copyrights or status by applying customized stamps with any text, position or
color. A new bates stamping feature also provides identification, protection
and auto-increment numbering of valuable documents.

The Widest Language Support
This new version of ABBYY PDF Transformer accurately recognizes and converts
documents in 184 languages including a variety of languages with Latin and
Cyrillic alphabets, as well as Greek, Armenian, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and
Thai. To simplify the user experience when working with the application, it
also provides automatic language detection on both single-language and
multilingual documents.

Other new features delivered in PDF Transformer 3.0:
-- Enhanced table reconstruction
-- Improved user interface
-- Microsoft Office 2007 ready
-- Support for PDF 1.7

Bonus for Registered Users: ABBYY Screenshot Reader(TM)
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 comes with a bonus application for registered users
-- ABBYY Screenshot Reader, an easy-to-use utility for quickly capturing
images and text from the screen. More than a typical screen capture program,
Screenshot Reader can convert snippets of screenshots into text using ABBYY's
OCR technology. It is an ideal utility for clipping bits of text for use in
flashes, presentations and other documents.

System Requirements
-- PC with Intel(TM) Core 2/Pentium(R)/Celeron(R)/ Xeon(TM), AMD K6 /
Turion(TM)/ Athlon(TM)/Duron(TM)/ Sempron(TM) or compatible processor
(1
GHz or higher)
-- Operating System: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Vista, Microsoft(R)
Windows(R)
Server 2008, Windows(R) Server 2003, Windows XP. (To work with
localized
interfaces, corresponding language support is required.)
-- Memory: 512 MB RAM.
-- Hard disk space: 500 MB for typical program installation and 512 MB
for
program operation.
-- Video card and monitor (min. resolution 1024*768)

Availability and Pricing
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 is available through ABBYY's online store, select
retail outlets and resellers worldwide. For detailed product information or to
download a free trial version of the application, visit www.ABBYY.com.

About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and
linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical
character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data
capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools.
Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to
automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business
processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as
those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of
Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County
Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include
BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable
Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped
with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson,
Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY
is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United
States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit
www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, ADRT, FineReader, Lingvo, FlexiCapture and PDF
Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software
Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.

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Michael Kelly of Nadel Phelan, Inc., +1-831-440-2403, michael@nadelphelan.com,
for ABBYY USA