Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 is the latest version of our award-winning Presto! OCR Pro software, the best OCR for "Real-life" documents. Version 4.0 is loaded with new and improved features! The "Scan&Read" wizard takes you step-by-step to scan and recognize any document in color or back-and white, with help for 40 languages.
 
Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 not only reads documents accurately, it retains the original text formatting and page layout, including columns, tables, and video.

Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 is the best tool to convert paper into electronic documents. It saves results in HTML, PDF, and other popular file formats; and links directly to your favorite word processors and spreadsheets.

	Unparalleled Recognition Accuracy -- This latest version of the award-winning Presto! OCR Pro series is up to 50% more accurate than version 3.0 and the competition. Using advanced perception technology, Presto! OCR Pro's ability to recognize poor print quality texts is exceptionally high, especially on documents from dot matrix printers, typewriters, multi-generation photocopies, and faxes.
	Reads 40 languages -- including Bulgarian, Czech Danish Dutch (Standard, Belgian) English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German (Standard, New spelling), Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Maori, Moldavian, Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese (Standard, Brazilian), Spanish, and Swedish.
	Re-Creates Digital Content from Paper Documents -- Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 links to MS Word2000/97/95/6.0, MS Excel 2000/97/95/6.0, Word Pro 97, WordPerfect 8.0/7.0. You can send documents directly to your favorite word processor along with all the formatting information, including fonts, tables, columns and pictures. As a result, your scanned documents are truly editable. It supports HTML and PDF formats so you can publish paper documents on the web with a few simple steps. It also saves recognition results in RTF, TXT, DOC, CSV, XLS, and DBF file formats.
	Scan&Read Wizard -- With the re-designed interface, OCR Pro 4.0 is extremely easy to use. Simply place any document on your scanner and click "Scan&Read." The Scan&Read Wizard will take you through the steps of getting the best results from even the most complicated documents, such as documents with columns, tables, and color pictures.
	Superior Document Format Retention -- Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 not only recognizes text accurately; it also saves the original page layout with columns, video and tables. You will never have to re-format a document again!
	Expert Table Tools -- The program automatically analyzes tables such as price sheets, schedules and inventory lists and finds the correct cells of the tables. There are unique table editing tools that allow you to split/merge cells or add/remove rows and columns. The built-in editor then displays the recognized tables with the correspondent original image for editing and proof reading.
	Color OCR -- Presto! OCR Pro can scan documents in color, recognize the text, insert color pictures and save the results in Word, PDF or HTML format. As a result, you can scan your brochures and re-create the electronic versions or post them on your web site.
	Batch Processing -- Scan up to 9999 pages in each batch! Presto! OCR Pro displays a list of pages in the current batch and allows you to select multiple pages.
	Training Engine -- Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 is also trainable. You can train the software to recognize unusual fonts, symbols, and characters.
	Background Processing -- You can multi-task with this new version of Presto! OCR Pro. It can recognize documents in the background while you are editing other documents.
	Supports Multiprocessor Computers -- Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 supports the Intel multiprocessor platform. The parallel use of additional processors leads to a linear boost of recognition speed.
	Supports multi-page PCX and Tiff files.
	Saves Recognition Results in RTF, TXT, DOC, CSV, XLS, DBF, PDF or HTML formats.
	Expert Tools for complicated layouts -- For power users, Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 allows you to make changes or manually analyze pages after the program has analyzed the document. You can add, delete and renumber blocks, change their size and form, set a certain language, block and text type and inversion. You can even save the zones and blocks as a layout and use them with documents that have the same layout.
	OCR on Dark Backgrounds -- Presto! OCR Pro recognizes documents that contain blocks of different colors, including light-colored text on dark backgrounds.
	Automatically Detects Page Orientation -- Presto! OCR Pro 4.0 can automatically straighten skewed images by rotating documents to their up-right position. It also cleans up images to improve accuracy.
	Built-in text editor -- Presto! OCR Pro allows you to change the font, font size, and formatting of text and paragraphs.
	Built-in spell checker -- You can add new words to the built-in dictionary.
	Supports TWAIN Compatible Scanners -- Acer, Adara, AGFA, Artec, Avigramm, Avision, Canon, Compeye, E-Lux, Epson, Fujitsu, Genius, HP, IBM, Kodak, KYE, Logitech, Lumina, Microtek, Minolta, Mitsubishi, Mustek, Nikon, Optrox, Packard Bell, Panasonic, PIE, Plustek, Primax, Proton, Qtronox, Relisys, Ricoh, Samsung, Scanace, Scanpaq, Scanvision, Silitek, Spot, Storm, Tamarack, Teco, Ultima, UMAX, Visioneer, Xerox, and many more than 100 models of 100% TWAIN compatible scanners.

List of recognition languages :

Albanian Basque Breton Bulgarian* Byelorussian Catalan Chechen Crimean Tartar Croatian Czech* Danish* Dutch* (Standard, Belgian) English* Estonian* Fijian Finnish* French* German* (Standard, New spelling) Greek* Hawaiian Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian* Kabardian

Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Maori Moldavian Norwegian* (Bokmal, Nynorsk) Ossetian Polish* Portuguese* (Standard, Brazilian) Rhaeto-Romance Romanian Samoan Serbian (Cyrillic alphabet) Slovak Slovenian Spanish* Swahili Swedish* Tagalog Turkish* Ukrainian*

	Intel 486 or higher (Pentium 133 or higher is recommended)
	Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 (Service Pack 3), ME, 2000, WinXP
	16 Mb RAM (32 Mb RAM for Windows NT 4.0)
	30Mb hard disk space for minimal program installation
	10Mb hard disk space for program operation
	30Mb of free space on the hard disk for the swap file
	Twain-compatible scanner or fax-modem
	CD-ROM drive
	A mouse or other pointing device