A lot of users nowadays have to deal with multilingual documents.

ABBYY FineReader 11 recognizes multilingual documents in 189 languages, making it the OCR software application that features support for the largest number of languages worldwide.

When dealing with multilingual documents, we often need to be able to OCR character-based languages, such as Chinese or Arabic. FineReader can recognize Latin, Cyrillic, Asian and Semitic languages, in addition to artificial and programming languages. With a multilingual document, it is a smart idea to install each separately.

If your document contains character-based and Arabic languages, disable automatic page orientation detection and use dual page splitting. This is done through the image scanning and opening dialog boxes, as well as from the Options dialog box on the Scan/Open tab.

If the document has a complex layout, disable the options for automatic analysis and OCR. Select the relevant languages from the Language Editor and manually draw areas on the images of text.

For further information on ABBYY FineReader, please go to http://finereader.abbyy.com.