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Review: Abbyy FineReader 11 Professional Edition does clean OCR and is easy to use

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Anyone who’s purchased a multifunction printer or scanner recently will probably recognize the name FineReader, as the Sprint version ships with many such products. Obviously, there are deals being made, but there’s no questioning that the program also does a very nice job of OCR. Text extraction is great, though it’s not quite as good at recreating complex documents in Word and RTF files as Acrobat or OmniPage.

Abbyy FineReader 11 Professional ($170, 15-day free trial) is straightforward and easy to use. The main window shows a list of images in a column to the far left, the image being processed in a pane next to it, and the OCR’d text and elements in a pane on the right side. This side-by-side arrangement, shared with OmniPage Standard 18, makes it super-easy to spot mistakes and compare page elements.

Abbyy FineReader 11 Professional’s easy-to-understand interface makes it easy to use even if you’re new to OCR.

Abbyy FineReader 11 is fast, recognizes text in 189 languages, and outputs in a number of different formats including editable PDFs, Microsoft Word, ePub and even open-source PDF competitor DjVu.

FineReader created a searchable PDF of my yearbook scans just fine, but like OmniPage, it was over-zealous at rotating images trying to find text until I turned off this feature. With most OCR programs, you’re better off using Windows’ own Photo Viewer to rotate scans to their correct orientation before OCR’ing.

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Review: Mobiledit offers easy phone management

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Think your PC and your cell phone don’t mix? Think again. Mobiledit, a $25 Windows application (free demo), bridges the gap between the two devices, allowing you to manage your phone and its contents from the big screen of your desktop.

Mobiledit lets manage almost any kind of cell phone, from basic handsets to iOS and Android smartphones. You connect your phone to your computer via USB, Bluetooth, IrDA,) and the software recognizes it automatically. I tested Mobiledit with an Android and an iPhone, and it recognized both of them automatically. Mobiledit can connect to some Android phones over Wi-Fi, but to do so, you need to install the Mobiledit Connector app on your handset.

Mobiledit allows you to view the contents of your phone, as well as plenty of information about the device.

Once your phone is connected, Mobiledit allows you to browse its contents using a Windows Explorer-like folder structure. While iPhone owners may balk at its $25 price tag when iTunes is free, Mobiledit frees you from the restrictions of iTunes, allowing you to view your iPhone’s contents on a more granular level. The $25 fee includes a license for two phones and one PC. A $35 Family Edition ups that to 5 phones, while a $59 Professional Edition covers 10 phones. A free version, called Mobiledit Lite, allows you to view your phone’s contents, but not write to it.

In addition to viewing the contents of your phone, Mobiledit lets you transfer photos and videos to and from your phone, send text messages from your keyboard, and install applications to your phone. It’s similar in many ways to Wondershare’s MobileGo, but that product only works with Android devices. Mobiledit works with a much wider variety of devices.

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Zoho CRM update adds document repository, location awareness

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Zoho continues to flesh out the feature set of its cloud-based CRM (customer relationship management) application, adding a new document library, advanced email filtering and location-aware mobile applications.

The features, which were announced Tuesday, come about a year after Zoho launched an updatethat featured an overhauled user interface, integration with LinkedIn and a social network-like feature called Pulse.

Zoho CRM‘s new Documents module provides salespeople with a central point for sharing sales-related materials, such as proposals and advertisements, with access controlled according to an individual’s role. Professional Edition customers get 250MB of storage per user, while Enterprise version customers receive 500MB.

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