SDK Windows: Beta FineReader Engine (win) started in Q3/2017

Final FineReader Engine 12 for Windows, Linux and OS X was released 17.05.2018

Improved classification: advanced classification algorithms leverage modern machine learning and natural language processing technologies and offer improved document classification quality together with more flexible and fine-tuning options, new classification modes and improved classification API

Improved Japanese OCR: improved accuracy together with new “Modern Japanese” OCR language. New 'special predefined language' for enhanced recognition of dates, times, addresses and names.

New deployment in the Cloud: Cloud-enabled licensing for deploying within the Cloud environment (e.g. services like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure).

New OCR languages: Farsi and Burmese (technical preview).

Improved layout reconstruction: improved tables reconstruction, detection and recreation of balanced text columns, improved layout retention on TXT export.

New export formats: HTML 5, ALTO 3.1 (the latest ALTO XML scheme is supported), the latest PDF 2.0 standard support, export to PDF in accordance with PDF/UA standard support.

New PDF/A saving options: PDF/A-2b and PDF/A-3b support.

New XML saving options and improvements: faster export to XML, direct export of list elements and export an information about tab-space characters.

Read more: FineReader Engine 12 - What is new Overview