
This review covers the costliest application, Acrobat 9 Pro Extended. Pro Extended also comes with Adobe Presenter, which plugs into Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 for adding interactivity to presentations. There are three versions of Acrobat 9: Standard at $299 or $99 to upgrade, Pro for $449 or $159 to upgrade, and Pro Extended for $699 or $229 to upgrade. On top of it all, Adobe offers an online community at that facilitates online collaboration so users can store documents and literally work on the same page at the same time. FineReader not only now supports most available types of PDF, it also exports PDFs and extracts text from PDFs, a capability that turns PDF into an editable file format.Among the many new, dynamic features to justify a business purchase of Acrobat 9 include dynamic maps, enhanced 256-bit encryption, and improved forms. So it's a good thing that FineReader expands its Adobe Acrobat PDF file capabilities in version 7.0. PDF has become the lingua franca of the online document world because Adobe gives away the Reader program free. More-experienced OCR users will find that additional toolbars provide quick access to advanced functions such as recognition zone adjustments, image editing, and rotation. The other four buttons control individual steps, letting you scan, read, proofread, and save the recognized pages as a document. One launches several one-step scan and read operations, ideal for beginners who need help wading through many OCR options. Right below the standard menu bar, you'll find a toolbar with five large icons. The FineReader interface makes basic OCR tasks as simple or as complex as you'd like. If you can't connect to the Internet, however, FineReader will run-in a crippled state that won't save or print recognized text.



If you're connected to the Internet, it's simple to complete this copy-protection step. The notable installation exception is that FineReader 7.0 now requires product activation. The FineReader OCR interface shows the original image, recognized text, and a close-up image of the scanned page.
