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ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 opens and saves image files in the following formats:
FormatExtensionOpenSave
BMP: uncompressed black and white 4- and 8-bit — uncompressed Palette 16-bit — uncompressed, uncompressed Mask 24-bit — uncompressed 32-bit — uncompressed, uncompressed Maskbmp++
BMP: 4- and 8-bit — RLE compressed Palettebmp+<br />
DCX: black and white 2-, 4- and 8-bit palette 24-bit colordcx++
DjVu: black and white, gray, color <Note> Windows Only </Note>djvu, djv+<br />
HEIF: gray, colorheif, heic+<br />
GIF: black and white — LZW-compressed 2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-bit palette — LZW-compressedgif+<br />
JBIG2: black and whitejb2++
JPEG: gray, colorjpg, jpeg, jfif++
JPEG 2000: gray — Part 1 color — Part 1jp2, jpc, j2k++
PCX: black and white 2-, 4- and 8-bit palette 24-bit colorpcx++
PDF (Version 2.0 or earlier)\*pdf++
PNG: black and white, gray, colorpng++
TIFF: black and white — uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP, LZW gray — uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW 24-bit color — uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP, LZW 1-, 4-, 8-bit palette — uncompressed, Packbits, ZIP, LZW (including multi-page TIFF)tif, tiff++
TIFF: black and white — CCITT3FAXtif, tiff+<br />
SVG\\: black and white, gray, colorsvg+<br />
WebP: black and white, gray, colorwebp+<br />
WDP: black and white, gray, color (WIC or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 required) <Note> Windows Only </Note>wdp+<br />
WIC-compatible (WIC or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 required) <Note> Windows Only </Note><br />+<br />
* The following PDF formats are not supported:
  • PDF with XFA forms
  • PDF forms
  • Password-protected PDF if password for data extraction is unknown
** SVG files cannot be opened from stream or memory.
ABBYY FineReader Engine will not open images with height or width greater than 32512 pixels.

See also

Supported Digital Document Input Formats