ABBYY has released FineReader Pro for Mac, a professional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software product for document scanning and conversion on Macs.

Newly added support for Mac Automator actions and AppleScript commands now gives customers the ability to create automated document conversion tasks or workflows. Mac users can link document processing steps together to create simple, self-running OCR workflows. 

For example, a user could create a “watched folder” function which automatically processes documents, or whole batches of documents, as they are dropped into the folder. Watched folders can be also set to process documents only at scheduled times. 

Users can additionally automate frequently used OCR tasks which launch with a simple “drag-and-drop” operation, or create a special task which applies text recognition to screenshots. Automated tasks, or workflows, based on ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac can be set up to run without the need to launch the FineReader interface.

The latest version of ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac also supports OS X Yosemite. It’s available at the Mac App Store and the ABBYY Online store.