What is ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint, and what is it doing on my computer?”
It sounds like it’s part of your scanner–so that you can edit documents that you scan: ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint Edition lets you instantly convert your paper documents into Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat PDF files or sent the results as e-mail attachments. It re-produces an electronic replica of your paper original, requiring minimal retyping and reformatting. I wouldn’t delete it unless you don’t ever scan anything or have something else to use in it’s place. It probably came with your printer/scanner or installed itself along with another program you installed, as part of a package.
From the FineReader Sprint info page: FineReader Sprint provides basic OCR functionality which implements one-button conversion — Scan&Read. For users who need to process more complicated documents, advanced versions of ABBYY FineReader, such as Professional Edition and Corporate Edition, are available. Both FineReader Professional Edition and FineReader Corporate Edition offer sophisticated features, including PDF input/output, integration with Microsoft Office, WYSIWYG text editor, built-in spelling check, batch processing, task automation and more. In addition, FineReader Corporate Edition provides network capabilities and concurrent licensing for networked environment. So this was probably pre-installed because of a scanner or other document imaging product that was attached at one time. Y
