ORFO 2004 - FAULTLESS CHOICE!

May, 18.2004
JSC Informatic the leading Russian developer of linguistic programs, presents the line of new 8th version of multifunctional proofing tool ORFO 2004. The ORFO package variants are follow: Basic, Professional and Multilanguage.

ORFO is the unique set of linguistic programs checking spelling, grammar and style in Russian, Ukrainian, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. The most part of PC-users in Russia works with ORFO. The russian versions of Microsoft Office 97-2003 use ORFO linguistic technologies developed by INFORMATIC company.

The new eighth version of ORFO 2004 has considerably improved spelling, grammar and style checkers. New grammar rules are added and the previous rules discernment is improved. The new ORFO version supports MS Office 2003. Grammar checking is available now in many applications. The new possibility is the spelling-checking of texts in Italian and Portuguese. Working in Windows XP improved, system capabilities are extended. ORFO now demonstrates flexible setup options in MS Word and various applications. A new modified Russian Heritage Dictionary is used. The possibilities of calling and setup ORFO from MS Word are extended. New additional specialized dictionaries are added.

ORFO 2004 can check spelling in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Publisher; Microsoft Outlook Express; Adobe PageMaker; QuarkXPress and in many other popular applications.

For more detailed information about ORFO see: www.orfo.ru

Basic package
For the Russian language

For the spelling check of russian texts. Basic package helps to find and correct orthographic errors, hyphenates the text, displays the word with all its forms and grammatical characteristics. This package allows hyphenation with the desirable quality level: Book or Newspaper. The new words are added to the dictionary with all their word forms. Words added once will be recognized also in other applications supported by ORFO. Basic package includes its own built-in editor for editing and checking texts. You can also check texts in the majority of editable windows (Notepad, ICQ etc.) using hotkeys.

Professional Package
For the Russian language

Professional package includes the full set of editing instruments. They are as follows: Spelling checker, Russian Thesaurus (a dictionary of synonyms, antonyms and related words), full hyphenation, display of the word with all its forms and grammatical characteristics, adding new words with all its forms. The improved grammar and style corrector uses more than 40 groups of rules. There is the Grammar handbook containing rules of the Russian spelling and punctuation and the examples of their use. Professional package is provided with special tools for Microsoft Word: finding and replacing any word encountered in a document in all its forms, composing autosummary and creating the list of its key-words. The new Russian Heritage Dictionary provides the extended explanation of words and expressions along with synonyms and examples of their use. New additional specialized dictionaries are added (Construction, Oil and Gas, Information Technology, Business etc.). Professional package is an irreplaceable assistant for users working with text documents.

Multilanguage Package
For the English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese languages

Multilingual Package adds words with all their word forms. It gives the new possibility of checking spelling in Italian, Portuguese (Portugal) and Portuguese (Brazil) languages. The new words are added to the dictionary with all their word forms. It allows to select pre- or post-reform spelling rules in German. It has the possibilities of viewing all word forms and their grammatical characteristics and installing additional dictionaries on different fields of knowledge. Multilingual Package is a safety proofing tool for foreign languages.

The main qualities of ORFO 2004:

- Improved spelling, grammar and style checkers;
- Opportunity of checking texts in the Russian, Ukrainian, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese languages;
- Opportunity to add new words with all its word forms to the user dictionary;
- Full hyphenation with Book or Newspaper quality;
- Detailed Russian Grammar handbook;
- Dictionary of Russian synonyms, antonyms and related words;
- New improved Russian Heritage Dictionary;
- Finding and Replacing words in all forms;
- Summarizing of the document and creating the list of its key words;
- A new convenient ORFO Toolbar in MS Word;
- Spelling check using a hotkey in applications with editable windows such as Notepad, ICQ, AutoCAD, etc.;
- Availability of OFRO Editor: This is the editor that supports many ORFO linguistic means;
- Expanded Dictionaries of common words;
- New additional specialized dictionaries;
- Convenient setup and control of OFRO components;
- Compatibility with Microsoft Office 2003 and other popular applications.

The price of OFRO 2004:
Basic package - $7, Professional package - $99, Multilingual Package - $99

Victor Bondarenko, INFORMATIC head of Marketing Department: - Our system is successfully used by many Russian and international companies. I'm sure, that our users can appreciate new opportunities and convenience of the 8th version of ORFO 2004. After a short time we are planning to release some additional free ORFO applications accessible to all of our users?..

About INFORMATIC

Informatic was founded in 1989. It develops and implements linguistic technologies. Informatic's products enjoy popularity in many countries. ORFO linguistic technologies developed by INFORMATIC company are used by the license agreement in the Russian versions of Microsoft Office.

INFORMATIC products:

- CONTEXT: the system of electronic dictionaries;
- ORFO: the multifunctional proofing tool;
- Multilingual morphological modules for developers.