ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 9.0

Extended list of technical specification is given below:

ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 9.0 recognizes 198 OCR languages with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian characters, East Asian languages and 113 ICR languages:

Abkhaz, Adyghe, Afrikaans, Agul, Albanian, Altaic, Armenian (Eastern, Grabar, Western), Avar, Aymara, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic, Latin), Bashkir, Basque, Belarussian, Bemba, Blackfoot, Breton, Bugotu, Bulgarian, Buryat, Catalan, Chamorro, Chechen, Chinese (PRC, Taiwan), Chukcha, Chuvash, Corsican, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Crow, Czech, Danish, Dargwa, Dungan, Dutch (Netherlands, Belgium), English, Eskimo (Cyrillic, Latin), Esperanto, Estonian, Even, Evenki, Faeroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Scottish Gaelic, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, German, German (Luxembourg, new spelling), Greek, Guarani, Hani, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Ingush, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kasub, Kawa, Kazakh, Khakas, Khanty, Kikuyu, Kirghiz, Kongo, Korean, Koryak, Kpelle, Kumyk, Kurdish, Lak, Sami (Lappish), Latin, Latvian, Latvian language written in Gothic script, Lezgin, Lithuanian, Luba, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malinke, Maltese, Mansi, Maori, Mari, Maya, Miao, Minangkabau, Mohawk, Mongol, Mordvin, Nahuatl, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay, NorwegianNynorsk + NorwegianBokmal, Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Nyanja, Occidental, Ojibway, Old English, Old French, Old German, Old Italian, Old Spanish, Ossetian, Papiamento, Tok Pisin, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Provencal, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Romanian (Moldavia), Romany, Ruanda, Rundi, Russian, Russian (old spelling), Samoan, Selkup, Serbian (Cyrillic, Latin), Shona, Sioux (Dakota), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Sunda, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tabassaran, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tatar, Thai, Jingpo, Tongan, Tswana, Tun, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udmurt, Uighur (Cyrillic), Uighur (Latin), Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic, Latin), Vietnamese, Cebuano, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yakut, Yiddish, Zapotec, Zulu, Programming languages: Basic, C/C++, Cobol, Fortran, Java, Pascal, Simple chemical formulas, For MICR (E-13B) text type, For MICR CMC-7 text type, Numbers.

• PDF (version 1.7 or earlier).
• BMP:
  • uncompressed black and white.
  • uncompressed gray.
  • uncompressed color.
• PCX, DCX:
  • 2-bit - black and white.
  • 4- and 8-bit – gray.
  • TrueColor.
• JPEG (gray, color).
• JPEG 2000:
  • gray - 8-bit, JP2 or JPC file format.
  • color - RGB or YСС colorspace, 8 bit per channel, JP2 or JPC file format.
  • color - encoded using 8-bit palette in RGB colorspace, , JP2 or JPC file format.
• TIFF:
  • black and white - uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, CCITT3FAX, Packbits, ZIP, LZW.
  • gray - uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW.
  • TrueColor - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP, LZW.
  • Palette - uncompressed, Packbits, ZIP.
  • multi image TIFF.
• GIF:
  • black and white - LZW-compressed.
  • gray - LZW-compressed.
  • TrueColor - LZW-compressed.
• PNG (black and white, gray, color).
• DjVu (black and white, gray, color).
• JBIG2.

Dialogue captions, text, error and other program messages are available in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Polish, Czech, and Hungarian.

Data output destinations

For this moment, the only export to file is supported. It is possible to export output data to the following formats:

• XLS (Microsoft Office Excel Workbook).
• DBF (DBase file).
• CSV (Comma Separated Values file).
• TXT (Simple text).
• XML (XML Document).

Images output formats

The output images could be exported to the following formats:

• PDF
  • PDF.
  • PDF/A both 1b and 1a.
  • MRC (Mixed Raster Content) for both PDF and PDF/A.
• BMP
  • uncompressed black and white.
  • uncompressed gray.
  • uncompressed color.
• PCX, DCX
  • 2-bit - black and white.
  • 4- and 8-bit – gray.
  • TrueColor.
• JPEG (gray, color).
• JPEG 2000:
  • gray - 8-bit, JP2 or JPC file format.
  • color - RGB or YСС colorspace, 8 bit per channel, JP2 or JPC file format.
  • color - encoded using 8-bit palette in RGB colorspace, , JP2 or JPC file format.
• TIFF:
  • black and white - uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP, LZW.
  • gray - uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW.
  • TrueColor - uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP, LZW.
  • Palette - uncompressed, Packbits, ZIP.
  • multi image TIFF.
• PNG (black and white, gray, color).

1D Barcodes:

1. Codabar,
2. Code 128,
3. Code 39,
4. Code 93,
5. EAN 8,
6. EAN 13,
7. IATA 2 of 5,
8. Industrial 2 of 5,
9. Interleaved 2 of 5,
10. Matrix 2 of 5,
11. Patch,
12. PostNet,
13. UCC-128,
14. UPC-A,
15. UPC-E.

1D Barcodes with checksum:

1. Code 39
2. Interleaved 2 of 5
3. Codabar

1D Barcodes with supplemental:

1. EAN 8
2. EAN 13
3. UPC-E

2D Barcodes:

1. PDF417,
2. Aztec,
3. DataMatrix.

Note: ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 9.0 can read Aztec and Datamatrix barcodes, but it cannot detect them on images. Consequently, you can use these barcode types in Document Definitions but you cannot use them in FlexiLayouts or as document separators.

• Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (VB.NET, C#);
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0;
• Microsoft Visual C++ 4.x and above;
• VB Script, and other scripting languages;
• Borland Delphi 2.0 and above;

Any other development environment that supports COM and ActiveX objects correctly.

Standalone Runtime or Developer License Installation

• PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher).
• Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008, Windows Vista®, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• Memory: minimum 400 MB RAM plus an additional 110 MB for each recognition process.
• Hard disk space: 700 MB for full developer installation and 100 MB for program operation.
• 100% TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera, or fax modem.
• Video card and monitor (min. resolution 1024x768).
• Keyboard, mouse or other input device.
• The following registry branches should be accessible from the workstation:
  • "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\SDK\9.0\FlexiCapture Engine" — full control.
  • "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\SDK\9.0" — full control for installation only.
  • "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ABBYY\SDK\9.0" — full control for installation only.
• The following folders should be accessible from the workstation:
  • Folder with ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine binary files — access for reading.
  • System temporary folder — full control access.

Network Runtime Installation

Server Requirements

• PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher).
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• 10 MB of free hard-disk space.

Workstation Requirement

• PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher).
• Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• Memory: minimum 400 MB RAM plus an additional 110 MB for each recognition process.
• Hard disk space: 700 MB for full developer installation and 100 MB for program operation.
• 100% TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera, or fax modem.
• Video card and monitor (min. resolution 1024x768).
• Keyboard, mouse or other input device.
• The following registry branches should be accessible from the workstation:
  • "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\SDK\9.0\FlexiCapture Engine" — full control.
  • "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY\SDK\9.0" — full control for installation only.
  • "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ABBYY\SDK\9.0" — full control for installation only.
• The following folders should be accessible from the workstation:
  • Folder with ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine binary files — access for reading.
  • System temporary folder — full control access.
• The Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher should be installed.