ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine

Mobile software development companies or manufacturers of such devices as mobile phones, smart phones, communicators or PDA with built-in digital cameras, who strive to improve their functionality and emphasize their uniqueness in the market, can «teach» mobile devices to read by means of recognizing and processing photos in texts.
Take full advantage of cameras on mobile devices. Photo menus, signs and posters, business cards, and other documents can be converted into text for easier input into a variety of applications such as:

• Phone and address books
• Calendars
• Task lists
• All-in-one personal information managers (PIMs)
• Business card readers
• Mobile dictionaries, etc.

Existing applications can be improved or extended using OCR for easy capture of input of data to a networked backend system or Web application. For example:

• Mobile capture for CRM — take a picture of a business card for input into a CRM system or sales lead database
• Mobile capture for Workflow — take a picture of a document for fast input into a workflow application
• Client/server text conversion and processing — collecting pieces of texts and other data via a mobile phone camera and sending to a Web or other server for processing. Mobile OCR can be used for pre-recognition and to check image quality, before sending to a server for processing.

To evaluate the capabilities of the ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine in action, you can try the following ABBYY mobile applications featuring OCR processing:

• ABBYY Business Card Reader
• ABBYY Mobile OCR Utilities
• ABBYY Fototranslate
• ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries for iOS