ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux

The ABBYY’s OCR SDK helps to increase the competitiveness of your products on the market by adding valuable and useful functions, such as

• Conversion of paper and image documents into editable formats for further use in publishing, press-clipping systems, text processors, etc;
• Preparing documents for storage by turning them into searchable and reliable formats ideally suited for electronic document archives; 
• Providing users with the ability to control every steps of the document conversion process: managing document pages, page image processing, verifying data, and editing and proofreading recognized text; 
• Getting background text data from documents to use it for indexing and classification;
• With its innovative Camera OCR technology, ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux offers alternative methods of document capture and is ready for future changes in that area.

ABBYY has many years of expertise in the development for Linux and research of basic document conversion and data capture technologies such as OCR and OBR (optical barcode recognition). At the same time, the development and production of end-user applications and interaction with customers helps ABBYY to continuously improve these technologies and methods according to real-world needs.

In addition, the ABBYY FineReader Engine OCR SDK allows you to empower your products with its award-wining, unique and constantly evolving ABBYY ADRT® (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology), or Model Analysis.

ABBYY’s reputation and high profile in the industry will also help in promoting your solutions. For example, ABBYY’s OCR technology is well recognized on the market for its accuracy and reliability, so it comes as no surprise when consumers ask developers of DMS / EMS software if they have ABBYY’s OCR SDK integrated.

ABBYY technologies and products have been licensed by leading software providers, integrators, developers as well as government agencies, educational institutions and other organizations worldwide. Adittionally, ABBYY’s technologies have been recognized by many industry professionals and publications as the best OCR software. ABBYY’s customer list includes: Adobe, Australian Taxation Office, BancTec, C Technologies AB, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Citibank, Datacap, Docutec, the Dutch Government, Seiko Epson, Fujitsu, HP, Kirtas, Kofax, Lexmark, Microsoft, Microtek, Notable Solutions, ReadSoft, Reserve Bank of Australia, Samsung Electronics, Saperion, and Siemens Nixdorf.

In the contemporary, globalizing world, it’s very important to be ready to localize your solutions for regional market. FineReader Engine offers uniquely broad range of languages for document recognition as well as other features you might need for localization:

• ABBYY FineReader Engine recognizes about 200 languages for OCR (including Latin, Greek, Armenian, Cyrillic, Thai and Hebrew alphabets and languages with ideographic characters). In addition, FineReader Engine delivers almost the same high accuracy for multilingual recognition as for one-language OCR;
• Barcode types are different in different countries. The SDK's extensive support for many 1D barcodes and the most popular 2D barcodes allows you to offer customers an application that is perfectly suitable for their local environment.

• ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux empowers your software with state-of-the-art technologies that helps to considerably reduce manual operations when performing various tasks including document conversion, document archiving, capturing documents with digital cameras, etc;
• With the SDK’s modular architecture and flexible approach to licensing, allows you to offer your customers exactly what they need for a fair fee.

ABBYY is constantly developing existent and new technologies that will respond to every day challenges users encounter with:

• There are new and emerging tendencies in archiving market and ABBYY presents support for PDF/A and PDF/A MRC technologies to bring highly demanded instruments to end-users;
• ABBYY is constantly developing the technological base introducing new and innovative technologies such as ADRT; 
• ABBYY FineReader Engine with its support for a variety of recognition languages and localized UI elements facilitates companies’ growth far beyond language and geography boundaries; 
• ABBYY is keeping an eye on the emerging markets and adjusts the product and technologies for them. 

• ABBYY FineReader Engine delivers full-range state-of-the-art technologies for document conversion, archiving, and developing own document capture solutions.
  Thus, developers don’t need to source different SDKs for different tasks having single approach to developing, maintenance and training for FineReader Engine;
• The ABBYY’s SDK delivers basic technologies such as OCR and OBR for creating your own unique vertical or horizontal solutions;
• Support for about 200 languages for OCR saves you from having different technology suppliers for your international solution. The product delivers almost the same high accuracy for multilingual OCR as for monolingual OCR.

ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux performs a full range of document conversion tasks offering ready-to-use technologies for every scenario:

• ABBYY ADRT produces easy-to-modify documents with logical structure and multi-page formatting accurately and consistently reconstructed;
• The PDF/A export format and MRC technology allows you to get searchable, nice-looking yet small-sized documents for long-term archiving.

ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 has clear and easy-to-use API. To shorten the learning curve, the distribution kit also contains:

• Single and integral API; 
• Extensive and yet clear developer’s Help; 
• A set of sample source codes showing how to use Engine in different scenarios; 
• Code Samples Library – a special browsing tool that facilitate navigation through the samples; 
• Command Line Interface sample source code that also allows using the Engine as a command line application and, in fact, is an alternative API to ABBYY technologies.

ABBYY is an international company. We have local offices all around the world and
can provide you with technical support:

• In time which is convenient for you (your time-zone); 
• In many cases, in language you are familiar with; 
• With a minimum response time since we provide technologies we are developing.

Having own fundamental technologies, ABBYY developed API that has backward compatibility with all FineReader Engine versions. Getting our newest OCR SDK, your need slight or even no changes in code to keep your application working. Meanwhile, you get all improvements made in the functionality you already use.

New features, such as ADRT, could make ABBYY to append new API but the old API would be preserved to the maximum extent possible. For the API that is discarded or obsolete, you can find workarounds and recommendations in the Help.