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ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows

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Camera OCR - Unrivaled Quality of Document Photo Processing

One of the most popular recognition tasks nowadays is processing OCR of document photos taking by embedded photo-cameras of mobile phones and other devices. They provide suitable resolution and image quality but have some specific distortions, usual for photos. So they require special image pre-processing for better recognition.

ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 contains the following Camera OCR^TM features:

• Correct image resolution
• Straighten curved lines
• Automatic 3D perspective distortions correction – New!
  3D distortions cause multiple problems with recognized text:
  • OCR errors occur
  • Doubled pages splitting fails
  • Font size is changing from top to bottom of page  

After straightening transformation of initial image OCR provides an excellent result:

• Blurred images correction – New!
  If camera is not fixed during the photo taking, image could be slightly blurred. It is not noticed on camera screen, but causes OCR problems. After some transformation of the source image, the binary image becomes more readable:

• ISO noise correction – New! 
  This type of noise looks like the picture is filled with a great number of pixels of different colors. This can confuse binarization and some characters could be lost. By special filter FRE10 smoothens image background and prevents text loosing: 

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