ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• OCR technology — printed text recognition is available for 198 languages, including:
  • European languages (Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Greek alphabets) 
  • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean (CJK) 
  • Thai, Vietnamese and Hebrew
  • Arabic — technical preview version 
  • FineReader XIX — an OCR module designed specifically for digitizing and archiving old documents, books and newspapers published in the XVII-XX centuries, many of which are rare and unique. Stored in the historical archives of libraries and government organizations, they are national heritage that must be preserved. FineReader XIX provides a unique capability to recognize texts published in the period from 1600 till 1937 in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. It supports recognition of old fonts such as Fraktur, Schwabacher and the majority of Gothic fonts. 
• 47 languages have dictionary/morphology support that is significantly improves OCR accuracy.
• Multilingual documents recognition feature provides recognition of several languages e.g. German and Chinese; English, Russian and Korean at the same document. 
• Dot-matrix documents recognition — ABBYY FineReader Engine recognizes printed dot matrix texts of many types. It has been trained using several thousand samples produced by a variety of printers including dot matrix, daisy wheel, chain and band printers, as well as using draft and Near Letter Quality (NLQ) printing modes. 
• Typewritten documents recognition. 
• Recognition of OCR-A, OCR-B, MICR (E13B) and CMC7 fonts.  

 See The Full List of Supported Languages

Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)

The ABBYY’s OMR technology recognizes simple checkmarks, grouped checkmarks, model checkmarks and checkmarks with “corrections” made by hand in different variations:

• Char Box Series
• Comb In Frame
• Grey Boxes
• Partitioned Frame
• Simple Comb
• Text In Frame
• Underlined Text

OMR delivers accuracy rate of 99.995 %

Optical Barcode Recognition (OBR)

• 1D and 2D barcode types. ABBYY OCR SDK supports recognition of popular types of 1D and 2D barcodes. See The Full List of Supported Barcodes
• Fast barcode extraction. This feature enables automated detection and recognition of barcodes at any angle on a document. It works both for 1D and 2D barcodes

Full text recognition

Full text recognition is a basic recognition type for different tasks, like:

• Documents and books conversion for archiving
• Document conversion for content reuse 
• Ground text extraction for fields detection and documents classification

Learn more about recognition tasks ›

All of them require the recognition (OCR) of whole text on document (page). Before recognition the document analysis usually processes for splitting and correct orientation of pages, detection of text blocks, pictures and other objects.

Then after OCR document synthesis rebuilds the structure and layout of document (for content reuse task) or just retrieves the correct text order for complex documents with several text columns and pictures (for archive scenario). Resulted text is exported depending on task as pure text or as a document of supported format.

The text could be manually verified for increasing its accuracy, especially for future reuse.

Field-level recognition

ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 delivers complete field-level recognition capabilities to support key business processes such as forms processing, keyword classification, and keyword indexing. Powerful image processing functions increase its ability to intelligently detect small zone areas of any quality, with any type of graphic specifics which may affect the recognition accuracy (i.e. underlined text, after-scanning garbage, spaces in the text, etc.)
Key functionality for field-level or zonal recognition includes multilingual OCR and ICR, OMR, barcode recognition and a range of specific functions, such as:

• Data extraction from fields with various borders and frames, including combo-box, underlined fields, boxes, and even fields where the data does not fit within the field border
• Definition of field content by setting alphabets, dictionaries, regular expressions, types of segmentations, handwriting styles, etc. 
• Detection of in-field spacing, accurately recognizing fields where the spaces are allowed. ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 also allows use of dictionaries which contain word combinations with spaces 
• Intelligent processing of blocks with intersecting parts and lines, provides recognition of text (words and symbols) located entirely within the block borders, saving time spent on non-relevant text block recognition 
• Text block despeckle, with the ability to specify the size of white or black "garbage"

Field-level recognition is supported by the Engine’s special tools for developers such as Voting API and "On-the-Fly" Recognition Tuning. For details, please see Advanced Development Tools.

User languages

ABBYY FineReader Engine provides an API for creating and editing recognition languages, creating copies of predefined recognition languages and adjusting them, and adding new words to user languages.

Below are two examples illustrating how user languages can help you to improve recognition quality:

• In documents filled out by hand, the values in the form fields usually belong to a specific set such as city names, countries, zip codes, product codes, sums, etc. To improve the quality of ICR recognition, you can use user languages to describe the information which may be entered in each field.
• If a document contains "structures" such as product codes, telephone numbers, passport numbers etc., recognition errors may occur. This happens because the program reads such structures letter by letter. To improve the recognition of product codes and the like, you can create a new recognition language which will help the program to read specific types of data correctly.