ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows

New enhanced Fast Mode designed to optimize processing speed/accuracy balance for images of good quality. Up to 92% faster page throughput while maintaining the high level of recognition accuracy*

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Notice: ABBYY unrivaled multicore support architecture ensures close to linear performance growth with increasing number of cores for multipage documents. For 2 CPU cores it works almost 2 times faster, for 4 cores – almost 3.8 times!

• Improved classifier for CJK. The recognition accuracy for Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages went up by 40%** due to improved Asian characters classifier. Now ABBYY OCR SDK provides the top level of accuracy among international multi-language OCR technologies. You can use high-quality Asian OCR together with dozens other languages (198 in all) in one SDK.

• New mode for low resolution scans. The special new recognition mode for low quality documents – old faxes, low resolution scans provides 20% higher OCR accuracy for such documents than standard Normal mode. Now you can recognize the low quality documents that caused too many OCR errors before.

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• Special profiles for popular usage scenarios. Lots of developers mentioned that ABBYY FineReader Engine API is the most powerful and full-functional among OCR SDKs. Now it becomes simpler with new profiles for the most popular recognition tasks. They are predefined with optimal parameters for easy start and guaranteed OCR quality without long-time manual tuning. Manual parameter setting is also available for any custom solutions.
You do not need to spend time studying a huge amount of SDK API’s features and parameters.
That is enough to choose the profile and ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 sets all optimal values for maximal OCR efficiency. Thus you can easy and fast integrate ABBYY OCR technologies into your application and achieve the excellent recognition results.

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• Document structure API. ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 provides unique feature-set for access to document structure elements like headings, chapters, page numbers, footnotes, headers, footers and so on. New API functions allow precise and careful content editing, saving the structure of original document.

With new features of ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 you can carefully reconstruct the original layout of document and its structure for easy content reuse:
• Document structure detection. ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 automatically detects headings in recognized document, determines their level in document structure, defines their text styles and reconstructs the whole structure as Document Map of resulting document.

• Table of Contents (TOC) reconstruction. In final document the Table of Contents appears as a set of links to the headings. After document editing TOC could be updated automatically as a single object to add new headings and revise page numbers.

• Charts and diagrams detection. Automatic charts and diagrams detection feature was improved in 10th version of ABBYY OCR SDK. Now it is possible to choose if recognize text on chart or stay it in origin image form.

• Picture and table captions processing. ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 automatically detects picture’s and table’s captions and exports them to final document as a single frame including the picture and its title.

• Document styles defining. ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 analyzes text font type, size, and its placement and defects the corresponding font style for every type of text. So for the headings of each level there are special styles, for ordinary text, for TOC and for picture captions there are also special styles.

• “Glossy magazine” processing model. New ABBYY OCR SDK can reconstruct complicated layouts consisted of many pictures and text blocks on a page or including very large pictures for the whole page.

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• Superior quality-size ratio for PDF files. New PDF export together with improved MRC (Mixed Raster Content) compression technology allows achieving higher quality and less size of PDF documents. You get superior quality-size ratio for PDF documents both – with and without MRC.

• PDF export profiles. There are more than 40 parameters for PDF export tuning. ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 provides predefined profiles with optimal values for popular export variants:

• MaxQuality
• Balanced
• MinSize
• MaxSpeed

With predefined PDF export profiles you automatically set optimal values for particular task.

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• New features of Camera OCR^TM. Camera OCR technology – the set of document photo adjustment features for better recognition results was improved with new unique features:

• Automatic correction of 3D perspective distortions
• Blurred image correction
• ISO noise reduction

The most of document photos, especially taken by embedded cameras have some usual defects. With new Camera OCR features of ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 you can overcome them and achieve better recognition results

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• New binarization. Previous OCR SDK version provided very high quality of binarization, but in some the most difficult cases it could commit errors and losses of information. New binarization technology ensures the whole text retention and prevents information losses even in difficult cases. New binarization provides outstanding quality and guarantees keeping of valuable information resulted in better OCR accuracy.

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• Color marks and stamps filtering. If there are some stamps or marks, made by pen, marker on document image they usually interfere text and decrease OCR results. That is why ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 includes special feature for color marks and stamps filtering and improving recognition accuracy. An excellent feature for data capture systems allows preventing data losses from fields covered by stamps and color marks.

Improved protection. Protection system of ABBYY OCR SDK provides:

• Delegate and control SDK usage rights in local network
• Count and control the numbers of recognized characters, pages, usage time and computing power
• Track and control SDK usage on terminal servers and virtual machines

With unique abilities of ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 protection system you can choose an optimal licensing scheme to pay for used features only.
You can easily construct your own protection system based on integrated SDK’s protection and gain from total control of your application usage. You can measure integrated OCR performance by any convenient units: pages per month or per year, characters per second, CPUs and workstation numbers and so on. This guarantees the maximal profit from your application.

Improved Developers Guide (Help). Improved Help distinguishes by updated structure and appearance together with new content including general product description, API specification, usage samples and best practices. You will fast and easily find all necessary information and will enjoy working with ABBYY FineReader Engine 10.