ABBYY Recognition Server 2.0

• network folder (which is convenient in case of centralized processing of many image files);
• FTP folder (e.g. if images should be uploaded from remote locations);
• email folder (e.g. if users send their images for conversion by e-mail).

The Server Manger component of Recognition Server imports the images from the Input source and arranges them in a queue for processing.

The processing of the images and PDF files is done on a Processing Station.

It is possible to connect several computers to the Server Manager as Processing Stations, and the Server Manager will balance the workload among these stations evenly. This will result in much faster processing of the documents.

There are a few essential steps in the document conversion process. Recognition Server does them all automatically without any user assistance.

First there goes an image pre-processing step, at which some preliminary actions are performed on each page:

• skew correction;
• automatic detection of page orientation;
• splitting of facing pages in the case of book scans;
• noise and garbage removal.

Next comes the recognition part of the process. The OCR and barcode recognition technologies implemented in Recognition Server deliver the unprecedented accuracy and support processing of various types of text and the most popular 1D and 2D barcodes. The OCR process is supported with extensive language databases which include:

• 37 main languages with Latin and Cyrillic alphabets;
• 133 additional languages with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and other alphabets;
• Old European languages;
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages
• Hebrew;
• Thai;
• Chemical formulas, artificial and programming languages.

For images scanned in a batch, Recognition Server offers several document separation options. For example, the batch can be split into individual documents using blank separator sheets, barcode sheets, or barcodes stuck or printed on the first page of each document. Recognition Server performs document separation based on the separation rule and the recognized data. Each document will then be exported to a separate output file.

• Automatic quality control allows the administrator to set a threshold for recognition accuracy. When this option is on, documents with poor-quality text will not be converted, but rather stored in a separate folder for special treatment;
• If the Verification option is enabled, the pages will be routed to available Verification Stations. Verification Stations allow operators to check the accuracy of the layout and the recognized text, perform any necessary corrections and do the spell checking. Verification can be enabled either for all recognized pages or only for those pages which are recognized with an accuracy below the certain threshold.

• a network folder,
• a SharePoint document library, or
• the user’s e-mail address.

The program supports creating flexible rules for naming output files and routing them to specific output subfolders. For instance, the current time, date or barcode value can be used to name the output file or folder in the most convenient manner.

Recognition Server can convert images into various kinds of searchable or editable formats: PDF, PDF/A, RTF, TXT, DOC(X), XLS(X), XML, as well as into popular image formats: TIFF, multipage TIFF and JPEG.

Within PDF creation functionality Recognition Server offers extended set of options:

• document security,
• file compression,
• web-optimization,
• optimization for handled devices,
• adding headers, footers and Bates stamps into documents,
• creation of  PDF files compliant with PDF/A standard.