Specifications

The OCR SDK for Embedded OS is currently compatible with many CPU types and operating systems and can be ported to virtually any CPU type and any OS on demand.

CPU types supported

• x86 (Intel Atom, Core 2)
• ARM

• PowerPC
• and any other (on demand)

Operating systems supported

• Windows for x86 processors (Windows CE, Windows XP Embedded)
• Linux, ucLinux
• VXWorks

• NetBSD
• FreeBSD
• Android
• and any other (on demand)

Development platform

C/C++

Storage memory requirements (ROM)

• 11–60 MB for the library (depending on the functionality included)
• 0.5–1 MB for the language module of each supported recognition language, 16 MB for CJK pattern
• 0.5–5 MB for the dictionary of each supported recognition language (optional).

The library can be stored either in ROM or RAM depending on the specific device.

Runtime memory requirements (RAM)

• 11–60 MB for the library (depending on the functionality included)
• 0.5–1 MB for the language module of each supported recognition language, 16 MB for CJK pattern
• 0.5–5 MB for the dictionary of each supported recognition language (optional)
• 10–17 MB or more for program operation (depending on the image size, colority and quality: 10–12 MB for small photo pictures, about 10–17 MB for an A4 business letter).

23 languages with dictionary support:

Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, Dutch Belgian, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, German New Spelling, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

37 languages without dictionary support:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Belarusian, Catalan, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Fijian, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Kabardian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maori, Moldavian, Mongol, Ossetic, Provencal, Rhaeto Romanic, Romanian, Samoan, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Tagalog, Tatar, Welsh,  and Yiddish.

CJK languages:

Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean

More than 130 other languages can be added upon request – contact the ABBYY team.

Import formats:

BMP, TIFF, multi-image TIFF, GIF, PCX, DCX, JPEG, JPEG 2000
Additional import format for customized solutions: PDF image only

Export formats:

TXT, PDF, PDF/A, PDF with MRC, ABBYY XML for Embedded, vCard
Additional export formats for customized solutions: RTF, DOC/DOCX, XLS/XLSX, PPT/PPTX, HTML, CSV

Support for any other formats can be provided upon request. For details, please contact the ABBYY team.

Available image pre-processing options include:

• Adaptive Binarization
• Deskewing
• Automatic page orientation