ABBYY OCR Container

An AI OCR service that reads text from documents.

Digitize, analyze, and read text from images, documents, and photos.

What is ABBYY OCR Container?

ABBYY OCR Container is a new artificial intelligence (AI) OCR service that is packaged and deployed in a cloud, on premise, or on the edge using containers. The OCR container uses a Docker container for packaging and deployment, delivering a simple design to integrate with any modern cloud applications.

This AI-powered OCR service provides your application with image analysis, text recognition, and PDF conversion, enabling it to convert images into readable text and searchable PDF, Word, or Excel documents.

ABBYY OCR Container service brings AI to every developer and data scientist. All it takes is an API call to embed OCR for processing images and documents, turning text into readable information that can then be integrated into advanced decision-making in your apps.

Features & Benefits

Leading OCR performance and accuracy

Leading OCR performance and accuracy

Extract data from images, photos, and documents into accurate and ready-to-use data for the next step in your business applications.

Rich understanding of images and documents

Rich understanding of images and documents

OCR service analyzes the layout and structure of the image, detecting the placement of text, paragraphs, images, barcodes, tables, and other elements. Then, the information is delivered for further data analysis or machine learning tasks.

Effortless integration and deployment

Effortless integration and deployment

The advanced OCR AI service is quick and easy to implement with minimal development effort required. It only takes a REST API call to embed OCR for processing images and documents.  

Intelligently recognizes machine-printed and handwritten text

Intelligently recognizes machine-printed and handwritten text

ABBYY OCR software reads and processes any type of document in various file formats and recognizes printed text in 200+ languages, English, German, French and Spanish handwritten text, checkmarks, and 26 different barcode formats.

Develop in familiar environments

Develop in familiar environments

The OCR REST API provides you with a few simple calls to extract text from images and return the text as structured data strings in a JSON output format.

Flexible deployment

Flexible deployment

Run ABBYY OCR Container in the cloud, on premise, or on the edge.

Which product is right for you—ABBYY Vantage OCR Skill or ABBYY OCR Container?

Use ABBYY OCR Skill if you want to call the OCR service in the ABBYY Vantage Cloud, as well as use other Vantage Skill services available and the pre-trained document models (skills).

Use the ABBYY OCR Container when you want to deploy the OCR service into your cloud or on-premise application using containers.

  ABBYY Vantage OCR Skill ABBYY OCR Container
Deployment Licensed as part of Vantage OCR Deployed in a container - on-prem or Cloud
Setup Configuration UI No configuration / code development
Features    
OCR / ICR Yes Yes
Recognition Supports over 200 languages Supports over 200 languages
Input formats PDF, GIF, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, BMP, HEIC PDF, GIF, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, BMP, HEIC
Export formats PDF, PDF/A, TXT, Word, Excel, JSON, XML, TIFF, JPG PDF, PDF/A, TXT, Word, Excel, JSON, XML, TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, HTML
Barcodes Yes Yes
Text field extraction Requires Vantage license No
Image processing Auto + configuration UI Auto + disable via API

Selected use cases

Apply ABBYY OCR to diverse scenarios, like healthcare records, financial documents, tax documents, legal contracts, and more.

Data analysis

Data analysis

Enable users to extract raw data from images and documents and perform various data analysis operations on it to generate outcomes from that data.

Document workflow

Document workflow

Integrate OCR as part of a document workflow application. Use in combination with AI machine learning models to perform classification and extraction.

Search & eDiscovery

Search & eDiscovery

Integrate OCR as part of search and discovery content systems.

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