This site is a source of technical information about ABBYY technologies and toolkits for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), classification, data extraction and advanced language technologies.

Real-Time Recognition SDK 1 - Release 5 Extended Data Capture available (22.09.2017)
Key new features:

• Capture of information from ID documents
• Capture of information from bank cards
• Extended code samples
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FineReader Engine 11 for Linux - Release 8 Update available (08.09.2017)
This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.

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Real-Time Recognition SDK 1 - Release 5 available (11.08.2017)
Key new features:

• Support of Data Capture Interfaces
• IBAN Capture
• MRZ Capture
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FlexiCapture Engine 11 - Release 3 Update 4 available (08.08.2017)
This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.

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FineReader Engine 11 for Windows - Release 8 Update 3 available (08.08.2017)
This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.

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Mobile Imaging SDK - Release 5 available (03.08.2017)

• The new release supports now ARM64 processors.
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Real-Time Recognition SDK 1 - Release 4 available (06.07.2017)
Key new features:

• Ability to store patterns and dictionaries outside of the application's package/bundle
• [Technical preview] Data Capture support
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FineReader Engine 11 for Mac - Release 8 available (28.04.2017)
This is a maintenance release containing a lot of new features and improvements:

• Extended method of injecting text into PDF.
• Ability to detect text layer in PDFs imported from memory stream.
• Faster printing of PDF using MRC.
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News Archive

• Comparison of Mobile SDKs: Mobile Imaging - Mobile OCR - Real-Time Recognition - new
• Classification Comparison: Smart Classifier, FineReader Engine & FlexiCapture (Engine) - new
• ABBYY Cloud OCR Service Status Indicators
• Smart Classifier Model Editor
• Windows 10 & ABBYY SDKs
• Why OCR a PDF