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ABBYY OCR & NLP
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.
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NEW! FineReader Engine 12 for Mac - Release 4 (incl. Update 1) available (07.01.2020)
Key new features:
- New: Office documents input
- New: Ready to use data extraction from Machine Readable Zones in ID documents (MRZ)
- New: 'Compare Documents' functionality
- Added: OCR and ICR functionality
- New recognition languages: Georgian, Simple mathematical formulas
- Improved: Arabic and Korean OCR - with new AI-based algorithms for better recognition accuracy
- Enhanced: Advanced security of training data used for Text-based classifier training
- Improved: Layout preservation with new recognition of text columns
- Enhanced: Product documentation
NEW! ABBYY Mobile Capture - Release 6 available (17.12.2019)
Key enhancements:
- Crop update in video-stream: Huge improvement for Mobile Capture Image Capture capabilities ...more details - Download (Login needed)
NEW! FineReader Engine 12 for Linux - Release 4 (incl. Update 1) available (16.12.2019)
Key new features:
- New: 'Compare Documents' functionality
- Improved: Arabic and Korean OCR - with new AI-based algorithms for better recognition accuracy
- Enhanced: Advanced security of training data used for Text-based classifier training
- Improved: Layout preservation with new recognition of text columns
- Enhanced: Product documentation
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NEW! FineReader Engine 12 for Windows - Release 4 Update 1 available (04.12.2019)
Key new feature:
- Enhancement of 'Compare Documents' functionality
NEW! ABBYY Mobile Capture - Release 5 available (20.11.2019)
Key enhancements:
- UI component for multipage image capture: Mobile Capture SDK provides an interface to manage the most common options for multipage image capture scenarios, like submission of a set of documents.* ...more details - Download (Login needed)
NEW! FineReader Engine 12 for Windows - Release 4 available (28.10.2019)
Key new features:
- New: 'Compare Documents' functionality
- Improved: Arabic and Korean OCR - with new AI-based algorithms for better recognition accuracy
- Enhanced: Advanced security of training data used for Text-based classifier training
- Improved: Layout preservation with new recognition of text columns
- Enhanced: Product documentation
NEW! ABBYY Mobile Web Capture - Release 1.6 available (14.10.2019)
Key enhancements:
- Real-time boundaries detection algorithm enhancements: Mobile Web Capture SDK automatically detects the document boundaries and the ideal time to capture an image best suitable for OCR. This release includes an increased document boundary detection accuracy and the ability to capture documents on low contrast background from video stream.
FineReader Engine 12 for Linux - Release 3 available (23.07.2019)
Key new features:
- New: Recognition of hand-printed text (ICR)
- New: Recogniton of optical marks (OMR)
- New: Office documents as new input format
- New: Ready to use data extraction from Machine Readable Zones in ID documents (MRZ)
- New recognition languages: Georgian, Simple mathematical formulas
- Improved recognition of Asian languages due to newly trained Convolusional Neural Network
- Extended set of tags for Tagged PDF export format
- Enhanced documentation
- Java additions
ABBYY Mobile Web Capture - Release 1 available (18.06.2019)
Key Features:
- Automatic image capture from web browser
- Buil-in image pre-processing to capture a document image best suitable for OCR
- Ready-made UI component for image capture, loading and pre-processing
- Automatic document boundaries detection
FineReader Engine 12 for Windows - Release 3 available (04.06.2019)
Key new features:
- Office documents as new input format
- Ready to use data extraction from Machine Readable Zones in ID documents (MRZ)
- New recognition languages: Georgian, Simple mathematical formulas
- Improved recognition of Asian languages due to newly trained Convolusional Neural Network
- Extended set of tags for Tagged PDF export format
- Enhanced documentation
- Java additions
ABBYY Mobile Capture - Release 2 available (14.06.2019)
Key features:
- Read-made UI component for image capture
- Full support of Business Card Reading from video stream (previously preview mode)
ABBYY Mobile Capture - Release 1 available (25.04.2019)
Key features:
- Automatic capture of the best-quality image
- On-device multi-language OCR
- Customizable data capture
- Out-of-the-box ID reading and document capture
- Ready-to-use business card reading
FineReader Engine 12 - Release 2 available (16.05.2018)
Key new features:
- Improved classification
- Improved Japanese OCR
- New deployment in the Cloud
- New OCR languages
- Improved layout reconstruction
- New export formats
FineReader Engine 11 for Linux - Release 8 Update 3 available (27.02.2018)
Key new features:
- Support of multi-threaded solutions using C++.
- A new code sample ‘Multithreading’ for easy and fast development of a multi-threaded client-server application.
FineReader Engine 11 for Windows - Release 8 Update 4 available (16.01.2018)
This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.
Real-Time Recognition SDK Cordova plugin available (11.12.2018)
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FineReader Engine 11 for Linux - Release 8 Update 2 available (26.10.2017)
Key new features:
- RMI-capable Java Wrapper
- A new set of code samples for RMI-capable Java Wrapper