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 - Release 10 Part 1 available (10.12.2018)
Key new features:

• Support of ready-made business card reading from photos
• Support of new ID documents for discrete data capture
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ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK II - Release 1 available (24.07.2018)
Key features:

• Automatic document image capture
• Document edges detection
• Image Export
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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
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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.
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FineReader Engine 11 for Windows - Release 8 Update 4 available (16.01.2018)
This is a maintenance release containing bug fixes.

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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
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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

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