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NEW! 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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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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