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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ABBYY RELEASES OCR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
KIT FOR LINUX
Widely Acclaimed OCR Engine Now Available for Developers,
VARs, and Integrators of Linux Operating Environments
Fremont, CA (October 6, 2003) – ABBYY®, a leading developer
of document recognition and linguistic technologies, today
announced the availability of its optical character recognition
(OCR) technology for the Linux community. Available now
as a free trial, ABBYY FineReader Engine 6.0 for Linux,
is a Software Development Kit (SDK) for integrating ABBYY
OCR technologies into Linux applications.
FineReader Engine 6.0 for Linux marks ABBYY’s first offering
for the Linux community. Created with special consideration
for the functionality and unique characteristics of the
Linux platform, it offers access to ABBYY’s OCR technology,
which is known for its superior accuracy and format retention.
VARs, system integrators, third party developers, and
corporate developers who want to build a variety of document
management applications using a LINUX-based development
environment can now take advantage of this technology.
The FineReader Engine can be used in image or document
processing applications that require accurate and flexible
OCR functionality. Some examples of applications for which
FineReader Engine is ideal include:
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Archiving and document processing applications requiring
speed and flexible access to OCR functions. |
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Control systems for verification of bank checks,
passports, tickets, credit cards, driver licenses,
registered car numbers, and the like. |
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Document conversion applications for output to PDF,
HTML, and RTF with full page layout retention. |
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Fax processing applications in which OCR is used
to convert faxed images into editable text. |
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Content creation and management applications such
as Web publishing systems, Intranet archiving applications,
and press/media-clipping solutions. |
Technology Advantage
Thanks to IPA Technology and Multilevel Document Analysis
(view www.abbyy.com/ipa for more information), FineReader
delivers unprecedented recognition accuracy. Also, FineReader
maintains higher quality of accuracy on multi-lingual
documents than any other OCR software.
Moving beyond previous generations of OCR technology
that focus on text alone, the FineReader technology, which
represents the next generation in OCR technology, is designed
to recognize documents as a whole. The goal of FineReader
OCR technology is to produce editable files that mirror
paper originals, analyzing not just text, but also formatting,
such as image placement, font size and spacing, column
placement, and text orientation.
ABBYY FineReader Engine 6.0 Functionality
FineReader Engine for Linux 6.0 offers the following
features which are at the core of ABBYY’s OCR technology:
1. Recognition:
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Unsurpassed recognition quality. |
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With IPA technology and the MDA method, ABBYY’s
recognition technology has received more than 100
awards from influential IT magazines since 1998. |
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Extended language support of multilingual documents.
FineReader technology recognizes 177 languages, providing
superior recognition of multilingual documents. This
is a unique and powerful advantage for developers
with global market products. FineReader recognizes
more languages than any other OCR system. Thirty four
of these languages have dictionary/morphology support. |
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"Intelligent Background Filtering" and
“Adaptive Binarization” Technologies for OCR (Machine
Print Recognition).
This advanced imaging and pre-processing technology
uses individual recognition parameters for each image
fragment, increasing accuracy on difficult-to-read
documents such as newsprint, color documents, faxes,
and copies. It also includes filters for screening
out background noise. |
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Recognition Module for Dot Matrix Recognition.
This add-on module recognizes all types of dot matrix
print text. It was tested with several thousand samples
on a variety of printers including dot matrix, daisy
wheel, chain and band printers, draft, and Near Letter
Quality (NLQ). |
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OCR-A, OCR-B and MICR (E13B) Font Support.
Recognizes characters frequently used by banks, credit
card companies and other financial institutions. |
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Fast Mode recognition.
Designed for high-volume document processing applications
where speed is more important than accuracy. This
mode increases the processing speed by up to 250 percent,
making it particularly useful with document management
and archiving systems. |
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Recognition of vertical texts and typewritten documents. |
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2. Document Analysis:
Using MDA and IPA principles, FineReader retains the exact
look of printed documents including wrap-around text,
columns, tables, non-rectangular pictures, varying fonts
or varying spacing between characters. In addition, it
is able to automatically detect page orientation, location
of text blocks, tables, barcodes and pictures, and text
orientation within table cells (such as vertical text).
3. Layout Retention and Output Capabilities
FineReader Engine is able to re-construct a document into
digital formats with impeccable layout retention when
exporting to RTF and PDF formats. It offers multiple levels
of text format retention (from simple text with no formatting
to complete page layout retention, including columns,
tables, frames, fonts, font size, paragraph styles, and
borders.). It reserves the original graphics including
non-rectangular pictures, retains original text color
and is able to recreate bullet and numbering lists.
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PDF output. |
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When exporting to PDF, it supports all the standard
PDF output options including “text and image”, “text
over image”, “text under image”, and “image-only”,
plus has the ability to replace uncertain characters
with original images. In addition, it also supports
multilingual PDF files without having users install
additional fonts. |
4. Other advanced functionalities:
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Opening images from files and memory. |
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Functions for image preprocessing such as automatic
deskewing; rotation mirroring, inverting of images;
image despeckling, image scaling and clipping; and
dual-page splitting. |
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Full access to recognized text including the detailed
information of character formatting and coordinates. |
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Functions for post-editing and post-formatting of
the recognized text before exporting.
FineReader OCR functions are easily accessible via
an application programming interface (API). ABBYY
has also developed a special utility for Linux programmers
that allows them to access a variety of FineReader
Engine controls using the Command Line interface,
a preferred programming method for the Linux community.
The API for FineReader Engine 6.0 for Linux is identical
to that of FineReader Engine 6.0 for Windows, making
it easy for developers working with multiple platform
applications to use the same API on different platforms. |
Trial version
ABBYY is offering a free, limited-time, fully functional
version of ABBYY FineReader Engine 6.0 for Linux. To obtain
an evaluation copy, please contact an ABBYY salesperson
at www.abbyyusa.com.
Pricing and Availability
ABBYY FineReader Engine 6.0 for Linux is now available.
ABBYY offers flexible pricing options that allow developers
to select the type of licensing model that is best suited
to their product and sales strategy needs. For additional
product information visit the company’s website at http://www.abbyyusa.com.
About ABBYY USA
ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Software
House Group, a world leader in document recognition and
linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development
of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent
character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and
electronic lexicography. Leading products from ABBYY include
the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and barcode software,
and FineReader development tools. Companies that license
ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include Acer, C-Technologies,
Cardiff Software, Cobra Technologies, Freedom Scientific,
Kurzweil, Kofax Image Products, Legato Systems, Lexmark,
Microtek, Mustek, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Optika,
Panasonic, SER Solutions, Samsung Electronics, Siemens
Nixdorf, Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Umax. For more
information about ABBYY, visit: www.abbbyyusa.com
or contact ABBYY USA, 3823 Spinnaker Ct., Fremont, CA
94538. Phone: (510) 226-6717. Fax: (510) 226-6069. E-mail:
info@abbyyusa.com.
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Press Contact:
Imelda Valenzuela
ABBYY USA
imeldav@abbyyusa.com
(510) 226-6717 x 116
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