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ABBYY Unveils FineReader Engine 11 OCR SDK

Monday 28. October 2013 - Automatic Document Classification, Business Card Recognition and Extended PDF Features Added to Industry-Leading Offering; Available on Windows, Linux and Mac Development Platforms

ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software and services, today announced the release of FineReader Engine 11, the newest edition of its optical character recognition (OCR) software development kit (SDK). ABBYY FineReader Engine 11 introduces various enhancements including an API for automatic document classification; a new business card recognition capability; extended PDF export, enhanced image preprocessing, improved Word and Excel export; and native 64 bit and easier Java integration. The industry-leading SDK delivers high accuracy OCR for more than 200 languages including improved recognition of Arabic. It is available for the Windows, Linux and Mac platforms.
“ABBYY has long been committed to pushing the envelope on OCR performance and accuracy, and FineReader Engine 11 represents the culmination of this effort,” stated Andrey Isaev, director of Technology Products Department at ABBYY. “The latest generation of our SDK brings together numerous enhancements that software vendors have been asking for to satisfy the challenges their customers are facing. It also raises the bar on accuracy and language support, enabling development teams to not only save time and money themselves, but pass it onto their own customers, making them more competitive.”
New features and enhancements in ABBYY FineReader Engine 11 include:
— Automatic Document Classification — via combination of content- and
image-based classification technologies the application can detect what
document types are being processed, so developers can easily sort a
batch of mixed documents automatically.
— Business Card Recognition — full-feature business card recognition
technology is now accessible through an API, enabling developers to
incorporate data extraction and export into their applications.
— Extended PDF Export — for further support and compliance with archiving
standards, the FineReader Engine now provides export to PDF/A-2, a
format which enables saving to smaller file size that leads to reduced
storage space for long term archiving, and PDF/A-3*, which enables
inclusion of binary format such as XML or Microsoft Word. Additional
PDF processing enhancements include improved MRC compression, PDF
bookmark preservation and increased export speed.
— Improved Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean OCR — this version
offers Arabic OCR that is twice as accurate and three times faster than
it was in FineReader Engine 10, as well as improved speed and accuracy
for Japanese, Korean and Chinese traditional and simplified documents.**
— Improved Word and Excel Export — improved layout retention and font
detection in Word and Excel documents during export.
— Native 64-bit and Simplified Java Integration — improved 64-bit support
allows developers to take full advantage of 64-bit hardware; and new
implementation-ready Java classes eliminate the need for significant
coding to create wrappers for Java applications.
— Enhanced Image Preprocessing Tools — improved algorithms for
geometrical distortions correction, new auto-cropping and background
lightening features, and better ISO noise removal ensure more accurate
recognition results, especially when documents are captured with cameras
in mobile devices and processed in an OCR back-end system.