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ABBYY Recognition Server Ramps Up Power for Document Conversion
Wednesday 28. May 2014 - New Release Offers Extended PDF Capabilities, Direct SharePoint Integration and Robust Architecture
ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, today announced the new release of ABBYY Recognition Server, the award-winning server-based software for automated, unattended document conversion. The latest release offers new functions for more efficient conversion of large archives, enhanced Microsoft SharePoint integration, advanced PDF creation capabilities, new fault-tolerance mechanisms, and enhanced Arabic optical character recognition (OCR).
“While organizations are increasingly going digital to consume, share and store information, paper documentation is still prevalent throughout enterprise environments,” said Aram Pakhchanian, director of Data Capture Products at ABBYY. “Recognition Server enables businesses to handle large volumes of documents more efficiently than ever – quickly turning unstructured images and entire document libraries into searchable and usable information.”
Designed for mid- to high-volume document processing, ABBYY Recognition Server enables organizations and scanning service providers to establish cost-efficient processes for converting paper and image documents into electronic files suitable for search and archiving. Recognition Server automatically obtains images of documents from scanners, file servers, fax and email servers and Microsoft SharePoint libraries, can recognize content in more than 190 languages, and allows for metadata to be added to simplify search.
Key new features include:
Processing Documents from Archives and Microsoft SharePoint Libraries – ABBYY Recognition Server can now traverse a tree of nested folders or a document library in Microsoft SharePoint, convert discovered image files into searchable formats, and reproduce the entire library in a searchable form. Newly added files that appear in the library can be processed automatically.
Enhanced Robustness and Fault Tolerance With the addition of a SQLite database and enhanced fault tolerance mechanisms, ABBYY Recognition Server can handle high workloads or serve multiple clients within one installation, enabling it to support extensive and enterprise-wide document conversion projects.
Smarter PDF Conversion During PDF conversion, ABBYY Recognition Server can intelligently detect PDF files that require OCR processing while leaving PDFs that already have a text layer untouched. When converting PDF files into archiving formats such as searchable PDF or PDF/A, ABBYY Recognition Server will inject a text layer into them while keeping the image quality, metadata, bookmarks, annotations, attachments, and other features of the original document intact.
Faster Arabic OCR Along with a general improvement of OCR accuracy and speed, ABBYY Recognition Server delivers up to 20 percent* faster processing of Arabic texts and up to 10 percent* more accurate results on office documents and books in Arabic.
Easier User Management To further reduce administration efforts and permissions for different tasks such as administration, verification and indexing can now be assigned via Active Directory user groups.
Availability
ABBYY Recognition Server is available worldwide through ABBYY regional offices and partner channel.