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New OCR SDK for Linux Environment
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Written by Jenny Curtis   
Thursday, 22 April 2010

           ABBYY has announced ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux, a software development kit (SDK) which integrates optical character recognition, barcode recognition, and PDF conversion into Linux-based applications.

           With many business-critical applications running on Linux nowadays, the quality and reliability of Linux-based software technologies has become of utmost importance, according to Andrey Isaev, director of the technology products department at ABBYY. ”ABBYY FineReader Engine SDK delivers complete set of technologies to integrate truly accurate and comprehensive OCR functionality in the Linux environment yet provides qualified technical support and protection from a variety of possible additional expenses such as those related with implementation, upgrade issues, and customer dissatisfaction.”
          Key features of ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 SDK for Linux:
               • Language Support for OCR - The SDK includes 190 languages for optical character recognition, including languages with Latin, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Hebrew characters.  The kit also provides capability to read multilingual documents including combinations of different languages (e.g. Chinese and English).
               • Barcode Recognition - The software development kit recognizes 15 1D barcode types and popular 2D barcodes and can detect them at any orientation on the page.
               • Reproduction of Logical Document Structure - ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 reproduces the structure and formatting of multipage documents.
              • PDF and PDF/A Conversion with MRC Compression - creates searchable and tagged PDFs, extracts metadata, re-creates hyperlinks and internal links.
               • Various Input and Output Formats - the toolkit supports PDF, BMP, PCX, DCX, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and PNG. The saving formats are RTF, PDF, PDF/A, DOC, XLS, PPT, XML, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, TXT, CSV, HTML, and DBF.
          For more information on ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux, visit www.ABBYY.com/ocr_sdk_linux .

 

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