ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 Software Toolkit Brings New Levels of Accuracy and
Performance to Multipage Document Conversion
New Version Combines Breakthrough Technology to Accurately Re-Create Document
Logical Structure with Outstanding Performance on Multi-Core Processors
FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY, a leading provider of
document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced
its FineReader(R) Engine(R) 9.0 for Windows(R), the newest software
development kit (SDK) to integrate ABBYY's multilingual and multiplatform
recognition technologies. Available today, FineReader Engine 9.0 offers
breakthrough technology to deliver new levels of recognition accuracy and
performance, particularly in processing multipage documents. An enhanced core
technology platform combined with additional improvements such as
significantly increased scalability, new technology for Asian language
recognition and ready-made interface tools make FineReader 9.0 Engine a
definitive solution for integrating highly accurate, scalable and efficient
recognition technologies.
ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 marks a significant step forward in delivering
high quality document recognition and PDF conversion of multipage documents.
New Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT(TM)) not only provides
highly accurate reproduction of text and standard formatting, but precisely
re-creates text flow, logical integrity and formatting consistency across an
entire document. As a result, formatting attributes of the original -- such as
headers, footers, page numbers, footnotes, columns, tables, signatures, fonts
and styles -- are accurately reconstructed in native Microsoft Office
formatting.
Andrey Isaev, director of the technology products department at ABBYY,
explained how ADRT moves document recognition from a page-based to a
document-based approach to accurately re-create the logical structure and
formatting across multiple pages. "Unlike traditional recognition which
processes a document as just a combination of single pages, ADRT processes the
document as a single entity," said Isaev. "It analyzes cumulative data from
all pages of the document to make accurate hypotheses about its type, general
structure and formatting attributes. The result is output of documents which
are truly editable and reusable."
FineReader Engine 9.0 also delivers significant improvements in
performance, accuracy and additional functionality:
High Scalability on Multi-Core Processors
In addition to the enhanced multipage document recognition capabilities,
FineReader Engine 9.0 delivers outstanding performance on multi-core
processors. New extended CPU core support allows FineReader Engine to
effectively distribute document pages among CPU cores. The SDK is designed to
scale depending on the number of CPU cores, providing a significant increase
in processing speed with each new core added to the system. For example, it
can deliver up to 90 percent* increase on dual-core, up to 250 percent*
increase on quad-core processors, and so on.
New Recognition Technology for Chinese and Japanese
Featuring a completely new and powerful recognition technology for Asian
languages, FineReader Engine 9.0 delivers a major breakthrough in recognition
performance and accuracy for Chinese and Japanese, two of the most complex
languages for recognition and conversion. A new intelligent language detection
algorithm delivers exceptional results in processing multilingual documents,
and enables the solution to successfully convert documents with various
combinations of ideographic (e.g. Asian) and alphabetical languages (e.g.
European) such as Chinese and French or Japanese and German.
"With the continual growth of the Asian marketplace, languages such as
Chinese are becoming more and more predominant in a variety of business
documents and communications," explained Isaev. "Yet these types of languages
with thousands of characters have always presented an ongoing challenge for
recognition that needed to be addressed. To this end, ABBYY has invested
significant resources in technology development and we are proud to announce
powerful enhancements in this area."
Ready-to-Use Visual Components for Easy Implementation of OCR Functions
New, ready-to-use Visual Components provide a set of graphical user
interface elements which integrators can easily take advantage of when
incorporating recognition capabilities into their applications. Available in
24 interface languages, Visual Components include intuitive interfaces for
scanning/opening document images, automatic or manual zoning of the image,
text editing, text validation and more. All the components leverage ABBYY's
extensive experience in developing and marketing end-user applications such as
the award-winning ABBYY FineReader optical character recognition (OCR)
application.
Innovative Compression Technology for PDF and PDF/A Export
ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 delivers an innovative Mixed Raster Content
(MRC) compression technology for PDF and PDF/A. The MRC compression is capable
of reducing the size of output PDF by up to 8-10 times* over the usual JPEG
compression. The technology identifies different layers on PDFs and
effectively compresses them without loss of visual quality. Support for highly
compressed searchable PDF and PDF/A is crucial for developing today's document
archiving and storage applications.
Next-generation ABBYY Camera OCR Technology
The new SDK version includes ABBYY's advanced innovations to identify
photographed images and intelligently recognize text on them. ABBYY Camera OCR
provides enhanced image pre-processing functions including image resolution
identification, as well as correction of curved lines, skewing and other
distortions typically found on photographed images.
Other enhancements of the FineReader Engine 9.0 include:
-- New export to XML-based MS Office 2007 formats such as DOCX, XLSX, and
PPTX
-- Support for new JBIG2 image format
-- Enhanced language support - The SDK adds support for 21 new languages
for ICR (recognition of hand printed characters), providing support for
a total of 113 languages for ICR and 195 languages for OCR (recognition
of printed characters). FineReader Engine 9.0 also includes accuracy
enhancements for Hebrew language recognition.
About ABBYY Recognition Technologies and ABBYY Multiplatform Toolkits
ABBYY FineReader Engine is a powerful SDK that gives developers and
integrators the tools they require to integrate a variety of recognition
technologies into their software applications. The ABBYY recognition platform
delivers award-winning OCR, intelligent character recognition (ICR), barcode,
checkmark, field-level/zonal recognition and PDF conversion for transforming
scanned documents and image files into searchable, editable and manageable
text files. Already providing the recognition component for leading enterprise
document management, workflow and archiving systems from leading providers,
ABBYY FineReader Engine toolkits are available to support multiple operating
environments including Windows, Linux(R), FreeBSD(R) and Mac OS(R). ABBYY also
offers an OS-independent, small code-sized development toolkit specially
designed for integrating OCR and business card reading functions into any
mobile application and operating system including Windows Mobile, Symbian and
Linux.
Availability and Pricing
ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 is available immediately worldwide via a
flexible, modular licensing policy. Developers may select the best combination
of tools and pricing options for their projects. Pricing varies according to
the number of CPU cores, processing stations and number of pages processed.
For information on licensing models and pricing, contact your local ABBYY
office or ABBYY partner.
A special time-limited trial version is also available for testing. For
more information about the product, visit www.ABBYY.com.
* Numbers quoted are based on internal ABBYY testing.
About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and
linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical
character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data
capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools.
Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to
automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business
processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as
those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of
Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County
Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include
BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable
Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped
with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson,
Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY
is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United
States, Ukraine, the UK, Taiwan and Japan. For more information, visit
www.ABBYY.com.
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, Lingvo and FlexiCapture are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names
mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners and are hereby recognized.
SOURCE ABBYY
Claire Barton of Nadel Phelan, Inc for ABBYY, +1-831-440-2406,
claire@nadelphelan.com
