Was ABBYY FineReader Engine for embedded platforms

ABBYY Company announced today the release of a special compact version of ABBYY FineReader Engine Embedded OS. The new version provides tools for embedded platforms, and the words of the company, does not require significant resources of memory (enough for only 5 MB) and is suitable for any development platform. Since its release ABBYY recognition technology became available to manufacturers of portable and multifunction peripherals, including scanners, MFIs machines to receive payments, data processing terminals and other devices.

Now developers can pre-order the desired functionality of the tools and expertise ABBYY add the necessary facilities, such as support for additional processors, languages, new ways of image processing, and eliminate unused functionality. ABBYY FineReader Engine Engine Embedded OS created by the characteristics of a specific project that allows the end-products quickly and efficiently.

The standard configuration of ABBYY FineReader Engine Embedded OS is suitable for the conversion of text from scanned or photographed images in various formats. Applications can be configured to recognize the image in whole or its individual fragments.

Key benefits of ABBYY FineReader Engine for embedded platforms:

• Low system requirements - FineReader Engine is optimized for embedded platforms to work with limited computational resources, including a small amount of memory and low-frequency processors.
• Work on any platform - a new version of tools can be used with different operating systems, as well as easy to change on demand of the customer to other platforms.
• High accuracy of detection and conversion of documents - the tool was created using the latest developments in the area of the ABBYY Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and conversion of PDF-documents.
• A variety of modifications - ABBYY FineReader Engine for embedded platforms can be modified in accordance with the needs of the customer. Any feature that exists in other tools for developers, for example, FineReader Engine or FlexiCapture Engine, can be embedded in new tools. Thus, in addition to the standard set of functions, you can add handwriting printed text (ICR), OCR marks (OMR), the function of recognition of barcodes, the system of indexing and streaming input documents.
• Support for multiple languages - Tools for embedded systems supports the recognition of documents on the 60 most common languages (including 23 languages with dictionary support). At the request of the customer in the version of ABBYY FineReader Engine Embedded OS can be added additional languages of the 195 that supports optical character recognition technology ABBYY (among them the languages based on Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Hebrew and others).