How ABBYY FineReader Engine Recognizes Data in Drawings

Many of us remember from school lessons drawing these signs that need to be drawn on each sheet in the lower right corner. It was always possible to quickly find the desired drawing in the folder. Quickly? Well, while we are talking about drawings that fit into one folder, yes. And if this is a whole cabinet of technical documentation?

Our partners from CSoft are engaged in consulting and implementing integrated solutions in the field of design systems and, by the nature of their activity, they are constantly faced with such “cabinets”. Their programs are intended for scanning and processing of raster images, as well as the subsequent input of the obtained data into the enterprise information systems or other applications. They allow you to work with raster images of drawings, maps, charts and other graphic materials of builders and designers.

In practice, most of the archival documentation that needs to be digitized is usually done manually and on old media, therefore Soft specialists have built-in ABBYY FineReader Engine recognition technology that can easily handle such documents. Our solution was included in the three software products Soft - RasterID, Spotlight and RasterDesk - and received the name ABBYY FineReader Plugin.

After ABBYY FineReader Plugin recognizes the text in the title block of the drawing, the received information is transmitted to an external database or workflow system to form a card of the scanned document, with which it can be quickly found to solve work problems. It does not matter how filled the title block - printed or handwritten (in block letters by hand). Our technologies allow us to recognize both in more than 100 languages ​​and are applicable not only for working with standard A4 printed documents, but also for processing complex and non-standard documentation. Toolkit ABBYY FineReader Engine allows the developer to create applications with which you can handle not just individual image areas, but even individual characters.