More FineReader good and different!

There is so much going on here that no one must have noticed a curious change in ABBYY’s file. No, I'm not saying that the “Application” dashboard was added to the right. As they say, we need to go deeper!

The views of the most attentive now should be riveted to the references to Windows 8 and iOS in the picture on the right, which is true, because They appeared there recently. Under the cut I will tell you a bit about the applications behind the links.


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So, I will start in order. And what about the first - Windows 8 or iOS? The correct answer is Azure, because both applications are clients of our web service FineReader Online, which lives on the roof where it’s clear. What is it for me? There are generally a number of conclusions. For example:

• Without a network, using the application is a rather meaningless event, since the pictures are sent to the server, the recognized one is taken from there;
• The balance of the user does not depend on how he wants to use the service. There are bought 100 pages through the site, then you can spend them through the iPhone, and through Windows 8. Reverse statements, of course, are also fair;
• File storage is also one. You can send to the recognition of photos from the iPhone, and pick up the result, sitting in the office more comfortable through the browser. Achtung: you should not forget that we store the result on the server for 2 weeks.
  

In fact, despite the different guises, applications can do the same thing: take a picture from the camera or from the device’s gallery, send it to recognition with the specified parameters (language, output format), get the result back.

Of course, there are differences. The iOS client can better handle the photo: the photo cropping mechanism is borrowed from FineScanner . And he has the ability to put tags on documents. This is in case there is a desire to organize a library of content-rendering content on the device.

However, this difference is leveled by the possibility of “sharing” the recognition result in any other applications that support the work with the necessary formats.

But in general, that's all. Although no, I can tell a couple of stories from the life of FineReader Touch (this is the very Win8 client that I’m talking about here).

The first story. About luck.
We sent, it appears, the application for Win8 to check in the Store. A week later, the answer comes like "but no" and some small recommendations about improving the application. They read, did not quite understand. We decided that while we are going to figure it out, you can try sending the same build once more for verification. And you know, it worked. Moral: perseverance and work (above all, of course, perseverance) lead to the fact that the application does proappruvit a less picky approver :)

The second story. FineReader Touch: strawberry for adults.
At some point, it turned out that the Store does not want to let us in with an age limit of 0+. I had to install 12+. So we don’t give the tablet a better hand for the children - we have there, it seems, Easter eggs in the form of half-naked girls. But we didn’t add them there and we still haven’t met them, honestly!

There will be no stories about the iOS app, because nobody told me about them. And I have no relation to the mobile department, so I myself have not seen anything, have not heard, I will not say.

If the desire to install the product rolled with a warm wave, then here are the links:
iOS : itunes.apple.com/ru/app/finereader-touch/id565102038 (I note that the application is not free, but the package contains 100 pages for recognition)


Win8 : apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/finereader-touch/810b92ef-ba6b-497c-8208-90710e71d745

By the way, regular users of MetroUI, what type of barcode is typical for this platform? I remember that MS pushed Microsoft Tag , but did not notice that it was actively used in Windows 8.

And yes, if there are specific questions about developing an application on Win8, then we will almost certainly be able to answer them - write in the comments.