ABBYY released a specific developer toolkit for the Android platform

The Android platform continues to gain popularity. ABBYY, a domestic company, has already announced the appearance of a new version of ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine, a cross-platform software toolkit for developing OCR applications for mobile devices. The new version allows developers to easily integrate text recognition technology into mobile devices with the Android system. Previously, ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine already supported such popular operating systems as Windows Mobile, Symbian, LINUX and others.

ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine allows you to enable text recognition in a wide variety of mobile applications, from programs for entering information from business cards to your phone’s address book to various products for solving business problems. For example, you can create an application that can photograph, convert to text and send fragments of journal articles or documents via SMS. Another example is that you can now “link” the phone’s camera, the recognition program and the ABBYY electronic dictionary into one system that will translate the text photographed into Russian (for example, a menu in a French restaurant, a label of German medicine, etc.).