FineReader Technologies for Linux

You asked: what does ABBYY produce in addition to the well-known FineReader and Lingvo? And on our forum, people often ask: are we planning to release FineReader for Linux? So, this post is the answer to both of these questions! Fine under Linux has long existed in the form of an API and is called FineReader Engine. More recently, we have released a new, 9th version of the Engin for Linux, which is even faster, more accurately recognizes a greater number of languages. Vasily Panfyorov, Head of Technology Product Development, wrote in detail about what FREngine is and who needs it.

The main difference between the Engine and the boxed file is in the target audience. In this product, we mainly focus on software developers who need reliable functionality for recognizing and preprocessing documents, pages, or just pieces of text in the form of pictures (no, FineReader Engine does not recognize captcha :)).

And here the Engine shows all its flexibility. It is necessary to build in the workflow system and make scans of documents available for indexing? You are welcome. Want to automatically sort paper mail? Easy! And you can even embed the engine in any scanner, and then you will not have to think about which side to turn the document before scanning - you will receive a pdf in the right orientation, which you can then find by keywords.

In a word, if you need some non-trivial text processing and recognition functionality, then it will be easy and convenient with FRE. The developer gets all the features of Desktop FineReader'a and even more.
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And if you want something quite simple and immediately working, then for this we have a shell for the command line . With it, you can convert images to a format that you like best, be it a pdf, a simple txt file or a formatted rtf.

And as always, if a user has questions, our technical support will not leave any of them unanswered and will explain how to use our products in the most efficient way.