User manual ABBYY SOFTWARE MOBILE OCR ENGINE 4.0 BROCHURE

[. . . ] · Optimised memory management and efficient loading for high performance · Multilingual support, including Latin, Cyrillic. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Greek characters · Sample application and test shell · Sophisticated OCR functionality: ­ Extremely accurate text conversion ­ Skew correction ­ Multi-column document analysis ­ Character recognition certainty control ­ Automatic document orientation detection Your Mobile Application with the Power of OCR ABBYY OCR technology transforms images into manageable text which can be saved, stored, edited or sent via web services, email or SMS. Applications based on the Mobile OCR Engine can transform notes, business cards, newspaper clippings, menus and other texts captured via a mobile imaging device into electronic data that can be also easily exported into other applications. [. . . ] Additional skew correction and document orientation detection can be applied. Step 3: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Then the detected blocks on the image are recognised using the special language and pattern definitions. If dictionaries are available, then the texts are also compared to improve the overall recognition quality. Recognition results are the set of characters with coordinates united in lines. Each character has the level confidence which show how recognition engine was sure in final character choice. Step 4: Business Card Processing (optional) Step 2: Document Analysis Document Analysis is a set of algorithms that analyses the image -- it detects letters, joins the letters into words, then into lines of text, and finally, into paragraphs. The recognition results are analyzed and the relevant contact information from business cards is extracted. Step 5: Result Processing The recognition results can be processed and exported. The developer of the application has full control over the OCR results. Functionality Overview High Accuracy OCR Based on award-winning technology, ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 combines superior accuracy with powerful and efficient OCR processing. The software development kit delivers instant OCR results and provides multilingual capabilities for developing solutions suitable for international markets. Paragraph Assembly ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 automatically detects text columns. The Document Analysis detects the borders of the text blocks and reads each block separately. Thus recognition is performed left to right and top to bottom only within the boundaries of a separate block. Test Shell for Windows ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 includes a precompiled test shell for Windows. There is direct access to the following calls: · Pre-process image · Find all lines · Recognise active blocks · Recognise all blocks · Find and recognise all lines · Recognize business cards · Generate word suggestion Based on Proven Technology Developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers can have confidence in the functionality provided through the Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 because it is based on secondgeneration, proven technology in use by products already released to the market. ABBYY first premiered the small code-sized version of its toolkit in 1999 when the technology was integrated into the C-Pen, a small handheld pen scanner. OCR implementation in the C-Pen required less than 2 MB of disk space and was combined with the ABBYY Lingvo RussianEnglish dictionary. Business Card OCR ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 offers intelligent text parsing capabilities specially designed to accurately identify and extract key fields of contact information from business card images. It will recognise key phone and address book fields such as name, phone/fax number, e-mail address, company name, job title, address and Web address. Using this option, developers can create applications which will allow users to take a digital camera picture of a business card and convert the picture into text which can then be stored directly into the address book on the phone. Multilingual OCR The SDK allows development of international solutions since it supports 62 languages with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 supports 3 types of dictionaries: ·Standard dictionary (OCR), ·Keyword dictionary for Business Card Reading ·User dictionary for custom defined languages The standard and custom dictionaries can be used to avoid errors in words caused by uncertain recognised characters. New Document Analysis ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 4. 0 includes a Document Analysis (DA) module. It analyses documents in their entirety and produces a set of blocks, each having its own internal structure. [. . . ] Abbey House, Grenville Place, Bracknell RG12 1BP, United Kingdom Phone: 0800 028 4515 Fax: 0800 028 4526 sales_UK@abbyy. com www. abbyy. co. uk © 2010 ABBYY. ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Symbian and all Symbian-based marks and logos are trade marks of Symbian Software Limited. [. . . ]