Key features of ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0

High Accuracy of Text Recognition
ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine's innovative technology ensures the best recognition results for images captured with camera phones, digital cameras and portable scanners:

• ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine is based on ABBYY's world-renowned OCR technology, which provides high quality and accuracy of mobile recognition of images.
• The product includes an automated image skew correction function.NEW!
  Taking photographs with a mobile device camera or scanning images with a portable scanner on-the-run, image skews occur fairly often, which has a negative impact on the recognition quality. ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 allows detection and correction of skews within one degree of precision, which results in a significant improvement of the quality and accuracy of mobile OCR.
• Improved Data Analysis Algorithm NEW!
  Thanks to the new image processing algorithm, Data Analysis discards all the unnecessary information in the image and thus provides more accurate recognition on mobile devices.
• Spell checking during text recognition also considerably improves the quality of the output text.

Low Resource Requirements
The ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine is a compact code OCR technology and is optimized to work with small memory size systems (mobile phones or portable scanners):

• Enhanced memory management NEW!
  The new algorithm for memory management allows the system to determine the exact memory size required to process an image. This eliminates the necessity to allocate significant memory segments in advance, which has an impact on the recognition speed and the application’s capability to work reliably, ensuring efficiency and fast performance speed. The ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine's code is very compact, it occupies 2.5 MB of ROM and 2.5 MB of RAM (or more, depending on the desired functionality).

Support for Multiple Languages
ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 provides text recognition in 58 languages, which enables developers to create international mobile applications:

• 20 languages with dictionary support:
  Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian  (both Bokmal, and Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
• 38 additional languages with Latin, Cyrillic or Greek characters:
  Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, CrimeanTatar, Croatian, Fijian, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Kabardian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maori, Mixed, Moldavian, Mongol, Ossetic, Provencal, Rhaeto Romanic, Romanian, Samoan, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Tagalog, Tatar, Welsh, and Yiddish.

Integration with any Mobile Platform NEW!
ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 can be used in applications for various platforms (mobile and PC-based): Windows, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, ucLinux, LINUX. The new version also supports Android OS. Porting to other platforms is also possible.

New Data Analysis Algorithm NEW!
The new data analysis algorithm of ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 allows faster text recognition and provides the output text in a format as close as possible to the format of the source document:

• Preserving multi-column text
  In the previous versions of the SDK, text was recognized left to right top to bottom strictly, which resulted in placing all the recognized data into one linear massive. ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 has a function called «Paragraph Assembly», thanks to which the new DA identifies text block borders and recognizes each block separately, recognizing text left to right and top to bottom only within a separate block, thus preserving the format of a multi-column text, paragraphs, and text segmenting.
• Preserving Character Fonts
  ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine identifies the font properties of a source text, i.e. «bold type», «italic» or «underlined».

Capabilities of Business Card Recognition (BCR) NEW!
ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine 3.0 is more than a high-accuracy text recognition technology, it also makes it possible to process business card images taken with built-in phone cameras or portable scanners. This function allows retrieving information from business card images such as first name, last name, position of the cardholder, various types of phone numbers, e-mail, company name, and Web site and postal address of the company.

ABBYY BCR recognizes business cards in 16 languages: NEW!

• English
• Dutch - New
• Danish - New
• Indonesian
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
• Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) - New
• Portuguese (Brazilian) - New
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Turkish -New
• Ukrainian
• Finnish - New
• French
• Swedish - New

Two Recognition Modes
ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine provides a flexible technology that provides a capability to change the settings depending on the task and quality of original images. You can select one of the two mobile recognition modes:

• Fast mode for express recognition – it is most useful when the image is of good quality and allows cutting down the time required for its recognition and processing.
• Full mode – it is best for low-quality images, when more time is required to achieve the optimal result.