• Development for Mobile Platforms
  Desktop and server OCR have been established for quite some time. ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine, allows developers to integrate text recognition on mobile devices. The SDK has been designed especially for the mobile platform and enables the development for a large spectrum of applications.

• Mobile applications that have ABBYY OCR inside are able to transform digital images of
  • documents
  • notes
  • newspaper clippings
  • business cards
  • timetables
  • menus and other text taken with a built-in camera

• Mobile Developers can “pimp” their existing mobile apps and use the OCRed data within their own applications. So OCR
  • reduces manual text/data input by the user
  • generates a new usability of the app
  • opens a new way of dealing with information
  • At the end the application more value for users and developers can charge more for it ;o)

• ABBYY first premiered the small code-sized version (V1.0) of its toolkit in 1999 when the technology was integrated into the C-Pen, a small hand-held pen scanner. OCR implementation in the C-Pen required less than 2 MB of disk space and was combined with the ABBYY Lingvo Russian-English dictionary.

• Mobile OCR Engine 4.0 Brochure (PDF)

Mobile OCR technology is already available for several years and the importance for light OCR technology is increasing with the growing market of smart phones.

FineReader Engine for the most operating systems is already available for 2 technology cycles :

• Comparison of Embedded, Mobile and FineReader Engine
• How to test Mobile OCR Engine - Testshell Download
• Mobile OCR Engine Licensing

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