What's New in ABBYY FineReader Engine 12

Here you can find the list of new features in ABBYY FineReader Engine 12.

Release 5

New and improved language recognition

  • Bangla language recognition

See the list of predefined languages in ABBYY FineReader Engine.

OCR and ICR improvements

Image opening and preprocessing

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Other improvements

Release 4

Special features

Document Comparison API:

OCR and ICR improvements

Image opening and preprocessing

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Code Samples

Other improvements

  • ABBYY FineReader Engine HTML-help is now available in Javadoc format. It is included in the Java class library, so you can get the information about ABBYY FineReader Engine API from the IDEs that support Javadoc
  • An Online License limits the number of CPU Cores available for one workstation
  • An Online License now requires the usage of GoDaddy Trusted Root Certification Authority on the computer with the Licensing Service installed
  • The list of parameters for silent installation has been updated

Release 3

This is the release for Windows and Linux versions of ABBYY FineReader Engine. All features from this release were included in Release 4 for the Mac OS version.

Special features

MRZ extraction:

New and improved language recognition

  • Georgian language recognition
  • Mathematical formula language recognition

See the list of predefined languages in ABBYY FineReader Engine.

Image opening and preprocessing

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Code samples

  • New MRZExtraction sample. This sample demonstrates how to extract data from a machine-readable zone (MRZ)
  • New ICR sample, which shows how to recognize the handprinted text from the image document

Other improvements

  • The blocks of data can now be sorted by their position (ILayout::SortedBlocks)
  • An Online License does not require any specific settings, but you must set its parameters if you want to use the license with the proxy server
  • An Online License is now allowed for the limited connections which number may be changed after autonomous run time of the license is over
  • ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 can now be run inside Docker container
  • The list of supported Java Development Kits is presented in System Requirements
  • The number of ABBYY FineReader Engine build is now available before its modules loading. You may find it in the name of the JAR file which is included in ABBYY FineReader Engine Distribution Kit
  • The file of End User License Agreement is now available in ABBYY FineReader Engine Distribution Kit
  • Amazon Linux AMI is now supported in ABBYY FineReader Engine

Release 2

Special features

Improved Classification API:

New and improved language recognition

  • Burmese language recognition
  • Improved Japanese (Modern) language for better recognition of Japanese texts which may include some Latin or Greek letters. It is now available for Business Card Recognition
  • Updated Farsi OCR

See the list of predefined languages in ABBYY FineReader Engine.

OCR and ICR improvements

Image opening and preprocessing

Export

Code samples

  • New code sample demonstrating Classification of the documents of any types
  • New code samples Hello (Outproc) and Multithreading for C++ and for Java. The samples demonstrate image processing with the Engine loaded as an out-of-process server into a separate process
  • New SAFEARRAY_Hello sample. This sample demonstrates document processing with the SAFEARRAY type usage

Other improvements

  • Unified Engine loading procedure for all license types including the Online License, so that you do not need to rewrite your code when switching from one license type to another (InitializeEngine)
  • Multi-threaded applications can now be implemented on C++

Please visit our website at www.abbyy.com for the most up-to-date information about ABBYY FineReader Engine and other ABBYY products.

See also

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 and 11 Compatibility

03.07.2024 8:50:25

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