Licensing

A special protection technology is used to protect ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 from illegal copying and distribution. This technology effectively excludes unauthorized use of ABBYY products by persons who have not signed a License Agreement with the software copyright owner.

Developer and Runtime Licenses

ABBYY FineReader Engine has two types of licenses:

  • Developer License
    This license grants an SDK customer the right to use ABBYY FineReader Engine for development purposes only or for internal use of the developed applications only under the terms of Software Developer License Agreement. Developer License does not allow developers to distribute their applications with ABBYY FineReader Engine functions inside or to use the developed applications internally.
  • Runtime License
    This license grants developers the right to distribute ABBYY FineReader Engine functions inside developer’s applications. Runtime licensing is regulated by Runtime License Agreement with ABBYY.

Important! All the licenses in one project share the same Customer Project ID, which is passed to the methods which load the Engine object as one of the input parameters. The end user's Runtime License should correspond to the Customer Project ID with which your application was compiled.

Each license defines available ABBYY FineReader Engine functionality by the set of included modules. For details about functionality your license includes see the description of ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 Modules.

Use and management of the licenses is performed with the License Manager utility.

See also

Activation

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 Modules

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