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System Requirements

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 Requirements

Hardware

  • PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher) which supports SSE and SSE2 instruction sets
  • Memory:
    • for processing one-page documents — minimum 400 MB RAM, recommended 1 GB RAM
    • for processing multi-page documents — minimum 1 GB RAM, recommended 1,5 GB RAM
    • for parallel processing — 450 + (number of cores) × 350 MB RAM
    • for parallel processing of documents in Arabic or CJK languages — 750 + (number of cores) × 850 MB RAM
  • Hard disk space:
    • for library installation:
      • 2200 MB of free space
    • for program operation:
      • 150 MB for running the program
      • additional 15Mb for every page when processing a multi-page document
  • Tmpfs size — 4GB + 1GB*(cores number)
  • Swap size — 4GB + 1GB*(cores number)

Operating system

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 for Linux has been tested on the following operating systems:

  • Fedora 35, 34, 33
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5, 7.9
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3, 12 SP5, 11 SP4
  • Debian GNU/Linux 11.3, 10.12, 9.13
  • Ubuntu 22.04, 21.04, 20.04, 18.04, 16.04
  • CentOS 8.5, 7.9
  • ALT Linux 10.0, 9.2 (software and online protection only)
  • Amazon Linux 2

In addition, ABBYY offers professional services to adapt the software to other platforms.

ABBYY FineReader Engine has been tested on the following cloud computing platforms:

  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
  • Amazon EC2

ABBYY FineReader Engine has been tested in the following virtual environments:

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  • Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1.32
  • VMware ESXi 6.7
  • VMware Workstation Player 16.2.3
  • VMware Workstation Pro 16.2.2
  • Linux KVM

ABBYY FineReader Engine can also be run in a Docker container on supported platforms.

Other software components

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 for Linux requires usage of the following software components (the listed packages are presented for the Debian-like systems):

  • ABBYY FineReader Engine components installation:
    • glibc version 2.17 and above (If you need ABBYY FineReader Engine for older glibc versions, please contact the ABBYY office serving your region by e-mail. )
    • Bash
    • gzip, tar
    • coreutils package (readlink utility)
    • gettext package (envsubst utility). Install this package, if you intend to work with the samples using the RMI-capable Java wrapper
  • ABBYY FineReader Engine launch:
    • for performing analysis and recognition (required):
      • libc6 package (librt.so.1, libc.so.6, libdl.so.2, libm.so.6, libpthread.so.0)
      • libgcc-4.9-dev package and above (libgomp.so.1, libgcc_s.so.1)
      • libglib2.0-dev package (libglib-2.0.so, libgthread-2.0.so.0)
      • libpcre3 package (libpcre.so.3)
      • libstdc++-4.9-dev package and above (libstdc++.so.6)
      • zlib1g package (libz.so.1)
    • for using ABBYY office converters (optional):
      • libx11-6 package (libX11.so.6)
      • libfreetype6 package (libfreetype.so.6)
      • libxext-dev package (libXext.so.6)
      • libice-dev package (libICE.so.6)
      • libsm-dev package (libSM.so.6)
      • openjdk-11-jre
  • ABBYY FineReader Engine licensing:
    • for registering and managing the Licensing Service:
      • through the systemctl command: systemd init system
      • through the service command: Upstart or SysVinit init system
    • for using an Online License: ca-certificates package with latest updates
  • Working with the code samples:
    • for RMI-capable Java wrapper:
      • Ant version 1.8 and above
    • for code samples based on C++:
      • GCC
      • G++
      • Make
      • linux-libc-dev package (Linux kernel API development headers)
      • libc6-dev package (glibc development headers)
    • for CommandLineInterface code sample:
      • locales package and generated en_US.UTF-8 locale (use the locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 command to generate it)
    • for code samples based on Java: see the list of supported Java Development Kits below

For multi-page documents synthesis and export, please set the open files limit to be no less than 2000. Run ulimit -n [limit_size] to change it.

For correct operation of the font detection mechanism the fonts needed for the languages you use should be installed; for the list of recommended font families see FontNamesFiltersEnum.

Working with the Java wrapper

ABBYY FineReader Engine Java wrapper has been tested on the following Java Development Kits:

  • OpenJDK 17.0.2 x64
  • OpenJDK 18.0.1 x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u331 x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 11.0.15 (LTS) x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 17.0.3 x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 18.0.1 x64

Permissions

Full access permissions for the following folders are required:

  • /tmp folder
  • /var/lib/ABBYY/SDK/12/FineReader Engine folder
  • /var/lib/ABBYY/SDK/12/Licenses folder

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