ABBYY FINE READER 4.0: HIGH-END OCR/ICR TOOLKIT FOR DEVELOPERS AND VARS

New multilingual ICR, ICR, barcode toolkit can dramatically increase accuracy of recognition in system of bulk input.

Atlanta, AIIM Show ù April 12, 1999 ù ABBYY Software House has announced the availability of high-end products and technologies in FineReader 4.0 line: Engine, Development Tools, Handprint, FlexiForms, and Bank.

ABBYY FineReader Engine is Software Development Kit (SDK) for integrating latest award-winning FineReader OCR (machine print), ICR (handprint) and barcode recognition technologies into external 32-bit applications.

ABBYY FineReader Engine is a set of 32-bit DLLs executed within the address space of the calling process. Enclosed with FineReader Engine is a C++ header file that contains the description of functions and data structures, and the import library that allows the application to be linked with FineReader Engine components. PAS files are provided to ensure the possibility of using the API in Delphi environment. The ActiveX Control on the base of the Engine allows developer to use FineReader recognition functions from any development environment supporting ActiveX API (Visual Basic, Delphi etc).

The Engine is priced at $2000 (OCR, barcode) and $3500 (OCR, barcode, and ICR).

ABBYY FineReader Development Tools allows developers to control FineReader 4.0 OCR application from an external application. This provides the capability to incorporate FineReader system into already existing document processing systems or to use as a base program for development of oneÆs own document input and processing application. The interface offers quite a number of functions, which allows developer to control all FineReader OCR features.

Development Tools is priced at $990 (OCR) and $4990 (OCR and ICR).

ABBYY FineReader Handprint can recognize forms containing hand printed, printed/typed text, barcodes, and checkmarks in fields. The system performs all operations ù from scanning of paper originals to the export of checked and corrected results to database.

Integral Purposeful Adaptive (IPA) perception technology (or IPA-perception technology) using in FineReader products allows to recognize on even poor quality documents created by dot-matrix printers, typewriters, photocopiers, fax machines and handprint document. FineReader Handprint, tested on 80,000 different handwritings (more than 10 million characters of different shape), demonstrated the most positive results; on the tested forms it made fewer mistakes than the operator.
FineReader Handprint includes the automatic validation system of fields that increases the recognition accuracy. Crosschecks, check against the dictionary, against the template, against external databases, against the bar code, validation sum and so on.

FineReader Handprint is priced at $1600.

ABBYY FineReader Bank is designed to input forms of any degree of complexity: input machine-readable OCR, ICR, OMR forms both with fixed and variable fields locations. It contains the powerful means of automatic control and flexible adjusting systems.

FineReader Bank can be adjusted to a great variety of documents that come from different countries of the world: Polish hand-written banking bills; international VISA slips; Ukrainian pay bills; bank transfer document used in Belgium (two families: the ones in BEF, the other ones in EUR) and many others.

FineReader Bank is priced at $1600.

ABBYY FlexiForm technology available in FineReader Bank and FineReader Handprint systems interprets form fields with varying position. The description of a FlexiForm pattern is made using Form Description Language developed specially for takes about 1000 lines of code. The program on Form Description Language is a set of objects and relations between them. Some examples of objects are line-separators, static text, fields for filling and other.

David Yang, president of ABBYY: ôAfter successful use of FineReader system for input of millions Income Tax Return forms and documents for State Tax Service of Russia and State Pension Fund of Russia, ABBYY presents its FineReader line in North America market for the first time. Due to the development and incorporation of advance IPA-perception technology, we have finally achieved our goal of unsurpassed recognition accuracy. Without verification FineReader Handprint makes 2 times less errors than a professional typist does in the morning. And 3 times less errors than the same typist does in the evening. There are no errors left after an automatically check. These reasons can be the last arguments in favor of automated document input in comparison with the manual input of documents.ö

ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Group, which distributes and publishes ABBYYÆs products in North America. ABBYY (ABBYY Software House) specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography.

ABBYY's products include: the FineReader line of OCR/ICR/OMR software, which allows the automatic input of texts, tables, and forms into a computer; FineReader Development Tools, which allows developers to integrate OCR into their solutions; ABBYY Morphology 22 language spell checker; Lingvo -English-Russian/Russian-English electronic dictionaries; ABBYY Fulltext Retrieval, a seven language full-text retrieval system; and the ABBYY Internet Index Server index and search system . FineReader technology is currently integrated in SamsungÆs Anypage OCR system, SumitomoÆs OK Reader OCR application, NewSoftÆs Presto! OCR Pro, PrimaxÆs PrimaPage OCR

CONTACT:
Ding Tang
President
ABBYY USA
510-226-6717 (Tel)
510-226-6069 (Fax)
dtang@abbyyusa.com