• ABBYY FineReader Engine for Embedded OS is a highly portable small-footprint OCR SDK with low resource requirements designed to integrate document conversion technologies into the MFPs and other imaging devices.

• ABBYY also offers comprehensive customization services to smoothly adjust functionality of the product to various vendors’ needs and embed additional features into their devices — such as new CPU type support, new image processing options, other document export formats, extended language support and many more.

• Version 2.0 announced in September 2011
  • New Features
    • Document Classification
    • Automatic Intelligent File Name Generation
    • Business Card Reading with Automatic Card Splitting
    • PDF MRC Support
    • CJK Languages Support
    • read more: http://www.abbyy.com/ocr_sdk_embedded/what_is_new/

• Embedded Projects use special hardware
  • Often no monitors or only small displays
  • Often no keyboard, only buttons or touch screen
  • Specialised image capture systems (e.g. Infra red Cameras, Barcode scanner)

• An OCR Solution has to be tuned for the scenario it covers
  • Operating system used/required
  • CPU type used
  • Only special processing required – e.g. no full Document Analysis
  • Different speed & recognition quality required for different scenarios
  • Specialised output needed (e.g. Text only, XML, PDF/A…)
  • ABBYY must be involved in the device development process

• There is no trial version of ABBYY's Embedded Engine
  • for pre-evaluation Mobile OCR Engine or FineReader Engine Overview can be used

ABBYY FineReader Engine for Embedded OS is compatible with many hardware and operating systems.

• x86
• ARM
• PowerPC
• and others

• Windows for x86 processors
• Windows CE
• Linux
• VxWorks
• FreeBSD
• LynxOS
• and others

• C/C++

• 2-2.5 MB for library (depending on the specific library version);
• 0.5-1 MB for dictionaries of each supported recognition language.
  The library can be stored either in ROM or in RAM depending on the specific device.

• 2-2.5 MB for library (copied from the storage memory);
• 0.5-1 MB for dictionaries of each used recognition language;
• 1-10 MB or more for program operation (depending on image size, colority and quality: 1-5 MB for small photo pictures, about 10 MB for A4 sized business letter)

• Because of the nature of embedded projects the requirements are often different. Here the first steps to continue:
  1. Or have a look at the list of questions for an Embedded Project
  2. Collect answers to that questions
  3. Contact ABBYY Europe to see how we can support you.

• SDK Pricing - ABBYY EU
• Comparison between the different SDKs