FineReader Engine for Linux Overview

General Info for FRE on Linux

  • Linux is a serious, flexible, stable OS
  • ABBYY offers Linux OCR SDKs since 2003
  • ABBYY OCR on Linux is continuously developed and extended.

Technology Releases

FineReader Engine as a Daemon

FineReader Engine 9 for Linux contains a code sample to use ABBYY OCR as an OCR Service on one machine. Learn more about the "OCR as a daemon" sample

Command line OCR for Linux

FineReader Engine Linux comes with a source code sample to compile a CLI application. To be able to test this code sample interested customers have to sign a Trial License Agreement to test the SDK.

To make it easier to test ABBYY OCR under Linux, ABBYY bnow officially provides a easy to install CLI application. If users are satisfied with the ease of use and integration, they can purchase a license without purchasing the Engine.

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