On this page you can find comparisons of different products and processing scenarios:

These three OCR engines are designed for very different processing scenarios and hardware requirements, this has also an impact on the available feature set:

Read More: Comparison Mobile - Embedded - "Big" SDKs

This is a feature comparison between FineReader Engine and FlexiCapture Engine. In applications and business processes it makes a big difference if you would like to

• extract specific data form documents or
• reconstruct the layout of a document to generate a searchable PDF or Office document

The good news is that developers that use ABBYY SDKs can get the best of both worlds in one application.

Read more: FineReader Engine vs. FlexiCapture Engine

This is a feature comparison of FineReader Engine on different Operating Systems. The general usage of the FineReader Engine API is the same on the different platforms, but the available feature set and the technology cycle may differ.

The good news is that developers that use high quality OCR technology on different operating systems, provided by one company.

Read more: ABBYY OCR Toolkits for Windows Linux & MacOS X

• ABBYY offers FineReader Engine 9.0 for Windows and Linux
• The core recognition technology is the same
• But in implementation and supported features, there are some differences

Read more: FineReader Engine 9.0 Linux vs. Windows

• Version 8.0 was the first implementation of ABBYY's Capture SDK and it focussed on the compatibility to FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional, it allows to process the generated projects without any User interaction, controlled via API
• Version 9.0 is offering much more “developer features”

Read more: See the evolution of FlexiCapture Engine

• What are the differences between the Linux CLI and the Linux SDK?

• What are the differences between mobile on device OCR or server based back end OCR processing?

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