ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK iOS

ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK iOS

Imaging perfection
made true.

The ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK provides developers with intelligent tools that can analyze photographs of documents captured with mobile devices – and then determine if they are suitable for optical character recognition (OCR), or if they should be retaken. It also offers powerful image processing functions that enhance the quality of photographed documents for better viewing and reading.

The SDK supports the two most popular mobile platforms: Apple iOS and Android.

 

Analysis of Images for OCR

ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK provides innovative features to evaluate image quality and determine whether or not a photographed document is suitable for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
The SDK detects images of insufficient quality using the following three criteria: Blurred images, Uneven lighting/glare, Poor lighting/noise.
With the image evaluation feature integrated into an application, users can see in advance if a certain photograph is suitable for OCR or not, thus saving time and optimizing their processes.

 

Enhancement of Visual Quality

The ABBYY SDK delivers an optimal set of features to address the majority of needs in the area of mobile image processing, such as:

• Crop / edge detection, 
• Image rotation,
• Perspective correction (corrects trapezium distortions),
• Binarization,
• Inversion,
• Gray scaling,
• Brightness / contrast adjustment,
• Noise removal,
• Sharpening and more

As a result, a user receives images of high visual quality suitable for comfortable reading and printing out.

Image Export

The SDK supports saving of images to compressed JPEG, PNG or PDF formats optimizing the size of the output files and making them ready to be stored or sent to the server.

 

Mobile OS Support

Save you time on porting your applications by using the ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK that already supports the most popular mobile platforms – Apple iOS (iPhone) and Android. 

Ready-to-use Functions and Documentation

ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK contains ready-to-use functions (presets):

• Black-and-white document
• Business card
• Color document
• Light-on-dark document
• Receipt
• Spy shot
• Stamped paper
• Street shot (screenshots and description).

 These presets can be quickly implemented into your own systems and applications, saving time and effort. The product also contains detailed documentation and code samples making the programming process faster and easier.

Synergy of Technologies

ABBYY offers a wide range of interoperable products and technologies for OCR processing, image processing, data and document capture in mobile, desktop, server and cloud environments. 

When combined, ABBYY SDKs can cover the majority of OCR and document capture scenarios and greatly reduce time and labor investments typically associated with such projects.

 

ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK allows developers to integrate image processing technologies and functions into their own iOS-based applications. The SDK can enhance visual quality of images of documents captured with Apple iOS devices or sort out photos that have insufficient quality for OCR and text recognition.

Sample Apps

The key functionality of ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK has been integrated in ABBYY FineScanner, a mobile application designed to “scan” paper documents using a built-in camera. It saves photographed images in PDF and JPEG formats providing excellent visual quality. 

ABBYY FineScanner is available at the App Store.        

Platform Specifics

• Available as a static library for Apple iOS 4.2 and higher for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, etc.
• The SDK provides a code sample written in Objective-C that can be compiled into the MIPSample application. Using the MIPSample application, you can try all image processing functions of the Mobile Imaging SDK.

Version History

iOS is supported in the following versions of ABBYY Mobile Imaging SDK:

• Version 1.0