ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine iOS

ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine iOS

Powerful OCR helps
win the race for business.

ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine enables developers to integrate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) into mobile and small-footprint applications. This powerful software development kit (SDK) enables images and photographs to be transformed into searchable and editable document formats and supports all of the most popular mobile platforms and devices – including iOS and Android.

Gives Apps The Power To:

• Transfer business card data to mobile address books.
• Capture words and translate them on-the-go.
• Retrieve data with help of barcode recognition.
• Read and translate text in multiple languages.

How It Works

• Step 1: Image import and processing.
• Step 2: Document Analysis.
• Step 3: OCR – includes the options of Business Card Processing or Barcode Recognition.
• Step 4: Result Processing.

The ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine is a software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to integrate optical character recognition technologies into iOS apps – enabling them to convert images and photographs into editable and searchable text.

Many ABBYY mobile applications for iOS have been created using the Mobile OCR Engine. They include:

• ABBYY Business Card Reader for iOS A fast, convenient way to add a new contact directly to a mobile address book or internal card case.
• ABBYY TextGrabber + Translator Enables on-the-go capture and translation of text from books, magazines, ads and timetables.
• ABBYY Lingvo Dictionaries for iOS An up-to-date multilingual mobile dictionary which provides translation of text within photos and more.

Platforms

• iOS 7.1 and higher is supported.
• Mobile OCR library is a static library for iOS.

Distributive package also includes iOS sample applications and iOS device simulator for PC. Using iOS simulator you can test your iOS apps on the same machine you use for development, no need to switch to mobile device.

Version History

iOS is supported by the following Mobile OCR SDK versions:

• Version 4.0
• Version 3.0