ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine Android

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 Android apps – enabling them to convert images and photographs into editable and searchable text.

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

• ABBYY Business Card Reader for Android 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 Android An up-to-date multilingual mobile dictionary which provides translation of text within photos and more.

More Information

Visit the Product Description, Key Features and Technical Specification pages to evaluate the benefits this SDK offers to Android developers.

Visit OCR Stages to see how ABBYY Mobile OCR technology works.

Visit Solutions for examples of how the technology can be applied in different Android applications.

Platforms

• Android 2.2 and higher for ARM processors is supported
• Android NDK API is utilized
• Mobile OCR library is supplied as a static library for Android
• Sample applications are included

Version History

Android OS is supported by the following Mobile OCR SDK versions:

• Version 4.0
• Version 3.0