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ABBYY Fine Reader 12

Version 5.0 introduces support of ABBYY Fine Reader 12 which is a prime OCR engine featuring higher speed and better results (accuracy) than the free Tesseract OCR one. It is a commercial product which is offered by T-Plan Ltd at an extra cost.

  • Supported on MS Windows only
  • Available as an optional plugin

Set Up Instructions

  • Contact the T-Plan support to discuss the licensing options and to get the ABBYY extension archive download link.
  • Extract the archive to the hard drive. Do NOT run the exe installer it contains.
  • Select OCR → ABBYY Installation in the Robot menu:
    • Set the ABBYY Extension Path field to the path of the extracted archive.
    • Set the Install Path to the path to install the engine to.
    • If you obtained the ABBYY network license populate the License Server Address field with address of the server running the ABBYY network engine. If you have a runtime license (you have received a serial number) leave the field empty.



    • Click Install ABBYY to install the engine. Once installed click Next.



    • If you have a network license you may skip the second screen. Holders of the runtime license must select Open ABBYY License Manager and activate the engine using the serial number obtained from T-Plan.
    • Click Next to proceed to the last screen.



    • It is recommended to select Verify to run a sample ABBYY text recognition to verify that the engine is working correctly. To make the engine default for OCR operations leave the "Set the ABBYY engine as the preferred one" check box on. You may change the preference at any time using the OCR → Choose Preferred OCR Engine menu item.
    • Select Finish to save the settings.

Automation

All commands employing OCR such as CompareTo, WaitFor, Click and Drag will use the preferred engine and they will pick up ABBYY automatically:


The table below outlines the different search 'profiles' that are available with the ABBYY OCR search method. The table includes details of how each profile works such that you can ascertain which may be best suited to your particular task.

Profile NameDescription
DocumentConversion_AccuracyThe settings have been optimized for accuracy: 
- Includes font style detection and full synthesis of the logical structure of a document, potentially meaning a slower transaction.
DocumentArchiving_AccuracyThe settings have been optimized for accuracy: 
- Includes detection of maximum text on an image, including text embedded into the image. 
- Skew correction is not performed. 
- Fonts and styles are not detected. 
- Full synthesis of the logical structure of a document is not performed.
BookArchiving_AccuracyThe settings have been optimized for accuracy: 
- Enables font style detection and full synthesis of the logical structure of a document, potentially meaning a slower transaction.
TextExtraction_Accuracy

Recommended option.

The settings have been optimized for accuracy: 
- Enables detection of all text on an image, including small text areas of low quality (pictures and tables are not detected). 
- Fonts and styles are not detected. 
- Full synthesis of the logical structure of a document is not performed.

FieldLevelRecognitionOptimized to detect text in a form layout, containing numerous fields.
BusinessCardRecognitionFor recognizing text from business cards
EngineeringDrawingsProcessingIt takes into account large size and complexity of engineering diagrams, as well as possibility of different text orientation within the image. The following settings are used: 
- Enables detection of all text on an image, including text blocks of vertical orientation.
- Full synthesis of the logical structure of a document is not performed.
Version9CompatibilityProvided for compatibility, sets the processing parameters to the default values of ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0.