ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK

On June 21, 2012 the ABBYY company announced the beginning of commercial operation of a cloud service of ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK (OCR – optical character recognition; SDK – software developer kit). This service provides access to advanced technologies of optical text recognition, tags and barcodes by means of Web API.

Tools of the developer on a cloud platform allow to avoid high initial expenses on acquisition of SDK. Also the service helps to solve problems of processing of any volume of documents without increase in expenses on own IT infrastructure. At the same time the cost of use of ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK depends on volumes of its use, and the input threshold is at the level acceptable for any developer, including for amateur enthusiasts.

For the first time the ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK service was announced at the end of 2011. For several months of work of service in the test mode on it hundreds of developers were registered.

Key advantages of use of ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK:

• High accuracy of recognition

Technologies of ABBYY gained recognition around the world thanks to the high accuracy of recognition. ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK gives to any developer an opportunity to implement in the applications recognition of printing texts (OCR) in 198 languages based on Latin, Cyrillics, the Armenian, Greek, Jewish and Thai alphabets, the Japanese, Korean and Chinese hieroglyphs and also recognition of the texts handwritten by printing letters (ICR) in 113 languages.

• Quick start of use

ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is the fastest in respect of acquisition and preparation for work the building tool. All procedures to start use of service (registration, testing, payment) are executed online, without employee involvement of ABBYY company and without the need for the obligatory conclusion of the written license agreement.

Process of creating applications accelerates thanks to existence of code samples on .NET, PHP, Ruby, cURL, Python, Java and ASP.NET. Besides, users of service can address for support on an online forum.

• Always the most current version of technologies

Thanks to placement in a cloud and to continuous updating ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK allows developers to use the most current version of sensing technologies of texts. There is no need to purchase the next version of a product as it occurs in case of use of traditional SDK.

• Cost reduction on IT and reliability augmentation of applications

Because of resource intensity of process of OCR embedding of functions of recognition usually requires noticeable investments on acquisition and support of additional computing powers. With ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK all necessary resources are in a cloud, thereby developers are exempted from additional expenses on IT infrastructure.

Service functions on the Microsoft® Windows® Azure™ platform that not only exempts computing powers of the developer from additional loading, but also provides additional reliability of applications.

• Scalability

Work with ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK can be begun with any number of documents, and depending on tasks to increase or reduce use volume. It provides flexible scaling for processing of any number of documents as soon as possible. Service is applicable both for processing of a small amount of documents, and for digitization of big archives when in operation of application not predicted peak loads are possible.

• Payment only of necessary volume of the recognized pages

For ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK the optimal pricing model at which the developer pays recognition only of that volume of documents which is necessary is created. It allows the companies of any size and to independent developers to get access to professional sensing technologies of ABBYY. Besides, the opportunity of free repeated recognition of the same pages when debugging and testing of the created applications is given.