Moscow, Russia (BBN) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, has announced ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows, the next evolution of its software development kit (SDK) to integrate cutting-edge document recognition technologies. FineReader Engine 10 can recognize documents in key

The product also raises the bar for Asian language OCR (optical character recognition) with up to a 40 percent accuracy increase, delivers extended image and photo processing capabilities, and an enhanced algorithm for document structure and formatting reconstruction.

In addition, its new API based on an intuitive task-specific approach enables for maximum efficiency at minimum time and effort, a company announcement said.

“The true challenge is not just to speed up OCR processing but, at the same time, to keep up the highest level of accuracy customers expect from OCR technology,” said Andrey Isaev, director of technology products department at ABBYY. “FineReader Engine 10 represents an ideal balance between those two basic criteria.”

The FineReader Engine SDK gives developers and integrators the tools they require to integrate a variety of recognition technologies into their applications. The ABBYY recognition platform delivers award-winning OCR, intelligent character recognition (ICR), barcode, checkmark, field-level/zonal recognition and PDF conversion for transforming scanned documents and images into searchable and editable text files.

BBN/SI/AD-10Sept10-11:15 pm (BST)