Hardware license can only be used for Windows.

ABBYY License Manager support writing the licenses into the hardware dongles.

The License Manager utility is installed automatically during a Developer installation or during a Runtime ABBYY FineReader Engine library installation in automatic mode together with the License Service. The link to this utility is put into the Start menu. You may also launch "LicenseManager.exe" from "Bin" subfolder of your ABBYY product installation folder.

Below you can find the instructions for writing license into a dongle:

1. Make sure that the dongle is attached to the machine and the Codemeter drivers are installed. You may download the driver from the Wibu site:

2. "Burn" the license into the key. To do so, please follow these steps:

• Launch FineReader Engine License Manager
• choose "License" → "Activate…",
• paste the serial number into the wizard window,
• follow wizard steps to connect to the server and to activate your license.

For step 2, an Internet connection is required.  

Appendix 1. The full list of supported WIBU dongles: