FineReader Engine 12 Specifications

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Anzhelika Fedko

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ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 is available in three versions:

  • ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 for Windows
  • ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 for Linux
  • ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 for Mac

System requirements

Hardware

PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher)

Operating system

  • Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 with the April 2014 update rollup (KB2919355), Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  • Windows 10, Windows 8.1 with the April 2014 update rollup (KB2919355), Windows 8

Tested Cloud and virtual environments

  • Azure App Services
  • Azure Cloud Services
  • Azure Service Fabric
  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Amazon EC2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  • Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac 13.0.1
  • VMware ESXi 6.5
  • VMware Workstation Player 12.5
  • VMware Workstation Pro 14.0.0
  • Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac 16.1.3
  • VMware ESXi 6.7
  • VMware Workstation Player 16.1.0
  • VMware Workstation Pro 16.1.0

ABBYY FineReader Engine can also be run in a Docker container on supported platforms.

Tested Java development environments

ABBYY FineReader Engine Java wrapper has been tested on the following Java Development Kits:

  • for 32-bit operating systems:
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u201 i586
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u202 i586
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u281 x86
  • for 64-bit operating systems:
    • OpenJDK 11.0.2 x64
    • OpenJDK 12.0.2 x64
    • OpenJDK 13 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u201 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u202 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 11.0.2 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 12.0.2 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 13 x64
    • Open JDK 15.0.2 x64
    • Open JDK 16 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u281 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 11.0.10 (LTS) x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 15.0.2 x64
    • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 16 x64

ABBYY FineReader Engine .NET Core wrapper supports working with the following versions of .NET Core:

  • 3.1

Memory

  • for processing one-page documents — minimum 400 MB RAM, recommended 1 GB RAM
  • for processing multi-page documents — minimum 1 GB RAM, recommended 1,5 GB RAM
  • for parallel processing — 450 MB RAM + 350 MB RAM for each core
  • for parallel processing of documents in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages — 750 MB RAM + 850 MB RAM for each core

Hard disk space

  • 1.600 MB for library installation (core functionality)
  • Additional 400 MB for installation of the OfficeConverters module library
  • 100 MB for program operation
  • Additional 15 MB for every page when processing a multi-page document

Other requirements

  • TWAIN-compatible scanner, digital camera, or fax modem for scanning or image import
  • For pattern training, dictionary editing, scanning via a GUI: Video card and monitor (minimum resolution 1024×768)
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher should be installed. For correct font detection, the fonts contained in documents should be installed.
  • The following versions of .NET Framework are supported: 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.0, 3.5.

ABBYY SDK 12 licensing service requirements

Hardware

PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher)

Operating system

  • Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8

ABBYY SDK 12 Licensing Service has been tested in the following virtual environments:

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  • Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac 13.0.1
  • VMware ESXi 6.5
  • VMware Workstation Player 12.5
  • VMware Workstation Pro 14.0.0
  • Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac 16.1.3
  • VMware ESXi 6.7
  • VMware Workstation Player 16.1.0
  • VMware Workstation Pro 16.1.0

Developing Tools

The ABBYY FineReader Engine for Windows’ application programming interface (API) conforms to the COM standard and can be easily used in C/C++, Visual Basic, .NET, Delphi, Java or any development tool supporting COM components. The Engine can be adapted for use in scripting languages like VBS, JS, and Perl.

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 for Linux is designed for glibc version 2.11 and above. If you need ABBYY FineReader Engine for older glibc versions, please contact the ABBYY office. For the FineReader Engine dynamic library, the standard libstdc++.so.6, libgcc_s.so.1 and libgomp.so.1 libraries have to be used.

Hardware

PC with x86-compatible processor (1 GHz or higher) which supports SSE and SSE2 instruction sets

Operating system

  • Fedora 31, 30, 29
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, 7.7, 6.10
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1, 12 SP4, 11 SP4
  • Debian GNU/Linux 10.2, 9.11, 8.11
  • Ubuntu 19.10, 19.04, 18.04.3 LTS, 16.04.6 LTS, 14.04.6 LTS
  • CentOS 8.0, 7.7, 6.10
  • ALT Linux 9.0, 8.2 (no support for Wibu dongles)
  • Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03

In addition, ABBYY offers professional services to adapt the software to other platforms.

Tested Cloud and virtual environments:

  • Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
  • Amazon EC2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  • Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.2
  • VMware ESXi 6.5
  • VMware Workstation Player 12.5
  • VMware Workstation Pro 14.0.0
  • Linux KVM

ABBYY FineReader Engine can also be run in a Docker container on supported platforms.

ABBYY FineReader Engine Java wrapper has been tested on the following Java Development Kits:

  • OpenJDK 13 x64
  • OpenJDK 14 Early-Access (build 21) x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 8u231 x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 11.0.5 (LTS) x64
  • Oracle Java SE Development Kit 13.0.1 x64

Memory

  • for processing one-page documents — minimum 400 MB RAM, recommended 1 GB RAM
  • for processing multi-page documents — minimum 1 GB RAM, recommended 1,5 GB RAM
  • for parallel processing — 450 MB RAM + 350 MB RAM for each core
  • for parallel processing of documents in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean languages — 750MB RAM + 850 MB RAM for each core

Hard disk space

  • 2.150 MB for library installation
  • 100 MB for program operation
  • Additional 15 MB for every page when processing a multi-page document

Other requirements

  • Tmpfs size — 4GB + 1GB*(cores number)
  • Swap size — 4GB + 1GB*(cores number)
  • ABBYY FineReader Engine supports the systemd init system
  • For correct font detection, the fonts contained in documents should be installed.

Developing Tools

The ABBYY FineReader Engine for Linux provides C/C++ native API and a Java wrapper, therefore applications need to be written in C/C++ or Java.

Hardware

PC with Intel processor (x86) 1 GHz or higher.

Operating system

  • macOS 10.13.x High Sierra
  • macOS 10.14.x Mojave
  • macOS 10.15.x Catalina

Memory

  • for processing one-page documents — at least 400 MB RAM, 1 GB RAM recommended
  • for processing multi-page documents — at least 1 GB RAM, 1,5 GB RAM recommended

Hard disk space

2150 MB of free space for library installation and 100 MB for program operation, plus additional 15MB for every page, when processing a multi-page document.

For correct font detection, the fonts contained in documents should be installed.

Developing Tools

The Mac version provides only C/C++ native API, therefore applications need to be written in C/C++.

Supported recognition languages

ABBYY FineReader Engine 12 provides support for the highest number of recognition languages on the market. It offers recognition of languages with Latin, Cyrillic, Greek or Armenian characters, as well as Arabic, Bangla (technical preview), Burmese (technical preview), Farsi, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Thai and other languages. To further increase the recognition accuracy, integrated dictionaries are provided for many languages. To increase recognition of unusual words and untypical fonts, a small integrated utility can be used for implementing own dictionaries and creating own character patterns.

In addition, the SDK provides recognition of historic documents printed between 17th and 19th century in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, recognition of artificial languages (Esperanto, Interlingua, Ido and Occidental) recognition of programming languages (Basic, C/C++, COBOL, Fortran, JAVA, and Pascal), simple chemical formulas and standard digits.

× With dictionary support

Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afrikaans
Agul
Albanian
Altaic
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)×
Armenian (Eastern)×
Armenian (Grabar)×
Armenian (Western)×
Avar
Aymara
Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)
Azerbaijani (Latin)×
Bashkir×
Basic programming language
Basque
Belarussian
Bemba
Blackfoot
Breton
Bugotu
Bulgarian×
Bangla (technical preview)
Burmese (technical preview)
Buryat
C/C++ programming language
Catalan×
Chamorro
Chechen
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Chukcha
Chuvash
For MICR (CMC-7) text type
Cobol programming language
Corsican
Crimean Tatar
Croatian×
Crow
Czech×
Danish×
Dargwa
Numbers
Dungan
Dutch (Netherlands)×
Dutch (Belgium)×
For MICR (E-13B) text type
English×
Eskimo (Cyrillic)
Eskimo (Latin)
Esperanto
Estonian×
Even
Evenki
Faeroese
Farsi×
Fijian
Finnish×
Fortran programming language
French×
Frisian
Friulian
Scottish Gaelic
Gagauz
Galician
Ganda
Georgian
German×
German (Luxembourg)
German (new spelling)×
Greek×
Guarani
Hani
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew×
Hungarian×
Icelandic
Ido
Indonesian×
Ingush
Interlingua
Irish
Italian×
Japanese×
Japanese (Modern)×
Java programming language
Kabardian
Kalmyk
Karachay-Balkar
Karakalpak
Kasub
Kawa
Kazakh
Khakas
Khanty
Kikuyu
Kirghiz
Kongo
Korean×
Korean (Hangul)×
Koryak
Kpelle
Kumyk
Kurdish
Lak
Sami (Lappish)
Latin×
Latvian×
Latvian language written in Gothic script
Lezgin
Lithuanian×
Luba
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malinke
Maltese
Mansi
Maori
Mari
Maya
Miao
Minangkabau
Mohawk
Mongol
Mordvin
Nahuatl
Nenets
Nivkh
Nogay
Norwegian×
Norwegian (Bokmal)×
Norwegian (Nynorsk)×
Nyanja
Occidental
For OCR-A text type
For OCR-B text type
Ojibway
Old English×
Old French×
Old German×
Old Italian×
Old Slavonic
Old Spanish×
Ossetian
Papiamento
Pascal programming language
Tok Pisin
Polish×
Portuguese (Brazil)×
Portuguese (Portugal)×
Provencal
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romanic
Romanian×
Romanian (Moldavia)
Romany
Ruanda
Rundi
Russian (old spelling)×
Russian×
Russian (with accents marking stress position)×
Samoan
Selkup
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Latin)
Shona
Simple chemical formulas
Simple mathematical formulas
Sioux (Dakota)
Slovak×
Slovenian×
Somali
Sorbian
Sotho
Spanish×
Sunda
Swahili
Swazi
Swedish×
Tabassaran
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tatar×
Thai×
Jingpo
Tongan
Tswana
Tun
Turkish×
Turkmen
Turkmen (Latin)
Tuvan
Udmurt
Uighur (Cyrillic)
Uighur (Latin)
Ukrainian×
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
Uzbek (Latin)
Vietnamese×
Cebuano
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Yiddish
Zapotec
Zulu

* Languages marked with the “technical preview” status may not be at the standard level of speed and accuracy as all other languages in the portfolio. But they can be used in scenarios with simple document layout preservation.

Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)*
Aymara
Azerbaijani (Latin)
Basque
Bemba
Blackfoot
Breton
Bugotu
Bulgarian
Buryat
Chamorro
Corsican
Crimean Tatar
Croatian
Crow
Czech
Danish
Numbers
Dutch (Netherlands)
Dutch (Belgium)
English
Estonian
Even
Evenki
Fijian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Friulian
Scottish Gaelic
Galician
Ganda
German
German (Luxembourg)
German (new spelling)
Greek
Guarani
Hani
Hawaiian
Hungarian
Ido
Indonesian
Interlingua
Irish
Italian
Karachay-Balkar
Kasub
Kawa
Kazakh
Kirghiz
Kongo
Kpelle
Kumyk
Kurdish
Sami (Lappish)
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luba
Malagasy
Malinke
Maori
Maya
Miao
Minangkabau
Mohawk
Mongol
Mordvin
Nahuatl
Nenets
Nivkh
Nogay
Norwegian
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Nyanja
Ojibway
Old English
Old French
Old German
Old Italian
Old Spanish
Papiamento
Tok Pisin
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romanic
Romanian
Romanian (Moldavia)
Romany
Ruanda
Rundi
Russian
Samoan
Selkup
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Latin)
Sioux (Dakota)
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sotho
Spanish
Swahili
Swazi
Swedish
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Jingpo
Tongan
Tswana
Tun
Turkish
Turkmen (Latin)
Tuvan
Uighur (Latin)
Ukrainian
Uzbek (Latin)
Cebuano
Wolof
Xhosa
Zapotec

* Arabic ICR is not supported. However, hand-printed Arabic digits can be recognized.

Languages for interaction with the user

Message boxes such as error messages, tips and warnings are available in English, Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese (PRC and Taiwan), Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

Supported Office input formats

ABBYY FineReader Engine can open documents created in the following formats:

  • Text formats: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .htm / .html, .txt, .odt
  • Table formats: .xls, .xlsx, .ods
  • Presentation formats: .ppt, .pptx, .odp
  • Digitally created PDFs: .pdf

Supported image formats (opening, saving)

ABBYY FineReader Engine can open image files in many formats. In addition, the OCR SDK is able to save results in several image formats.

List of supported image formats:

Format Extension Open Save
BMP
uncompressed black and white
4- and 8-bit — uncompressed Palette
16-bit — uncompressed, uncompressed Mask
24-bit — uncompressed
32-bit — uncompressed, uncompressed Mask		 bmp    
BMP
4- and 8-bit — RLE compressed Palette		 bmp    
DCX
black and white
2-, 4- and 8-bit palette
24-bit color		 dcx    
DjVu (only in Windows version)
black and white, gray, color		 djvu, djv    
GIF
black and white — LZW-compressed
2-, 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-bit palette — LZW-compressed		 gif    
JBIG2
black and white		 jb2    
JPEG
gray, color		 jpg, jpeg, jfif    
JPEG 2000
gray — Part 1
color — Part 1		 jp2, jpc, j2k    
PCX
black and white
2-, 4- and 8-bit palette
24-bit color		 pcx    
Image PDF (scanned PDF) pdf    
Digitally created PDF (Version 1.7 or earlier) pdf    
PNG
black and white, gray, color		 png    
TIFF
black and white — uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT4, Packbits, ZIP, LZW
gray — uncompressed, Packbits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW
24-bit color — uncompressed, JPEG, ZIP, LZW
1-, 4-, 8-bit palette — uncompressed, Packbits, ZIP, LZW
(including multi-page TIFF)		 tif, tiff    
TIFF
black and white — CCITT3FAX		 tif, tiff    
WDP (only in Windows version)
black and white, gray, color
(WIC or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 required)		 Wdp    
WIC-compatible (only in Windows version)
(WIC or Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 required)		      

Note: ABBYY FineReader Engine will not open images larger than 32512*32512 pixels.

Supported document saving formats

ABBYY FineReader Engine can save the recognized text in the following formats:

  • RTF
  • DOCX
  • XLSX and XLS (only in Windows version)

    FineReader Engine supports MS Excel 5 and 8 formats when saving to XLS format.

  • PPTX
  • PDF, PDF 2.0, PDF/UA
  • PDF/A-1 (a,b), PDF/A-2 (a,b,u), PDF/A-3 (a,b,u)

    FineReader Engine support MRC compression for all PDF formats.

  • HTML, HTML 5

    FineReader Engine supports various code pages (Windows, DOS, Mac, ISO) and Unicode (UTF-16, UTF-8) encoding

  • TXT

    FineReader Engine supports various code pages (Windows, DOS, Mac, ISO) and Unicode (UTF-16, UTF-8) encoding.

  • CSV
  • XML — file format contains recognized text which structure is described with the help of XML tags.
  • ALTO 3.1
  • XPS (only in Windows version)
  • FB2
  • EPUB
  • ODT

Supported barcode types

ABBYY FineReader Engine recognizes following types of barcodes:

  • 1D: Codabar, Code 128, Code 39, Code 93, Code 32, EAN 8 and 13, Full ASCII Code 39, GS1-128, IATA 2 of 5, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Intelligent Mail (a.k.a USPS 4-CB), Matrix 2 of 5, Patch, PostNet, UPC-A, UPC-E (in addition to the above list, following 1D barcodes are available in the version for Windows and Linux: KIX, Royal Mail 4-State (RM4SCC), Australia Post 4-State).
  • 2D: Aztec, Data Matrix, MaxiCode, PDF 417, QR Code.

Optical mark recognition

ABBYY FineReader Engine recognizes simple checkmarks, grouped checkmarks, model checkmarks and checkmarks that were corrected by hand:

  • Checkmarks in a square frame
  • Checkmarks against the empty background
  • Non-standard checkmarks (this type of checkmarks requires prior training)

For additional technical information, please consult the Developer's Help file of ABBYY FineReader Engine.

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