Question

How to process (OCR) documents using ABBYY CLI?

Answer

For processing samples using this tool, please:

1) Open command line (with admin rights):

C:\ProgramData\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine\Samples\Visual C++(Raw)\CommandlineInterface\x64\Release

Click "Enter";

2) add C:\ProgramData\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine\Samples\Visual C++ (Raw)\CommandlineInterface\x64\Release>CommandLineInterface.exe;

3) add input file: -if C:\Demo.pdf;  

4) output file format: -f PDF;

5) destination and name of the output file: -of C:\Output.pdf and click "Enter".

For example: 

C:\ProgramData\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine\Samples\Visual C++ (Raw)\CommandLineInterface\x64\Release>CommandLineInterface.exe -if C:\Demo.tif -f PDF -of C:\Output.pdf

Sometimes we need not only change file format, but we also need to recognize the language.

For doing this, please add -rl (language).

In our example it'll be a Dutch .tif sample which we want to process into .txt: 

C:\ProgramData\ABBYY\SDK\12\FineReader Engine\Samples\Visual C++ (Raw)\CommandLineInterface\x64\Release>CommandLineInterface.exe -if C:\Demo_Dutch.tif -rl Dutch -f TextVersion10Defaults -of C:\res1.txt