ABBYY OCR technology for printed text is available for more than 200 languages, including:

• European languages (Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Greek alphabets)
• Asian & Middle East languages (Chinese Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi
• Gothic languages — an OCR module designed specifically for digitizing and archiving old documents, books and newspapers published in the 19th century.

ABBYY OCR technology is an “omni-font” technology that supports recognition of text provide in many different fonts.

To receive fast and high- quality OCR results, the OCR Engine should receive information about font types used in the documents.

ABBYY products support following printed text types:

• Normal - a common typographic type of text, such as Arial, Times New Roman or Courier.

• Typewriter - text typed on a typewriter

• Matrix - text printed on a dot-matrix printer.

• Gothic - text printed with the Gothic type and used for Gothic recognition.

• Index - a special set of characters including only digits written in ZIP-code style.

• OCR_A - A monospaced font designed specifically for OCR. It is largely used by banks, credit card companies and similar institutions.

• OCR_B - A font designed specifically for OCR.

• MICR_E13B - special numeric characters printed in magnetic ink. MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) characters are found in a variety of places, including personal checks.

• MICR_CMC7 - Special MICR barcode font (CMC-7) used on the bank checks.