CLI OCR V11 Documentation

• The documentation is also installed locally with the CLI11 tool or you can download the latest version here.
• Documentation of the previous version V9 is still online.

The command line interface of the ABBYY FineReader Engine 11 for Linux is represented by the abbyyocr11 executable.
Compatibility Notes: V8 is 'abbyyocr' — V9 is 'abbyyocr9' — V11 is 'abbyyocr11'

Basic Syntax

abbyyocr11 [open image and analysis options] -if [export options] -of

abbyyocr11 [options] -if file1 [options] -if file2... -of destination

abbyyocr11 [options] -if file -f format1 [options] -of file1 -f  
format2 [options] -of file2...

There are different samples of using the abbyyocr11 utility.

abbyyocr11 -ii -fm -if sample.jpg -f TextUnicodeDefaults -tet UTF8 -of sample.txt

• The sample.jpg file will be recognised in fast mode (-fm).
• The colors of the prepared image will be inverted during conversion to the internal format (-ii).
• The results will be exported into text file of the Unicode UTF8 type (-tet UTF8).

abbyyocr11 -if sample1.jpg -rl English German -if sample2.jpg -f PDF -of sample2.pdf

• The sample1.jpg and sample2.jpg files will be recognised and exported to a PDF file (-f PDF).
• The sample2.jpg will be recognised with the English and German predefined languages (-rl English German).

abbyyocr11 -if sample.jpg -f HTMLUnicodeDefaults -hkl -of sample.html -f RTF -rmp -of sample.rtf

• The sample.jpg file will be recognised and the results will be exported to HTML (-f HTML) and RTF formats (-f RTF).
• The original lines in the recognised text will be retained during export to HTML format (-hkl).
• The source page layout will not be retained when exporting recognised text to RTF format (-rmp).

abbyyocr11 -ipn 1 -adb -if Demo.tif -f PDF -ptem TextWithPictures -pdwl -of sample.pdf

• The second page of the Demo.tif file will be recognized (-ipn 1).
• Barcodes will be detected and barcode blocks will be created during page layout analysis (-adb).
• The recognized text will be exported to a PDF file (-f PDF) as text (-pem TextWithPictures).
• The hyperlinks will not be saved (-pdwl).

The abbyyocr11 utility supports the following keys:

• Input file keys

• Image processing

• Layout Analysis
  • Table Analysis

• Barcode Keys
  • Barcode Types

• Recognition Keys

• Synthesis Keys

• Output Keys
  • PDF
  • DOCX
  • PPTX
  • RTF & ODT
  • HTML
  • TXT
  • XLSX
  • XML
  • ALTO XML
• Export Picture Format Enum

• Miscellaneous

• List of the predefined languages

• Please pay your attention to the fact that in the abbyyocr11 multiple input files (passed to -if options) are processed with the same set of preprocessing / analysis / recognition / synthesis options no matter where these options are put in the command.
• In addition, when export is performed to multiple formats, it is required to specify different formats for -f options within the same command.