General Feature Overview

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

• The sample.jpg file will be recognised
• 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 -ii -fm -if sample.jpg -tet UTF8 -of sample.txt

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

ABBYY FineReader Engine CLI for Linux offers easy and instant access to ABBYY’s high quality OCR technology on the Linux platform. Processing can be easily controlled and automated via terminal/command line calls.

The following image and document formats can be opened and processed:

• PDF
• BMP
• PCX
• DCX
• JPEG
• JPEG2000
• TIFF
• PNG

• Documentation
  • Input file keys
  • Image processing keys

The image processing and recognition are controlled through a set of parameters:

• Image processing
  Skew correction, image format, compression settings, image resolution, cleaning images, colour inversion, splitting of dual pages

• Layout Analysis
  Detection of page orientation, barcode localisation, picture and table detection, table analysis

• Recognition Keys
  Fast/balanced mode, format recognition (e.g. Italic), recognition languages that should be used, Recognition of mixed font types, such as normal text, typewriter, dot-matrix, OCR-A, OCR-B and MICR (E13b)

• Barcode Keys
  17 most popular 1D barcodes, 2D: PDF417, Aztec, DataMatrix, QRCode
  positioned at any angle on a document

• Recognition Languages
  More than 190 languages, including multilingual documents
  

• General: Miscellaneous Keys
  Processing Profiles for different scenarios, e.g. archiving, text extraction or editing; multi-core-CPU processing

FineReader Engine CLI for Linux offers sophisticated output options and formats:

• Synthesis Keys
  Settings how the recognition result export should be exported, e.g. fonts, paragraphs, text color, hyperlinks…

The recognition results can be exported to these formats:

• PDF & PDF/A1-3 Export
  • text only
  • text on image
  • image on text
  • image only
• protected PDFs

• RTF & ODT
• HTML
• TXT
• DOCX
• XLSX
• ePub & FB2 - ebook formats
• ALTO XML
• XML
  …more details can be found here: http://http://www.abbyy-developers.eu/en:tech:features:xml

Further details can be found in the documentation.

ABBYY FineReader Engine for Linux recognizes over 190 OCR languages – Version 11 now also supports Arabic OCR ¹⁾
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• 1D: Check Code 39, Check Interleaved 25, Code 128, Code 39, EAN 13, EAN 8, Interleaved 25, CODABAR (without checksum), UCC Code 128, Code 2 of 5 (Industrial, IATA, Matrix), Code 93, UPC-A, UPC-E and Postnet.
• 2D: PDF 417, Aztec, DataMatrix, QRCode

• See Add Ons for CLI