KB-Type:
Comparison
Version:
11
Category:
General

ABBYY CLI OCR vs. Cloud OCR SDK

The table below lists some general differences between the ABBYY Linux CLI OCR tool with the alternative to use the ABBYY Cloud OCR service via Rest-API. Both approaches allow to automate the text recognition process via “light” coding, but they way how both products work is rather different.

CLI OCR Cloud OCR SDK
Integration Integration on a terminal/script level REST-API
Coding Ready to use from the command line Custom Code required,
Code sample are available
Internet Connection only needed for CLI download & activation (http or email) required to upload the document images/PDFs and to download the results
Processing Processing on the local machine Remote processing,
ABBYY service running on Windows Azure
Scalability Local machine capacity limits,
use multiple licenses/machines to scale up
V11 comes with built in multi-core support
Auto-Scalability of the service,
well suited to process large projects
Cloud OCR Scalability
Feature Set Packaged Feature Set Packaged Feature Set
some features that are not available in the CLI, e.g. Business Card reading, Support of machine readable zones, Zonal OCR
Distribution
Pricing
Defined feature & volume packages Pre-Paid Volume (online or contract),
Subscription contracts
Trial online on ocr4Linux.com free Developer registration with free test images and a test volume for own documents,
and
Browser based test-tool to visually see the OCR result
License Activation activation of the CLI license on the local machine required service can be used from different machines,
no local license needed
Payment one time payment,
pricingv11
pay per use, pre-paid
Data Privacy local processing, security depends on the machine setup ABBYY Cloud OCR service is setup, running and following the European data privacy law.
The jobs and processing results can/have to be deleted.
Contractual Data Outsourcing agreements are available for large projects and integration of the service in other server/cloud back ends.

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