ABBYY Recognition Server

New Features

What's new in version 3?

• New Scanning Station - capture documents using TWAIN, WIA or ISIS scanner drivers. Scanned batches of documents can be easily sorted and exported
• New Indexing Station - easily extract data from a document by simply outlining the necessary areas on the page and create meta data for quick document indexing
• Indexing Scripts - automatically perform document type detection and indexing automatically based on the structure and content of a document
• Automatic Document Routing - intelligently route output documents based on their content and attributes to a range of output formats
• iFilter for MS Office SharePoint Server and iFilter for Windows/Desktop Search - the IFilter component enables the search systems to index the full text content of faxes, scanned agreements, correspondence, and any other TIFF, JPEG or PDF documents, thus making them easily retrievable
• Connector to Google Search Appliance - makes data form stored image files accessible and extends use of GSA to search/retrieve documents
• New OCR languages supported - now supports Vietnamese, Yiddish and Latvian Gothic
• New barcode types supported - now support Aztec, Data Matrix and QR Code formats

Features

Manage the Whole Document Capture Process

Cover all steps of document capture, from the scanning and indexing through to the exporting of documents to archiving and document management systems.

Highly Accurate Recognition in over 190 Languages

The award-winning ABBYY’s OCR technology delivers unprecedented recognition accuracy for any kind of documents.

Unattended Server-based Processing

Document conversion tasks are performed automatically on a server, during scheduled hours or round-the-clock.

Unmatched Scalability

With its ability to use resources of additional computers and CPUs during the processing, Recognition Server can convert virtually any volume of documents within the required timeframe. In addition, there is no need for complex system configuration – it takes just a few minutes to extend the processing power by plugging additional stations into the system.

Centralised Management

Recognition Server provides a remote management console as a central administration point for defining processing parameters, creating specific “workflows' for particular projects and managing recognition stations across the enterprise.

Compatible with various scanners and ECM systems

Recognition Server will supplement your scanning devices and back-end software with powerful document capture functionality.

Connect to Microsoft and Google Enterprise Search systems

ABBYY Recognition Server connects as a background OCR server to enterprise systems such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Search and Google Search Appliance, enhancing their capabilities to search over the content of document images.

Flexible Integration Tools

Integration with scanners, MFPs, imaging applications and backend systems has never been easier. Recognition Server can communicate with other systems in a number of ways: via “watched' folders, email, COM-compatible API or Web Service API. The program provides all the features to function as an OCR Web Service in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

System Req.

Server Manager

• PC with Intel Pentium/Celeron/Xeon/Core, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron/Sempron/Opteron or compatible processor with a minimum clock speed of 500 MHz.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• Memory: 1 GB RAM.
• Hard disk space: 20 MB for installation and 1 GB for program operation.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later is required for saving files to Microsoft SharePoint Server.
• Microsoft Outlook 2000 or later is required for processing and sending e-mail messages via Microsoft Exchange Server.

Scanning Station

• PC with Intel Core2/2 Quad/Pentium/Celeron/Xeon, AMD K6/Turion/Athlon/Duron/Sempron processor or compatible processor with a minimum clock speed of 2 GHz.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (for localised interfaces, corresponding language support is required).
• Memory: 512 MB RAM minimum; 1 GB recommended.
• Hard disk space: 1 GB (including 125 MB for installation).
• Scanner supporting TWAIN, WIA or ISIS.
• Video card and display with a resolution of 1024×768.
• Keyboard, mouse or other pointing device.

Processing Station

• PC with Intel Pentium/Celeron/Xeon/Core, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron/Sempron/Opteron or compatible processor with a minimum clock speed of 500 MHz.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• Memory: 512 MB RAM plus an additional 300 MB for each recognition process.
• Hard disk space: 600 MB for installation and 1 GB for program operation.

Indexing Station

• PC with Intel Pentium/Celeron/Xeon/Core, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron/Sempron/Opteron or other compatible processor with a clock speed of 500 MHz or higher.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (for localised interfaces, corresponding language support is required).
• Memory: 768 MB RAM.
• Hard disk space: 500 MB for installation and 1 GB for program operation.

Remote Administration Console

• PC with Intel Pentium/Celeron/Xeon/Core, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron/Sempron/Opteron or compatible processor with a minimum clock speed of 200 MHz.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP (for localised interfaces, corresponding language support is required).
• Memory: 128 MB RAM.
• Hard disk space: 30 MB.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later is required for saving files to Microsoft SharePoint Server.

COM-based API

• PC with Intel Pentium/Celeron/Xeon/Core, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron/Sempron/Opteron or compatible processor with a minimum clock speed of 200 MHz.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• Memory: 128 MB RAM.
• Hard disk space: 15 MB.

Web Service

• PC with Intel Pentium/Celeron/Xeon/Core, AMD K6/Athlon/Duron/Sempron/Opteron or compatible processor with a minimum clock speed of 200 MHz.
• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
• Memory: 128 MB RAM.
• Hard disk space: 15 MB and 100 MB for program operation.
• Microsoft IIS 5.1 or later.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later.

Supported input formats

• BMP: black and white, gray, color. Compression methods: uncompressed, uncompressed Palette, uncompressed Mask, RLE compressed Palette
• PCX, DCX: black and white, gray, color
• JPEG, JPEG 2000 part1: gray, color
• JBIG2: black and white
• PNG: black and white, gray, color
• GIF: black and white, gray. Compression methods: LZW
• TIFF: black and white, gray, color, multi-image. Compression methods: Unpacked, CCITT Group 3, CCITT Group 3 FAX (2D), CCITT Group 4, PackBits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW
• PDF (Version 1.7 or earlier)
• DjVu: black and white, gray, color
• WDP: black and white, gray, color

Supported output formats

• Microsoft Word (.DOC, .DOCX)
• Microsoft Excel (.XLS, .XLSX)
• Rich Text Format (.RTF)
• XML (.XML)
• PDF, PDF/A (.PDF)
• HTML (.HTM)
• CSV (.CSV)
• Plain text (.TXT)
• TIFF (.TIFF)
• JPEG, JPEG 2000 (.JPG, .J2K)
• JPEG, JPEG 2000 (.JPG, .J2K)
• FineReader internal format (FineReader Engine-compatible)

Barcode types

• 1D: Code 128, Code 39, EAN 13, EAN 8, Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar (without checksum), UCC Code 128, Code 2 of 5 (Industrial, IATA, Matrix), Code 93, UPC-A, UPC-E, Patch Code, and Postnet.
• 2D: Aztec, Data Matrix, PDF 417, QR Code.