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Precision OCR enables efficient data extraction and advanced AI workflows, driving automation, generative innovation, and smarter decision-making.
ABBYY’s OCR and ICR
AI OCR & ICR Technology

Boost AI efficiency with trusted OCR

Revolutionize how you work with documents using optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR), the cutting-edge technology for image-to-text conversion, document recognition and processing.

Highly optimized to deliver unmatched efficiency, accuracy, and versatility, ABBYY’s OCR and ICR technologies adapt seamlessly to diverse needs, optimizing performance across various applications. Whether you're looking to extract data from complex forms, build the next-gen AI-powered app, or streamline enterprise workflows, our Document AI platform delivers consistent and high-quality results with purpose-built AI.

From static documents to dynamic AI-driven solutions

OCR technology converts scanned or handwritten documents into machine-readable, AI-ready text, maintaining the document's logical structure and original content. The extracted data becomes highly versatile, ready to power a wide range of AI-driven tools and processes.

OCR’s output transforms static documents into actionable, structured information, forming a critical bridge between raw data and intelligent automation, while opening new opportunities for efficiency and innovation across industries.

Where OCR meets AI innovation
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Document AI-driven tool

OCR technology that combines innovation with experience

Best-in-class OCR and ICR technology

Unlock the power of advanced purpose-built AI with superior optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR). Accurately capture printed text and even handwritten data, making it ideal for diverse use cases.

Highly scalable and secure

Our platform processes millions of documents daily with industry-grade scaling, adapting seamlessly to businesses of all sizes. Equipped with top-tier security, it protects sensitive data while ensuring unparalleled performance, flexibility, and reliability as your needs grow.

Built for developers

With comprehensive APIs and SDKs available in major programming languages, seamlessly integrate OCR / ICR functionality into your applications or workflows. Customizable configuration options allow you to tailor the solution to fit your specific needs.

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Seamless data extraction and processing

Extract data from documents accurately and efficiently without compromising quality. Our OCR/ICR technology is designed to handle complex forms and diverse layouts with ease, including multi-page tables, intricate backgrounds, barcodes, checkmarks, and high-resolution images.

Highly efficient language models

Benefit from state-of-the-art language models that deliver consistent and precise results across different document types, from invoices to contracts. These models are designed to handle multilingual content with ease.

Speed and accuracy

Process even highly complex documents, such as forms and tables, at lightning-fast speeds without sacrificing accuracy. Quickly transform cluttered, unstructured data into ready-to-use insights, saving time and resources.

Complex document understanding

Maintain the integrity of your document layouts, including tables, charts, images, and hierarchical structures, to ensure AI-ready outcomes. This approach guarantees seamless data extraction while preserving the original format, making it perfect for detailed reporting, in-depth data analysis, or creating visually clear and accurate documentation for stakeholders.

User-friendly interface

Easily integrate OCR and ICR capabilities into your existing systems with intuitive dashboards and APIs. No steep learning curve—start streamlining your workflows right away.

Flexible deployment options

Tailor your implementation to your business requirements with flexible deployment options. Opt for cloud-based solutions for convenience, on-premise for greater control, or a simple REST API for seamless integration with just a few lines of code.

How OCR and ICR work

OCR stands for optical character recognition. OCR technology is used to analyze, read, and extract text in scanned documents or images and convert it into machine-readable text. It is often used to digitize printed books and articles, or in business processes involving physical documents, such as invoices and receipts, so that the text content can be edited, searched, and stored electronically. OCR technology is typically integrated with other applications, such as IDP, as one step of a larger process of intelligent automation.

  • Layout analysis as the foundation of OCR
  • Text recognition
  • Output

​​​Layout analysis as the foundation of OCR

Layout analysis is the initial step in the OCR process, where the document's structure is examined to identify and segment key elements such as tables, images, text, barcodes, and checkmarks. This step ensures that each component is accurately recognized and processed, laying the foundation for precise data extraction and enabling seamless handling of diverse document types and complexities.

OCR/ICR Layout analysis

Text recognition

​In its basic version, character recognition in OCR involves analyzing various characteristics of the image and matching it to predefined patterns or templates that represent known characters and symbols, then words, and so on. By utilizing advancements in machine learning (ML), neural networks (NNs), and in specific edge cases event transformers (similar to the technology used in large language models), this process achieves higher accuracy, enabling recognition across diverse fonts, sizes, and languages. These advanced technologies adapt to variations in character shapes, ensuring precise interpretation even from cursive handwriting or languages that have been very challenging for traditional OCR approaches, such as Arabic.

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Output

The structured, machine-readable, AI-ready information extracted from documents enables automation for tasks like invoice processing and compliance checks, enhances retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) by providing contextually relevant data, supports intelligent interactions in chatbots and virtual assistants, and enriches AI model training by supplying diverse, high-quality datasets.

OCR/ICR Structured Output

Intelligent document processing pipeline

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AI has transformed the ability to read and interpret content previously deemed impossible to process, dramatically expanding the use cases for automation. ABBYY IDP uses advanced AI-based optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR) technologies to digitize printed and handwritten text, preparing it for further processing. These technologies are able to recognize the logical structure of the whole document, including complex elements such as tables, enabling document classification, data extraction, and high-quality export to digital formats.

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5 Steps to Successful Intelligent Document Processing

Discover the power of IDP to make your automation robots smarter and your data extraction more efficient.

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NLP, LLMs, DeepML, and FastML: The AI Under the Hood of ABBYY Intelligent Document Processing

Explore about the cutting-edge AI that is built into each step of ABBYY’s intelligent document processing pipeline.

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OCR vs. IDP: What’s The Difference?

Learn about the key differences between what optical character recognition (OCR) offers versus a broader intelligent document processing (IDP) solution.

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Checklist
Checklist

5 Steps to Successful Intelligent Document Processing

Discover the power of IDP to make your automation robots smarter and your data extraction more efficient.

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Webpage
Article

NLP, LLMs, DeepML, and FastML: The AI Under the Hood of ABBYY Intelligent Document Processing

Explore about the cutting-edge AI that is built into each step of ABBYY’s intelligent document processing pipeline.

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Article

OCR vs. IDP: What’s The Difference?

Learn about the key differences between what optical character recognition (OCR) offers versus a broader intelligent document processing (IDP) solution.

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OCR/ICR—frequently asked questions

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Do you offer customer support and training?
Can the solution process handwritten notes accurately?
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