The most comprehensive OCR SDK for software developers

The ABBYY FineReader Engine OCR API offers a wide range of options for exporting recognition results, for example in form of plain text, XML, different types of PDF and PDF/A formats, many image-only formats as well as editable Microsoft® Office documents and others. If required, it provides a completely reconstructed document – including all formatting and re-created original document structure.

• Specify various levels of layout reconstruction and text format retention - from simple text without formatting to complete retention of page layout - including columns, tables, frames, fonts, font size, paragraph styles, borders, etc.
• Access detailed information about each recognized character
• Leverage functions for editing and formatting of recognized text prior to the actual export
• Export the recognized text to a variety of saving formats
• Fully retain layout of documents – including the logical structure and document formatting elements such as table of content, headers, footers, footnotes and other elements
• Replace uncertainly recognized characters with corresponding character images when saving to PDF
• Fully retain color of pictures and text