ABBYY Takes A Bite Out Of Apple iOS 8 With Upgrades To Its OCR Applications

By Karla Paris

FineScanner and Business Card Reader for iPhone apps see upgrades that users have been asking for.

ABBYY, a provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services, listens to what its customers need to enhance everyday productivity. After interviewing its users, ABBYY identified found nearly 40 percent of them were looking for improvements to the company’s mobile scanning application, ABBYY FineScanner for iOS.

The new version of ABBYY's mobile scanning application, which fully supports iOS 8 and its extensions, is available in the Apple App Store free of charge. ABBYY FineScanner now delivers highly-accurate optical character recognition (OCR) and format retention for scanned documents in 44 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK), and Cyrillic.

ABBYY FineScanner for iOS turns mobile devices into an all-purpose mobile scanner and document manager that allows users to capture images, create electronic documents in PDF and JPG, and apply OCR to recognize texts for further editing and sharing. The OCR functionality is available either for subscription (per year or per month), or via the unlimited in-app purchase.

Features now include:

• Multiple export destinations: send results by e-mail or to on-line services such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Yandex.Disk, Evernote, or Facebook.
• The ability to scan any printed or hand-written text anywhere and anytime.
• Еdit images (crop redundant background) directly from within Photos, without launching FineScanner.
• Create documents of any size using your iPhone/iPad camera.
• PDF and JPEG support: save and export scans to JPEG images and cross-platform PDF documents.
• Built-in file archiving: save results in a file archive with tags and in-app search capabilities.
• Transfer documents directly to your Mac or PC using iTunes sharing.
• AirPrint support: print out scanned documents directly from your mobile device.

Following the announcement of Abby’s upgrades to the FineScanner for iOS, the company announced that the ABBYY Business Card Reader is now free and fully supports iOS8. A free version of ABBYY business card reading application with full support for iOS 8 and flexible licensing options is now available at the Apple App Store.

With the iOS 8 Extension feature, it recognizes contact data from business cards in the Photos, Mail, web browser, or any other application in just two taps. Captured contacts are stored inside the CardHolder, a searchable digital archive of the app.

The Free version allows for as much as 25 recognitions. When they are over, you can buy another 50 recognitions pack through in-app purchase or upgrade to a Premium account using 1-month or 1-year subscription. The Premium version provides unlimited recognition of contact cards and sync contacts between user’s iOS and Android-based devices.

SOURCE: PR Newswire