ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for Iphone

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ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for Iphone

I am looking to use/buy a OCR solution for my next iPhone app.

Searching through the answers on this site didn't really help me a lot.

Did anybody ever use ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for iPhone?

What interests me is how good is it (recognition) and how much does it cost?

Thank you.

You could try using Tesseract (open source). This site describes compiling it for the iPhone.

diciu 2009-12-30 15:36:07

Thanks, but I need ABBYY

Alexandru Luchian 2009-12-30 15:47:24

Well, then you should download the trial http://www.abbyy.com/mobileocr/trial and contact them for a price quote.

diciu 2009-12-30 15:56:30

I did that, I mean contacting them about the price. It's just that I was curious if other developers used it. Also this post would be nice for others to see in the future.

Alexandru Luchian 2009-12-30 15:58:35

I cannot comment on the mobile version of this, but I have written an application using ABBYY before, and the recognition performance was quite good. We were looking at processing contracts.. After twice refaxing them, we still got around only about 5 characters errors per 10 pages (without rotating the documents).

xcut 2010-01-06 15:52:29

I had the same idea, and contacted them to ask for prices.

1000$ per year for the basic engine, another 1000$ if you want to use their business card module + up to 50% of each sale!!!

very cheap, isnt it? dont think about using the engine if you are not quite sure to sell at least 10.000 apps a year...

mercuer 2010-01-14 15:06:47

Are you sure it was $1,000 and not $10,000? While googleing and searching I found that it's around 10K (pay just once) + 20% of each sale. Maybe it depends on the country. Anyway I don't think I'll use them.

Alexandru Luchian 2010-01-14 15:21:24

Have you looked at OCRopus?

JBRWilkinson 2010-01-14 15:36:21

No, but thanks a lot.

Alexandru Luchian 2010-01-15 13:25:00

Well, this looks like something built by Google on top of Tesseract. Still not an iPhone solution.

Alexandru Luchian 2010-01-15 19:19:45

I couldn't find anyone who actually used the mobile SDK, however pricing wise I think I got an idea.

It's around 15K + 20% off of the revenue (after Apple takes 30%, so you are left with 50%).

Alexandru Luchian 2010-03-12 19:33:05

There's a solution by WiseTrend (http://www.wisetrend.com) that actually uses the ABBYY recognition server under the hood. To test recognition quality, send an image to [email protected] and you will get back OCR results by email. If you like the results but don't want to buy the ABBYY engine, check out this online API (free within certain limits): http://www.webservius.com/corp/docs/wisetrend.pdf

Eugene Osovetsky 2010-03-16 21:05:30

Hello every body I’m looking for Automatic Number Plate Recognition software (OCR Optical character recognition) for Pocket PC. I want to use it to recognize a license plate. Is there anyone who already hears about it or use this kind of technology? Thanks,

req 2010-06-16 14:58:34

This should be a separate question (use "Ask Question").

sharptooth 2010-06-16 15:07:05

For anyone else who ends up at this thread looking for a general iPhone OCR solution (I realize this thread was originally ABBYY specific), there's a good Tesseract proof of concept app here: http://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR

formasfunction 2010-08-14 20:27:54

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