ABBYY unveils SDK

ABBYY has introduced the FineReader Engine 9.0 for Windows. The company reports that an enhanced core technology platform and additional improvements--such as significantly increased scalability, new technology for Asian language recognition and ready-made interface tools—make the software development kit (SDK) well suited to facilitate the integration of highly accurate, scalable and efficient recognition technologies.

ABBYY's new Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT) provides highly accurate reproduction of text and standard formatting, as well as recreates text flow, logical integrity and formatting consistency across an entire document. As a result, formatting attributes of the original—such as headers, footers, page numbers, footnotes, columns, tables, signatures, fonts and styles—are accurately reconstructed in native Microsoft Office formatting, says the company.