Scenario Implementation

This section describes the most common scenarios in which ABBYY FineReader Engine may be used. Each article contains a detailed description of the scenario, implementation advice, and suggestions on optimizing the code for specific tasks.

Select the scenario appropriate for your task:

• Data Extraction

  Suitable for extracting text, objects, and all useful data from the document and presenting it in a structured format.

• Document Conversion

  Suitable for converting documents into an editable format.

• Document Archiving

  Suitable for processing paper documents for electronic archives.

• Text Extraction

  Suitable for extracting the entire document text, including areas other than the body text.

• Field-Level Recognition

  Suitable for recognition of small text fragments to capture data from document fields.

• Barcode Recognition

  Suitable for reading barcodes.

• Business Card Recognition

  Suitable for converting business cards to electronic format.

• Machine-Readable Zone Capture

  Suitable for extracting the data from a machine-readable zone and exporting it to electronic format.

• Document Classification

  Suitable for assigning documents to one of the user-defined categories with the help of a pretrained database.

• Document Comparison

  Suitable for comparing documents or pages to find mistakes and intentionally made changes.

• Scanning (Windows)

  Suitable for getting images from a scanner and their subsequent processing.