Specifications

System requirements

Server manager

  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™/Core™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™/Sempron™/Opteron™ or compatible processor with a CPU frequency of at least 2 GHz and at least two cores
  • Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 8, Windows Server® 2019, Windows Server® 2016, Windows Server® 2012 R2, Windows Server® 2012, including deployment on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Hard disk space: up to 1.5 GB depending on the installed components and 2 GB more for program operation *
  • The account under which the server is running must have read/write permissions to the following registry branches:
    • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ABBYY (for 32-bit system)
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node\ABBYY (for 64-bit system)
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ABBYY
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is required for:
    • processing documents, stored at Microsoft SharePoint
    • exporting processing results to Microsoft SharePoint
    • using the WEB API of ABBYY FineReader Server
  • Microsoft Outlook 2010 or later is required for processing and sending e-mail messages via Microsoft Exchange Server and the MAPI protocol.

*Note: The hard disk space required for program operation may be larger depending on the complexity, quality, and number of the images.

Scanning station

  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™/Core™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™/Sempron™/Opteron™ or compatible processor with a CPU frequency of at least 2 GHz and at least two cores
  • Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 8, Windows Server® 2019, Windows Server® 2016, Windows Server® 2012 R2, Windows Server® 2012, including deployment on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Hard disk space: 2 GB (including 125 MB for installation) *
  • Scanner supporting TWAIN, WIA or ISIS is required
  • Additional software: MSXML6 is required

*Note: The hard disk space required for program operation may be larger depending on the complexity, quality, and number of the images.

Processing station

  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™/Core™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™/Sempron™/Opteron™ or compatible processor with a CPU frequency of at least 2 GHz and at least two cores
  • Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 8, Windows Server® 2019, Windows Server® 2016, Windows Server® 2012 R2, Windows Server® 2012, including deployment on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Memory: 4 GB. You need 300 MB for each recognition process in addition.
  • Hard disk space: up to 1,5 GB depending on the set of components for installation and 2 GB for program operation *

*Note: The hard disk space required for program operation may be larger depending on the complexity, quality, and number of the images.

Verification station

  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™/Core™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™/Sempron™/Opteron™ or compatible processor with a CPU frequency of at least 2 GHz and at least two cores
  • Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 8, Windows Server® 2019, Windows Server® 2016, Windows Server® 2012 R2, Windows Server® 2012, including deployment on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM. (In a multiprocessor system, an additional 512 MB of RAM is required for each additional processor.)
  • Hard disk space: 700 MB for installation and 2 GB for program operation *

*Note: The hard disk space required for program operation may be larger depending on the complexity, quality, and number of the images.

Indexing station

  • PC with Intel® Pentium®/Celeron®/Xeon™/Core™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™/Sempron™/Opteron™ or compatible processor with a CPU frequency of at least 2 GHz and at least two cores
  • Operating system: Microsoft® Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1, Windows® 8, Windows Server® 2019, Windows Server® 2016, Windows Server® 2012 R2, Windows Server® 2012, including deployment on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM.
  • Hard disk space: 500 MB for installation and 2 GB for program operation *

*Note: The hard disk space required for program operation may be larger depending on the complexity, quality, and number of the images.

Supported user interface languages

Chinese simplified

Czech

English

French

German

Hungarian

Japanese

Korean

Polish

Portuguese (Brazilian)

Russian

Spanish

Supported recognition languages

FineReader Server supports over 200 recognition languages in all combinations. 49 languages include dictionary support (marked with *):

Natural languages

Abkhaz

Adyghe

Afrikaans

Agul

Albanian

Altai

Arabic (Saudi Arabia)*

Armenian (Eastern)*

Armenian (Grabar)*

Armenian (Western)*

Avar

Aymara

Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)

Azeri (Latin)*

Bashkir*

Basque

Belarusian

Bemba

Blackfoot

Breton

Bugotu

Bulgarian*

Burmese*

Buryat

Catalan*

Cebuano

Chamorro

Chechen

Chinese Traditional*

Chinese Simplified*

Chukchee

Chuvash

Corsican

Crimean Tatar

Croatian*

Crow

Czech*

Danish*

Dargwa

Dungan

Dutch (Belgian)*

Dutch*

English*

Eskimo (Cyrillic)

Eskimo (Latin)

Estonian*

Even

Evenki

Faroese

Farsi*

Fijian

Finnish*

French*

Frisian

Friulian

Gagauz

Galician

Ganda

Georgian

German (Luxembourg)

German (new spelling)*

German*

Greek*

Guarani

Hangul (Korean)*

Hani

Hausa

Hawaiian

Hebrew*

Hungarian*

Icelandic

Indonesian

Ingush

Irish

Japanese*

Japanese (Modern)*

Jingpo

Kabardian

Kalmyk

Karachay-balkar

Karakalpak

Kasub

Kawa

Kazakh

Khakass

Khanty

Kikuyu

Kirghiz

Kongo

Korean*

Koryak

Kpelle

Kumyk

Kurdish

Lak

Latin

Latvian*

Lezgi

Lithuanian*

Luba

Macedonian

Malagasy

Malay (Malaysian)

Malinke

Maltese

Mansi

Maori

Mari

Maya

Miao

Minangkabau

Mohawk

Moldavian

Mongol

Mordvin

Nahuatl

Nenets

Nivkh

Nogay

Norwegian (Bokmal)*

Norwegian (Nynorsk)*

Norwegian*

Nyanja*

Ojibway

Ossetian

Papiamento

Polish*

Portuguese (Brazilian)*

Portuguese*

Provencal

Quechua

Rhaeto-Romanic

Romanian*

Romany

Rundi

Russian (Old Spelling)

Russian*

Rwanda

Sami (Lappish)

Samoan

Scottish Gaelic

Selkup

Serbian (Cyrillic)

Serbian (Latin)

Shona

Sioux (Dakota)

Slovak*

Slovenian*

Somali

Sorbian

Sotho

Spanish*

Sunda

Swahili

Swazi

Swedish*

Tabasaran

Tagalog

Tahitian

Tajik

Tatar*

Thai*

Tok Pisin

Tongan

Tswana

Tun

Turkish*

Turkmen

Tuvinian

Udmurt

Uigur (Cyrillic)

Uigur (Latin)

Ukrainian*

Uzbek (Cyrillic)

Uzbek (Latin)

Vietnamese*

Welsh

Wolof

Xhosa

Yakut

Yiddish

Zapotec

Zulu

Old European languages and gothic fronts

Languages for recognition of old European documents and Gothic fonts in books printed in 18-20th centuries (see frakturschrift.com):

  • English

  • French

  • German

  • Italian

  • Spanish

  • Latvian

Artificial languages

  • Esperanto

  • Ido

  • Interlingua

  • Occidental

Formal languages

  • Basic

  • C/C++

  • COBOL

  • Fortran

  • Java

  • Pascal

  • Simple chemical formulas

  • Digits

Print types

Normal, Fax (mode for low-resolution texts), Typewriter, Dot Matrix Printer, OCR-A, OCR-B, MICR (E13B), Gothic

Barcode types

Check Code 39

Check Interleaved 2 of 5

Code 128

Code 32

Code 39

Code 39 without asterisk

Code 39: Full ASCII Mode

EAN 13

EAN 8

Interleaved 2 of 5

CODABAR (without checksum)

UCC-128

Code 2 of 5 (Industrial, Interleaved, IATA, Matrix)

Code 93

UPC-A

Postal: Australia 4-State

Postal: KIX (Dutch)

Postal: Royal Mail 4-State (RM4SCC)

UPC-E

Patch Code and Postnet

USPS-4CB (Intelligent Mail Barcode)

PDF 417

Aztec

Data Matrix

QR Code

2D: Maxi Code

Supported file formats

INPUT

Image files

  • TIFF / Multipage TIFF

    Compression methods: Uncompressed, CCITT3, CCITT3FAX, CCITT4, PackBits, JPEG, ZIP, LZW (8/24bits)

  • JPEG, JPEG 2000

  • JBIG2

  • BMP

  • GIF

  • PNG

  • WDP

  • XPS

  • PCX, DCX

Office documents

  • PDF

  • DjVu

  • DOC, DOCX, ODT

  • XLS, XLSX, ODS

  • PPT, PPTX, ODP

  • TXT, HTML, HTM, RTF

Emails

  • Mail servers supported protocols: IMAP, MAPI, POP3

    Like MS Exchange, Google Mail, IBM Domino, etc.

  • Mail message files stored in file system

    Like MSG and EML files

Customiza­tion

  • Possibility to create plugins for expanding list of supported formats, e.g. convert CAD file to PDF with help of Autocad or other software.

OUTPUT

  • PDF, PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u, PDF/E, PDF/UA

  • RTF

  • DOC, DOCX

  • XLS, XLSX

  • TXT, CSV

  • HTML

  • TIFF

  • JPEG, JPEG 2000

  • PNG

  • EPUB

  • XML

  • Alto XML

  • FineReader internal format (FineReader Engine-compatible)

Available connectors to enterprise systems

  • Microsoft SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online (Office 365)

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016 or Exchange Online (Office 365)

  • IFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Desktop Search

Available customization and integration options

  • Custom processing parameters defined via XML files (XML Tickets)

  • WEB API

  • COM API

  • Scripting in VBScript and JScript