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ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0 Data Sheet
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doesn’t affect their productivity and work. In case of a large image backlog, ABBYY Recognition Server can be easily
scaled up by plugging additional OCR stations that will share the workload automatically.
• Takes care of all kinds of OCR tasks. ABBYY Recognition Server usage is not limited to integration with Microsoft
search. The product can also be used as a full-scale OCR and document conversion server for all kinds of tasks, from
converting a scanned document to Word to creating searchable PDF archives.
OCR for the Google Search Appliance™
Integrated with the Goggle Search Appliance, ABBYY Recognition Server significantly expands its capabilities to efficiently
search information in distributed document storage systems and archives across the entire enterprise.
Finding necessary information scattered across different departments and electronic document storage in a large organization
can be a real challenge unless you use an enterprise search system like the Google Search Appliance. The Google Search
Appliance indexes documents in various storage locations and resources across the enterprise so that people can quickly find
any document by keywords. However, a lot of valuable information is typically stored in the form of images (such as scanned
PDF files) and therefore is inaccessible to indexing and search engines.
Why ABBYY Recognition Server
ABBYY Recognition Server processes document images to make them searchable. It recognizes images by applying optical
character recognition (OCR) technology, transforms images into text, and sends the output to the search system together
with links to the original documents. As a result, image documents stored in corporate file shares become available for full-
text search.
How It Works
Working in conjunction with the Google Search Appliance, ABBYY Recognition Server monitors specified network file shares,
picks image files from them, and performs OCR on them. Then it submits the recognized text to the search system in an XML
feed along with links to the original images.
The text from the feed is included in the index. Now, if the user types a search query that contains a word from the text of
the document, the image will turn up in the search results.
Benefits
ABBYY Recognitions Server brings additional benefits to the users of the Google Search Appliance and makes their search
experience more fulfilling and efficient.
• No documents are left out. ABBYY Recognition Server crawls specified document storage resources and indexes
all image content. Combined with the Google Search Appliance engine, it searches all documents in both text and
image formats, leaving no valuable information overlooked.
• Accurate search results ensured by cutting-edge OCR technologies. ABBYY’s award-winning OCR technologies
used in Recognition Server ensure the accuracy of text extraction even when processing low-quality images, thus
providing reliable search results.
• Multi-language search. ABBYY Recognition Server supports OCR in more than 190 languages and allows multi-
language documents to be indexed correctly.
• Full-fledged OCR server at your service. ABBYY Recognition Server is a powerful OCR service available 24*7 for
various document conversion tasks your company may encounter on a daily basis. Let Recognition Server enhance
your business processes while performing background OCR for the Google Search Appliance at the same time.
• Scalable to any hardware configuration. ABBYY Recognition Server gives you full control of the CPU resources
used for performing OCR. You can scale up the system capacity by adding more servers to boost the recognition
speed, or limit the recognition process to certain CPU cores so that it does not interfere with other programs running
on the server.
Key Features
Takes care of the whole document capture process
ABBYY Recognition Server covers all steps of document capture, from scanning to indexing and exporting documents to
archiving and content management systems.
Quick in deployment and easy to use
ABBYY Recognition Server has an intuitive interface and can be set up and operated without prior training.
Designed for processing high volumes of documents
ABBYY Recognition Server is known for its unmatched scalability. The solution is easily extendable to multi-core CPUs or
multiple servers, and therefore able to cope with any volume of documents, processing them as scheduled or round-the-
clock.
Compatible with various scanners and ECM systems
ABBYY Recognition Server will supplement your scanning devices and back-end software with powerful document capture
functionality.
Ready-made connectors to Microsoft and Google Enterprise Search systems