ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for Iphone [closed]

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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.

Answer 1

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%).

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Have you looked at OCRopus?

Answer 5

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).

Answer 6

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...