Specifications FRE 9 Linux

System Requirements

  • ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux is designed for glibc version 2.6.1 and above. If you need ABBYY FineReader Engine for older glibc versions, please contact the ABBYY office serving your region by e-mail.
  • For the FineReader Engine dynamic library the standard libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 libraries have to be used.

Tested Operating Systems

  • Fedora 10, 11, 12
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES/AS, 5.3
  • SUSE Linux 10
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
  • openSUSE 10.3, 11.2
  • WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 1, Respin 2
  • Debian/GNU Linux 4.0, 5.0
  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS

Supported Recognition Languages

With dictionaries:

  • 45 common (default) languages including
    • 6 programming languages
    • Chemistry
    • Digits
    • 9 additional languages including
      • Japanese
      • Hebrew
      • Thai
      • FR XIX
        • Old English
        • Old French
        • Old German
        • Old Italian
        • Old Spanish
      • Vietnamese
  • 54 in total

Without dictionaries

138 common (default) languages including

  • 4 artificial languages
    • Esperanto
    • Ido
    • Interlingua
    • Occidental
  • 2 special languages (included by default if corresponding text type is chosen)
    • CMC7
    • E13B
  • 6 additional languages
    • Chinese Simplified (PRC)
    • Chinese Traditional (Taiwan)
    • Korean
    • Hangul (under Korean Add-On)
    • Yiddish (under Hebrew Add-On)
    • Latvian Gothic (under FineReader XIX Add-On)
  • 144 in total

Overall 198

Licensing of the OCR Languages

  • 183 are common and included in Runtime Professional
  • 15 are included in Add-Ons:
    • 5 hieroglyphic languages (CJK) – Chinese Traditional (Taiwan), Chinese Simplified (PRC), Japanese, Korean, Hangul (Korean)
    • 6 old languages (FineReader XIX)
    • Thai
    • 2 Hebrew languages
      • Hebrew and
      • Yiddish
    • Vietnamese

Supported Barcode types

1D Barcodes

  • Codabar
  • Code 128
  • Code 39
  • Code 93
  • EAN 8
  • EAN 13
  • IATA 2 of 5
  • Industrial 2 of 5
  • Interleaved 2 of 5
  • Matrix 2 of 5
  • Patch
  • PostNet
  • UCC-128
  • UPC-A
  • UPC-E
  • 1D Barcodes with checksum
    • Code 39
    • Interleaved 2 of 5
    • Codabar
  • 1D Barcodes with supplemental
    • EAN 8
    • EAN 13
    • UPC-E

2D Barcodes

  • PDF417
  • Aztec
  • DataMatrix
  • QR Code

Supported text types, writing styles and field marking types

OCR text types

  • Normal
  • Typewriter
  • Matrix
  • OCR_A
  • OCR_B
  • MICR_E13B
  • MICR_CMC7
  • Fraktur/Gothic (available only under FineReader XIX add-on)

Field marking types

  • Simple Text
  • Underlined Text
  • Text in Frame
  • Grey Boxes
  • Char Box Series
  • Simple Comb
  • Comb in Frame
  • Partitioned Frame

Supported export formats

  • RTF
  • Microsoft Office file formats:
    • DOC/Word XML/DOCX
  • XLS/XLSX
  • PPT/PPTX
  • PDF file formats
    • PDF
    • PDF/A both 1b and 1a
  • MRC (Mixed Raster Content) for both PDF and PDF/A
  • HTML
  • TXT/CSV
  • DBF
  • XML