FlexiCapture Engine V8.0 v.s. V9.0

Below a comparison of the last2 version of ABBYY's Data Capture SDK.

Usage Scenarios

FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 FlexiCapture Engine 9.0
Application Areas Intelligent Data Capture, data extraction of specific fields of interest
Document Types Structured Documents
e.g. fixed forms, multiple-choice tests, questionnaires;
Semi-structured Documents
e.g. invoices, shipping documents, passports;
Unstructured documents
e.g. letters, contracts
Mobile Data Capture possible optimised image preprocessing

Core Recognition

FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 FlexiCapture Engine 9.0
Image Pre-Processing
(Noise removal, deskew, despeckle, etc.)
Yes Yes
Colour Mask, Marks
Stamp Filtering
No Yes
OCR in 190
Languages
Yes Yes
Chinese, Japanese, Korean OCRNot available available as Add-on
ICR in 114 LanguagesYes Yes
Barcode Recognition 1D and 2D Support included1D and 2D Support included,
New: Aztec & Data Matrix

FlexiLayout Technology

FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 FlexiCapture Engine 9.0
Multi-Level ClassifierNo Yes
Alternative FlexiLayoutsNo Yes
New Search Elements
and Blocks
Labeled Field” and the usage of
content types like number, currency or phone

Verification & Visual Components

FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 FlexiCapture Engine 9.0
Verification APIYes Yes
Visual Components None included Yes, Details...
Available Components None Source Code Samples for
Batch View,
Document View,
Context Verification of Data,
Group Verification of Characters

Developer Features

FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 FlexiCapture Engine 9.0
32-bit Support Yes Yes
64-bit Support No Yes
.NetSupport Yes Enhanced .Net compatibility
Multi-Core Support Manual Implementation Optimised performance
on multi-core processors

“Out-of-process server” –
COM module for multi-threaded applications


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