Cloud OCR SDK Documentation
Quick Start Guides
How to recognize a document? How to recognize a small text fragment? You can find answers to these and other questions in this section. Step-by-step procedures will help you to start development.
API Reference
The SDK is provided in the form of Web API. The Web API enables communication with remote server via HTTP. Through this Web API you can load images to the OCR server, process with necessary recognition and export parameters, obtain the results of processing. The full reference of API methods is available in this section.
Code Samples
The Web API can be easily used in C#, Java, Python, or any other development tool supporting communication over network. ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK provides a set of samples in different programming languages showing how to create a simple client application.
Download codesample archive (~300K) or browse code samples at github.
Programming Languages
Platforms
Sample Images
Here you can download sample images in different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Recognition of demo images is free.
Technical Specifications
The list of supported image formats, recognition languages, text types, field marking types, provided processing profiles, semantics of regular expressions.