Developing optical character recognition technologies for historic documents is a complicated and ongoing process, where different core technologies have to be used and optimised.
Below is a list of important research and digitalisation projects.

• IMProve ACcess to historical Text is a European-wide research project that was started in 2008 and will last until 2011.
• ABBYY is one of 26 partners taking part in the project.
• The improvements will be available in the latest products:
  • Recognition Server 3.0
  • FineReader Engine 10
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• The METAe project was a research and development project from 2000 to 2003.
• It was co-funded by the European Commission (5th Framework, IST Programme, Area “Digital Heritage and Cultural Content”).
• ABBYY developed the first omnifont OCR that supports Fraktur/Gothic fonts.
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• Newspaper Archives, Library projects and others
• New Case Study:
  ABBYY Historic Font Technology Helps University Researchers Shed Light on the Past
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