• 2003: FineReader XIX - 1st “old font OCR” Desktop Product released
• 2004 FineReader Engine 7.0 - 1st OCR SDK release with Gothic support

• 2005 FineReader Engine 8.0 - possible to process documents that combine Gothic and Antiqua fonts in one textblock
• 2006 Recognition Server - Server based processing with Gothic OCR option. Based on ABBYY V8.0 Technology

• 2008 FineReader Engine 9.0 - ongoing technology improvements - “State of the Art”- when IMPACT started

• 2008 - 2011: IMPACT Project

• 2010:
  • FineReader Engine 10 released
    with first IMPACT improvements
  • Recognition Server 3.0 released
    based on ABBYY V10 Technology

• 2011: IMPACT optimisation still ongoing

• From 2003 on the core recognition technologies were continuously improved.

• To archive these reduced error rate, optimisations were made in different areas of the technology
  • Image-Preprocessing
  • Document Analysis
  • Character Recognition
  • Language and Dictionary Support

* the numbers are based in internal ABBYY tests on a defined set of documents

• Some original files and the conversion results, generated with different technologies can be found here

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