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OCR for the Google Search Appliance

ABBYY offers Google Search Appliance Connector based on Recognition Server.

Integrated with the Goggle Search Appliance, ABBYY Recognition Server significantly expands its capabilities to efficiently search information in distributed document storage systems and archives across the entire enterprise.

Finding necessary information scattered across different departments and electronic document storage in a large organization can be a real challenge unless you use an enterprise search system like the Google Search Appliance. The Google Search Appliance indexes documents in various storage locations and resources across the enterprise so that people can quickly find any document by keywords. However, a lot of valuable information is typically stored in the form of images (such as scanned PDF files) and therefore is inaccessible to indexing and search engines.

Why ABBYY Recognition Server

ABBYY Recognition Server processes document images to make them searchable. It recognizes images by applying optical character recognition (OCR) technology, transforms images into text, and sends the output to the search system together with links to the original documents. As a result, image documents stored in corporate file shares become available for full-text search.

How It Works

Working in conjunction with the Google Search Appliance, ABBYY Recognition Server monitors specified network file shares, picks image files from them, and performs OCR on them. Then it submits the recognized text to the search system in an XML feed along with  links to the original images.

The text from the feed is included in the index. Now, if the user types a search query that contains a word from the text of the document, the image will turn up in the search results.

Benefits

ABBYY Recognition Server brings additional benefits to the users of the Google Search Appliance and makes their search experience more fulfilling and efficient.

• No documents are left out. ABBYY Recognition Server uses specified document storage resources and indexes all image content. Combined with the Google Search Appliance engine, Recognition Server searches all documents in both text and image formats, leaving no valuable information overlooked.

• Accurate search results ensured by cutting-edge OCR technologies. ABBYY’s award-winning OCR technologies used in Recognition Server ensure the accuracy of  text extraction even when processing low-quality images, thus providing reliable search results.   

• Multi-language search. ABBYY Recognition Server supports OCR in more than 190 languages and allows multi-language documents to be indexed correctly.

• Full-fledged OCR server at your service. ABBYY Recognition Server is a powerful OCR service available all day for various document conversion tasks your company may encounter on a daily basis. Let Recognition Server enhance your business processes while performing background OCR for the Google Search Appliance at the same time.

• Scalable to any hardware configuration. ABBYY Recognition Server gives you full control of the CPU resources used for performing OCR. You can scale up the system capacity by adding more servers to boost the recognition speed, or limit the recognition process to certain CPU cores so that it does not interfere with other programs running on the server.

   

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