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Everyday OCR Service

OCR is only performed by certain users in a company and at certain times it can be done on users’ own PCs. In the case of small- to medium-sized businesses, this "ad hoc" scenario can be implemented in a flexible and fast manner by installing ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition or ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition.

For large organizations with hundreds or even thousands of employees converting a variety of different document types, this per-user installation is not suitable. Installing the desktop version would require significantly more effort involved in maintenance, administration, training and supervision. Moreover, the cost of licensing so many desktop versions may be unreasonably high.

The most efficient solution for large organizations in need of distributed OCR is to deploy a single, centralized OCR and document conversion service running on a server back-end. Employees can use the centralized OCR service on the network at any time, even outside normal business hours, and from any location. ABBYY Recognition Server is the server-based OCR solution that ideally suited for that purpose and offers a range of unique advantages: 

• Round-the-clock availability of OCR service
  There is no need for an administrator to install the program on each workstation in the local area network. All the company’s employees have access to the server-based OCR functionality automatically and at all times. 

• Low-cost maintenance
  The installation, configuration and administration of ABBYY Recognition Server are easy and cost-efficient because these operations are performed on a single server rather than on many desktop computers.

• No special training is required
  Users of ABBYY Recognition Server do not need to have any knowledge of OCR technology at all. All they need to know about the program is where to send a document in order to get its recognized version back.

• OCR available even for remote workers
  ABBYY Recognition Server supports remote access via e-mail and the Web making it accessible to users not only from within the local area network but from remote computers as well (e.g. from an employee’s home PC, or from a laptop during a business trip). 

• Easy integration with all kinds of MFPs
  An administrator can easily associate ABBYY Recognition Server with all network scanners and MFPs in the company’s IT infrastructure. Thus, wherever employees scan documents, they will always be able to have them converted into a DOC or PDF format right away.

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