abbyy finereader.exe looking for cmd commands to use in other programms

Question

I just bought abbyy finereader 11 copr to rund it from another programm, but i cant find any commends to be used for finereader.exe. so without any commands it simply openens and scans but i need to tell it where to save the document and how to name and the to close the app again, also it would be cool to have it as a background task.

Answer 1

While doing my OCR research project, found one. Works with FR12, didn't tested with earlier versions.

FineCmd.exe PRESS2.TIFF /lang Mixed /out C:\temp\result.txt /quit 

general command line:  <open_keys/scanning> [<recognition_keys>] [<export_keys>] 

  <open_keys/scanning> ::= ImageFiles | /scan [SourceName] | /file [filename1 filename2], where
    ImageFiles - list of files for recognition
    SourceName - images source (scanner); if not specified, current is used
    filename.. -  list of files for recognition

  <recognition_keys> ::= [/lang Language] [/optionsFile OptionsFileName], where
    Language - name of language in English (russian, greek, Mixed)
    OptionsFileName - path to options file

  <export_key> ::= /out ExportFile | /send Target, where
    ExportFile - name of file with extension to save file to
      (txt, rtf, doc, docx, xml, htm(l), xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf, dbf, csv, lit); 
    Target - name of target app where to open
      (MSWord, MSExcel, WordPro, WordPerfect, StarWriter, Mail, Clipboard, WebBrowser, Acrobat, PowerPoint)

This command opens FR ui, processes the file and then closes it (if you pass argument /quit). FineCmd.exe located in FR directory where you installed it

Answer 2

Hello I saw this msg very late but i m using ABBYY command line for 10years .

I prefer ABBYY 8 because makes same good job faster and does not open any GUI . It comes with FineOCR.exe:

"C:\...\ABBYY FineReader 8\FineOCR.exe" %1 /lang greek english /send MsWord

It does OCR and opens MsWord . FineOCR.txt is a simple help file.

Regarding ABBYY 11,12 (all versions) there is a FineCmd.exe . Using something like:

"c:\...\FineReader\FineCMD.exe" %1 /lang greek english /send MsWord 

does what FineOCR did before (but no .txt help file)

Answer 3

Unfortunately, Such a professional OCR software doesn't support command line utilities. For batch processing, it offers HOT FOLDER utility inside it (from GUI). http://informationworker.ru/finereader10.en/hotfolder_and_scheduling/installandrun.htm

If you want to make OCR batch processing from your program, they sell another software, called 'ABBYY Recoginition Server'.

There also offer a comprehensive API for programmers : http://www.abbyy.com/ocr_sdk_windows/technical_specifications/developer_environment/

If your plan is to batch process them and write the contents to a Database, you can also do a programmatical trick to overcome such limitation, as I did recently in one of my projects (It is a bit offline-way but it is simple and works) : While parsing the files and putting them to your Database table from your program, move (or copy) them all into a folder while changing their filename to include an ID from your Database table. Then use 'hot folder' utility to OCR all files, by having the same filename with TXT extention (It is set from 'hot folder' settings). Then in your program parse the folder's text files, get their content as string, and parse the table IDS from filename, the rest is updating your table with that information.)

Answer 4

An year later, ABBYY does support command line usage: http://www.ocr4linux.com/en:documentation

Answer 5

Version 14 does not save the output file using:

FineCmd.exe PRESS2.TIFF /lang Mixed /out C:\temp\result.txt /quit

or

FineCmd.exe PRESS2.TIFF /lang Mixed /out C:\temp\result.txt

Versions 11 & 12 work well using the above commands (does save the output) but does display the GUI which can be closed using /quit.

Versions 9 & 10 don't come with FineCmd.exe or FineOCR.exe.

Version 8 can OCR and send the output to an application of choice but cannot save using /out. In my experience it does open the GUI.