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I am looking to use/buy a OCR solution for my next iPhone app.

Searching through the answers on this site didn't really help me a lot.

Did anybody ever use ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine for iPhone?

What interests me is how good is it (recognition) and how much does it cost?

Thank you.

Alexandru Luchian
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  • did you try contacting this user http://stackoverflow.com/questions/336822/abbyy-finereader-engine-api-resources/1660465#1660465 – Jeff Atwood Jan 04 '10 at 19:19

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I couldn't find anyone who actually used the mobile SDK, however pricing wise I think I got an idea.

It's around 15K + 20% off of the revenue (after Apple takes 30%, so you are left with 50%).

Alexandru Luchian
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For anyone else who ends up at this thread looking for a general iPhone OCR solution (I realize this thread was originally ABBYY specific), there's a good Tesseract proof of concept app here: http://github.com/rcarlsen/Pocket-OCR

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You could try using Tesseract (open source). This site describes compiling it for the iPhone.

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    Well, then you should download the trial http://www.abbyy.com/mobileocr/trial and contact them for a price quote. – diciu Dec 30 '09 at 15:56
  • I did that, I mean contacting them about the price. It's just that I was curious if other developers used it. Also this post would be nice for others to see in the future. – Alexandru Luchian Dec 30 '09 at 15:58
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Have you looked at OCRopus?

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I cannot comment on the mobile version of this, but I have written an application using ABBYY before, and the recognition performance was quite good. We were looking at processing contracts.. After twice refaxing them, we still got around only about 5 characters errors per 10 pages (without rotating the documents).

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I had the same idea, and contacted them to ask for prices.

1000$ per year for the basic engine, another 1000$ if you want to use their business card module + up to 50% of each sale!!!

very cheap, isnt it? dont think about using the engine if you are not quite sure to sell at least 10.000 apps a year...

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  • Are you sure it was $1,000 and not $10,000? While googleing and searching I found that it's around 10K (pay just once) + 20% of each sale. Maybe it depends on the country. Anyway I don't think I'll use them. – Alexandru Luchian Jan 14 '10 at 15:21
  • I contacted them for a price and all they would do was try get me to use the product and once there was a level of buy in only then would they tell me the price. I hate that model of pricing so I will never use them. Saying that they now have a cloud ocr which is transparently priced so that may suit some people and applications which don't need scanning offline. – Shawn Vader May 22 '14 at 07:44