• For evaluation purposes ABBYY offers free fully functional Trial Licences of all currently available SDK versions.

• Trial Licences are limited in
  • time
  • number of pages

• ABBYY provides basic support during the evaluation period, allowing interested developers to test the SDKs in real working conditions.

To obtain a Trial Licence, we recommend to use the request forms on www.abbyy.com:

• FineReader Engine Trial
• FlexiCapture Engine Trial
• Real-Time Recognition SDK
• Mobile Imaging SDK II Trial

You will be contacted by an ABBYY employee (or a SDK distribution partner)

The next steps will be:

1. Sign the provided Trial Software Licence Agreement (TSLA)
   (online or as PDF, depending where are you located)
2. Once the filled TSLA is submitted and approved you will receive
   • a licence key and
   • a access to a download page

Once you received your Trial Licence key and downloaded the SDK you can:

1. Download and install the SDK
2. Activate your licence (when needed)
3. Start evaluation & development - do not forget to evaluate the Code Samples

• Visit the Cloud OCR SDK site
  • sign up for a free developer account and start testing right away

• Got to ocr4linux.com
  • fill out the form and you will get your free trial right away

• All SDKs come with complete documentation
  • as CHM-help file or HTML-Help
  • For most SDKs there is also a printable PDF available.
• There are code samples for different programming environments
• FineReader Engine & FlexiCapture Engine (Win) contain pre-compiled code-samples so it is very easy to test some features without coding. Since the source is also included developers can re-use the code.

• For Mobile OCR Engine ABBYY offers a special Test Shell running on Windows

• Developer Licenses
• Runtime Licences
• OEM Licensing