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Linux and Macintosh

The award-winning power and accuracy of Nuance OmniPage character recognition, now on the Linux and Macintosh Platform. OmniPage Capture SDK v15.5 for Linux and Macintosh delivers fast and accurate OCR technology to developers for both in-house and commercial applications. The OmniPage Capture SDK v15.5 for Linux and Macintosh provides the tools you need to develop applications for image capture, conversion, PDF output, indexing, and forms processing systems.

The OmniPage Capture SDK 15.5 Supports the following platforms:

Linux Macintosh
RedHat, UBUNTU, DEBIAN, and SUSE Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 systems with Intel CPUs

Developers can leverage a full set of tools for image input and pre-processing, layout detection, and automatic zoning. The OmniPage Capture SDK v15.5 features recognition for over 100 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean on the Linux platform and it can output to text as well as text-searchable PDF. OmniPage Capture SDK v15.5 allows you the freedom to create applications with the highest value at the lowest cost and still meet the broadest requirements from your demanding customers.

Greatest Accuracy - Robust Voting Engine

OCR accuracy makes your applications more productive and translates directly into cost savings. Capture SDK 15.5 includes 2 recognition engines that make its 2-way voting engine even more accurate in recognizing 110 Western languages. Independently developed multiple engines are the most robust to handle the widest range of documents. Speed your development and achieve market-leading accuracy by using our pre-made voting interface or integrate individual OCR engines to achieve optimal results for your specific application.

  • Achieve up to 50% greater accuracy over other solutions*
  • Supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Asian languages
  • Speed development and achieve market-leading accuracy by using pre-made 2-way voting interface
  • Integrate Nuance FireWorX OCR engine to achieve optimal results for your specific application

Integrated PDF Toolkit

Extensive PDF capabilities, including unique PDF Overlay Matching, that achieves near 100% accuracy in converting PDF documents, allows software developers to significantly reduce the cost of development and speed time-to-market.

  • PDF Input Import PDF files up to 50% more quickly than other solutions*
  • Read and convert all types of PDF files (image, text, image+text)
  • Achieve up to 100% conversion accuracy with PDF Overlay Matching capabilities
  • PDF Output
  • Create searchable PDF files for archive and document management systems

Asian OCR – For Linux Only

You can achieve the highest accuracy in recognizing Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean documents with embedded English characters. Output recognized documents to text and searchable PDF.

Document Management - Indexing

Managing and retrieving scanning documents is only as effective as the OCR & indexing. Using Nuance’s OmniPage Capture SDK for means that your clients get the right documents, right at their fingertips.

Workflow

Intelligent routing is what differentiates one workflow application from another. Having the speed and accuracy of the OmniPage Capture SDK for gives you the tools to read information from the file that can be parsed and used for routing, approvals, and other processes in the workflows.

Custom Projects

The flexibility of Nuance’s OmniPage Capture SDK for speeds and enhances the development of your internal, customized applications. Whether you’re processing and routing mail and faxes, converting scans, or interpreting image email attachments, you’ll find that the kit provides one-stop shopping for image pre-processing, conversion, and output.

Everything You Need for Rapid Development

  • Award-winning Recognition – Nuance is known for as the market leader for recognition products and the Capture SDK has been recognized by industry publications such as KM World and Transform Magazine for its quality and innovation.


  • Industry Standardization – As the favorite of the capture and processing markets, the Capture SDK is an instant validation for your application. Clients know and respect the OmniPage name.


  • Pre-designed voting scenario – We’ve taken the time to develop and integrate voting among the engines so that you don’t have to. Voting is optimized to provide the highest accuracy possible while minimizing the effect on speed.


  • Flexible Modular Structure – The Kit includes all the tools you need for your recognition project – you choose which ones you want to use.


  • Included Image Pre-Processing – Think you have to purchase an image processing kit and an OCR kit? Not with the OmniPage Capture SDK – the right tools are included to correct problematic documents prior to recognition.


  • Asian Language Recognition – Bring your application to the international market with support for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.


  • Support for Text-Searchable PDF – Accurate retrieval requires accurate recognition. Apply the best recognition available for your archival applications.


  • Common API with the Windows version of the Capture SDK – A common API allows developers to apply their existing knowledge of the Capture SDK to applications developed on both Windows, Linux and Macintosh platforms.

There are on-going activities at Nuance to provide customer solutions to support OCR on Linux and Macisntosh. If you are interested in obtaining these solutions, please fill out the form below and one of our sales/support representatives will contact you soon to discuss details.

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