Asprise OCR has been in active development since 1997. Version 2.1 of the software has been reviewed by PC World.[1]
Many researchers have used Asprise OCR along with ABBYY FineReader to benchmark OCR performance.
Paweł Łupkowski and Mariusz Urbanski from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań uses Asprise OCR version 4 and ABBYY FineReader to perform CAPTCHA recognition.[2] Shuai Yuan from Cornell University implemented an image-based room schedule retrieval system using Asprise OCR.[3] Seongwook Youn from University of Southern California found "By running a sample of 200 image e-mails, we determined that Asprise OCR was performing with an accuracy of 95%. It had the best detection rate among the approaches we analyzed; hence we decided to go with Asprise OCR for our research.".[4] Adil Farooq from the University of Engineering and Technology in Taxila implemented a speech-based interface system for visually-impaired persons.[5]
Hsieh analyzes the workflow of Asprise OCR engine and applies it to detect scoreboard for baseball videos.[6] Chaisri discusses how Asprise OCR can be used for imaging analysis of fax documents in IT Convergence and Services: ITCS & IRoA 2011.[7] Petra demonstrates how to perform feature selection for anti-spam using Asprise OCR.[8]
The following languages are supported by Asprise version 5:[9]Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish or Turkish. MRZ and MICR are supported.
