14 DAY TRIAL // I bet all of you never thought your mobile phone was more than a communication tool, to use whenever necessary. Well, it just happens that you were wrong. This is not said by me, but by Abby Software House, world's leader in development of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies.
Abby has presented, at the CTIA Wireless convention, their newest OCR (optical character recognition) SDK. With its help, you can take a picture with your phone camera, and translate whatever text is written in that picture, into digital text transferable in the handset's memory. The OCR feature was only available for PC owners, till now, the moment when Abby decided it was the time that everybody should be able to use such a useful and powerful application.
The time when you picked up somebody's business card and started writing their data into your mobile phone's memory, has passed away. Now, all you have to do is to take a picture of the card with your phone camera, and the OCR SDK will transfer all the text it can find on it directly into your phone book, as fast as you can say "Abracadabra". Well, almost as fast. At the CTIA presentation, the conversion from picture to text and the transfer to the phone's address book took almost 7 seconds. A very impressive performance if you ask me (I don't know about other people, but, all these operations performed by Abby's software in such a short period of time, would take me at least 4 to 6 times much time).
Overall, I have only words of admiration for Abby, a software development team that, once again, has made the life of all people that are around PCs, mobile phones or other devices of this type, much easier, saving us hours and hours of continuous typing in front of the PC monitor or at the keypad of our omnipresent friend, the mobile phone, and I am grateful for that (I think you should be too).