ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object) is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for describing the layout and content of physical text resources, such as pages of a book or a newspaper. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section. However, ALTO instances can also exist as a standalone document used independently of METS.
ABBYY FineReader Engine for Embedded OS is a highly portable small-footprint OCR SDK with low resource requirements designed to integrate document conversion technologies into the MFPs and other imaging devices
SceneReader is a new software technology designed to locate, analyse and report alphabetic text in a broad variety of photographic images, including highly complex images such as street scenes.