Follow the link to create a new account on ABBYY Cloud OCR. If you are already registered on this service, go to the authorization page.

Enter your e-mail, create a password and enter a captcha.

In the next step, you will need to fill out a small questionnaire. Enter Name in the First Name field and Last Name in the Last Name field. In the field about the number of employees in the company, select the Individual developer. You can leave the Company Name field blank.

Next, in the field Type of application check the option Desktop. In the large field below, just enter test. Agree to the terms of use of the service and click the SUBMIT button.

An email will come to your mailbox to confirm E-mail. Click the link this link.

Now you can log in to the control panel.

Here you need to create an application for recognition. To do this, press the ADD NEW APPLICATION.

The page for creating your application opens. The application ID will be created automatically. You will need to enter the app name and select the location of the recognition server (USA or Europe). After clicking the CREATE APPLICATION button, you will receive the password for the created application to your e-mail.

After you create the application, you need to allow information about the state of the application to be received by switching the Allow getting application info flag to the yes state. To do this, click enable.

When you create your first app, you will automatically receive 500 free A4 pages for recognition for a period of 90 days. After this period expires, you will need to purchase additional pages.

You can also get free pages. For more information, please visit the Get Free page.

Now, you can connect the created application to ScanPapyrus and use text recognition. Start ScanPapyrus, go to the Recognition tab and click Service Settings.

In the window, enter the settings of your created app. Copy Application ID and password from ABBYY Cloud OCR e-mail and paste into the appropriate fields.

Now you can send documents for recognition to the ABBYY Cloud OCR service. In the Recognition tab click Recognize online.

The Recognition options window allows you to specify the language of the document - or several languages, if the document is in multiple languages (for instance, German and English).

Select the output format of the document here as well. There are several options available:

• Microsoft Word – the document will be saved as a file in the Microsoft Word format. The formatting of the source document will be retained, and the images will be inserted into the document the way they appear in the original document.
• Microsoft Excel – if the scanned source document is a table, you can save it as a spreadsheet in the Microsoft Excel format.
• PDF text and images – the document will be saved as a PDF. The text of the source document will be saved as text in the PDF, and you will be able to copy it from the PDF and search within the document. Images will be inserted into the document as they appear in the original file. The formatting of the source document will be retained as well.
• Rich text – the document will be saved in the RTF format, which is simpler than the Microsoft Word format.
• Plain text – the document will be saved as a plain text document without images. The formatting will be lost.

After you specify the parameters, click the Recognize button. The program will send your document to the recognition cloud service. You will see your list of documents sent for recognition on the screen.

Usually, the service completes recognition in one or two minutes. You can see the status of the document recognition process in the Recognition Task List dialog box, which is opened by clicking on the Task List button in the main window of the program. Click the Update Status button to update the status of the task. When recognition is complete, the status of the task will be changed to Completed and the Save As... button will appear on the File column. Click this button to save the document to the selected location on your hard drive.

ScanPapyrus uses the ABBYY OCR Cloud service for recognition (https://www.ocrsdk.com). Your data is stored and processed by ABBYY in accordance with their privacy policy (https://www.abbyy.com/privacy). ABBYY will not have access to, view, use, publish, reproduce or disclose any data you upload. Uploaded data will be stored for the purposes of processing on a server in the European Union for a limited period of time.

ABBYY automatically deletes all uploaded data within forty-two (42) hours after it is uploaded to the service. Processed uploaded data is deleted within twenty-four (24) hours after it is processed by the service.

While sending your pages, you on your own must evaluate the legality, safety, appropriateness, intellectual property rights and usage rights of data you send to the service.

All data is sent via the secure HTTPS protocol, ensuring your protection against data interception.

ScanPapyrus neither sends nor stores your data on third-party servers. Your application password is stored on your computer in encrypted form.