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OCR comparison. Windows vs Linux

The document describes the differences between OCR for Windows and Linux.

Licensing

	Windows	Linux
License type	trial license or paid runtime license	runtime license
License activation	not required* (only for trial license type)	required

Architecture

	Windows	Linux
Scaling	not supported	supported
Process images	synchronously, not parallel	asynchronously
Data storage	in memory	in DB

Rest API

	Windows	Linux
/submitImage	+	+
/submitPattern	+	+
/processImage	+	+
/processDocument	+	+
/getTaskStatus	+	+
/download	+	+
/cleanup	+	+
/summary	-	+
/cancelTasks	-	+
/trainPattern	+ (available from r.9.0.0.1)	+
/activeLicense	+	+
/listLicenses	+	+
/prepareLicense	-	+
/activateLicense	-	+

OCR recognition capability

	Windows	Linux
OMR (Optical Mark Recognition, i.e. check boxes and radio buttons)	+ (new license is required)	-
ICR (Handprint Recognition)	- (unsupported, new license is required)	-
Barcodes recognition	+ (new license is required)	+ (new license is required)