Japanese OCR was first introduced by ABBYY FineReader. All versions of FineReader include support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai characters. ReadIRIS has a special Asian Language version for optical character recognition in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Both ABBBY and IRIS also offer Japanese OCR options in their enterprise server OCR solutions, Recognition Server and IRISDocument Server.

Japanese OCR

ABBYY FineReader 11 Professional

FineReader Professional 11 includes Chinese, Japanese and Thai languages in their base package. No special version or add-on is required.

ABBYY FineReader 11 Corporate

FineReader Corporate includes Chinese, Japanese and Thai character recognition in their base package. No special version or add-on is required.

IRIS ReadIRIS Pro 14

ReadIRIS Pro OCR software with added support for Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean characters.

IRIS ReadIRIS Corporate 14

ReadIRIS Corporate version is the same as Pro but with the ability to recognize files over 50 pages, business cards and monitor a hot folder to automatically process images in the background.

Apple MAC Japanese OCR

IRIS ReadIRIS Pro 14 for MAC

IRIS ReadIRIS Corporate 14 MAC

Enterprise Server Japanese OCR

IRISDocument Server Asian Language

Add-on that enables Chinese, Japanese and Korean character recognition in the IRISDocument server OCR solution.

ABBYY Recognition Server

Add-on license is available for ABBYY Recognition Server to add Chinese, Japanese & Korean (CJK) language support.  Thai character recognition language pack is also available, but is sold separately from CJK.

OCR Software Categories

The complete OCR software guide has the following categories:
OCR Applications | OCR Servers | MAC OCR | PDF Converters | Personal OCR
Hebrew/Arabic/Farsi OCR | Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Thai OCR