Japanese Character Recognition was first introduced by ABBYY FineReader. All versions of FineReader include support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai characters. The latest version of ReadIRIS includes Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean character recognition in its base packages. Both ABBBY and IRIS also offer Japanese Character Recognition options in their enterprise server OCR solutions, Recognition Server and IRISDocument Server.

Japanese Character Recognition

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 14 Pro now includes Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean character recognition in their base package. No special version or add-on is required.

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 Character Recognition

IRIS ReadIRIS Pro 14 for MAC

IRIS ReadIRIS Corporate 14 MAC

Enterprise Server Japanese Character Recognition

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.

Other Japanese Character Recognition

NovoDynamics NovoVerus Standard

NovoVerus supports an exceptionally wide range of Roman, Asian, Cyrillic and Middle Eastern languages, including challenging global languages like Arabic, Persian (Farsi, Dari), Pashto, Hebrew, Urdu, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Korean, Russian, English and Spanish.

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