Introduction
Objectives: activate your ABBYY licence::
Then you will find 4) Checks to validate your activation and ensure proper translation.
Prerequisites:
- Valid license,
- root access on SYSTRAN server where ABBYY plugin is deployed (backend)
- Internet access from server if online
- Internet access from a third party environment to send an email if email selected or web access to https://activation.abbyy.com
1) Online activation
1. Log on to the server in SSH and connect to the ABBYY console.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib
cd /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib
./LicenseManager.Console
The output should looks like:
2. Select "Activate license".
3. Select "Serial number".
4. Insert your serial number* and then press Enter.
If your license is valid you will receive confirmation on the line just below the serial number.
5. Select "Go to next page" and chose your connection method:
6. Select "Go to next page" and you shoud receive a confirmation:
7. (Optional) if you added a new license you should see 2 licenses (old and new). Select the old license and then deactivate it.
8. Select "Go to next page" and you shoud receive a confirmation:
9. Once finished you can quit the ABBYY console.
10. To check activated license:
./LicenseManager.Console --listAvailableLicenses
The output should be the license number that you entered before.
11. Add the license number in the filter
vi /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/etc/plugin.cfg
license = $license_key_value
12. Restart the filter by going on the web interface in "Advanced configuration" and
put the instances number to 0 then reset the previous number of instances.
2) Offline activation steps by email
From command line, run ABBYY wizard
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib
cd /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib
./LicenseManager.Console
From the activation Wizard, select "email"
Then go to the next page:
Wizard will generate a email template:
that you will have to copy/paste in a mail:
ABBYY server license will send back a file to upload (or type) on the server and select from Wizard:
3) Offline activation steps on ABBYY website
From the activation Wizard, select "email"
Then go to the next page:
Note down Product ID :
Then connect to https://activation.abbyy.com choose "ABBYY FineReader" and apply the part corresponding to ABBYY FineReader12 :
choose "ABBYY FineReader" enter the Product ID for the part corresponding to ABBYY FineReader12 and click "submit" :
After clicking "submit", you can download license file by clicking on "Get the file" :
Copy that file to /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib/, chown it to systran:systran.
Re-execute : ./LicenseManager.Console, choose "I already have activation file", then enter filename.
License is activated !
4) Final checks
Check activated license:
./LicenseManager.Console --listAvailableLicenses
The output should be the license number that you entered before.
Ensure the license number is correct in the filter
vi /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/etc/plugin.cfg
license = $license_key_value
Restart the filter by going on the web interface in "Advanced configuration" and
put the instances number to 0 then reset the previous number of instances.
Note 1:
It could be usefull to limit ABBYY RAM usage by limiting number of process in RAM (will also reduce OCR speed). You can do that by adding /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/etc/plugin.cfg
max_recognition_processes_count = 4
Note 2:
If ABBYY license service is not started:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib
cd /opt/systran/filter/plugins/abbyy/lib
./LicensingService -start