ABBYY USA Marks 10-Year Anniversary
Milpitas, Calif., August 10, 2010 — ABBYY USA, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in the U.S., marking its leadership position in enterprise content management and document management markets. This also marks the 21-year anniversary for its parent company, ABBYY.
Since its beginning, ABBYY USA and its parent company have driven growth within the document management and data capture industries through product innovation and successful partner integrations, expanding the usability and mass market attention for these technologies. Through ABBYY USA’s efforts, capture accuracy has increased to help people manage an increasing amount of information; the market has expanded to customers that span a variety of industries including government, finance, legal and healthcare; and technologies are consistently evolving to leverage new consumer devices bringing added value to applications.
New Web Portal to Provide Document Conversion and Language Services
Moscow, Russia (July 15, 2010) — ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced its new Web portal http://www.abbyyonline.com/ designed as a central access point to key services and technologies provided by ABBYY. The portal contains FineReader Online, an online OCR (optical character recognition) and document conversion service for transforming images of documents and PDF files into DOC, XLS, TXT, searchable PDF and other text formats. The new portal also delivers a range of language services including Lingvo Online dictionary, translation and telephone interpreting from ABBYY Language Services, and the Aligner Online tool for translators and language learners.
“We are proud to bring ABBYY’s flagship OCR and linguistic technologies online. Online services are easily accessible regardless of operating system, computer configuration, and many other factors. The result is that many more people can learn the benefits of our technologies,” explained Maxim Mikhaylov, vice president of sales and marketing for ABBYY. “ABBYY has been testing the technologies and is already hosting hundreds of thousands of people to the online services each day. We hope to further enhance this online platform with additional services and features.”
Currently, ABBYY Online offers to its visitors the following services:
Online OCR and Document Conversion at FineReaderOnline.com — The service converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF, and TXT formats. FineReader Online is based on ABBYY OCR technology that has received international acclaim from industry experts and media for superior accuracy of text recognition and layout retention. It accurately reads texts in 37 languages including documents with Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, and Greek characters, and supports recognition of multilingual and multi-page files. In addition, FineReader Online process documents with any combination of popular fonts and accurately re-creates formatting elements such as bulleted and numbered lists, columns, and tables.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 Is Named Recognition/Data Capture Product of the Year 2009
Munich, Germany (17 November, 2009) — ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software is pleased to announce that ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 was recently awarded the prize “Recognition/Data Capture Product of the Year” at the Document Manager Awards 2009. Document Manager is a UK-based publication dedicated to addressing the key issues behind successfully implementing document management, content management, workflows and e-business solutions.
“It is an honour to be recognized specifically for FlexiCapture Engine and an acknowledgement of the hard work by the UK team and ABBYY as a whole,” noted Jupp Stoepetie, ABBYY Europe CEO. “Thanks go to Document Manager Magazine for hosting an exceptional event as well to all of the members of the industry who voted for FlexiCapture Engine.”
ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 is a software development kit (SDK) for integrating data and document capture technologies in Windows-based applications. It is the first comprehensive data capture SDK to combine technologies and tools for processing forms, semi-structured and unstructured documents, data verification, document classification, and export for backend processing and archiving in a single developer environment. The new ABBYY SDK enables developers, ISVs and service providers to empower their own products and services with industry-leading technologies already proven in thousands of real-world projects.
ABBYY Announces Its First Dedicated Solution for Document Scanning
Moscow, Russia (October 1, 2009) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced that ABBYY Scan Station, its new software solution for batch document scanning, is now available in the CIS countries and Eastern Europe. ABBYY Scan Station enables scanning and export of hundreds of pages within minutes and provides a wide range of useful tools for enhancing quality of scanned images. It can be used for capturing and digitizing large document archives as well as for scanning small amounts of documents with a standard workgroup scanner. In addition, organizations with regional offices and subsidiaries can easily deploy a distributed document capture system, having ABBYY Scan Station installed in different locations, with centralized document processing and storage.
With its intuitive interface, ABBYY Scan Station is easy to operate and navigate even if the operator has no or little experience in document scanning. At the same time, it is a professional solution based on powerful scanning technology that has been successfully used in the leading ABBYY products such as ABBYY FineReader, ABBYY FormReader, and ABBYY FlexiCapture.
“More and more companies are moving to paperless environment to streamline document processing and business operations”, said Aram Pakhchanian, Director of Data Capture Products Department at ABBYY. “The first step in this process is to organize fast and convenient document scanning. We believe that ABBYY Scan Station, which is highly productive yet very simple to use, will help even small companies take this step easily”.
ABBYY Software and Fujitsu Canada Announce New Distribution Agreement
MILPITAS, CALIF., August 27, 2009 — ABBYY Software, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, has signed an agreement with Fujitsu Canada to distribute a full range of ABBYY products alongside Fujitsu Canada's complete line of document scanners including ABBYY FineReader®, FlexiCapture®, FormReader®, PDF Transformer™ and Recognition Server™. Currently, ABBYY's TouchTo optical character recognition (OCR) technology is integrated into the Fujitsu fi-6010N iScanner.
"With the growing demand to convert paper into searchable format, the combination of our industry leading scanners and ABBYY's award winning OCR software provides the perfect solution," said Steve Oblin, senior marketing manager, Imaging Products at Fujitsu Canada. "Initial feedback from our resellers has been very positive and several have already become certified on ABBYY's products."
ABBYY FineReader 10 Breaks New Ground in Document Digitization
Moscow, Russia (September 22, 2009) — ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced ABBYY FineReader 10, the newest version of the professional-level optical character recognition (OCR) application. Delivering the next generations of its two major technologies — ABBYY ADRT® (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) for reproducing multi-page document formatting and Camera OCR, FineReader 10 takes OCR to new heights, driving it beyond traditional text recognition. In combination with its highly intuitive, task-oriented interface, the enhanced technologies bring greater efficiency, simplicity and performance to all scenarios of professional work with documents, for both consumer and business users.
ABBYY FineReader 10 delivers further enhancements in page layout retention, especially on documents with background images (e.g. magazine pages). The new version also provides up to 30 percent increase in text recognition accuracy for Asian languages (e.g. Chinese and Japanese) and up to 20 percent increase for European languages (e.g. English, French, German, Polish, etc.). In addition, it demonstrates up to 30 percent accuracy improvement on low print quality images such as digital photos and faxes and takes a significant step forward in delivering accurate results on photographs captured with mobile phone cameras. Providing superior accuracy in recognizing various types of documents, FineReader allows users to considerably reduce manual operations while working with documents and facilitates the transition to a paperless environment.
ABBYY First to Offer MFP Vendors Complete Capability To Fully Automate Document Conversion and Management
Moscow, Russia (July 15, 2009) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced its FineReader Engine for Embedded OS, an innovative solution that provides a new generation of multifunctional peripherals (MFPs) with document conversion and management capabilities. With the release of FineReader Engine for Embedded OS, a highly portable, small-footprint software development kit (SDK), ABBYY is the only software provider to offer MFP vendors the complete spectrum of solutions for document processing automation. Designed to operate with limited computing power and memory resources, ABBYY’s new SDK eliminates issues surrounding solution performance, allowing MFP developed solutions to operate without restrictions and more efficiently. ABBYY’s customizable FineReader Engine for Embedded OS can be integrated into virtually any platform or imaging device, making ABBYY’s award-winning technologies more accessible for MFP vendors than ever before.
“Today’s FineReader Engine for Embedded OS announcement signifies a new marriage between MFPs and OCR technology,” said Andrey Isaev, director of the technology products department at ABBYY. “With the new SDK, MFP vendors can add more value to the peripherals they deliver to market via unsurpassed OCR capabilities, and flexible customization, meeting the document conversion and management needs of their customers. ABBYY FineReader Engine for Embedded OS streamlines document management throughout organizations, considerably reducing costs associated with installation and support of additional software, and simplifying the task of document conversion.”
ABBYY’s latest offering, the FineReader Engine for Embedded OS SDK, builds upon the company’s position as the ideal partner for MFP developers, validated by relationships with industry giants like Fujitsu, Ricoh and Xerox. The new SDK provides MFP vendors with best in class OCR capabilities such as accurate conversion of document images captured with a scanner or camera into searchable formats such as PDF, PDF/A and highly compressed PDF files (with MRC compression). Offering both full-text and zonal OCR to ensure superior accuracy of document recognition and conversion, the new SDK provides developers with versatile document conversion capabilities, even in peripherals with strictly limited resources. For those providing peripheral solutions worldwide, FineReader Engine for Embedded OS provides recognition of printed text in 60 languages including multilingual documents and can be extended with additional language support. ABBYY also offers comprehensive customization services to smoothly adjust functionality of the product to various vendors’ needs — such as new CPU type support, new image processing options, other document export formats, extended language support and many more. For particular customer needs, it can also be enhanced with intelligent character recognition (ICR) technology for hand-printed text, as well as with many other document processing technologies developed by ABBYY.
ABBYY Launches Its New Consumer-Focused OCR Software for Mac
Moscow, Russia (July 9, 2009) –ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced its FineReader Express Edition for Mac, a new optical character recognition (OCR) application for Macintosh computers. The application accurately turns scanned paper documents, PDF files and camera images into popular electronic formats such as RTF documents, XLS spreadsheets, searchable PDFs, and HTML files. Combining the optimal set of one-click conversion functions with highly intuitive interface, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is an ideal OCR solution for individual users.
“With this new application, the broad market audience of Mac users can take full advantage of ABBYY’s award-wining FineReader technologies,” said Sergey Popov, director of FineReader products department. “Delivering the highest quality of OCR and PDF conversion, it comes with an easy-to-use, task-driven interface that allows users to increase efficiency and productivity when working with documents, even without experience in OCR.”
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac delivers superior accuracy of text recognition in 171 languages and intelligently re-creates layout and formatting elements of the original document including tables, columns, graphics, bullets and numbering. It fluently processes various document types including pages of magazines and books, spreadsheets, business documents and more, delivering accurate results even on the types of images that are typically difficult to OCR, such as faxes or digital photographs. To ensure the highest levels of OCR accuracy, ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac automatically deskews and despeckles images before recognition.
By leveraging its powerful digital camera OCR technology, users can extract printed text from digital photographs with the application, and use their cameras as alternative scanning devices. For example, users can easily convert pictures of banners, posters, or timetables taken on-the-go, as well as photographed pages of books and other documents which are hard to scan in the usual way.
ABBYY Expands Its Presence in Australian Software Market through Partnership with ACA Pacific
Moscow, Russia (June 9, 2009) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced its collaboration with ACA Pacific Pty Ltd., an Australian leader in the distribution of document management hardware and software solutions.
ACA Pacific has vast experience in providing data capture, retrieval/search software, office automation and electronic document management applications to the Australian market. The company selects and focuses on quality products that represent the very best of a particular technology category, and concentrates its efforts on developing value added solutions for the marketplace. Over the years, ACA Pacific has shown the resilience and flexibility needed to maintain its position as one of Australia’s most successful specialized IT distributors.
“We are happy to welcome ACA Pacific among our partners and ready for fruitful collaboration on Australian market”, said Eugeniya Izmesteva, ABBYY Regional Director for APAC. “Premium OCR solutions and document capture technologies are in great demand in this region, and we are sure that our key products will gain popularity among both individual users and corporate customers.”
“As experts in the field of document management, ACA Pacific see great potential in ABBYY and are confident Australian customers will benefit from the proven performance their products are known for worldwide”, said H B Tan, Director, ACA Pacific.
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 Raises the Bar in Multi-Page PDF Conversion
Moscow, Russia (May 19, 2009) — ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced PDF Transformer 3.0, a new version of its award-winning PDF conversion and creation application. This version brings groundbreaking technology enhancements to PDF conversion making it more accurate than ever before. With ABBYY’s Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT®), PDF Transformer 3.0 is the only product in its class to re-create logical structure, text flow and consistent formatting of documents across multiple pages when converting PDFs. In addition to its superior conversion functionality, the new version delivers greater flexibility to create and modify PDF documents according to user needs. It also offers advanced features for secure editing and archiving PDF files including the ability to redact sensitive information in PDF documents, add specific attributes such as stamps and bates stamps, compress PDFs and save documents to searchable PDF/A format for long-term preservation.
“Combining powerful technologies with a simple, intuitive interface, ABBYY PDF Transformer provides unrivaled quality and simplicity of any operation with PDF documents,” said Sergey Popov, director of FineReader products department at ABBYY. “It is a versatile and flexible tool designed for a broad audience ranging from corporate users which need to streamline workflow processes and reduce operating expenses in their organizations to individual users who want to quickly and accurately extract information from PDF documents.”
Based on ABBYY’s innovative Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, PDF Transformer accurately converts any type of PDF files into fully-formatted, editable documents in 184 languages. It features full integration with the popular Microsoft Office applications and allows users to convert and create PDFs directly from within the applications in one click.
ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 delivers significant improvements in conversion accuracy and overall functionality:
