ABBYY

ABBYY (pronEng|ˈæbi [http://www.talkingaboutit.com/index.php?video_id=810] ) is a software house based in Moscow, Russia. The company was founded in 1989 by David Yang. ABBYY had over 600 employees, as of November 2006, including offices in Russia (Moscow), the USA (Fremont, CA), Ukraine (Kiev), the UK (Bracknell), Germany (Munich) and Japan (Tokyo).

ABBYY has developed software in the fields of artificial intelligence, document recognition and applied linguistics. ABBYY is most notable for their optical character recognition software, FineReader, currently at version 9. It is in competition with Expervision(TypeReader), Readiris and OmniPage as well as free software such as GOCR and Tesseract.

In May 2006 ABBYY USA was awarded the Fujitsu Quarterly Innovative Leadership Award. [ [http://www.fujitsu.com/us/news/pr/fcpa_20060517-01.html "Fujitsu Selects ABBYY USA for Quarterly Innovative Leadership Award"] , Fujitsu.com, 17 May 2006] In February 2007 ABBYY was selected for 'KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management' Award. [ [http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=19365 "KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management"] , Hugh McKellar, KMWorld, 1 March 2007]

Products

* ABBYY FineReader OCR, for converting document images and PDFs into editable and searchable files
* ABBYY FlexiCapture, a dynamic data capture solution to automatically process multiple document types in a single stream
* ABBYY Recognition Server, a server-based solution for automating document recognition and PDF conversion processes in enterprise and service-oriented environments
* ABBYY PDF Transformer, a two-in-one solution for PDF conversion and creation
* ABBYY Lingvo, a family of electronic dictionaries for PC, PDA and smartphones, gives translations of words and phrases for a range of European and Asian languages, accompanied with transcription, pronunciation, word usage examples and the list of inflected forms. It includes Lingvo Tutor - a flash-card utility for memorization of new words. Starting from 11th version, Lingvo is presented in three packages: "English-Russian", "European", "Multilingual".

ABBYY FineReader

PC Advisor commented, in 2005, "FineReader 8.0 Pro is the best OCR software we've seen" [ [http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=142 "ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional"] PC Advisor, 3 November 2005.] while PC Magazine gives it four stars out of five [ [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1899868,00.asp "Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition"] , PC Magazine, 12 September 2005.] .

However, also in 2005, PC Pro gave FineReader four stars out of six, saying, "FineReader offers a decent compromise between the value and accuracy of Readiris and the power and automation features of OmniPage. If you need automation on a budget, it's the package to go for, but for home and occasional office use Readiris is the better package at this price." [ [http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/78849/abbyy-finereader-8-professional-edition.html "ABBYY FineReader 8 Professional Edition"] , PC Pro, December 2005.]

In January 2007 the FineReader Engine was selected for use in Ricoh's DocumentMall document management system. [ [http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=206212 "ABBYY FineReader Engine Selected for Ricoh's Award-Winning DocumentMall"] , January 23, 2007, MarketWire]

References

External links

* [http://www.abbyy.com/company Official site]
* [http://www.talkingaboutit.com/index.php?video_id=810 Talking About IT - Abbyy video interview with Jupp Stoepetie]