Document Recognition, Data Capture,
What does “ABBYY” mean?
The company’s name translates as “keen eye.”
This word comes from the reconstructed parent
language of the Miao-Yao, Nu, Hmong-Mien, Hmong
and Kim Mun groups of the Sino-Tibetan language
family. “Keen eye” reflects the key areas of ABBYY’s
specialization: document recognition and linguistic
technologies and services.
Company Overview . . . 5
ABBYY Products . . . 6
Research and Teamwork Drive Innovation . . . 8
ABBYY Competencies . . . 9
Breakthrough Technologies . . . 10
Helping Corporations and Governments Manage Data . . . 12
Expanding Globally with Linguistic Capabilities . . . 14
Channel-Driven Focus: Resellers, VARs and ISVs . . . 16
Devices with ABBYY Technology Inside . . . 18
“ABBYY’s mission is to improve the quality of life
by developing technologies that help to transform
information into accessible and useful knowledge.
We provide solutions that help people understand
each other.”
David Yang Chairman of the Board, Founder of ABBYY
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Company Overview
ABBYY’s headquarters are in Moscow with
offices in Russia, the US, the UK, Germany,
Ukraine, Cyprus, Japan and Taiwan
Over 1000 people
work in ABBYY’s
13 global offices
ABBYY (read as [‘Λbi]) is a world leader in optical character recognition (OCR), document capture and forms processing, document recognition, and linguistic technologies and services.
In order to develop cutting-edge technologies in document recognition and linguistics, ABBYY con-ducts extensive scientific research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This research fuels the development of products ranging from end-user applications for PC, Mac and mobile devices to cloud-based enterprise solutions and development tools. Currently more than 30 million people from more than 150 countries use ABBYY products.*
Today, ABBYY is an international company employing over 1000 people worldwide. ABBYY’s head-quarters are in Moscow, with sales and marketing offices in Russia, the US, the UK, Germany, Ukraine, Cyprus, Japan and Taiwan. Recently ABBYY expanded its business to include language learning, translation and localization services (ABBYY Language Services), and publishing paper dictionaries and reference books (ABBYY Press).
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ABBYY products allow people and businesses to achieve
greater efficiency, productivity and linguistic breadth.
Our products range from OCR, document rec-ognition, data capture and forms processing technologies to linguistic products and services. Our solutions are used on computers, in mobile devices, in corporate server environments and on the Internet.
OCR, PDF and Document Conversion
Simply put, OCR is machine recognition of print-ed characters. But ABBYY has taken OCR to a whole new level. ABBYY’s OCR and PDF conver-sion tools, FineReader and PDF Transformer, are globally recognized and awarded for their supe-rior accuracy and ease of use. These products help to transform scanned documents, digital photos and PDFs into editable and searchable files, text or data.
Data and Document Capture
ABBYY FlexiCapture, the new generation of the data capture technologies, extracts usable data from flexible and fixed forms, such as question-naires, invoices, tax forms, tests and various bills. Governments and corporations worldwide save
millions automating their data capture process-es with ABBYY solutions.
Software Development Kits
ABBYY offers cutting-edge technologies for integration. The FineReader, Mobile OCR and FlexiCapture Engines enhance the value of hundreds of software applications and ECM solutions.
Products for Mobile Devices
ABBYY’s leading-edge OCR and translation tech-nologies have been adapted for mobile devices, and are available in Lingvo Mobile, Business Card Reader and ABBYY FotoTranslate.
Language Products and Services
ABBYY offers a complete range of quality trans-lation and localization services to corporate customers. ABBYY language products and ser-vices enable users to translate, learn foreign languages and classify, search, extract and ana-lyze facts from various documents.
ABBYY products have
received more than
240 awards
More than 30 million people from more
than 150 countries use ABBYY products
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At the core of ABBYY products are Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, which require continuous and extensive scientific research.
ABBYY has built a talented group of top scientists, engineers and linguists who form a unique and synergistic team. Based on complex and abstract AI research, our team is able to produce and de-liver innovative commercial products. To achieve and maintain the highest quality of software devel-opment, ABBYY has created its own education and certification system within its R&D department. ABBYY is committed to creating an atmosphere of collaborative innovation that encourages em-ployees to express their individual creativity and talents while working together as a team. Every member of the ABBYY team makes a unique contribution to the quality of our products, resulting in exceptional products with innovative features that address a range of business needs.
Research and
Teamwork Drive
Innovation
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ABBYY
Competencies
Data
Capture
Language
Services
Translation
Solutions
Document
Recognition
• Automated translation • Terminology management• Morphology, syntax, semantics
• Electronic and printed dictionaries
• Cloud-based translation management system
• Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
• Document classification
• FlexiCapture intelligent layout analysis technology
• Capturing data from forms and documents
• Localization services (software, website, multimedia, marketing)
• Document translation
• Dictionary and translation memory creation • Corpora creation (monolingual, bilingual, tagged) • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) • Adaptive Document Recognition Technology (ADRT®) • PDF transformation • Layout analysis
Breakthrough
Technologies
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ABBYY has one of the largest global research centers in Artificial
Intelligence: more than 500 people work in ABBYY’s R&D department
ABBYY is globally renowned for its OCR, data capture
and document recognition solutions, products and
tools. It also makes substantial investments in
developing breakthrough technologies in two areas
of Artificial Intelligence: recognition technologies and
computational linguistics. ABBYY looks forward to
introducing new technologies for automating language
tasks for trans
lation, intelligent search, fact-extraction
and more.
Breakthrough
Technologies
Recognition Technologies
ABBYY’s OCR technologies have become syn-onymous with high-quality OCR.
Intensive research enabled ABBYY to support more than 190 Latin and Cyrillic languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Greek, Armenian, Hebrew and Arabic.
ABBYY’s intelligent Multilevel Document Analy-sis and Data Capture technologies provide the capabilities to detect complex document struc-tures and process various types of flexible forms. The company continues its research in the field of computer vision. One possible application of this research lies in environmental recognition (e.g. street names, car license plates, etc.).
Linguistic Technologies
ABBYY’s 15-years of research in computation-al linguistics has resulted in the creation of a unique language-independent model – Univer-sal Syntax and Semantic Hierarchy. This model, based on formal language descriptions and analysis of text corpora, allows the extraction of the true meaning of words and their interrela-tions in a text.
One application of of this model is the creation of an intelligent search platform for monitoring, fact extraction, and text analysis.
Another possible application of the new technol-ogy is the creation of a next-generation machine translation system, which will work for all major languages.
Helping
Corporations
and Governments
Manage Data
About 1,200,000,000 pages are processed annually by users of
ABBYY data capture technologies. ABBYY FlexiCapture customers
alone save about one billion dollars each year.
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Paper and business still go hand in hand.
Government agencies and commercial organizations,
such as financial and insurance companies, legal
firms and educational organizations, have to process
vast amounts of paper and PDF documents. ABBYY
has developed innovative solutions that dramatically
increase the efficiency and accuracy of this process.
Thousands of organizations worldwide save time
and resources by using ABBYY’s OCR, document
recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies.
Knowledge Process Outsourcing Firm
Increases Volume and Quality of Service with ABBYY FineReader Engine
“OCR is a mainstay of what we do, and we needed to find something that did a better job. ... Incor-porating ABBYY’s APIs into our software was a smooth process. We got great technical support. … It has been a great association.”
Ratheesh Nair, Vice President of Technology, APEX CoVantage
Alameda County Overhauls Manual Election Process with ABBYY FormReader Enterprise Edition
“It was an overhaul of an entirely manual pro-cess. ... It was a drastic improvement in both man hours and overall time to do it the auto-mated way.”
Matt Paul, Alameda County Infrastructure Services Manager
Expanding Globally
with Linguistic
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Bilingual dictionaries
for 20 languages
Over 1000 customers use our language
services, including Microsoft
®, SAP
®, Siemens
®,
IKEA
®, Samsung
®, Lenovo
®, PepsiCo
®, and others
Information is crucial for any business. The volume
of data increases each month, and global companies
need to have this information in many languages.
Companies’ international success depends on their
ability to localize their materials quickly and accurately,
maintaining corporate style and ensuring content
consistency.
One of ABBYY’s key advantages is the synergy that
comes from developing language-related software and
also providing translation services.
Automated (Machine) Translation
Automated translation can be used effectively in global companies to reduce translation cost and speed up the process.
Tools for Translators
Software solutions for managing the translation process and working with translation memories, text corpora, term databases, and glossaries.
Dictionaries
More than 300 dictionaries for 20 languages, licensed from Oxford University Press, HarperCol lins and other publishers and created by ABBYY.
Tools for Lexicographers
Web-based solutions for creating dictionary content based on corpus analysis that allows
content to be distributed via mobile devices, desktop computers, intranet, or online.
Localization Services
Comprehensive localization services into 60+ languages for software, website, multimedia, and marketing materials.
Document Translation Services
High quality translation of industry-specific texts, including IT, telecom, oil and gas, construction, automotive, legal and finance, life sciences and health care, and manufacturing.
Enhanced Workflow
Increasing efficiency in translation workflow through a cloud-based collaborative translation platform, terminology management, TMS, and their integration into clients’ CMS and ECM.
Channel-Driven
Focus: Resellers,
VARs and ISVs
ABBYY has thousands of VARs,
ISVs, distributors and resellers
in more than 150 countries
ABBYY technologies save people around
970 million hours annually when
converting paper and PDF documents
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Superior Products and Support
ABBYY’s products and technologies are highly ac-claimed by both industry experts and individual users and corporate buyers all over the world. In the last few years, ABBYY products have proven superior in comparative tests, and they have re-ceived more than 240 awards from international IT magazines and testing labs, including PC
Mag-azine, PC World and KMWorld. ABBYY is
commit-ted to its resellers’ success by providing extensive product information, marketing support and top-level training to ensure the best possible sales experience.
A Trusted Reliable Partner
ABBYY distributes its line of data capture prod-ucts through its VAR channel. In order to best sup-port its global VAR network, ABBYY has developed a comprehensive partner program that includes:
• Extensive training and certification
• Pre-sales and technical support to partners • Regular conferences where VARs can meet
and exchange best practices and provide feedback to ABBYY
• Leads raised by ABBYY sales people
Today ABBYY has products and partners that serve all market segments – from multi-national corporations to small- and medium-sized businesses worldwide.
Cutting-edge Technologies for ISV Integration
Leading developers of software applications, ECM and document management systems rely on ABBYY to provide the best recognition and data capture technologies, giving their products an added competitive advantage.
ABBYY is a channel-driven company. The main focus
of our sales strategy is to develop a strong network
of resellers, Value Added Resellers (VARs) and
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Manufacturers of computers, laptops, periph-eral and mobile devices strive to provide users with integrated solutions with complementary hardware and software components. Effective software bundling demonstrates exceptional value and quality and an ability to accentu-ate the features and capabilities of a device. ABBYY’s superior-quality software helps to dra-matically increase the total value of a solution, giving the manufacturer a competitive edge.
OCR Capability for Scanners and Multi-functional Devices
Recognizing documents is one of the most pop-ular usage scenarios in business, making OCR software a critical part of a scanner or MFD solu-tion. ABBYY’s OCR products are highly regarded for their accuracy and ease of use both by in-dustry experts and end users. This is why lead-ing global manufacturers of scannlead-ing devices and MFDs bundle their hardware with ABBYY
products: BenQ, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Konica Minolta, Mustek, Panasonic Communications, PlanOn, Primax, Plustek, Toshiba and Xerox.
Recognition Technologies and Dictionaries Enhance Mobile Devices
The power of modern mobile devices, such as smartphones and PDAs, has increased dramati-cally. Users of these devices demand more and more capabilities. They want to save time, and ABBYY saves peoples’ time by providing:
• Fast capture of text or business cards • Quick dictionary lookup
ABBYY offers mobile manufacturers a whole range of dictionary, recognition and language learning software to increase both the produc-tivity and the value of their devices. Leaders of the mobile business have chosen ABBYY for integration into their flagship series: Nokia, Samsung, LG, HTC, Pantech and Voxtel.
Devices with
ABBYY Technology
Inside
Leading mobile manufacturers have ABBYY technologies inside their
devices: Nokia
®, Samsung
®, LG
®, HTC
®, Pantech
®and Voxtel
®2010 September
ABBYY FineReader 10 is recommended by Swedish PC-Tidningen magazine as “a wonderful program that does its job with flying colors.“
2010 August
ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 has been recognized as a Trend-Setting Product of the Year by KMWorld Magazine
2010 July
ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac is named Best Professional Software by Macworld (UK)
2009 November
ABBYY FineReader 10 has been reviewed by PC Magazine and awarded the Editors’ Choice and 4.5 Stars Rating: “Very good”
2009 October
ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine 8.0 received the “Recognition/Data Capture Product of the Year” Award from Document Manager Magazine in UK
2009 August
ABBYY TouchTo technology was recognized as a Trend-Setting Product of the Year by KMWorld Magazine
2009 January
VAR subscribers of Business Solutions Magazine selected ABBYY as the Best Channel Vendor for ECM and Data Capture Software category 2008
November
ABBYY won the Silver Mobile Star Award™ for its Mobile OCR Engine from MobileVillage
2008 November
Recognition Server 2.0 was named the best software product in the Specialized Tools category (PC Magazine, Russian Edition)
2007 December
The Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate received the “Good Practice” Award from the European Commission for its project based on ABBYY technologies
2007 October
PDF Transformer 2.0 Pro was rated “very good” by Business&IT (Germany) 2007
April
ABBYY USA and its customer Trendset, Inc. received top honors in the AIIM annual “Best Practice” awards
2006 December
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 won a comparative test conducted by Komputer Swiat magazine (Poland) winning in both the Quality and Price/Quality categories
2005 December
ABBYY FineReader 8.0 software was reviewed and recommended by PC Utilities magazine (UK)
2004 May
ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio received AIIM 2004 Best of Show Award in Recognition category
2000 June
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 outruns all competitors in test held by Mir PK magazine (Russia)
ABBYY products have received more than 240 awards
worldwide from leading industry magazines and testing
labs for accuracy, innovation, ease of use and value.
ABBYY Headquarters
Phone: +7 495 783 3700
Address: P.O. Box #20, Moscow, Russia, 127273 E-mail: [email protected]
Support: [email protected] Web: www.ABBYY.com
ABBYY Russia
Phone: +7 495 783 3700
Address: P.O. Box #32, Moscow, Russia, 127273 E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ABBYY.ru
ABBYY 3A
Phone: +7 495 783 3700
Address: P.O. Box #20, Moscow, Russia, 127273 E-mail: [email protected] Web: abbyy.cn abbyy.com.br latam.abbyy.com ABBYY Europe GmbH Phone: +49 89 511 159 0 Address: Elsenheimerstrasse 49, 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.ABBYY.com www.ABBYY.de www.France.ABBYY.com ABBYY UK Ltd. Phone: +44 01344 39 2610 Address: Abbey House, Grenville Place,
Bracknell RG12 1BP, United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ABBYY.co.uk
ABBYY Solutions Ltd. (Cyprus)
Phone: +357 22 68 0635 Address: P.O. Box 16257, CY-2087,
Nicosia, Cyprus E-mail: [email protected]
ABBYY Australia
Phone: +61 02 9004 7401
Address: Citigroup Building, level 39, 2 Park Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.ABBYY.com
ABBYY USA
Phone: + 1 408 457 9777
Address: 880 North McCarthy Blvd., Ste. 220 Milpitas, California 95035, USA E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ABBYYUSA.com
ABBYY Japan
Phone: +81 42 796 6125
Address: 658-1 Tsuruma Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan 194-0004 E-mail: [email protected]
ABBYY Taiwan
Phone: +886 2 2655 0556 Address: Room #524, 5Fl, Building E,
No. 19-11, Sanchong Road, Nangang District, Taipei 115, Taiwan, R.O.C.
E-mail: [email protected]
ABBYY Ukraine
Phone: +380 44 490 9999
Address: P.O. Box 23, 02002 Kyiv, Ukraine E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ABBYY.ua
ABBYY Language Services
Phone: +7 495 783 9785
Address: P.O. Box #45, Moscow, Russia, 129301 E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ABBYY-ls.com
ABBYY Press
Phone: +7 495 580 9215 (editorial office), +7 495 662 1218 (sales)
Address: P.O. Box #32, Moscow, Russia, 127273 E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.ABBYYpress.ru
© ABBYY 2011. All rights reserved.
ABBYY, the ABBYY logo, ABBYY FineReader, FineReader, FlexiCapture, ABBYY Lingvo, Lingvo, ADRT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Microsoft is registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. SAP is the trademark or registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. IKEA is the trademark or registered trademark of Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Samsung is the trademark or registered trademark of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Lenovo is the trademark of Lenovo in the Unit-ed States, other countries, or both. PepsiCo is the trademark or registerUnit-ed trademark of PepsiCo Inc. Nokia is the trademark or registerUnit-ed trademark of Nokia Corporation. LG is the trademark or registered trademark of LG Electronics. HTC is the trademark or registered trademark of HTC Corporation. Pantech is the trademark or registered trademark of Pantech Wireless, Inc. Voxtel is the trademark or registered trademark of Voxtel, Inc.
