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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1989 in Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Key people | Chairman: David Yang, CEO: Sergey Andreev |
| Industry | Computer software Mobile software Applied linguistics Language translation |
| Products | OCR, document conversion, document capture, dictionary software, mobile solutions |
| Employees | 900 (as of 2009) |
| Website | www.abbyy.com |
ABBYY (pronounced /ˈæbi/[1]) is an international software company that provides document recognition, document capture and language software for both PC and mobile devices. The company is headquartered in Moscow, Russia but distributes its products in over 130 countries.[1]
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[edit] History
ABBYY was founded in 1989 by David Yang. As of 2009, the company has over 900 employees in 9 offices in different countries, including Germany (Munich), the UK (Bracknell), the USA (Milpitas, CA), Japan (Tokyo), Taiwan (Taipei), Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Ukraine (Kiev) and Cyprus.[2]
The key areas of ABBYY's development and research include text recognition technologies and applied linguistics. The majority of ABBYY products, such as document conversion and document capture solutions and technologies, are designed to simplify the transition from paper documents to electronic information, eliminating the most time-consuming and labour-intensive tasks such as retyping text and manual data entry. ABBYY also develops language products, which include ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software and solutions for professional translators such as ABBYY Aligner.[3]
All ABBYY products are based on its own recognition and linguistic technologies being developed by the company for already 20 years, mostly in Russia. The core ABBYY technologies include OCR, ICR, optical mark recognition, barcode recognition, FlexiCapture technology, Adaptive document recognition technology (ADRT), etc.[citation needed]
In 2007, a branch specializing in publishing dictionaries, reference books, encyclopedias and guide-books, ABBYY Press, was established.[4] ABBYY also owns ABBYY Language Services, a high-tech translation and localization agency.[5]
The company is most notable for their optical character recognition software application, FineReader, currently at version 10. It is in competition with ExperVision (TypeReader), Readiris and OmniPage as well as free software such as GOCR and Tesseract.
In March 2009 ABBYY was selected for 'KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management' Award (for the third year in a row).[6] In May 2006 ABBYY USA was awarded the Fujitsu Quarterly Innovative Leadership Award.[7]
[edit] Company name
ABBYY claims that the company name means "keen eye" in the hypothetical reconstructed parent language of Miao-Yao, Nu, Hmong-Mien, Hmong and Kim Mun groups of the Sino-Tibetan language family.[8]
[edit] Products
- FineReader
- For converting document images and PDFs into editable and searchable files
- FlexiCapture
- A dynamic data capture application that automatically processes multiple document types in a single stream
- Recognition Server
- Server-based software for automating document recognition and PDF conversion processes
- PDF Transformer
- An application for PDF conversion and creation
- Lingvo
- A family of electronic dictionaries for PC, PDA and smartphones, as well as print dictionaries. It 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 memorizing words. Beginning with version 11, it is available in English-Russian, European and Multilingual.
[edit] Reception
PC Advisor commented, in 2005, "FineReader 8.0 Pro is the best OCR software we've seen"[9] while PC Magazine gives it four stars out of five [10].
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."[11]
In January 2007 the FineReader Engine (an OCR SDK) was selected for use in Ricoh's DocumentMall document management system.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ "ABBYY - Company Overview". http://www.abbyy.com/company. Retrieved 2009, December 17.
- ^ "ABBYY - Company History". http://www.abbyy.com/company/history. Retrieved 2009, December 17.
- ^ ABBYY (undated). "ABBYY Aligner". http://www.abbyy.com/aligner. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ^ "ABBYY Press Publishing (in Russian)". http://www.abbyypress.ru/about. Retrieved 2009, December 17.
- ^ "ABBYY Language Services". http://www.abbyy.com/languageservices. Retrieved 2009, December 17.
- ^ "KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management", KMWorld, 1 March 2009
- ^ "Fujitsu Selects ABBYY USA for Quarterly Innovative Leadership Award", Fujitsu.com, 17 May 2006
- ^ ABBYY (undated). "ABBYY - What Does It Mean?". http://www.abbyy.com/company. Retrieved 2009-06-04.
- ^ "ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional" PC Advisor, 3 November 2005.
- ^ "Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition", PC Magazine, 12 September 2005.
- ^ "ABBYY FineReader 8 Professional Edition", PC Pro, December 2005.
- ^ "ABBYY FineReader Engine Selected for Ricoh's Award-Winning DocumentMall", January 23, 2007, MarketWire
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