ABBYY FineReader wiki

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ABBYY (pronounced /ˈæbi/[1]) 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.^[1] In February 2007 ABBYY was selected for 'KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management' Award.^[2] In 2007, a branch specializing in publishing reference books and creating in-house dictionary content, ABBYY Press, was established. ABBYY also owns Perevedem.ru, a large translation agency, also known as ABBYY Language Services.

[edit] 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, as well as print dictionaries, 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.

[edit] ABBYY FineReader

PC Advisor commented, in 2005, "FineReader 8.0 Pro is the best OCR software we've seen"^[3] while PC Magazine gives it four stars out of five ^[4]. 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."^[5] In January 2007 the FineReader Engine (an OCR SDK) was selected for use in Ricoh's DocumentMall document management system.^[6]

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