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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]
[edit] HistoryABBYY 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 nameABBYY 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
[edit] ReceptionPC 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
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