Document Recognition, Data Capture,

Translation Solutions and Language Services

What does ABBYY mean?

The companys 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 ABBYYs
specialization: document recognition and linguistic
technologies and services.

Contents
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

ABBYYs 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

Company Overview
ABBYY (read as [bi]) 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 conducts 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. ABBYYs headquarters 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).

* According to ABBYYs internal data

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Over 1000 people
work in ABBYYs
13 global offices

ABBYYs headquarters are in Moscow with

offices in Russia, the US, the UK, Germany,
Ukraine, Cyprus, Japan and Taiwan

ABBYY Products

ABBYY products allow people and businesses to achieve

greater efficiency, productivity and linguistic breadth.
Our products range from OCR, document recognition, 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 printed characters. But ABBYY has taken OCR to a
whole new level. ABBYYs OCR and PDF conversion tools, FineReader and PDF Transformer, are
globally recognized and awarded for their superior 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 questionnaires, invoices, tax forms, tests and various bills.
Governments and corporations worldwide save

millions automating their data capture processes 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
ABBYYs leading-edge OCR and translation technologies 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 translation and localization services to corporate
customers. ABBYY language products and services enable users to translate, learn foreign
languages and classify, search, extract and analyze facts from various documents.

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ABBYY products have
received more than
240 awards

More than 30 million people from more

than 150 countries use ABBYY products

Research and
Teamwork Drive
Innovation
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 deliver innovative commercial products. To achieve and maintain the highest quality of software development, 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 employees 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.

ABBYY
Competencies

Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)

Document classification
FlexiCapture intelligent layout analysis technology
Capturing data from forms and documents

Data
Capture
Optical Character
Recognition (OCR)
Adaptive Document
Recognition Technology
(ADRT)
PDF transformation
Layout analysis

Document
Recognition

Language
Services
Translation
Solutions

Localization services
(software, website,
multimedia, marketing)
Document translation
Dictionary and translation
memory creation
Corpora creation
(monolingual, bilingual,
tagged)

Automated translation
Terminology management
Morphology, syntax, semantics
Electronic and printed dictionaries
Cloud-based translation management system

Breakthrough
Technologies

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 translation, intelligent search, fact-extraction
and more.
Recognition Technologies
ABBYYs OCR technologies have become synonymous 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.

Linguistic Technologies
ABBYYs 15-years of research in computational linguistics has resulted in the creation of a
unique language-independent model Universal 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 interrelations in a text.

ABBYYs intelligent Multilevel Document Analysis and Data Capture technologies provide the
capabilities to detect complex document structures and process various types of flexible forms.

One application of of this model is the creation of

an intelligent search platform for monitoring, fact
extraction, and text analysis.

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.).

Another possible application of the new technology is the creation of a next-generation machine
translation system, which will work for all major
languages.

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ABBYY has one of the largest global research centers in Artificial
Intelligence: more than 500 people work in ABBYYs R&D department

Helping
Corporations
and Governments
Manage Data

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 ABBYYs 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. ... Incorporating ABBYYs 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 process. ... It was a drastic improvement in both
man hours and overall time to do it the automated way.
Matt Paul,
Alameda County Infrastructure Services Manager

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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.

Expanding Globally
with Linguistic
Capabilities

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 ABBYYs 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,
HarperCollins 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.

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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

Channel-Driven
Focus: Resellers,
VARs and ISVs

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
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs).
Superior Products and Support
ABBYYs products and technologies are highly acclaimed 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 received more than 240 awards from international
IT magazines and testing labs, including PC Magazine, PC World and KMWorld. ABBYY is committed to its resellers success by providing extensive
product information, marketing support and toplevel training to ensure the best possible sales
experience.
A Trusted Reliable Partner
ABBYY distributes its line of data capture products through its VAR channel. In order to best support 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.

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ABBYY technologies save people around
970 million hours annually when
converting paper and PDF documents

ABBYY has thousands of VARs,

ISVs, distributors and resellers
in more than 150 countries

Devices with
ABBYY Technology
Inside
Manufacturers of computers, laptops, peripheral 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 accentuate the features and capabilities of a device.
ABBYYs superior-quality software helps to dramatically 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 popular usage scenarios in business, making OCR
software a critical part of a scanner or MFD solution. ABBYYs OCR products are highly regarded
for their accuracy and ease of use both by industry experts and end users. This is why leading global manufacturers of scanning 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 dramatically. 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 productivity 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.

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Leading mobile manufacturers have ABBYY technologies inside their

devices: Nokia , Samsung , LG , HTC , Pantech and Voxtel

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 FineReader 10 is
recommended by Swedish
2010
PC-Tidningen magazine as a
September
wonderful program that does its
job with flying colors.

2010
August

ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 has

been recognized as a TrendSetting Product of the Year by
KMWorld Magazine

2010
July

ABBYY FineReader Express

Edition for Mac is named
Best Professional Software by
Macworld (UK)

ABBYY FineReader 10 has been

2009
reviewed by PC Magazine and
November 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

ABBYY won the Silver Mobile

2008
Star Award for its Mobile OCR
November
Engine from MobileVillage

Recognition Server 2.0 was

named the best software
2008
product in the Specialized Tools
November
category (PC Magazine, Russian
Edition)
The Lithuanian State Tax
Inspectorate received the
2007
Good Practice Award from
December 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

ABBYY FineReader 8.0 won a

comparative test conducted
by Komputer Swiat magazine
2006
December (Poland) winning in both the
Quality and Price/Quality
categories
ABBYY FineReader 8.0
2005
software was reviewed and
December 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)

The full list of ABBYY awards can be found at www.abbyy.com/AwardsReviews

ABBYY Headquarters
Phone: +7 495 783 3700
Address: P.O. Box #20, Moscow, Russia, 127273
E-mail: office@abbyy.com
Support: support@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com

ABBYY USA
Phone: + 1 408 457 9777
Address: 880 North McCarthy Blvd., Ste. 220

Milpitas, California 95035, USA
E-mail: sales@abbyyusa.com
Web:
www.ABBYYUSA.com

ABBYY Russia
Phone: +7 495 783 3700
Address: P.O. Box #32, Moscow, Russia, 127273
E-mail: sales@abbyy.ru
Web: www.ABBYY.ru

ABBYY Japan
Phone: +81 42 796 6125
Address: 658-1 Tsuruma Machida-shi,

Tokyo, Japan 194-0004
E-mail: sales@abbyyusa.com

ABBYY 3A
Phone: +7 495 783 3700
Address: P.O. Box #20, Moscow, Russia, 127273
E-mail: sales@abbyy.com
Web: abbyy.cn
abbyy.com.br
latam.abbyy.com

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: sales@abbyyusa.com

ABBYY Europe GmbH

Phone: +49 89 511 159 0
Address: Elsenheimerstrasse 49, 80687

Munich, Germany
E-mail: sales_eu@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com
www.ABBYY.de
www.France.ABBYY.com

ABBYY Ukraine
Phone: +380 44 490 9999
Address: P.O. Box 23, 02002 Kyiv, Ukraine
E-mail: sales@abbyy.ua
Web: www.ABBYY.ua

ABBYY UK Ltd.
Phone: +44 01344 39 2610
Address: Abbey House, Grenville Place,

Bracknell RG12 1BP, United Kingdom
E-mail: sales_UK@abbyy.com
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: solutions@abbyy.com

ABBYY Language Services

Phone: +7 495 783 9785
Address: P.O. Box #45, Moscow, Russia, 129301
E-mail: info@abbyy-ls.com
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: info@abbyypress.ru
Web: www.ABBYYpress.ru

ABBYY Australia
Phone: +61 02 9004 7401
Address: Citigroup Building, level 39, 2 Park Street,

Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
E-mail: sales_au@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com

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