MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY, a
leading provider of document recognition, data capture and
linguistic technologies and services, today announced the release
of FineReader® Touch, an innovative optical character recognition
(OCR) application designed specifically for the new touch-centric
user interface of Microsoft® Windows® 8. ABBYY FineReader Touch
provides text recognition and document conversion via the ABBYY
cloud OCR service, enabling users to easily convert scans of
documents into text formats such as Microsoft Word, TXT, and more.
ABBYY FineReader Touch is available for download at the
Windows Store, and is one of the first OCR applications supporting
the new operating system and its newly-designed interface for
touch-sensing devices.
With the official release of Windows 8, ABBYY FineReader Touch
is compatible with all devices running the new operating system
from Microsoft. Users can easily export recognized images of
documents to cloud storage systems such as Dropbox®, Evernote®,
Google Drive™ and Microsoft SkyDrive™, or store the resulting
documents on the local hard drive of their tablet or computer.
ABBYY FineReader Touch is a valuable assistant for business
professionals who need to digitize or save their documents in
suitable formats, or students and scholars when preparing reports
and research papers. Integrated with ABBYY FineReader Online, a
cloud-based OCR service, the application supports text recognition
in 42 languages including multilingual documents. With its ability
to accurately re-create formatting attributes (e.g. headings,
bulleted and numbered lists, columns, tables and images) and the
layout of documents, it allows users to accurately process a
variety of document types.
"Simplicity and user convenience were our main focus when
developing this application. As a result, the product is endowed
with all advantages of a cloud service. It doesn't take many of
computer resources since all major processing takes place on
Microsoft Windows Azure®," said Sergey
Popov, director of FineReader Products Department at
ABBYY.
"We believe that users of Windows devices all over the world
will benefit from the new cloud-based OCR application developed by
our strategic partner," commented Mikhail Chernomordikov,
Evangelism Unit Lead at Microsoft Russia. "The new Windows
interface, for which ABBYY FineReader Touch has been specifically
developed, ensures easy and convenient work with documents. The
Windows Azure platform provides easy access to documents and fast
and powerful processing capabilities."
ABBYY FineReader Touch can be downloaded from the Windows Store
and installed free of charge. The application offers a "pay as you
go" pricing scheme allowing users to save money paying only for the
actual number of pages processed. Each registered user receives a
bonus of 20 pages for free conversion.
About ABBYY FineReader
ABBYY FineReader is a family of
OCR applications for document scanning and conversion. A
time-saving alternative to manual retyping, FineReader delivers
high quality results in digitizing almost any type of printed
document including books, magazine articles, tables, and even
faxes. Based on more than 20 years of development, it has
gained worldwide recognition for its exceptional accuracy and
received over 150 awards from the industry's leading publishers and
testing labs. ABBYY FineReader currently supports up to 189*
recognition languages and offers its unique ADRT® technology for
the reconstruction of the logical structure of a document across
multiple pages. ABBYY FineReader products include the FineReader
Professional Edition desktop application, FineReader Corporate
Edition for networked environments, the FineReader Online
cloud-based service and now the ABBYY FineReader Touch
application.** For more information about FineReader, visit
http://finereader.abbyy.com.
ABBYY Partnership with Microsoft
ABBYY has a
long history of partnership and collaboration with Microsoft and
has been an active member of Microsoft partner programs. The ABBYY
FineReader Online service has been named "Best OCR Service" in
Microsoft's international contest "Your Business - Your Fame" in
2012. ABBYY also received a Microsoft Partner Award in the category
"Windows Azure Russian Partner 2012". Since 2011, new versions of
ABBYY's software development kits (SDK) have supported the
Microsoft Windows Azure platform bringing new business
opportunities to both software developers and their customers and
increasing their productivity and cost-effectiveness.
*Amount of recognition languages supported may vary depending on
ABBYY FineReader edition.
** The classic interface of Microsoft® Windows® 8 is supported
by ABBYY FineReader 11 Professional Edition and FineReader 11
Corporate Edition.
About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document
recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services.
Its key products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical
character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line
of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and
development tools. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive
linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive
organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to
automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline
business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale
government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office,
Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, Montgomery County Government of the
USA, and Government of
Canada. Companies that license
ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva,
Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable
Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are
shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as
Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Ricoh,
Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the
United States, Canada,
Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit
www.abbyy.com.
© 2012. ABBYY. All rights reserved.
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ABBYY FineReader, ADRT
are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software
Ltd. Google and Google Drive are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Google, Inc. Windows, Microsoft, Excel, SkyDrive and
Azure are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States
and/or other countries. Evernote is a registered trademark or
trademark of Evernote Corporation. Dropbox is a registered
trademark or trademark of Dropbox, Inc. Apple and iPhone are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of Apple, Inc. in the
USA and other countries. Other
product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby
recognized.
Media Contacts:
ABBYY USA
Derek
James
(408) 727-0351
derekjames@mcgrathpower.com
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