ABBYY
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| Industry |
Computer software Mobile software Applied linguistics Language translation |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
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Key people
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Founder: David Yang, CEO: Ulf Persson |
| Products | FineReader, FineReader Engine, PDF Transformer, FlexiCapture, FlexiCapture Engine, Recognition Server, Lingvo Dictionary, Business Card Reader, Mobile OCR Engine, Mobile Imaging SDK, FineScanner, Scan Station, TextGrabber+Translator |
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Number of employees
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over 1250 regular and 900 freelance (as of 2013) |
| Website | www |
ABBYY /ˈʌbɪ/ is a software company that provides optical character recognition, document capture and language software for both PC and mobile devices.
The majority of ABBYY products, such as ABBYY FineReader, are intended to simplify converting paper documents to digital data. ABBYY also provides language-based software products and services.
ABBYY was founded in 1989 by David Yang and was named BIT Software before 1997. ABBYY has 4 headquarters: North America (Milpitas, California), Western Europe (Munich), Eastern Europe (Kiev) and in Russia (Moscow). Most of the research and development projects are conducted in Moscow. The ABBYY Group comprises 16 global offices located in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the UAE, the UK, Ukraine and the United States. In 2007, a branch specializing in publishing dictionaries, reference books, encyclopedias and guide-books, ABBYY Press, was established. ABBYY also owns ABBYY Language Services, a high-tech translation and localization agency.
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