ABBYY Brings Scalable, High Performance OCR Functionality to Software Developers with Release of Its Cloud OCR SDK

MILPITAS, Calif., June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and professional services, today announced the release of ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK, an online service that provides a Web API for integrating ABBYY recognition technologies. Designed to increase revenue opportunities for software developers, ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK enables them to easily leverage award-winning optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), barcode recognition, and PDF conversion technologies for creating their own applications. In addition, ABBYY's flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model, allows developers to tie expenses to their actual monthly revenue.

One of the first ISVs who started integrating the new ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK into their document management system (DMS) was DocsCorp, a leading DMS developer based in Australia. "We have been working with ABBYY for many years and they have proven themselves as a reliable partner. Their new Cloud initiative was exactly what we were looking for - with Cloud OCR we'll be able to reach new market opportunities.  Some smaller organizations would prefer a 'pay as you go' option, and with ABBYY's Cloud service we can sell our own software products on a 'subscription' basis," says DocsCorp President and CEO, Dean Sappey.

ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK hosts all processing operations in the cloud and is available via a Web API that supports nearly any operating system, including mobile. Developers are also provided with technology updates automatically, giving them the latest OCR technology as soon as it is available. Key features include:

• Exceptional Language Support and Professional Recognition Capabilities
  The new SDK recognizes 198 languages in printed text, including all major European languages, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean; and 113 hand-printed languages and checkmarks. In addition, ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK features professional recognition tools such as business card recognition and barcode recognition APIs.

• Virtually Unlimited Scalability
  With ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK, developers can integrate a service with their applications that will quickly and securely scale up and down to meet the demands of their end users. "We've already tested ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK's scalability feature to find that it is fast and stable," added Sappey. "We look forward to finish up with the development and testing stage, and to begin offering our customers our document management solution with a Cloud OCR option."

• No Hardware or IT Costs
  ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK service leverages Microsoft® Windows® Azure™ to host OCR processing functionality. This enables developers to get up-and-running without significant up-front infrastructure or maintenance costs. Another advantage ABBYY's cloud approach brings to organizations is the ability to outsource computing power for OCR, which is a one-time resource-intensive process, and scale it on demand to handle large volumes of documents. This provides the unparalleled ability to OCR vast quantities of documents in a short amount of time.

• Platform-Independent
  ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK enables flexible development through the availability of programming code samples for .NET, PHP, Ruby, cURL, Python, Java, and ASP.NET, as well as support for the Apple® iOS, Google® Android™ and Windows® Phone mobile OS, at no additional charge.

• Flexible Pricing
  ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is based on a pay-as-you-go pricing model, allowing developers to scale the relationship as their revenues rise, without requiring significant upfront cost.

"We have been working with beta developers for several months now and are very encouraged by the feedback we have received," said Andrey Isaev, director of technology products department at ABBYY. "Our new Cloud OCR SDK makes it simple for developers to get their applications up-and-running quickly, and better differentiate their products by offering a cloud option."

For information on ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK, visit http://ocrsdk.com/. For more information about ABBYY, visit http://www.abbyy.com.

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, supporting a variety of platforms and computing environments. 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.

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