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Abbyy is a software house based in Moscow, Russia. They were founded in 1989 by David Yang. ABBYY had over 600 employees, as of November 2006, including offices in Russia (Moscow), the USA (Fremont, CA), Ukraine (Kiev), the UK (Bishops Stortford, England), Germany (Munich) and Japan (Tokyo). Image File history File links Abbyy. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ...


Abbyy has developed software in the fields of artificial intelligence, document recognition and applied linguistics. Abbyy are most notable for their optical character recognition software, FineReader, currently at version 8.0. It is in competition with Readiris and OmniPage. Hondas humanoid robot AI redirects here. ... Applied linguistics is the branch of linguistics concerned with using linguistic theory to address real-world problems. ... Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text, or to translate pictures of characters into a standard encoding scheme representing them (e. ... Readiris is well-regarded optical character recognition software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.[1] It is produced by Belgian company Image Recognition Integrated Systems Group S.A. (I.R.I.S. Group). ... Omnipage is a high end OCR tool available from the ScanSoft division of Nuance Communications. ...


Reviews

PC Advisor commented "FineReader 8.0 Pro is the best OCR software we've seen"[1] while PC Magazine gives it four stars out of five [2]. PC World is an American computer magazine offering advice on various aspects of personal computing. ... PC Magazine is a computer magazine published biweekly (except in January and July ) both in print and online. ...


However 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."[3] PC Pro is a computer magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing. ...


References

  1. ^ "ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional" PC Advisor, 3 November 2005.
  2. ^ "Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition", PC Magazine, 12 September 2005.
  3. ^ "ABBYY FineReader 8 Professional Edition", PC Pro, December 2005.

External links

  • Official site


 
 

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