| Headquarters |
ABBYY Software House
Phone: +7 (095) 234 4400,
Fax: +7 (095) 956 4787
Address: P.O. Box #72, Moscow, Russia, 125015
E-mail: office@abbyy.com, office@abbyy.ru
Web: www.abbyy.com, www.abbyy.ru |
| US office |
ABBYY USA
Phone: +1 510-226-6717
fax: +1 510-226-6069
Address: 46560 Fremont Blvd, Suite 105, Fremont, CA 94538
E-mail: sales@abbyyusa.com
Web: www.abbyyusa.com |
| International Subsidiaries: |
ABBYY Europe GmbH
Phone: +49-89-511159-10
Fax: +49-89-511159-59
Address: Anglerstrasse 6, 80339 Munich, Germany
E-mail: sales@abbyyeu.com
Web: www.abbyy.com |
ABBYY Europe GmbH / UK Office
Phone:
+44 (0)1279 323766
Fax. +44 (0)1279 323767
Address: 3 South Mill Trading Centre,
South Mill Road,
Bishops Stortford,
Herts, CM23 3DY,
England
E-mail: mail@abbyy.co.uk
Web: www.abbyy.co.uk |
| ABBYY UKRAINE:
Phone: +380 44 490 6656
fax: +380 44 463 6889
Address: P.O. Box 23,
02002 Kiev, Ukraine
E-mail: sales@abbyy.kiev.ua
Web: www.abbyy.kiev.ua |
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| Employees: |
More than 200 worldwide |
| Executive Staff: |
David Yang, President of ABBYY
Sergey Andreyev, Chief Executive Officer of ABBYY
Dean Tang, President of ABBYY USA
Jupp Stoepetie, Chief Executive Officer of ABBYY Europe
Vitaly Tyschenko, Chief Executive Officer of ABBYY Ukraine
Aram Pakhchanyan, ABBYY Corporate Projects Vice-president
Konstantin Anisimovich, Chief Technical Officer of ABBYY |
| Description: |
ABBYY's business is to develop and sell AI (Artificial Intelligence) applications, and, in particular, document recognition and natural language processing applications that help people overcome language barriers in a world that is globalizing at an ever-increasing pace.
It was with this aim in mind that we founded ABBYY Software House eleven years ago, and all our strategic decisions have been targeted at achieving this goal ever since. Every product we develop is just another step along the road towards turning computers into intelligent machines that allow users to overcome language barriers.
ôWe believe this goal can only be reached by investing all our thoughts, efforts, and talents into our products. Over the years, by recruiting only the very best scientists from most renowned academic centres and turning them into the best software developers and managers, we have built up a unique team at ABBYY. We have established a smooth process of software development and refined our marketing skills, thus enabling our company to maintain stable growth not only in Russia, but also in Europe and in the whole world.
Today, ABBYY Software House is definitely on par with any of its competitors. Over the years we have developed a unique corporate culture and powerful quality assurance system.ö
Sergey Andreyev, ABBYY CEO |
| Company History: |
ABBYY (called BIT Software before 1997) was founded in 1989 by David Yang (President of ABBYY).
The most important dates in ABBYY History:
- 1989 - Foundation of BIT Software)
- 1990, July - Launch of Lingvo 1.0, electronic English-Russian-English dictionary
- 1993, July 20 - Birthday of FineReader 1.0
- 1995, November - Founding of ABBYY Ukraine
- 1997, September - BIT Software announces its new name - ABBYY Software House
- 1997 - World Economic Forum and World Link magazine declared ABBYY one of the 30 most rapidly growing companies of Central and Eastern Europe.
- 1999, February 12 - Foundation of ABBYY USA
- 2000, June 6 - Foundation of ABBYY Europe
- 2001, July 6 û Foundation of ABBYY UK
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| ABBYY Personnel |
ABBYY Software House (Moscow, Russia) creates the technological strategy of the company, develops the software products, and controls the overall management of the Group, as well as the sales in Russia. ABBYY has representative offices in USA (ABBYY USA, Fremont, CA), Ukraine (ABBYY Ukraine, Kiev) and Europe (ABBYY Europe, Germany, Munich), partners in France, UK, Australia, Italy, Eastern Europe, India, etc. (more than 75 countries).
Today, the ABBYY Group employs over 200 people, with more than 100 working in Moscow, the Research & Development Department being the largest making up 60% of the Moscow staff. The average age of the ABBYY personnel is 29 years.
The three principal departments of the company are: Research and Development, Marketing, and Corporate Projects and Integration. The R&D Department comprises many sections: Text Recognition Group, Document Layout Analysis and Image Processing Group, User Interface Group, Applied Linguistics Department, Documentation Group and Quality Assurance Group.- and employs graduates of the highly reputed Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Moscow State University (Philological faculty, Department of linguistics).
The development of a science-based software product, such as OCR system, requires a deep scientific research. This research is an integral, fundamental part of development process in ABBYY. The non-confidential results of this research serve as a base for many theses, reports and articles, the authors of which are company's employees.
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| Partners and customers: |
The quality of technologies in the field of optical recognition of printed and hand-printed characters, linguistic and other technologies of the company are highly esteemed on world market. Since April, 1996, the technologies developed by ABBYY Software House were licensed by Siemens Nixdorf (Germany), Samsung Electronics (South Korea), NewSoft (USA), JetFax (USA), Arkenstone (USA), Archivista (Switzerland), OTG Software (USA), Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Japan), Primax (the Netherlands), C Technologies (Sweden), GrantSmart (USA) and many more.
ABBYY has 5 global-wide OEM-agreements with scanner manufacturers to supply special version of ABBYY FineReader OCR with their devices.
- November, 2000 - contract with Microtek Lab, Redondo, California (USA)
- November, 2000 - contract with Mustek Systems Inc. (Taiwan)
- November, 2000 - contract with UMAX Data Systems Inc. (Taiwan)
- January, 2000 - contract with Avigramm Technology Corporation (Taiwan)
- November, 1999 - contract with Acer Peripherals, Inc. (Taiwan)
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| Products: |
ABBYY develops and sells document recognition (OCR, ICR, FlexiForm) and natural language processing applications that help people overcome language barriers in a large world.
In 1998 ABBYY's product - Optical Character Recognition system FineReader - became the world quality leader in OCR industry. It is proved by feedback from our customers and results of comparative tests, held worldwide by international IT magazines. ABBYY FineReader 4.0/5.0 products received more than 45 awards from leading IT magazines worldwide (as of July 2001). |
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Optical Character Recognition:
The award-winning OCR ABBYY FineReader 5.0 system for automatic input of texts, tables and forms into computer
- ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Sprint
- ABBYY FineReader
5.0 HomeEdition
- ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro
- ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Office
- ABBYY FineReader for Mac
5 Sprint
- ABBYY FineReader for Mac
5 Pro
Electronic Dictionaries:
- English-Russian-English electronic dictionary Lingvo 7.0
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Forms Processing:
An automatic data capture systems (OCR/ICR/OMR/FlexiForm technology), interpreting hand print, machine print, check boxes and barcodes from paper forms gathered from fax machines and scanners.
- ABBYY FormReader 4.1
- ABBYY Enterprise Forms
- ABBYY FormReader Developer Edition
- ABBYY FineReader Bank 4.1B
Developer Kits:
Development Tools that allow developers to integrate OCR/ICR/OMR capabilities into their own solutions
- ABBYY FineReader Engine 5.0
- ABBYY Retrieval&Morphology Engine
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