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NEWS FROM ABBYY

January 11, 2002.  
ABBYY FineReader sales in Italy increase by 300%. Press-release.

January, 2002. 
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro was nominated as "Best Product, Category - OCR" by Polish IT magazine PC World Computer. Read more. 

December, 2001.  
"PC Professionale"  (Italy), has awarded FineReader 5.0 Office as the best OCR software of 2001. Read more. 

November, 2001.  
France. FineReader is named Nr.1 equal to OmniPage 11 in Micro Hebdo magazine (France). Details.

November 30, 2001. 
Click here to download  ABBYY FineReader 5 Pro for Mac.

November 30, 2001.  
ABBYY announces the availibility of high-performance OCR software for Macintosh users - ABBYY FineReader 5 Pro for Mac. Press-release.

November, 2001.  
Please readáthe article about new out-of-the-box form processing solution - ABBYY FormReader.
Version for Germany.
Version for UK.

October, 2001.  
ABBYY FineReader OCR was included in Computer Shopper's (USA) Top 100 product in the software category (the only OCR software got selected). Details.

October 26, 2001.  
ABBYY offers Windows XP users to update heir ABBYY FineReader 5.0 OCR. Update

October 15, 2001.
Federal Computer Week (USA) published an article named "FineReader gives OmniPage run for money". Details

October, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro OCR won in the comparative test, held by Swiss magazine InfoWeek.ch. Details

October 8, 2001.
ABBYY announces FineReader Scripting Edition - the top
version of the award-winning OCR product line.  Press-release.

October 8, 2001.
ABBYY announces ABBYY FormReader - the form processing solution in a box. Press-release.

September, 2001.
Czech magazine PC World published review of ABBYY FIneReader 5.0. Details.

September, 2001.
In comparative test, held by German magazine PC Shopping ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro received a "Best buy" award. Details.

September, 2001.
Germany's most prestigious IT-magazine "C't" found ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro to be the best OCR currently available on the market. Details.

September, 2001.
E-DOC Magazine published an article about ABBYY at AIIMShow'2001.

September, 2001.
ABBYY announces a setup of the new user group at www.yahoo.com, devoted to ABBYY FineReader. This forum can be used by FineReader users (whether beginners or experienced) who want to exchange tips, solve problems etc.  

September, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 beats Omnipage 11 in PC Magazine review. Read more. 

August , 2001.
USA. Mac╤entral online magazine published review about ABBYY FineReader 5 for Mac public beta version. Read more...

August , 2001.
PC World/Hungary published a review about FineReader 5.0.  Read more...

August , 2001.
Czech magazine PC World published review of ABBYY FineReader 5.0. Read more...

August 28, 2001.
ABBYY announces FineReader 5 Pro for MAC Release Candidate available for free download. Press-release.

August 24, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro beats new ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 11 in ZDNet Test. Read more

August 1, 2001.
ABBYY Secures New Strategic Relationships with Compaq and
Lexmark
. Press-release.

July, 2001.
In comparative test, held by Digit Magazine (India) FineReader 5.0 received "Best Performance" award with the score 90.93. Read more

July 27, 2001.
Philadelphia Inquirer/USA published an article about FineReader 5.0. Read more.

July 24, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro beats new ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 11 in ZDNet Test. Read more.

July 06, 2001.
ABBYY announces opening of its UK office. Press-release

June 30, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro is listed as the only OCR in the "Best tested products" section" by PC Magazine/Italy. Read more

June 14, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro was chosen by PC Magazine/Italy. Read more

May 1, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader Embedded Engine performs OCR in compact device with non-PC operating system. Press-release

May 1, 2001.
ABBYY offers new Retrieval & Morphology Engineáfor multilingual applications. Press-release

May 1, 2001.
New ABBYY FineReader Engine provides comfortable environment for development of OCR/ICR applications. Press-release

Mat 1, 2001.
New paper-forms-processing technologies from ABBYY enable efficient capture of handprinted input. Press-release

April, 2001.
PC Open/Italy publishes review of FineReader 5.0.
Read more

April, 2001.
FineReader 5.0 Office wins PC Professionale/Italy Editor's choice: VIP (Very Important Product). Read more

April, 2001.
PC Pratico/Italy names FineReader "A "fine" and precise text connoisseur". Read more

March 22, 2001.
CeBIT, Germany -  ABBYY Software House announces the release of its new bulk input forms solution - ABBYY Enterprise Forms. Press release

22. März, 2001.
CeBIT - ABBYY Software House präsentiert seine neue Standardlösung zur Eingabe von Formularen: ABBYY Enterprise Forms. Press release

March 22, 2001.
CeBIT, Germany -  ABBYY Software House announces today a new version of ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology (ARM) Engine. Press release

22. März, 2001.
CeBIT -  ABBYY Software House präsentiert eine neue Version der ABBYY Retrieval&Morphology (ARM) Engine. Press release

March 22, 2001.
CeBIT, Germany -  ABBYY Software House announced today that FineReader 5.0 is now available in all European countries. Press release

22. März, 2001.
CeBIT -  ABBYY Software House präsentierte auf der Systems 2000 mit dem europäischen Debut von ABBYY FineReader 5.0 eine neue Generation der OCR-Technologie. Press-release

March 22, 2001.
CeBIT, Germany -  At the CeBit 2001, ABBYY Software House announces the availability of its ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Engine. Press-release. Press release

March 22, 2001.
CeBIT, Germany -  ABBYY Software House is proud to announce the summer launch of the most Mac-like fully-functional OCR software in the world - ABBYY FineReader 4.0 for Mac. Press release

March, 2001.
FineReader 5.0 Office participated in comparative test, held by PC Magazine/Italy and received a "Best Buy" award. Read more

February, 2001.
Two German magazines - ComputerEasy and PC Professionell - tested and awarded FineReader 5.0. Read more

February, 2001.
FineReader On the EnterEX exhibition, held in Kiev, Ukraine ABBYY FineReader 5.0 was named a "Best Software". Read more

February, 2001.
FineReader 5.0 Office participated in comparative test, held by PC Format/Poland and received a "PC Format Platinum Medal". Read more 

February 1, 2001.
PC Achat/France published a review on ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro and awarded it ôProduct of Exceptionö. Read more 

February, 2001.
A seminar organized by ABBYY Software House for its dealers Western Europe took place in Moscow at the beginning of February. 

January, 2001.
PC Magazine/France published review on ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro awarded it ôEditorÆs Choiceö. Read more 

February, 2001.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro received the award "Best Buy" ("Kauftipp") from PC GO!/Germany. Read more 

January 17, 2001.
UK IT-publisher VNU placed a review of FineReader 5.0 

January, 2001.
www.compuserve.de  published review of ABBYY FineReader 5.0.á

December, 2000.
Computer Magazine PC REVUE/Slovak Republik published an article about FineReader 5.0. Details 

December, 2000. 
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 received was awarded "Editor's Choice" in comparative test held by CHIP/Ukraine. ". Read more

December, 2000. 
PC World Komputer (IDG, Poland) awarded FineReader 5.0 "Product of the year 2000". Read more

December 21, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 was reviewed by online version of German Magazine PC Welt with resume: "FR 50 Pro is by far the best OCR-program in this price class". Read more

December, 2000. 
Document Imaging Report (USA) publishes an interview with Dean Tang, President and CEO of ABBYY USA. Read the Report 

December 2000 
The Best Products of 2000 awards (Techies) as declared by PC World Magazine December 2000 issue for the OCR category goes to ABBYY FineReader 4.0. FineReader 4.0 wins a User's Choice in December issue of PC World/India. Read more

November 27, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Pro received the award "Top Product" from PC Magazine/Germany with a score: 10 of 10 possible. Read more

November 13, 2000.
ABBYY announces launch of FineReader 5.0. Product information. Press-release

November 13, 2000. 
ABBYY licenses FineReader OCR Engine to MICROTEK. Press-release

November 13, 2000. 
ABBYY set to bundle OCR software with UMAX scanners worldwide. Press-release

November 13, 2000. 
FineReader OCR software included with MUSTEK scanners. Press-release

November 13, 2000. 
ABBYY releases a new standard form input solution - ABBYY Enterprise Forms. Press-release

November 13, 2000. 
ABBYY offers new Retrieval and Morphology Engine for multilingual applications. Press-release

November 13, 2000. 
New comfortable OCR/ICR development tool: ABBYY FineReader 5.0 Engine. Press-release

August, 2000.
GrantSmart integrates FineReader Engine in its searchable databnase of tax forms. Details

June, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 was estimated as an "excellent" product by PC WORLD ITALIA. More

June, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 wins in comparative test and receives an "Editor's Choice" from Windows News (France). More

June, 2000.
ABBYY Software House announces the foundation of a new member of the ABBYY Group - ABBYY Europe (Munich, Germany). Press-release

June, 2000.
FineReader 4.0 Standard won in comparative test, held by German magazine PC Shopping, and received an "Editor's Choice" award. More

May, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 has a first place in review held by Micro Hebdo magazine/France (ex-aequo with OmniPage). More...

April, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 receives award "Best Buy" from PC World Belgium. More...

April, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 wins in comparative test (18 of 20 possible points) and receives an "Editor's Choice" from PC Magazine/France. More...

April 06, 2000.
FineReader 4.0 Pro is considered the "unbeatable" OCR in comparative test against OmniPage 10 by PC Open (Italy). More... 

April 01, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Professional win in the comparative test held by CHIP (Poland) and received 2 awards - CHIP Econo and CHIP Power. More... 

March 13, 2000. 
ABBYY FineReader beat its competitors  (Caere OmniPage Pro 10, IRIS ReadIRIS Pro 5.5, Recognita Plus 4.0 and ScanSoft Textbridge Pro 9.0) in comparative test and was awarded "Editors' Choice" by PC Professional (Belgium). More...

March 13, 2000. 
Belgium. Netwerk Magazine (Belgium) published review about FineReader.  More...

March 07, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader is considered to be the best OCR on the market by PC PROFESSIONALE (Mondadori). More... 

February 24, 2000
On CeBIT ABBYY Announces the Launch of ABBYY Fine Reader Sprint for Macintosh. Press-release.á 

February 24, 2000
On CeBIT ABBYY Announces Fine Reader 4.0 StartUp - Solution for Beginners. Press-release.

January, 24, 2000
ABBYY Announces Worldwide Bundling Agreement with Avigramm Technology. Press-release.

January, 2000.
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Standard won in comparative test held by PC WORLD Hong Kong and received Best Buy award. Details.

December, 1999
ABBYY FineReader wins in comparative tests, held by PCGo! and PC Professionell magazines (Germany). More... 

November, 15. 1999
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Sprint Software Included with All Acer Scanners Worldwide.
ABBYY FineReader OCR Software Doubles Recognition Accuracy on Poor Quality Documents. (press-release)

November, 15. 1999
ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology Engine indexes 7 Mb of text in one minute. (press-release)

November, 15. 1999
ABBYY announces the new release of ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Handprint, allowing users to recognize flexible forms, new types of handprinted texts and more. (press-release)

November, 15. 1999
Now scanner manufacturers can bundle the world's leading OCR-system ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Sprint for both PC and Macintosh platforms. (press-release)

November, 15. 1999
ABBYY FineReader 4.0 Standard and Professional will now save recognition results in Adobe Acrobat Reader .pdf format, allowing users to easily share and distribute documents. (press-release)

November, 15. 1999
OCR-system to read data from the C-Pen will be developed based on ABBYY FineReader Embedded Engine. (press-release)

October, 1999
In comparative test, held by RAM Magazine (Greece) FineReader was awarded the first place. Details.

October, 5. 1999
On the exhibition INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL FAIR - AUTUMN'99 held in Plovdev, Bulgaria, ABBYY FineReader 4.0 received Golden Medal Award. Details.

September, 1999.
ABBYY FineReader participated in tests held by PCTrade  Magazine (Italia). Details

August, 2. 1999
ABBYY presents an automatic tax return entry workstation for the Moscow Federal Tax Service.

July, 31. 1999
FineReader 4.0 received an Editor's Choice Award of PC World Magazine, India.

July, 2. 1999
New award from WIN magazine in Greece.

June, 14. 1999
New award from CHIP magazine in Italy.

April, 19. 1999
FineReader 4.0 Standard is listed on the Top 10 list of BuyDirect under Business section (link).

April, 12. 1999
FineReader 4.0: high-end OCR/ICR toolkit for developers and VARs (press-release)

March, 18. 1999
FineReader 4.0 Offers the Keenest Eye in the OCR Market with an Unmatched Combination of Cutting-Edge Technologies (press-release)

March, 11.
FineReader 4.0 was chosen as "Program of Week" by ZD Net Turkiye (in Turkish).

March. 1999
FineReader 4.0 was awarded Recommended award from What PC?/UK.

February, 12. 1999
Now you can buy FineReader in ABBYY USA (coordinates).

January, 15. 1999
New reseller in The Netherlands (coordinates).

December, 23. 1998
FineReader 4.0 was awarded an Editors' Choice from PC Magazine/Italy.

 

December, 10. 1998
New resellers in Bulgaria and Czech Republic (coordinates).

November, 20. 1998
Russian State Standards and ISO standards shake hands (press-release)

July, 13. 1998
New OCR system PrimaPage from PRIMAX and ABBYY (press-release)

August, 1998
A Slovenian magazine WIN.INI awarded a logo of Editorial Recommendation to FineReader 4.0 Professional.

 

August, 25, 1998
An American magazine ZD Net (August 1998) awarded a 5-Star Editors' Choice to FineReader 4.0 Professional

June, 26. 1998
KYE Systems bought from ABBYY an Open License for FineReader Light (press-release)

 

May, 1998
FineReader is selling as Presto! OCR Pro in US and Canada. An American magazine Windows Magazine (May 1998) have 1998 Win 100 award.

 

March 19. 1998, CeBIT 98, Hannover, Germany
FineReader 4.0: OCR technologies on the cutting edge. Unsurpassed recognition quality of FineReader thanks to ôfontain image transformationö technology (press-release).

January 19. 1998
In two months FineReader has been highly appreciated by foreign experts: 2 magazines awarded the Editor's Choice prise to FineReader and 3 magazines included it in the list of the three best OCR systems.

 

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