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July 13, 1998.
NEW OCR SYSTEM PRIMAPAGE FROM ABBYY AND PRIMAX
The newly developed Russian-Dutch
software will be bundled with all Primax scanners in more than 30 countries all over the
world.
Executive director ABBYY Sergey
Andreyev, president ABBYY David Yang, and Business Development Director PRIMAX Int.
B.V. Fred Wieringa
PRIMAX International B.V. (the Netherlands)
and ABBYY (Russia) declare about the launch of the joint software ù character
recognition system PrimaPage and about signing the contract to bundle this system with all
Primax scanners all over the world.
Among the wide spectrum of Primax (http://www.primax.nl) products ù mice, joysticks,
electronic connection devices, projectors, paper shredders, etc. ù the scanner revenue
is 32%. Up to the present Primax scanners were delivered with OCR ReadIris all over the
world, and with the OCR FineReader 3.0 Standard ù in Russia. To improve the quality of scanners, in the end of 1997
Primax decided to develop its own OCR instead of using ReadIris. This is PrimaPage.
After detailed studying of the problem Primax
found the most effective solution to develop oneÆs own product: to license an external
OCR Engine, and for this reason FineReader from ABBYY (http://www.abbyy.ru)
was chosen. Up to the present moment (beginning of 1998) FineReader 4.0 was being tested,
and Primax could view and test its features and working quality. After the testing was
over, there was a contract signed between Primax and ABBYY on licensing OCR Engine
FineReader into PrimaPage program and bundling it with Primax scanners.
The development of the program took about half
a year. The PrimaPageÆs program shell is totally developed by Primax International B.V.,
and the program core ù by ABBYY. The system can recognize 39 languages (not including
Russian) and is Twain-compatible.
Starting from August, 1998 (the launching date
of PrimaPage) the Primax company will offer to all distributes (except Russian) Primax
scanners bundled with PrimaPage. As far as Russia is concerned, Primax will be still sold
with FineReader Standard, that can recognize Russian.
David Yang, the resident of ABBYY: "We continue working at Western markets.
And we consider the signing of the contract with Primax a strategically important step,
which will allow us to spread FineReader 4.0 technologies all over the wolrd."
Further information:
Information Service, ABBYY:
+7 095 263 6658, +7 095 263 6659, fax +7 095 263 6278
ABBYY specializes in development of software for
linguistics, semantics, electronic lexicography, and optical character recognition. The
results of a company survey by Dator agency since 1995 placed ABBYY among the three most
professional software development firms in Russia, and in 1997 ABBYY the first system and
applied software in Russia.
ABBYYÆs products include: the FINE READER line of OCR/ICR/OMR software that allows the
automatic input of texts, tables, forms into computer, FINE READER TOOLKIT that allows
developers to integrate OCR into their solutions; LINGVO CORRECTOR 11 language spell
checker; LINGVO - English-Russian/Russian-English electronic dictionaries; LINGVO
MORPHOLOGY and LINGVO FULLTEXT RETRIEVAL - 7 language full-text and fuzzy retrieval
system, index and search system LINGVO INTERNET INDEX SERVER, etc.
Trademark References: ABBYY, BIT Software, Lingvo, FineReader,
Scan&Read, Scan&Translate are registered trademarks and DOCFLOW, Try&Buy are
trademarks of ABBYY - BIT Software. Other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
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