Munich, Germany, 11 January, 2002 û ABBYY Europe, a leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies, and Novadys Italy, Italian distributor of ABBYY software products today announces an astonishing success story - a 300% increase in FineReader sales in 2001 compared to the year 2000, resulting in becoming a leading OCR package on the Italian market. Two nationwide distributors* have also confirmed that sales of FineReader now easily exceed those of its most popular OCR competitors.

According to Barbara Giampaolo, Novadys Italy's Public Relations Manager: "This success is primarily the result of our customers and sales partners being extremely satisfied with the products and the level of service they receive from us."

Italsel, one of the major sales outlets for ABBYY products in Italy claim: "Selling ABBYY FineReader is easy. Our customers are extremely satisfied with the software, and hardly any technical problems are encountered". 

Massimiliano Cuneo, Technical Support Manager for FineReader/Formreader products at Novadys Italy declares: "Not only is the software very good, if any technical issues do arise.

ABBYY's response is almost instantaneous. No later than 12 hours after a query has been received, the customer should have received the solution to their problem. That's what you call service!"

* ITALSEL and LOGICSOFT

About ABBYY 

ABBYY Software House is a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and OMR software, and FineReader development tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, C Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, L&H/Kurzweil, Arkenstone, Banctec, Visionshape, Acer, Compaq, Microtek, OTG Software, Grantsmart, Lexmark, Mustek, Umax, NewSoft, Primax and Jet Fax. For more information about ABBYY, visit www.abbyy.com

About Novadys Italy

Novadys Italy is the Italian subsidiary of Novadys International Group, a European group specialized in document capture / archiving / information retrieving / EDM products and solutions: client/server with Internet/Intranet Portals with Documind Corporate Solution and office solution with Documind Office. Visit www.novadys.com/italy.

Since November 2001 Novadys is part of Sharing Technologies, a pioneer in Knowledge Management solutions based in Paris and with subsidiaries in Canada/North America, covering all facets of a Knowledge Management project: Consulting, Methodology, Services and Technologies, and focusing on Lotus Notes/ Domino type environments.

Visit www.sharing.com.

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