name ABBYY Software House
address 105568, Moscow, postbox 19 or
Gospitalny val 4/6
Moscow
phone +7(095) 234 4400 or +7(095) 263 66 58
fax +7(095) 263 6278
e-mail office@abbyy.ru
URL/Web www.abbyy.com, www.lingvo.ru, www.finereader.ru
Year of foundation

1989

Number of employees

140

Turnover 1998 in Mio. US-$

2,5

Branches
in other cities
Kiev, Ukraine
Fremont, California, USA
Character
of activities
Research

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Develop-
ment

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Production   Trade/
Distribution
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Subject of development Hardware   Software

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Data base   Communi-
cations
  Networks   Multimedia   Artificial
Intelligence

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Areas of application Industry/ Trade

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Admini-
stration

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Finance/
Banks/ insurance
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munication/ Energy
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Culture
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ment
  Medicine/
Social Fields

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Short profile of the company / qualification of personnel

ABBYY (ABBYY Software House) specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. Programmers and linguists are the 70% of ABBYY personnel. Most of ABBYY programmers graduate of the highly reputed Moscow Physics and Technical Institute and linguists - from the Linguistic department of Moscow State University.

Technologies / programming languages / architectures

OCR/ICR/Linguistics
C++, Visual Basic
Windows 95-98, NT, Windows 2000, Macintosh

Own products & services

ABBYY's products include: the FineReader line of OCR/ICR/OMR software, which allows the automatic input of texts, tables, and forms into a computer; FineReader Development Tools, which allows developers to integrate OCR into their solutions; ABBYY Morphology 22 language spell checker; Lingvo English-Russian-English electronic dictionaries; ABBYY Retrieval&Morphology Engine, a seven language full-text retrieval system; and the ABBYY Internet Index Server index and search system.

International Projects / International Partners (company/country)/ Experiences

ABBYY strategic partner in Europe is MITCOM company, (www.mitcom.de).

FineReader technology is currently integrated in Samsung’s Anypage OCR system, Sumitomo’s OK Reader OCR application, NewSoft’s Presto! OCR Pro, Primax’s PrimaPage OCR program.

Participation
International Trade Fairs:
(Name/Year)
(3 most important)

CeBIT’99
CeBiT’98
AIIM-show’99

Proposals for co-operation with Germany

MITCOM Coordinates:
Phone: 0 89 – 50 03 32 – 0
Web: www.mitcom.de Email: stoepetie@mitcom.de

Working languages
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