ABBYY Software and Fujitsu Canada Announce New Distribution Agreement

MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 29 /CNW/ -- ABBYY Software, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic recognition, has signed an agreement with Fujitsu Canada to distribute a full range of ABBYY products alongside Fujitsu Canada's complete line of document scanners including ABBYY FineReader(R), FlexiCapture(R), FormReader(R), PDF Transformer(TM) and Recognition Server(TM) technologies. Currently, ABBYY's TouchTo optical character recognition (OCR) technology is integrated into the Fujitsu fi-6010N iScanner.

"With the growing demand to convert paper into searchable format, the combination of our industry leading scanners and ABBYY's award winning OCR software provides the perfect solution," said Steve Oblin, senior marketing manager, Imaging Products at Fujitsu Canada . "Initial feedback from our resellers has been very positive and several have already become certified on ABBYY's products."

    
    The software products covered under the distribution agreement include:

    --  ABBYY FineReader: Intelligent, professional level OCR software for
        creating editable and searchable files from scanned documents, PDF,
        and digital camera images.

    --  ABBYY FlexiCapture: Enables organizations to efficiently automate
        business processes, dramatically minimize manual operations
        associated with document processing and data capture and increase
        overall productivity. FlexiCapture transforms information from
        various types of paper forms or documents into electronic data and
        transfer it to business applications and databases.

    --  ABBYY PDF Transformer:  Enables users to easily convert any type of
        PDF into editable formats with the original layout and formatting
        retained.

    --  ABBYY Recognition Server:  Robust and powerful server-based OCR
        solution for automating document conversion processes across
        corporate departments and enterprises. It is designed for mid- to
        high-volume OCR processing. ABBYY Recognition Server can be used as
        both a turnkey solution and an integral part of document capture,
        document management, and back-end systems.
    

"This new distributor agreement with Fujitsu Canada demonstrates ABBYY's increasing commitment to the Canadian market, and strengthens our longtime relationship with Fujitsu," said Steve Kincade , vice president of channels in North America at ABBYY USA. "Fujitsu Canada's nationwide reseller network and excellent market reputation for quality products and service will provide a solid platform from which to penetrate the Canadian market with ABBYY's market leading OCR solutions. This new relationship will also be instrumental in increasing the market profile and impact of a new line of integrated Fujitsu and ABBYY solutions- beginning with ABBYY's award winning TouchTo solution for the Fujitsu 6010N."

    
    About Fujitsu Canada
    

Fujitsu Canada provides a complete portfolio of business technology services, computing platforms, and industry solutions. Fujitsu platform products are based on Fujitsu's award winning document imaging scanners, as well as scalable, reliable and high-performance server, storage, software, point-of-sale, and mobile technologies. Fujitsu combines its renowned platform offerings with a full suite of onshore, near shore and offshore system integration, outsourcing, and datacenter services covering applications, operations, infrastructure, customer service, and multi-vendor lifecycle services. Fujitsu provides industry-specific solutions for retail, manufacturing, healthcare, government, education, financial services, and telecommunications sectors. For more information, please see: http://solutions.ca.fujitsu.com/

    
    About ABBYY
    

ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia , Ministry of Education of Ukraine , and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow , Russia , with offices in Germany , the United States , Ukraine , the UK, Japan and Taiwan . For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, Lingvo, FlexiCapture and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.

For further information: Derek James of McGrath/Power Public Relations, [phone], [email protected], for ABBYY Software Web Site: http://solutions.ca.fujitsu.com