ABBYYOnline.Com: New Web Portal to Provide Document Conversion and Language Services

July 15, 2010 - PRLog -- OCR and Linguistic Services Based on Award-Winning Software Technologies
from ABBYY Are Now Available to All Internet Users 24x7

Moscow, Russia (July 15, 2010) — ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, today announced its new Web portal www.ABBYYonline.com designed as a central access point to key services and technologies provided by ABBYY. The portal contains FineReader Online, an online OCR (optical character recognition) and document conversion service for transforming images of documents and PDF files into DOC, XLS, TXT, searchable PDF and other text formats. The new portal also delivers a range of language services including Lingvo Online dictionary, translation and telephone interpreting from ABBYY Language Services, and the Aligner Online tool for translators and language learners.
 
“We are proud to bring ABBYY’s flagship OCR and linguistic technologies online. Online services are easily accessible regardless of operating system, computer configuration, and many other factors. The result is that many more people can learn the benefits of our technologies,” explained Maxim Mikhaylov, vice president of sales and marketing for ABBYY. “ABBYY has been testing the technologies and is already hosting hundreds of thousands of people to the online services each day. We hope to further enhance this online platform with additional services and features.”

Currently, ABBYY Online offers to its visitors the following services:

Online OCR and Document Conversion at FineReaderOnline.com — The service converts scanned or photographed images of documents (e.g. JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files into DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF, and TXT formats. FineReader Online is based on ABBYY OCR technology that has received international acclaim from industry experts and media for superior accuracy of text recognition and layout retention. It accurately reads texts in 37 languages including documents with Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, and Greek characters, and supports recognition of multilingual and multi-page files. In addition, FineReader Online process documents with any combination of popular fonts and accurately re-creates formatting elements such as bulleted and numbered lists, columns, and tables.

The online OCR service from ABBYY requires no additional software to be installed and is accessible to any Internet user whether they are using PC, laptop or mobile device running on any operating system. It is a cost-effective solution available on pay-per-use basis and is very convenient for users who need high quality OCR from time to time (e.g. students, scholars, teachers, etc.), users of Linux®-based devices, and people who want to try the basic OCR functionality.

FineReader Online provides an intuitive interface for converting images. The whole process takes three simple steps: uploading an image to the service, setting up recognition languages and an output format, and receiving the resulting document directly from the user account page.

Lingvo Online Dictionary — An online version of ABBYY’s state-of-the-art dictionary software. This new version of Lingvo Online delivers updated and expanded dictionary database and enhanced word look-up technology. It offers translation of words and word combinations with English and Russian as the core starting languages into German, French, Italian, Spanish and back. It also provides useful linguistic information such as example sentences illustrating the use of words, audio pronunciations recorded by professional speakers, pronunciation keys for headwords, indication of stressed syllables in Russian words and more.  

Translation and Interpreting with ABBYY Language Services — At the new ABBYY portal users can quickly submit text of any size — from one sentence to a whole document — for professional translation. The service offers translations in a wide variety of language combinations and automatically provides users with a price quote and timeline for the task. All tasks are performed by highly qualified translators and editors from ABBYY Language Services.
Customers looking for a language interpreter for their telephone conversations and negotiations can now easily make an order at ABBYY Online.

Aligner Online — A special service for aligning small parallel texts and creating Translation Memories. It is designed for translators, language learners, and anyone who needs to compare an original text with its translation. Aligner Online finds matching segments in source and translated texts in 10 European languages: English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.  It allows uploading files up to 1 MB each and provides export of up to 50 rows of the aligned text into RTF or TMX (Translation Memory databases format) files. This service is an online version of the ABBYY Aligner software tool.

ABBYY Online is available at www.abbyyonline.com in English and Russian. Registered users can access all its services using a single account.

Corporate customers can also benefit from integration of ABBYY online services into their own internet and intranet portals. Configuration of the services, which may range from local integration to cloud hosting solutions with customized sets of functions and interface, can be adjusted according to customer requirements.

About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. 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. ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions 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, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, Recognition Server, 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.

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ABBYY is a leading provider of document conversion, data capture and linguistic technologies and services. ABBYY products are being sold in more than 130 countries around the world through an extensive network of regional and international partners.