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ABBYY (R) Software House, founded as BIT Software in 1989, develops document recognition, natural language processing, and other artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The firm, based in Moscow, Russia, introduced its Lingvo (R) English-Russian-English dictionary in 1990. Lingvo also is available in Spanish, Italian, French, and German editions. The FineReader (R) optical character recognition (OCR) software was introduced in 1993. The company also is known for its ABBYY PDF Transformer PDF information extraction, ABBYY ScanTo Office (TM) paper document conversion, ABBYY FormReader (TM) handwritten and machine-printed text capture, and ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio (TM) semi-structured document data capture products. ABBYY Software House also offers application developers OCR, indexing, and other software programming and integration kits. FineReader programs are distributed with Dell, Epson, Fujitsu, Microtek, UMAX, and other third-party products. ABBYY Software House maintains additional offices in Europe and the United States. It works with sales and support partners across 80 countries. ABBYY Software House was founded by David Yang. The firm acquired its current name in 1997.
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