ABBYY Announces New OEM Agreement with Epson America Inc.; Epson bundles ABBYY FineReader OCR software into new scanners and all-in-one devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 2003 ABBYY USA Software House Inc., a leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies, and Epson America, Inc., a leading provider of image capture and image output products, announced a new strategic bundling agreement. Under the first-time relationship, Epson will bundle ABBYY FineReader(R) 5.0 Sprint , an optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. ) software for both Windows and Macintosh, into its new scanners and all-in-one devices. The EPSON Perfection(R) 3170 PHOTO and the EPSON Perfection(R) 1670 PHOTO scanners along with the EPSON Stylus CX5400, the EPSON Stylus CX6400 and the EPSON Stylus Photo RX500 all offer an incredible combination of image quality, versatility and innovative photo restoration software for under $249. FineReader OCR software broadens these capabilities by enabling users to repurpose paper documents and electronic images, converting them into editable text. "We wanted to provide our customers with one of the most accurate OCR programs, which is why we chose ABBYY FineReader in our newest scanners and all-in-ones," said Grace Huang, assistant product manager, consumer scanners, Epson. "By offering FineReader in our software packages, we've rounded out a complete solution from image manipulation to document management for our home and office audience." FineReader Sprint is incorporated into Epson's Smart Panel(TM) software, which is a comprehensive program that fully integrates all functions of the scanner and all-in-one devices into one convenient interface. Users can simply click "Edit Text" on the Smart Panel interface to start the OCR process. FineReader will automatically scan using FineReader Sprint's OCR functionality to process the document and then send the OCR results to selected applications such as Word or Excel. Users can also run FineReader Sprint as a standalone application. "Epson's scanning solutions are well designed so users can take advantage of our powerful FineReader OCR solution," said Joe Budelli, vice president of business development at ABBYY USA. "Our approach is to offer the most advanced OCR technology available to our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, giving their customers more accurate OCR results and a better overall experience." About ABBYY USA ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Software House Group, a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development of software for optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition In computer science, intelligent character recognition (ICR) is an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) system that allows fonts and different styles of hand writing to be learned by a computer during processing to improve accuracy and recognition levels. (ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography lexicography, the applied study of the meaning, evolution, and function of the vocabulary units of a language for the purpose of compilation in book form—in short, the process of dictionary making. Early lexicography, practiced from the 7th cent. B.C. . Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and barcode software, and FineReader development tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include BenQ, C-Technologies, Cardiff Software, Cobra Technologies, Freedom Scientific, Kurzweil, Kofax Image Products, Legato Systems, Lexmark, Microtek, Mustek, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Optika, Panasonic, SER Ser serine. Ser abbr. serine SER smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Ser serine. Solutions, Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. , Siemens Nixdorf See Fujitsu Siemens. , Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Umax. For more information about ABBYY, visit: www.abbbyyusa.com or contact ABBYY USA, 3823 Spinnaker Ct., Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-226-6717. Fax: 510-226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com. |
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