ABBYY USA Signs Agreement With j2 Global; Leading Internet Fax Provider Now Utilizes OCR Capability in eFax Messenger Plus and PaperMaster Product Lines.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2004 ABBYY USA, a recognized leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies, today announced the signing of a global agreement with j2 Global Communications j2 Global Communications (Nasdaq:JCOM) is a company based in Hollywood, California that offers messaging and communications services. Its most popular service is called "eFax", which allows users to send and receive faxes via the Internet. j2 was previously called JFAX. , Inc. (Nasdaq:JCOM JCOM Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management ), a leading provider of outsourced, value-added messaging and communications services. Under the agreement, j2 Global will incorporate ABBYY's 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. ) technology into two of its leading software products: the popular Internet fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. application, Messenger Plus(TM), and j2 Global's desktop document management program, PaperMaster(R) Pro. The agreement gives ABBYY OCR technologies, already a mainstay in the enterprise document management arena, additional exposure in the desktop document management marketplace and entry into the Internet fax market. Messenger Plus is a software application from j2 Global which enables users of eFax(R) Plus, eFax Corporate(R) and jConnect(R) Premier to view and print faxes, send faxes directly from a PC desktop and annotate annotate - annotation documents. The new FineReader option in Messenger Plus will allow subscribers to convert electronic faxes into searchable text. PaperMaster Pro enables office-based and mobile workers to have the contents of office filing cabinets, servers and workstations at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. easily, cost-effectively and securely. PaperMaster Pro lets users organize, retrieve, annotate, send and archive a wide range of paper-based and digital media, including documents, voicemail and email messages, and music and video files. With FineReader, PaperMaster Pro will empower users to easily convert paper-based documents and scanned images into editable text with superior accuracy and format retention. "We are pleased with the partnership we've established with j2 Global Communications and the fact that we have aligned ourselves with one of the most widely-used Internet fax and communications providers," said Joe Budelli, Vice President of Business Development for ABBYY USA. "We are confident that our superior recognition accuracy will be an asset to j2 Global's fax and document-management customers." "j2 Global's partnership with ABBYY has allowed us to expand the range of value-added services we offer our customers," said Joe Naylor, Vice President of Corporate Product Development for j2 Global. "Our customers now have additional versatility with ABBYY's top OCR technology, which enables them to convert their received faxes into a multitude of editable file types." Messenger Plus 3.1 with FineReader Pro is available free of charge to eFax Plus, eFax Corporate, and jConnect Premier subscribers, and may be downloaded via the Internet at www.efax.com/ocr or www.jconnect.com/ocr. PaperMaster Pro is available at www.papermaster.net. All products are currently available for the Windows 98SE, 2000, ME and XP operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . 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, Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Umax. For more information about ABBYY, visit: www.abbyyusa.com or contact ABBYY USA, 3823 Spinnaker Ct., Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: 510-226-6717. Fax: 510-226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com. About j2 Global Communications Founded in 1995, j2 Global Communications, Inc., provides outsourced, value-added messaging and communications services to more than four million customers around the world. j2 Global's network spans more than 1,100 cities in 20 countries on five continents. The Company offers its patented services and software through three distinct sales channels: Web, Corporate and Licensed Services, and markets those services under the j2(R), eFax(R), jConnect(R), jFax(R), Consensus(TM), Hotsend(R), PaperMaster(R), Protofax(R) and Documagix(R) brands. As of December 31, 2003, j2 Global had achieved 27 consecutive quarters of revenue growth and eight consecutive quarters of positive earnings. For more information about j2 Global, please visit www.j2global.com. |
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