ABBYY and Cardiff Announce Strategic OEM Agreement; New relationship embeds ABBYY FineReader OCR technology in Cardiff's flagship TELEform Information Capture Software.Business Editors FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 ABBYY USA Inc., a leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies, and Cardiff Software Inc., a leading global provider of business process-automation solutions, today announced a strategic, worldwide 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 agreement. Under the agreement, Cardiff will integrate the ABBYY FineReader(R) 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. engine into TELEform(R) Cardiff's leading solution for high-volume form processing and document capture. Cardiff's RecoFlex(R) recognition engine within TELEform combines best-of-breed OCR and 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. technologies with dynamic voting algorithms to produce superior recognition results. The company selected ABBYY FineReader Engine for its high character accuracy, and will embed the technology in TELEform for the recognition of printed text on forms. In addition, TELEform will utilize the post-OCR processing capabilities of FineReader Engine for the output of PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. and HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. documents, which are important features of TELEform. "We are particularly impressed with ABBYY for its innovative development and ability to continually raise the bar for OCR accuracy," said Anthony Stagnaro, TELEform product manager. "Our integration of ABBYY's technology will serve our customers well, providing them with precision OCR for increased return-on-investment." The TELEform Information Capture System is designed to save companies time and money by replacing manual data entry with automated forms processing. TELEform will use FineReader Engine to convert paper into electronic information for database, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and content management systems. ABBYY FineReader Engine is a software development kit for integrating FineReader OCR and ICR technologies into Windows applications, and is the same engine that powers ABBYY's award-winning FineReader OCR software. "We are excited by our first-time partnership with Cardiff - it represents ABBYY's growing recognition for superior OCR accuracy," said Joe Budelli, vice president of business development of ABBYY USA. "FineReader has been honored with awards in comparative OCR tests by leading publications, and we are equally flattered to have been chosen by Cardiff for their award-winning TELEform system." 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 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), 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), 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 Acer, Arkenstone, C-Technologies, Cardiff, Cobra Technologies, Compaq, Kurzweil, Lexmark, Microtek, Mustek, NewSoft, Notible Solutions, OTG (1) See USB OTG. (2) (The OBJECTive Technology Group, Ltd., Alexandria, VA) An organization that was devoted to distributed computing and object technology. Founded in 1994, it augmented the object and Internet standards community and served as an intermediary between Software, Panasonic, 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, Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Umax. For more information about ABBYY, visit: www.abbbyyusa.com or contact ABBYY USA, 46560 Fremont Blvd, Suite 105, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: (510) 226-6717. Fax: (510) 226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com. About Cardiff Software Inc. Put Information to Work - Cardiff Software is a leading global provider of business process- automation solutions. Cardiff helps organizations gain tremendous advantages by automating their core business processes. The Cardiff family of integrated software solutions empowers organizations to capture, process and automate strategically relevant business processes and information for employees, partners and customers, thereby raising employee productivity, improving customer service and increasing revenue. In business since 1991, Cardiff has a global distribution network spanning every continent and more than 20,000 customers worldwide. Cardiff customers are Global 2000 organizations in the financial/banking services, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, healthcare, education and government industries. For more information on Cardiff, visit www.Cardiff.com. ABBYY and FineReader names and logos are registered trademarks of ABBYY Software House. TELEform is a trademark of Cardiff Software Inc. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby recognized. |
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