ABBYY(R) Offers Recognition Server iFilter to Extend Capabilities of Microsoft(R) Search Systems Beyond Text Formats

MILPITAS, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is expanding its offering for enterprise search systems with the new ABBYY Recognition Server iFilter solution. Integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) Search or Windows Search, it unlocks image files such as TIFF, JPEG, DjVu, and PDF for full-text content indexing and therefore enables faster and more complete search of all documents in a corporate network. As a result, corporate users have a reliable tool to easily sort through volumes of image files accumulated in their organization.

"Enterprise search systems give corporate users quick access to information contained in a variety of documents necessary to perform everyday tasks. A document that cannot be quickly retrieved is usually considered to be lost even if, nominally, it still exists somewhere in the archives. But some documents are stored in formats that are not convenient for search and retrieval, such as image formats," commented Andrey Isaev, director of Technology Products for ABBYY. "Our product, designed to enhance Microsoft systems with the image search support, provides an easy solution to simplify access to corporate information and knowledge, and increase work efficiency in an organization."

Many important documents, such as scanned faxes, agreements, correspondence, etc., are stored as images and, therefore, cannot be indexed by the Microsoft search engine. The ABBYY solution provides the iFilter plug-in to integrate with the Microsoft search system and gives access to a background optical character recognition (OCR) service which is performed by the award-winning ABBYY Recognition Server software.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server indexes text documents which are located in the corporate network itself, and utilizes ABBYY Recognition Server iFilter when image files need to be processed. iFilter transmits the image-based documents to Recognition Server for OCR processing and then submits the recognized text back to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for indexing. This processing makes the documents available for full-text search. To avoid the possibility of overloading the search system, ABBYY Recognition Server is installed on a separate computer and can be scaled up with additional capacity at any time.

ABBYY Recognition Server iFilter also works with Microsoft Windows Search, a system for searching files on desktop PCs and connected recourses. One copy of ABBYY Recognition Server can perform OCR for all Windows Search clients installed on the corporate network, and therefore is enough capacity for all employees of the organization to be able to search through images on their computers. The background image processing is performed on the server and does not consume resources of the users' PCs.

For more information about the product's functionality and availability, please visit http://www.abbyy.com/recognition_server/scenarios/OCR_iFilter_for_Microsoft

About ABBYY Recognition Server

ABBYY Recognition Server is a powerful server-based solution for document capture and conversion based on widely renowned ABBYY OCR technologies. The solution "reads" scanned, photographed documents, and PDF files in over 190 languages including multilingual documents with various language combinations (e.g. Japanese and German, Chinese and Russian, etc.). It supports input of a variety of images formats including TIFF, JPEG, PDF, DjVu, BMP, PCX, and DCX. With its scalable and flexible architecture, it can process large volumes of documents while remaining easy to integrate and use.

About ABBYY

ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software. 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. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software 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, PDF Transformer, and Recognition Server 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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