ABBYY
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ABBYY is an American technology company specializing in AI-powered document processing and automation, data capture, process mining and optical character recognition (OCR). It was founded in the USSR and operated in Russia for nine years before moving to the United States. Primarily focused on software as a service model, the company serves clients worldwide. One of ABBYY's best-known products is ABBYY FineReader, an optical character recognition (OCR) computer program.
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- Company.name
- ABBYY
- Company.logo
- ABBYY logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 250px
- Company.logo_alt
- A text colored red with the company name
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- ABBYY office in Kyiv, Ukraine.jpg
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- 250px
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- Office of ABBYY in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.founded
- 1989
- Company.founder
- David Yang
- Company.hq_location_city
- Austin, Texas
- Company.hq_location_country
- United States
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.website
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ABBYY is an American technology company specializing in AI-powered document processing and automation, data capture, process mining and optical character recognition (OCR). It was founded in the USSR and operated in Russia for nine years before moving to the United States. Primarily focused on software as a service model, the company serves clients worldwide. One of ABBYY's best-known products is ABBYY FineReader, an optical character recognition (OCR) computer program.
== History == ABBYY began in 1989, when David Yang founded BIT Software company in Moscow. In the early 1990s, the company introduced optical character recognition (OCR) and since then kept investing in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). In July 1993, the company released the first version of its ABBYY FineReader text-recognition software.
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