Deltalink Consulting, the exclusive southern African distributor of Russia-based ABBYY, today announced that the latter`s Recognition Server has been named one of the `Trend-Setting Products of the Year for 2006` by KMWorld magazine.
This prestigious ranking, published in the September issue, highlights innovative products that make a significant impact on the marketplace.
ABBYY Recognition Server is a server-based optical character recognition (OCR) solution for delivering scalable, reliable and rapidly deployable recognition functions in a service-oriented environment. With all processing performed remotely on a server, the new product offers automated document recognition and PDF conversion with minimum user intervention.
"Our panellists noted that accurate, automated and centralised recognition functions are essential to full-text search of business contents," commented Hugh McKellar, Editor in Chief of KMWorld magazine. "ABBYY`s new Recognition Server represents a simple software appliance approach to OCR. It accommodates not only centralised scanning but also ad-hoc, de-centralised scanning which is how most business content is captured in enterprise environments."
According to McKellar, assembling the list of Trend-Setting Products of 2006 is a year-long collaborative effort with editorial colleagues and analysts - and most of all, users. "Roughly 1 500 products from some 300 vendors were considered, and the ones listed here demonstrate exquisite execution designed for, and with input from, the most important constituency of them all - their customers," continued McKellar.
"ABBYY Recognition Server addresses a growing need for easier document recognition deployment in complex work environments," added Alexander Rylov, ABBYY Chief Product Manager. "ABBYY had long been recognised as a trend setter in the arena of recognition technologies. We are proud that KMWorld has selected ABBYY Recognition Server as a Trend-Setting Product of the Year. This recognition will further inspire us to continue our research and innovation effort to develop the best recognition technology that is not only accurate, but also easy to deploy, easy to integrate and easy to use."
Based on ABBYY`s award-winning recognition platform, ABBYY Recognition Server offers highly accurate conversion of images into text or searchable PDF for the purpose of categorising, archiving, searching or integrating with third-party content management systems. This robust solution automates recognition and PDF conversion processes by providing ready-to-use functionality deployed on a server, giving system administrators, enterprises and service providers greater flexibility in the deployment, management and integration of OCR and document conversion functions.
For further information, please contact Gerrie Terblanche telephone +27 11 888 7622; fax +27 11 888 7372; e-mail gerriet@deltalink.co.za.
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ABBYY
ABBYY (ABBYY Software House) develops linguistic and artificial intelligence (AI) software providing a full line of document recognition, conversion and data capture technologies and products. ABBYY`s products include: FineReader OCR systems - a family of end-user programs and development tools for recognition of printed text, tables and forms; FormReader - an ICR program for recognition and processing of hand-printed forms; and ABBYY FlexiCapture Studio - a software tool that helps to extract data from semi-structured forms and documents. Companies that license ABBYY recognition technologies include Anoto (C-Technologies), Autonomy (Verity), Banctec, BenQ, EMC (Captiva, SWT, Documentum), EPSON, Freedom Scientific, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Kurzweil, Kofax (LCI, Neurascript), Microtek, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Panasonic, ReadSoft, Samsung Electronics, Saperion, Siemens Nixdorf, Stellent, Sumitomo Electric Systems, and Toshiba. ABBYY is headquarted in Moscow with offices in Ukraine (Kiev), the USA (Fremont, CA), the UK (Bishops Stortford, England), Germany (Munich) and Japan (Tokyo).
Deltalink Consulting
Deltalink Consulting, established in 1993, is an independent company that provides fixed content management solutions within the African market. Its solutions incorporate products from international suppliers that satisfy the need for document capture, document conversion and the sharing, managing, processing and archiving of `unstructured documents`.
Deltalink Consulting is the exclusive Southern African distributor of Russia-based ABBYY`s FineReader, FormReader, FlexiCapture, Recognition Server and FineReader SDK`s; the sole South African distributor for Germany-based ImageWare`s Bookeye overhead scanners and Italy-based Buic cheque and small format scanners; and one of only two distributors in southern Africa for USA-based Captaris with its Alchemy fixed content management software and its business process management solutions.
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