Deltalink Consulting, the exclusive southern African distributor of Russia-based ABBYY, today announced that ABBYY Software House, a leading developer of document recognition and linguistic software, and Xerox International Group have signed an agreement to supply ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus text recognition software for Xerox multifunction devices, with the first device to be equipped with this software being the Xerox WorkCentre PE220.
"Co-operation with Xerox is very important for us," commented Grigory Lipich, CEO of ABBYY Russia. "By adding text and image recognition software to such devices we make it possible for Xerox equipment users to extend the capabilities of their multifunctional machines and to improve the management of their documents."
ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus is extremely popular as the software recognises documents in 177 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Spanish. The results are editable in all popular office applications, including e-mail and Web use.
"In addition to the above software available via ABBYY, we are able to offer users additional capabilities in this area, in order to provide a fully functional solution," added Gerrie Terblanche, MD of Deltalink Consulting.
The ABBYY FineReader application will be supplied with multifunctional devices in all countries where Xerox International Group operates. Xerox International Group markets Xerox products in over 100 countries of the world across Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East, Africa and India.
"By forging links with new software partners such as ABBYY we are taking an important step in increasing the value we provide to our customers, helping them work more efficiently and maximising the functionality of their devices," concluded Alexander Nikolov, office marketing operations manager, Xerox International Group.
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ABBYY Software House develops linguistic and artificial intelligence (AI) software providing a full line of OCR and text-processing programs and solutions. ABBYY`s products include: FineReader OCR systems - a family of end-user programs and development tools for recognition of printed texts, 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 Group Headquarters are located in Moscow.
For further information, please contact Gerrie Terblanche telephone +27 11 888 7622; fax +27 11 888 7372; e-mail gerriet@deltalink.co.za.
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, 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 US-based Captaris with its Alchemy fixed content management software and its business process management solutions.
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