one example, field capture of single page documentscombined with photographs, such as an accident claim. But not only can thecaptured pages be placed into an electronic workflow system, this opensup other opportunities."

"scanR helps people organize, search and share information that waspreviously locked in paper, which is still the vast majority of personalinformation. Our service enhances camera images, processes OCR resultsinto keywords and adds metadata tags, turning paper into useful digitalinformation," said Chris Dury, Vice President of Marketing for scanR. "Tothat end, we wanted an OCR technology that delivered accuracy andscalability for low-resolution images, and found it in ABBYY FineReader."

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"scanR's cutting-edge service showcases new ways to leverage OCRtechnology, and ABBYY is pleased to continually provide new functionality,such as digital camera OCR, in our recognition engine for such emergingtechnologies," said Dean Tang, President and Chief Executive Officer ofABBYY USA. "This partnership represents collaboration in the growing fieldof digital camera OCR that adds functionalities to transform these gadgetsinto mobile document capturing devices but, more importantly, to makebusinesspeople more efficient and productive in and out of the office."

ABBYY FineReader Engine

ABBYY FineReader Engine is a software development kit (SDK) for integratingABBYY recognition technologies into new or existing applications. Unlikeany other offering in this class, FineReader Engine offers developersaccess to core-level technologies in both data capture and documentconversion within a single environment.

About ABBYY USA

ABBYY USA is a member of the ABBYY Software House Group, a world leader indocument recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in thedevelopment of software for optical character recognition (OCR),intelligent character recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, andelectronic lexicography. Leading products from ABBYY include theFineReader line of OCR, ICR and barcode software, and FineReaderdevelopment tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologiesinclude 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. TheABBYY Group Headquarters are located in Moscow with offices in Ukraine(ABBYY Ukraine), the United States (ABBYY USA, Fremont, CA), the UK (ABBYYUK, Bishops Stortford, England), Japan (ABBYY Japan, Tokyo), and Germany(ABBYY Europe, Munich).

For more information about ABBYY, visit: www.abbyyusa.com or contact ABBYYUSA, 47221 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94538. Phone: (510) 226-6717.Fax: (510) 226-6069. E-mail: info@abbyyusa.com.

About scanR

scanR enables camera phones and digital cameras to scan, copy and fax.Using scanR, people can turn paper into useful digital information in a fewsimple steps. The scanR service cleans photos of whiteboards anddocuments, extracts and tags keywords, and delivers the results as a PDFfile in email or as a fax. scanR is currently free and has thousands ofusers located around the world. More information is available atwww.scanR.com.

ABBYY names and logos are registered trademarks of ABBYY Software House.Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registeredtrademarks of their respective companies and are hereby recognized.

Contacts:Imelda ValenzuelaABBYY USAEmail Contact510-226-6717

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