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Also known as ABBYY USA Software House, ABBYY Development Inc., ABBYY Software Ltd., ABBYY USA Software House, Inc.

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
Company.image
ABBYY office in Kyiv, Ukraine.jpg
Company.image_size
250px
Company.image_caption
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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Employees
500
Official website
www.abbyy.com
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ABBYY office in Kyiv, Ukraine.jpg
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ABBYY
inception
1989-01-01
number of viewers/listeners
1023752
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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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