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ABBYY and Workshare Collaborate to Deliver Complete PDF-Driven Solutions to the Legal Industry
Tuesday 03. February 2009 - ABBYY(R), a world leader in the development of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced a strategic partnership with Workshare, a global leader in content protection and control.
Through the partnership, Workshare will integrate ABBYY’s optical character recognition (OCR) technologies into its award winning line of document control and content security offerings in order to deliver comprehensive PDF solutions for the document-centric business processes.
Workshare offers document comparison, metadata cleaning and data protection solutions enabling companies to create and collaborate on documents and securely share information with users within and outside the organization. Its products are designed to rapidly deliver reliable document comparison and review, ensuring compliance and risk management that organizations require in order to protect sensitive information. Now, with ABBYY’s technologies built into Workshare products, customers benefit from the highly accurate conversion of images and image-based PDF files, making the information available for document comparison, audit and security.
“Our customers are demanding document comparison and recognition solutions to support a full range of PDF files and documents,” said Alan Fraser, CEO, at Workshare. “ABBYY’s track record for high quality text recognition and PDF conversion allows us to deliver a truly comprehensive solution.”
“Legal professionals must be able to work with the information in sensitive PDF documents, while maintaining the highest levels of security,” said Dean Tang, president and CEO at ABBYY USA. “Workshare offers a powerful line of innovative and high quality products and we believe that this pairing will deliver a truly compelling solution.”
ABBYY’s award winning document recognition and PDF conversion technology converts images and PDF files into editable, readable and manageable text. Its technologies deliver highly accurate recognition of documents in 191 languages with support for multilingual documents.