ABBYY® Offers Recognition Server IFilter to Extend Capabilities of Microsoft® Search Systems beyond Text Formats
New Solution Enhances Indexing Capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server and Windows® Search to Discover and Retrieve Image-Based Information throughout Corporate Networks
BRACKNELL, UK (Wednesday 30th June, 2010) — ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is expanding its offering for enterprise search systems with the new ABBYY Recognition Server IFilter solution. Integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows Search, it unlocks image files such as TIFF, JPEG, DjVu, and PDF for full-text content indexing and therefore enables faster and more complete search of all documents in a corporate network. As a result, corporate users have a reliable tool to easily sort through volumes of image files accumulated in their organisation.
“Enterprise search systems give corporate users quick access to information contained in a variety of documents necessary to perform everyday tasks. A document that cannot be quickly retrieved is usually considered to be lost even if, nominally, it still exists somewhere in the archives. But some documents are stored in formats that are not convenient for search and retrieval, such as image formats,” commented Andrey Isaev, director of Technology Products Department at ABBYY. “Our product, designed to enhance Microsoft systems with the image content search support, provides an easy solution to simplify access to corporate information and knowledge, and increase work efficiency in an organisation.”
Many important documents, such as scanned faxes, agreements, correspondence, etc., are stored as images and, therefore, cannot be indexed by the Microsoft search engine. The ABBYY solution provides the IFilter plug-in to integrate with the Microsoft search system and gives access to a background optical character recognition (OCR) service which is performed by the award-winning ABBYY Recognition Server software.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server indexes text documents which are located in the corporate network itself, and utilises ABBYY Recognition Server IFilter when image files need to be processed. IFilter transmits the image-based documents to Recognition Server for OCR processing and then submits the recognised text back to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for indexing. This processing makes the documents available for full-text search.
ABBYY Recognition Server IFilter also works with Microsoft Windows Search, a system for searching files on desktop PCs and connected resources. The background image processing is performed on the server and does not consume resources of the users’ PCs. If necessary, the system can be easily scaled up to provide enough capacity for all employees of the organisation to be able to search through images on their computers.
For more information about the product’s functionality and availability, please visit
http://www.abbyy.com/recognition_server/scenarios/OCR_IFilter_for_Microsoft.
