ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition Takes Home Top Prize in Category

BRACKNELL, UK  27 October 2010  -  ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group, and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition has received the award for “Labs Tested Product of the Year” from the UK’s Document Manager Magazine.  The award was handed out at the Document Manager Awards, an industry event that recognises the products and vendors that have made a significant contribution throughout the past year.  ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition provides easily accessible, high performance optical character recognition (OCR) and saves users precious time previously spent retyping and reformatting text.

“We are truly honoured that the editors and the readers of Document Manager voted for our product,” explained David Evans, ABBYY UK Sales Director.  “A Document Manager Award is considered a benchmark of excellence throughout the industry and we are pleased to have that distinction.”

Delivering the next generations of its two major technologies — ABBYY ADRT® (Adaptive Document Recognition Technology) for reproducing multi-page document formatting and Camera OCR, FineReader 10 takes OCR to new heights, driving it beyond traditional text recognition. In combination with its highly intuitive, task-oriented interface, the enhanced technologies bring greater efficiency, simplicity and performance to all scenarios of professional work with documents, for both consumer and business users.

ABBYY FineReader 10 Professional Edition is available from ABBYY’s established network of distributor and reseller partners and via the ABBYY online store at www.ABBYY.com. For more information, please visit the ABBYY Web site at www.abbyy.com