Theale, UK (22 January, 2013) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, today announced that their innovative text recognition and document conversion desktop products are compatible with the latest Microsoft® operating system, Windows® 8. The products offer full functionality for customers who have already adopted the new platform, enabling them to utilise ABBYY’s technologies for precise OCR (optical character recognition), PDF conversion and business card reading.

Microsoft confirmed the compatibility of ABBYY FineReader 11, the intelligent OCR software for creating editable and searchable files from scans, PDFs and digital photographs.

Additional products compatible with the new Microsoft® operating system are ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 Pro, the ideal solution for creation, conversion and adjustment of PDF files; ABBYY Screenshot Reader, a useful application for turning any image content captured from the screen into editable text; and ABBYY Business Card Reader 2.0 (for Windows), an easy-to-use software for digitising and exporting contact information from paper business cards to Microsoft® Outlook®, Salesforce®, etc.

“As an innovative software company we are committed to ensuring the compatibility of our products with the latest operating systems”, explained Jupp Stoepetie, CEO of ABBYY Europe. “Early adopters already working with the new Windows 8 system can fully leverage on ABBYY’s products for efficient text recognition and document conversion.”

For more information on the ABBYY products please visit http://www.abbyy.com/.