Partnership will extend ABBYY’s reach in the software markets in the UK and Ireland

London, UK (5th May 2015) ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies, and QBSD, a value added distributor of managed file transfer, PDF, network monitoring and business software, announced today a distribution agreement in the UK and Ireland. The relationship with QBSD is designed to increase market awareness and demand for ABBYY products and reach new customers in these markets.
“ABBYY is a market leader in PDF, OCR and document solutions – used in all industries including Banking/Finance, Government and Legal,” says Grant James, general manager, QBSD. “We are happy to have them in our portfolio of software products, as we strongly believe many of our customers can benefit from ABBYY’s best-in-class PDF and OCR software.”
QBSD will carry a range of ABBYY desktop products including optical character recognition (OCR) software ABBYY FineReader Professional, ABBYY FineReader Corporate and ABBYY FineReader Pro for Mac which turn paper documents into editable data, as well as ABBYY PDF Transformer which is an essential tool for working with PDF documents.  In addition to download versions, QBSD will also distribute ABBYY software in volume licensing, ideal for productivity increase in businesses and organisations of all sizes.
“Our products allow people to access information contained in paper, scans and PDFs.  Both individuals and large enterprises can benefit from the increased productivity and reduced costs that result from using ABBYY products,” explains Kristin Wagener, director of the desktop products business unit for ABBYY Europe.  “QBSD has been very successful over a long period in the software distribution market and we are genuinely happy to be teaming up with them.  Their strong reseller network will help bring ABBYY products to new customers and markets.”