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{{Short description|American software company}} {{Draft topics|internet-culture|software|business-and-economics|technology}} {{AfC topic|org}}

{{draft|date=June 2022}} {{COI|date=June 2022}} {{Advert|date=June 2022}} ABBYY is a software company that produces intelligent document processing (IDP), ^{[1] [2] [3]} process mining, ^{[4] [5]} document conversion, data capture, and intelligent process automation (IPA) software. ^[6] It is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. ^[7]

The company's products include ABBYY Vantage, ABBYY Timeline, and ABBYY FineReader. ABBYY partners with companies such as UiPath and Blue Prism, both robotic process automation (RPA) vendors, Alteryx, a self-service analytics vendor, Carahsoft Technology, and Kodak Alaris, which specializes in professional data capture solutions. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

History

The company was founded in 1989 ^{[9] [7]} by Armenian-born entrepreneur David Yang, who was a student at the time. ^{[11] [12]}

Since 2018, the company partnered with major RPA vendors to create the ABBYY FlexiCapture Connector. ^[13] This allows companies to pull content into RPA platforms or push ABBYY content into RPAautomated workflow. ^[13]

In 2019, the company signed a joint business relationship agreement with PwC India. ^[14] This allowed the accounting and advisory firm to integrate ABBYY products into its operation centers. ^[14]

In March 2021, ABBYY released Vantage, a low-code/no-code intelligent document processing platform. ^{[15] [9]} The company also launched ABBYY Marketplace, an open marketplace where organizations can purchase reusable AI skills. ^[15] In May, Marlin Equity Partners became the company’s largest shareholder. ^{[6] [16]}

In June 2021, ABBYY updated its cross-platform open-source machine learning library, NeoML, so that it supported the Python programming language. ^{[17] [2]} Developers can use the library to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. ^[17] In October, ABBYY and Carahsoft Technology formed a distribution partnership that made ABBYY’s software more available in the public sector. ^[8] The companies’ software was adopted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ^[18] and the California Department of Motor Vehicles. ^[8]

In March 2022, the company opened an office in Vilnius, Lithuania. ^[19] It was ABBYY’s 14th international office. ^[19]

Acquisitions

In 2019, the company acquired TimelinePI, a process mining company. ^[6]

In 2020, the Singapore division of Pericom Group, a digital imaging company, was acquired. ^{[20] [21]}

Products

ABBYY Timeline - a process mining tool; it analyzes business processes and identifies which ones should be automated; continuously monitors automation updates. ^{[22] [8]}

ABBYY Vantage - a low-code/no-code intelligent document processing platform. ^{[15] [9] [8]}

ABBYY FineReader - an optical character recognition (OCR) application that can recognize 186 languages. ^{[23] [24] [25] [26]}

References