Type | Private |
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Industry | Software |
Founded | 1989 by David Yang |
Headquarters | Milpitas, CA[1] |
Key people | Ulf Persson (CEO)[2] |
Website | ABBYY |
ABBYY is a multinational software company that specializes in document capture and optical character recognition. It was founded by Armenian-born entrepreneur David Yang. ABBYY has global offices in Milpitas, Munich, Moscow, and offices in various[clarification needed] European and Asian cities.[1][2]
ABBYY developed the OCR software program ABBYY FineReader.[3] The company also provides high-volume OCR conversion with software tools such as ABBYY FineReader Server.[4] In 2018, ABBYY moved into the development of artificial intelligence applications for such areas as computer vision.[5][6][7]