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 Office of ABBYY in Kyiv, Ukraine | |
| Company type | Private |
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| Founder | David Yang[1] |
Number of employees | 1,000 (2023)  |
| Website | abbyy.com |
ABBYY is an American technology company specializing in intelligent document processing,[2] data capture, process intelligence and optical character recognition (OCR).[3][4][5] Primarily focused on software as a service model, the company serves clients worldwide.[6] One of ABBYY's best-known products is the ABBYY FineReader — an OCR application.[7]
The history of ABBYY dates back to 1989, when David Yang founded BIT Software company in Moscow.[8] In the early 1990s, the company introduces optical character recognition (OCR) and since then kept investing in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML).[9] In July 1993, the first version of the text recognition software ABBYY FineReader was released.[10]
ABBYY entered the professional translation market in 2007. It partners with AI, analytics, and RPA vendors UiPath, Blue Prism, Alteryx, PwC India, and others.[3][11] In 2019, ABBYY acquired TimelinePI, a process mining company, and Marlin Equity Partners became its biggest shareholder in 2021.[12][13]
In 2022, the company declared a complete exit from the Russian market: it stopped sales/provision of services in Russia and Belarus, relocated critical personnel, and filed for the liquidation of its Russian legal entities.[14]
The company is headquartered in the Milpitas, California, with regional offices in 15 countries.[15] As of May 2023, ABBYY Group employs over 1,000 employees worldwide.[16]
ABBYY's CEO is Ulf Persson.[17]
Additional products include NeoML, a cross-platform open-source machine learning library.[23]
