ABBYY develops a full line of OCR (text-recognition) technologies used by businesses and organizations to transform scanned documents or PDF files into editable, searchable, and archiveable text. ABBYY’s products include: FineReader OCR systems for text recognition and FormReader form processing software. The technology is used for a variety of purposes including archiving book text, reading test forms and polling forms, and storing magazine text for publishing on the Web. Organizations that license ABBYY technologies include Birmingham Univeristy, Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology, The Russian Ministry of Education, Samsung Electronics, C-Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Microtek, UMAX, Cardiff, Neurascript, and SWT. ABBYY can be found online at www.abbyy.com