ABBYY UK and Interactive Ideas Agree to Distribution Deal
Partnership will extend ABBYY’s reach in the software markets in the UK and Ireland
BRACKNELL, UK (Thursday 10th June, 2010) ABBYY UK Ltd, a member of the ABBYY group of companies and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, and Interactive Ideas, a value added distributor of Software and Technology products, announced today a distribution agreement in the UK and Ireland. The relationship with Interactive Ideas is designed to create market awareness and demand for ABBYY products and increase customer reach through the existing distribution channels in these markets.
Michael Breeze, Interactive Ideas Marketing Director commented “We are delighted to be working with ABBYY, our aim is to constantly bring new revenue opportunities to our customers. With the current requirements from consumers and business to access increasing amounts of digital content, ABBYY have proven quality products that provide a unique opportunity.”
Interactive Ideas will carry a range of ABBYY retail products including desktop OCR software ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition, ABBYY FineReader Corporate Edition and ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac which turn paper documents into editable data, productivity tool ABBYY PDF Transformer, and linguistic software ABBYY Lingvo. In addition to boxed software, Interactive Ideas will also distribute download versions of ABBYY products.
“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 Dave Evans, Sales Director for ABBYY UK. “Interactive Ideas has been very successful over a long period in the retail distribution market and we are genuinely happy to be teaming up with them. Their strong relationships will help bring ABBYY products to new customers and markets.”
About ABBYY UK Ltd.
ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK, Japan and Taiwan.
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, ADRT, FineReader, Lingvo, FlexiCapture and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.
