Munich, Germany (10 April, 2012) - ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and services, today announced the availability of its new capture solution for organisations using Microsoft® SharePoint® as their document management system.

ABBYY's software solution Paper to SharePoint enables SharePoint users across an organisation to efficiently scan business documents, manually extract meta data and input the data and documents directly into corresponding Microsoft SharePoint document libraries. Companies using SharePoint for knowledge sharing and collaborative work can now streamline paper document capture, making digitised documents instantly available, and in the process elevating SharePoint to a fully-fledged Document Management System.

"To make document management truly efficient it is necessary to integrate paper-based information into key business processes," states Jupp Stoepetie, CEO of ABBYY Europe GmbH. "Only when contracts, HR files or correspondence are digitised and made available for electronic search and retrieval, can enterprises take advantage of the vital information in those documents."

ABBYY's document capture solution for Microsoft SharePoint allows organisations to deploy a standardised capture process across all departments and work groups. The tight integration allows for a back-and-forth communication between both systems, which means the document library structure from Microsoft SharePoint is seamlessly replicated in the capture front-end and vice versa. Digitally storing paper documents by using a streamlined capture process like Paper to SharePoint can result in significant cost savings through the elimination of manual document handling and keying.

Paper to SharePoint is targeted at medium and large organisations, as well as individual departments within an enterprise, that are already using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for storage, retrieval and sharing of documents. The solution is easy to use and deploys quickly. Best of all there is no new system to learn, which means administrators can manage it from directly within the existing SharePoint environment they are used to. The highly scalable server-based solution is ideally suited for high-volume document processing and offers a broad range of saving formats, including searchable PDF; PDF/A, TIFF or Microsoft Word or Excel® files.

The solution is immediately available in Western Europe. For more information please visit http://www.abbyyeu.com/paper-to-sharepoint/

About ABBYY Europe GmbH
ABBYY Europe GmbH is a member of the ABBYY Group supporting sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. 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. ABBYY offers Professional Services to help customers implementing business solutions based on ABBYY's products. Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions 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, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world's top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the UK, the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Cyprus, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com.

ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, Recognition Server, and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Microsoft, Excel, and SharePoint are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.

For more information, please contact:
ABBYY
Colin Miller
Elsenheimerstrasse 49
D - 80687 Munich
Tel.: 089/511 159-0
Fax: 089/511 159-59
E-Mail: press_eu@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com

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