Press release
Partnership will extend ABBYY's reach in the Education and Charity markets in the UK and Ireland
BRACKNELL, UK (Thursday 8th April, 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 Douglas Stewart, a specialist distributor of computer products into the education and charity markets, announced today a distribution agreement in the UK and Ireland. The relationship with Douglas Stewart is designed to create market awareness and demand for ABBYY products and increase customer reach through the existing distribution channels in these markets.
"We are very excited to partner with ABBYY as they develop the finest document conversion and data capture software technology that is highly suitable for the education market," said Lori Mercier, Managing Director, Douglas Stewart EDU. "With our thorough understanding of the education and charity sectors we are uniquely positioned and qualified to ensure their products are targeted to the right audience."
Douglas Stewart 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, linguistic software ABBYY Lingvo, and large-volume document conversion product ABBYY Recognition Server. In addition to boxed software, Douglas Stewart will also distribute download versions of ABBYY products.
"Our products allow people to access information contained in paper, scans and PDFs. In the Education and Charity market this is particularly useful because it allows educators to more easily impart knowledge and enables students to overcome disabilities," explains Dave Evans, Sales Director for ABBYY UK. "Douglas Stewart has a proven and successful record in the UK distribution market and this is just one of the reasons we chose to partner with them. Their strong relationships will help bring ABBYY products to a wider spectrum of the market."
