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QBS Distribution to Promote ABBYY Products Through Channel

London, UK (April 09, 2010)

Partnership will Broaden Document Recognition Technologies and Linguistic Software in the United Kingdom and Ireland

QBS Distribution (QBSD) is pleased to announce that they have established a direct relationship with ABBYY UK Ltd. and have been appointed to undertake distribution of their document conversion and linguistic software throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.

“We are very happy to work closely with ABBYY to further extend their success in the UK market. We will increase awareness in the UK channel and work with them to improve services to resellers,” said Skye Quin, Sales and Marketing Director of QBS Distribution.

“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. “QBSD have a proven track record in the retail distribution market and we are incredibly happy to be teaming up with them. Their strong relationships will help bring ABBYY products to new customers and markets.”

ABBYY's recognition technologies and products help individuals and organisations to manage an increasing amount of information. They deliver powerful instruments that enable people to unlock information from paper and images, acquire data automatically and process and store valuable information. Recognition products enable companies to save money and effort typically spent on manual retyping and formatting of documents, and to benefit from the ability to access information in more efficient ways. ABBYY’s linguistic products help to break down language barriers, facilitating easier and clearer communication.

The following products are available:

• ABBYY FineReader Professional Edition, Corporate Edition, Site Licence Edition: intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs
• ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac: OCR application especially created for Mac users
• ABBYY FotoReader: capture text with a digital camera perform text recognition and transfer the contents to your computer
• ABBYY Lingvo: comprehensive dictionary software available in a multitude of language combinations
• ABBYY PDF Transformer: convert and create PDF files to and from Microsoft Word, Excel, HTML or TXT format
• ABBYY Recognition Server: server-based OCR and PDF conversion software
• ABBYY ScanTo Office: convert paper documents into editable Microsoft Word and Excel files or as email attachments.

ABBYY products are available through the channel in the UK and Ireland. In addition to boxed products, automatic download is also now available, eliminating delay to customers and providing streamlined, hassle-free order processing. For larger organisations volume licence discounts are available through a Site Licence Edition of many ABBYY products. Resellers and customers will also be able to obtain first line technical support locally. QBSD invites interested resellers to contact or email.

Fully enabled review copies of products are available.

Contacts:

For a review copy or more information, please contact Mike Paterson at QBS Distribution on +44 (0) 20 8733 7128 or email mike@qbsd.co.uk

Further press information is also available from ABBYY on +49 89 511 159 0 or email press_eu@abbyy.com

About QBS Distribution

QBS Distribution (QBSD) is a division of QBS Software with a mandate to professionally service software resellers. The QBSD reseller database has grown extensively over 20 years and we now supply software to most corporate resellers, Large Account Resellers (LARs), value added resellers, system integrators and any organisation which procures software on behalf of others. Registered resellers have access to exclusive online pricing, product information, order history, order tracking and maintenance & support renewal details. Most of our corporate resellers utilise the QBSD specialist software sourcing service to obtain quotes for unusual software items that are not readily available through distribution. We have developed keen expertise in product licensing, marketing, management and fulfilment. QBSD participates in many leading industry exhibitions, conferences, road shows and seminars whilst working closely with various user groups. Currently QBSD has full distribution rights for ABBYY Software House, Altova software, Balesio AG, Biscom Inc, Blade Ltd, Bluebeam Software Inc, ComponentOne LLC, CoSoSysy SRL, Dameware development, Data Encryption Systems Ltd, Datawatch Europe Ltd, ESET UK, Flexera Software, GlobalSCAPE, Intel Corporation, NetOp Tech Ltd, NovaStor Corporation, Paessler AG, Raxco Software Inc, Simtech Systems Inc, DeviceLock Inc, Sybase UK Ltd, WebSpy, Wolfram Research Europe Ltd.

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. For more information, please contact: www.abbyy.com.

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.

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