Moscow, Russia (September 7, 2011) -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, together with Al Hosani Computer LLC, ABBYY software distributor in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, will participate in one of the largest and most important ICT events around the globe - GITEX Technology Week - which will be held on October 9-13, 2011 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dubai, UAE.
This is the first time ABBYY participates in GITEX Technology Week with its own stand and expects to achieve significant results. This event is more than important especially because ABBYY presents its new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology with Arabic language added.
"ABBYY has been presented on the Middle East market for many years and we have already created good partnership with several companies from different countries. During the years of this cooperation a range of projects were successfully realized including some big indeed, such as Censuses in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait," said Oleg Sazhin, Director, Business Development at ABBYY 3A. "With the appearance of Arabic language recognition technology and with confidence that it will be the best Arabic OCR on the market we feel necessity to extend our partner chain by informing potential partners and clients about ABBYY innovation in Arabic OCR technologies and based products. There is no doubt that GITEX Technology Week, the biggest fair on Middle East and one of the biggest IT fairs in the world, is the best ground for information and product capabilities' demonstration. So the main objective which ABBYY pursues is to introduce the new unique technology to the audience and we hope that Middle East market will appreciate the product presented by the company."
See ABBYY and Al Hosani Computer LLC at the joint stand number TA-108 at GITEX Technology Week 2011.
About Al Hosani Computer LLC
Al Hosani Computer LLC is the leading Middle East software republishing and value added distribution company. The company operates across the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The company's strength lies in its ability to offer good margins and value-added service for its channel partners, while offering its vendors a total solution for 'in-country' representation. Al Hosani Computer currently represents the leading software publishers. For more information about Al Hosani Computer, visit http://www.alhosanime.com/.
About ABBYY
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 Language Services provides comprehensive linguistic solutions to corporate customers. 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. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognized.
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