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Microsoft Utilizes ABBYY FineReader Engine to Achieve Unmatched Accuracy in Data Capture for Live Search Books.

Publication: PR Newswire
Publication Date: 12-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Leading OCR Technology Selected for Massive Book Scanning Project

FREMONT, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY, the leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, is pleased to announce that Microsoft Corp. has selected its FineReader(R) Engine software development kit (SDK) to accurately convert the text from books to searchable electronic data for the extremely high-volume Live Search Books project.

Microsoft is helping to bring together the world's books into a collective, globally accessible and searchable archive. The scanning of book titles from a number of large library collections is underway, including the University of California, the University of Toronto, The...

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