| ABBYY Demonstrates Next-Generation Mobile OCR Utility
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 23 / -- (CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment, Booth #346) -- ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, today announced that its sample Business Card Recognition (BCR) utility is now available for the Windows Mobile platform, and will be demonstrated at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment conference in San Francisco, CA October 23-25, 2007. The utility is an example of how developers can provide innovative optical character recognition (OCR) and business card reading functionality to mobile devices by leveraging the powerful capabilities of the ABBYY Mobile OCR software development toolkit (SDK). The BCR utility, jointly developed with NewSoft, Inc., showcases the ability to capture business cards using the phone's built-in digital camera, and extract contact information from the image directly to the telephone address book.
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