Samsung and FineReader
The company Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. (Korea) and the company BIT Software, Inc. (Russia) announced the end of the main stage of works under the licence agreement. According to the agreement Samsung Electronics gets the original texts of the famous recognition system FineReader and the right to create its own OCR product based on "fountain conversion" technology. Technologies of optical character recognition (OCR) are part and parcel of modern document processing technologies. That is why the company Samsung Electronics decided to develop its own OCR system. Such system for Korean texts recognition - AnyPage - was already created by Samsung. Concerning English texts recognition Samsung Electronics decided to make a research of OCR market to find qualitative and perspective technologies to licence them. Samsung Research Centre in Moscow studied Russian OCRs. The technologies were tested in Korea as well as in Russia. Negotiations, conducted for about a year, were finished by signing a contract with Moscow company BIT Software. Under the contract BIT Software passes on the original texts of the recognition system FineReader 3.0, "fountain conversion" technology realized in FineReader, trains Samsung engineers in Moscow and provides Samsung with consulting services. Today the company Samsung received all the original FineReader's texts, description of "fountain conversion" technology and project documentation. The training course for Samsung engineers is over. AnyPage already reads in Korean and English.
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