Abbyy adds two UK and Ireland distributors

Document management apps developer expands UK reach

Douglas Stewart Edu focuses on education and charity markets, while Sigma is more business-focused

Specialist education and charity distributor Douglas Stewart Edu has added document recognition, data capture and linguistic software from Abbyy to its portfolio.

Lori Mercier, managing director at Douglas Stewart Edu, said: “Abbyy develops the finest document conversion and data capture software technology for the education market.”

The distributor will carry various retail products from Abbyy such as desktop OCR, productivity tools, linguistic software and large-volume document conversion applications.

The deal comes alongside a signing with specialist technical, development and business software distributor Sigma.

Dave Evans, sales director for Abbyy, said its products focus on management of paper, scans and PDFs.

“In the education and charity markets, this allows educators to impart knowledge more easily and enables students to overcome disabilities,” he said. “Douglas Stewart Edu has a proven and successful record in the UK.”