Abbyy gets Interactive Ideas

UK and Ireland distributor added to Russian OCR vendor's channel stable

Abbyy offers a range of document capture and manipulation software

Software distributor Interactive Ideas has inked a one-year deal with the UK arm of Russian document capture, recognition and linguistic software vendor Abbyy.

Dave Evans, sales director at Abbyy, said it extends its reach to UK and Ireland resellers and retailers.

“We have been dealing with them on an informal basis for more years than I care to remember,” Evans said. “They have incredibly valuable contacts for us. And they have also got a solutions division now that is expanding.”

The distributor has a consumer retail team with customers including Amazon.co.uk, and a solutions team that will develop opportunities for Abbyy with resellers, VARs and systems integrators focused on a broad range of businesses.

Michael Breeze, marketing director at Interactive Ideas, said in a statement that the deal would bring new revenue opportunities to its resellers.

“For the current requirements from consumers and business to access increasing amounts of digital content, Abbyy has proven products,” he said.

Interactive Ideas will sell its FineReader Professional, FineReader Corporate, and FineReader Express for Mac document conversion software as well as its PDF Transformer and linguistic software Lingvo.

Abbyy technology has been licensed by vendors such as HP, Microsoft, Samsung and Canon, and it boasts government customers around the world.

Abbyy adds two UK and Ireland distributors>> www.channelweb.co.uk/2261239