ABBYY and FRONTEO, Inc. Team Up to Enhance Legal Intelligence

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 18, 2016) - ABBYY®, a leading provider of technologies and solutions to action information, today announced a partnership with Japan's FRONTEO, Inc. in order to enhance the extraction capabilities of the Lit i View E-DISCOVERY using ABBYY's FineReader Engine 11.

The Lit i View E-DISCOVERY solution simplifies the burden of cross-border litigation with its top-notch reliability and speed. FineReader Engine 11 contributes highly sophisticated multilingual recognition, extraction and conversion technologies to the process. This results in the ability to quickly identify important information from legal corporate electronic data with a high level of accuracy. This data can then be used during the discovery process for the processing and production of evidence as well as the predictive auditing associated with various types of litigation cases, including civil, product liability, patent infringement and antitrust cases.

"ABBYY's time-tested technology offers superior flexibility that can be applied to both cloud and on-premise applications, covering the configurations most demanded by legal firms around the globe," said Hideki Takeda, CTO director of Behavior Informatics Laboratories at FRONTEO, Inc. "This was a key component in our decision to partner with ABBYY's FineReader."

The ABBYY recognition platform delivers award-winning OCR, intelligent character recognition (ICR), plus barcode, checkmark (OMR) and field-level/zonal recognition. It is unsurpassed in transforming scanned documents and images into searchable and editable text files.

 "FRONTEO, Inc. has built a strong reputation for delivering quality technology that addresses the challenges facing legal professionals working in today's global cross-border litigation," said Yo Ohara, head of ABBYY Japan. "These challenges include controlling the risks associated with inaccurate or delayed information -- information that is at the heart of every legal process."

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ABBYY is a leading global provider of technologies and solutions that help businesses to action information. The company sets the standard in content capture and innovative language-based technologies that integrate across the information lifecycle. ABBYY solutions are relied on to optimize business processes, mitigate risk, accelerate decision making and drive revenue. ABBYY technologies are used and licensed by some of the largest international enterprises and government organizations, as well as SMBs and individuals. The company maintains offices in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the UAE, the UK, Ukraine, and the United States. For more information, see Key Facts.

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