ABBYY has announced a new Web portal which was designed for easier access to the company’s services and technologies. The portal, http://www.abbyyonline.com features online optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion service, FineReader Online, as well as language services including Lingvo Online dictionary, ABBYY Language Services, and Aligner Online.

“We are proud to bring ABBYY’s flagship OCR and linguistic technologies online. Online services are easily accessible regardless of operating system, computer configuration, and many other factors. The result is that many more people can learn the benefits of our technologies,” explained Maxim Mikhaylov, vice president of sales and marketing for ABBYY. “ABBYY has been testing the technologies and is already hosting hundreds of thousands of people to the online services each day. We hope to further enhance this online platform with additional services and features.”
ABBYY Online offers the following services:
FineReaderOnline.com – an online OCR and document conversion service. FineReader Online converts scanned documents (JPG, TIFF, DjVu and others) and PDF files to DOC, RTF, XLS, searchable PDF, and TXT formats.
Lingvo Online Dictionary - delivers a dictionary database and word look-up. The online dictionary offers translation from English and Russian into German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
ABBYY Language Services - users can submit text for translation in a large variety of language combinations.
Aligner Online — service which is designed for aligning small parallel texts as well as creating Translation Memories. Aligner Online is especially useful for translators and language learners. The service can find matching segments in the source text and translated version in English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.  
ABBYY Online is available in English and Russian at http://www.abbyyonline.com. All services are accessible with a single account. Corporate customers can integrate ABBYY’s online services into their own portals.