ABBYY OCR technology incorporated into solution that reduces risk and improves compliance
London, UK (21 April 2015) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies, today announced that TrustID of Reading, UK has chosen ABBYY FineReader Engine to help process national driving licences as part of its identity validation solution. Using ABBYY’s optical text recognition and document conversion technologies, driving licences are converted into readable content which is suitable for automatic data verification.
ABBYY FineReader Engine is integrated into TrustID’s TVS system. Once a document is scanned, the system identifies it as a UK driving licence and then reads the required data fields such as name, date of birth and document number. This data is then validated and checked and the results presented to the user to confirm whether or not the document is acceptable. The solution is used in a variety of scenarios for checking the identity of staff and customers, for example:
In local government agencies for checking the identity of housing applicants and other benefit claimants
For banks and other financial service providers who need to confirm the identity of their customers
At universities for checking that students have the right to study in the UK
In NHS Trusts to check staff and contractors entitlement to drive
“Increased legislation and regulatory requirements are putting many organisations under increased pressure to check the identity documents of their staff or customers,” says David Park, commercial director, TrustID. “Our range of identity document validation solutions help organisations to be more compliant at a lower cost as well as reduce fraud, increase security and protect brand. ABBYY OCR technology has improved the functionality of our solution, which in turn makes it more attractive to our customers.”
ABBYY FineReader Engine is a software development kit that gives developers, system integrators and BPOs the tools they require to integrate optical text recognition technologies into their applications. The ABBYY recognition platform delivers award-winning OCR, intelligent character recognition (ICR), barcode, checkmark, field-level/zonal recognition and PDF conversion enabling scanned documents and images to be automatically transformed into searchable and editable document formats.
“Industry leaders worldwide rely on ABBYY OCR technology to create a variety of applications in all sectors,” says Sven Diedrich, Director, Technology Licensing Business Unit, ABBYY. “Over two decades, our success has been built upon a foundation of trust in ABBYY’s proven technology and our commitment to innovative product development. We are proud to say that TrustID have chosen our SDK as a best-fit for their needs.”
About ABBYY UK Ltd.
ABBYY UK is a member of the ABBYY Group and supports sales and marketing activities in Western Europe. ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies and services. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data capture solutions, and development tools. ABBYY offers Professional Services to help customers implementing business solutions based on ABBYY’s products. Paper-intensive organisations from all over the world use ABBYY solutions to automate time- and labour-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes. ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, Montgomery County Government of the USA and the Government of Canada. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon, EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, KnowledgeLake, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from the world’s top manufacturers such as Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox, Microtek, Panasonic, PFU, Plustek, Ricoh, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is an international company with offices in Germany, the UK, France, Spain , Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. For more information, visit www.ABBYY.com
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, ADRT, Lingvo, FlexiCapture, and PDF Transformer are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby recognised.
For more information, please contact:
Charmaine Chan at LEWIS PR
Tel: +44 207 802 2626
Email: ABBYYUK@lewispr.com
Colin Miller
ABBYY Marketing Manager
Elsenheimerstrasse 49
80687 Munich
Tel.: +49 (0) 89 511 159-0
Fax: +49 (0) 89 511 159
E-Mail: press_eu@abbyy.com
Web: www.ABBYY.com
About TrustID
TrustID enables organisations to check identity with confidence, by providing solutions that are easy to use, delivering consistent, reliable results. Available on mobile and desktop platforms, any organisation, regardless of size, can increase compliance, counter fraud and protect their brand by using TrustID. For further information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)118 990 1118
Email: info@trustid.co.uk
Dukesbridge House
23 Duke Street
Reading
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Source: Realwire All
TrustID Relies on ABBYY Text Recognition Technology to Power Driving Licence Verification Solution