Document capture and conversion company ABBYY announced Jan. 11 that it would be providing its software services in a cloud-based portal. Four services will now be available and registered customers can access them at ABBYY Online, immediately.

"These cloud-based solutions bring the increased efficiency and productivity of digital documents to even non-technical users, making them great tools for individuals, small-to-medium sized business or workgroups in large enterprises," said Dean Tang, CEO of ABBYY USA.

Just prior to the holiday break, ABBYY launched a series of "mobile mini-applications" for document capture for the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. The latest announcement continues to emphasize the company's desire to provide SaaS solutions from anywhere.

Services available online include ABBYY's FineReader online optical character recognition and document conversion software, which converts scanned or photographed images of documents into .doc, .rtf, .xls, searchable .pdf, and .txt formats. You don't need to download any additional software to run the online version. The service is free for up to 20 pages of converted documents per month, after which you are required to pay for each additional page.

There is also a cloud-based version of Lingvo, ABBYY's translation dictionary software, available, which supports English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian words and phrases.

In addition, ABBYY online now has a portal where users can submit content for translation and receive a quote and timeline for completion immediately from ABBYY Language Services.

Finally, an online version of ABBYY Aligner is also now available through the site, said ABBYY in a statement. This allows small portions of parallel texts to be aligned, matching source copy with corresponding, translated text. The software supports English, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. 

These services should help users who need to access these ABBYY functions, but don't own the software or don't have access to a computer with the installed software.

For more:
- see the ABBYY press release

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