ABBYY Software House and Quantum Art Announce Partnership.

ABBYY to use Q-Publishing by Quantum Art for web publishing needs, Quantum Art to employ ABBYY search technology in product line.

Moscow and Northport, NY
February 11, 2002

MOSCOW and NORTHPORT, NY – February 11, 2002 – ABBYY Software House, a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies, and Quantum Art, a leading provider of content management and e-business solutions, announced a partnership to use and market each other’s technologies.

ABBYY will use Q-Publishing by Quantum Art to publish and administer the ABBYY company websites, www.abbyy.com and www.abbyy.ru, and will market Quantum Art solutions as well.

Quantum Art will offer the ABBYY Retrieval & Morphology 4.0 Engine (ARM) search technology in customer deployments. ARM provides both powerful search and search word inference (morphology) functionality, already proven in award-winning ABBYY products ABBYY Lingvo and ABBYY FineReader.

ABBYY ARM retrieval capabilities include full text indexing, full text search and fuzzy search. Morphology functions include spell checking and spelling suggestions for mis-spelt words, lemmatization (identification of a word’s correct root), paradigm generation (generation of all wordforms from any form of a word), inflection type detection for words not in dictionary, grammatical value detection for any wordform and creation of updateable user dictionaries.

“We look forward to offering our customers a best of breed solution, with proven ABBYY search technology enhancing our affordable and flexible content management solution, Q-Publishing 6.0,” commented Edward Shenderovich, VP of Strategic Development for Quantum Art.

ABBYY search technology will be available immediately in all Q-Publishing 6.0 products.

About ABBYY
ABBYY Software House is a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development of software for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and OMR software, and FineReader development tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include SER Systems AG, Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, C Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, Arkenstone, Banctec, Visionshape, Acer, Compaq, Microtek, OTG Software, Grantsmart, Lexmark, Mustek, Umax, NewSoft, Primax and Cardiff. For more information about ABBYY, visit http://www.abbyy.com/.

About Quantum Art
Quantum Art is a leading provider of content management solutions and related website implementation services. The company’s premiere CMS product, Q-Publishing 6.0, represents an easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy scalable framework that delivers complete control over workflow and user environments, promoting better focus (speed and relevancy) within audiences, and higher consistency (branding and look & feel) across audiences.

Founded in 1998, Quantum Art embraced early on the concept of user-friendly and flexible content management systems, and has subsequently delivered scalable and cost-effective solutions to clients of different sizes in government and business, including Canon USA, Simon & Schuster, Oklahoma City (OK) and Orange County (CA). Quantum Art currently has over 450 customers across its multiple product lines and service offerings.