Case Study: Pixily (online document management service) achieves affordable, consumer-ready searchable document management and new revenue streams with ABBYY FineReader Engine

A Content Management System of One’s Own: Pixily Creates Consumer Market Business Model and Revenue Streams with the Help of ABBYY FineReader ® Engine

Pixily is a Waltham, MA startup that offers an online document management portal for consumers and small businesses, letting users mail in or upload paper and digital documents to be scanned, stored and searched. The challenge was delivering enterprise-quality OCR and content-management capabilities on a consumer-friendly, low-cost platform—something too expensive and complex for most households and small firms.

Pixily solved this by integrating ABBYY FineReader Engine for high-accuracy OCR on a Linux platform and combining it with secure mail-in scanning, upload options and a Google-like search interface. The result: fast, searchable PDFs and an intuitive service at consumer price points (from $14.95/month), strong beta traction and media attention, and measurable time and cost savings for users and small businesses.

Pixily

Prasad Thammineni

co-founder and CEO