Case Study: Stibbe achieves faster, more accurate document conversion and increased billable time with ABBYY FineReader

ABBYY Helps International Law Firm Respond Better to Lawyer and Client Demands

Stibbe, a full-service international law firm serving Belgian and global clients, faced slow, error-prone document workflows: lawyers frequently received scanned or hard-copy documents that had to be manually retyped by assistants, creating delays, extra costs and risks to service quality—especially given the firm’s multilingual, cross-border work.

ICT Project Manager Stefan Loeners implemented ABBYY FineReader OCR to convert scans and images into editable Word, Excel and searchable PDF/A formats. The tool’s accuracy, speed and 186-language recognition handled more than 10,000 conversion jobs, dramatically cutting turnaround time, improving lawyer productivity and client service, and reducing billable overhead—becoming an indispensable part of Stibbe’s document workflow.

Stibbe

Olivier Clevenbergh

Managing Partner