Case Study: Evernote achieves faster international launch—shaving two months off development time—with ABBYY FineReader Engine

Evernote Accelerates Company Growth by Enlisting ABBYY ®

Evernote, the fast‑growing note‑capture service that helps users store and search snapshots, notes and business cards, needed to expand quickly into international markets (starting with Russia). Its proprietary Advanced Image Recognition worked well on low‑quality photos, but Evernote required a proven, multilingual OCR solution to handle higher‑quality scans and speed time‑to‑market.

Evernote integrated ABBYY FineReader Engine—benefiting from ABBYY’s flexible licensing and smooth integration—to handle clean scanned documents and multiple languages. The solution improved recognition accuracy, lowered backend processing costs and shaved about two months off an anticipated six‑month development schedule, enabling Evernote to launch its Russian offering on time.

Evernote

Alexander Pashintsev

Vice President, Research and Development