Case Study: Penny Imaging Exchange achieves high-volume, accurate OCR and searchable PDF conversion with ABBYY Recognition Server

Wholesale Conversion Bureau Helps Imaging Professionals Grow Business with OCR

Penny Imaging Exchange (PIE) is a wholesale conversion bureau that provides advanced backroom digitizing services to imaging outsource professionals. As clients shifted to cloud storage and digital archiving, PIE faced growing demand to deliver fully searchable digital files and needed a highly accurate, high-volume OCR capability that its bureau customers could resell.

PIE deployed ABBYY Recognition Server—installed in under two weeks across dedicated servers and processing stations—to automate OCR for large batches of microfilm, microfiche and image-only files. The solution delivers high accuracy across grayscale, color and bitonal scans, supports rush turnaround, and enables PIE’s reseller customers to offer dependable, fully searchable PDFs at scale while PIE prepares for future cloud-based offerings.

Penny Imaging Exchange

Matthew Jackson

Project Manager