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Texthelp, a long-term customer of ABBYY and the market leader in assistive software for the education sector in both the UK and North America, has incorporated ABBYY's Cloud-based OCR technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter product, one of the newest additions to Texthelp's portfolio of apps and extensions for Google Apps for Education users.

Snapverter is a handy new add-on tool for Texthelp's 'Read&Write for Google Chrome' software that transforms classroom papers and files into accessible PDF documents. Teachers can simply point a smartphone at any document and snap a picture with the camera. The content is then sent to ABBYY's cloud where the images are processed and converted into an accessible file for easy sharing with students within their Google Drive.

This Cloud-to-Cloud solution recognises text from a variety of documents and files and then makes it accessible to be read aloud by Texthelp's extension for 'Read&Write for Google Chrome'. Text from worksheets, handouts, book pages, photocopies, or other paper based materials from the classroom - even photos, charts and diagrams - are all included in the resulting PDF, which is stored in the user's Google Drive. The ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK is a flexible and scalable online service for developers, system integrators and ISVs that allows them to easily enhance their applications by adding OCR, ICR and checkmark recognition.
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