Munich, Germany (10 April, 2012) - ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and services, today announced the availability of its new capture solution for organisations using Microsoft® SharePoint® as their document management system.

ABBYY’s software solution Paper to SharePoint enables SharePoint users across an organisation to efficiently scan business documents, manually extract meta data and input the data and documents directly into corresponding Microsoft SharePoint document libraries. Companies using SharePoint for knowledge sharing and collaborative work can now streamline paper document capture, making digitised documents instantly available, and in the process elevating SharePoint to a fully-fledged Document Management System.

“To make document management truly efficient it is necessary to integrate paper-based information into key business processes,” states Jupp Stoepetie, CEO of ABBYY Europe GmbH. “Only when contracts, HR files or correspondence are digitised and made available for electronic search and retrieval, can enterprises take advantage of the vital information in those documents.”

ABBYY’s document capture solution for Microsoft SharePoint allows organisations to deploy a standardised capture process across all departments and work groups. The tight integration allows for a back-and-forth communication between both systems, which means the document library structure from Microsoft SharePoint is seamlessly replicated in the capture front-end and vice versa. Digitally storing paper documents by using a streamlined capture process like Paper to SharePoint can result in significant cost savings through the elimination of manual document handling and keying.

Paper to SharePoint is targeted at medium and large organisations, as well as individual departments within an enterprise, that are already using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for storage, retrieval and sharing of documents. The solution is easy to use and deploys quickly. Best of all there is no new system to learn, which means administrators can manage it from directly within the existing SharePoint environment they are used to. The highly scalable server-based solution is ideally suited for high-volume document processing and offers a broad range of saving formats, including searchable PDF; PDF/A, TIFF or Microsoft Word or Excel® files.

The solution is immediately available in Western Europe. For more information please visit http://www.abbyyeu.com/paper-to-sharepoint/