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School Program for Juvenile Offenders Facilitates Learning With ABBYY FineReader Technology
November 14th, 2008
ABBYY, a leading provider of recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies, announced that Metsker Heights Alternative School, a high school program serving juvenile offenders, has selected ABBYY's FineReader Professional optical character recognition (OCR) solution to automate text capture and facilitate learning. "Our students are generally highly reluctant learners with short attention spans, and long histories of academic failure and disciplinary problems," said Duane Bean, head teacher at Metsker Heights. "Our use of ABBYY FineReader has greatly simplified important but time-consuming assignments, helping to avoid the kind of unproductive frustration that...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-11-14)
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