ZyLAB Announces Full Text and OCR Support for Hebrew Language
Over 200 Languages Supported by ZyLAB, Including All Western-European, Eastern-European, Baltic, African, Asian and South-American Languages
McLean, VA - November 13, 2006 - ZyLAB, an innovative developer of Information Access Solutions, today announced that its award-winning software, ZyIMAGE, now supports the Hebrew language. This support is based on growing business opportunities in Israel and the Jewish community as well as worldwide requirements to search and retrieve one of the world's oldest languages.
ZyLAB offers translated products for English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, Khmer, Arabic and Farsi. Dedicated to providing the most comprehensive array of language support in the world, ZyLAB's optical character recognition (OCR) and full-text indexing technology now supports well over 200 languages including all Western-European, Eastern-European, Baltic, African, Asian and South-American languages.
ZyLAB's technical ability for broad language and character recognition enhances the accuracy of stored information searches and helps diminish the costs incurred by incorrect searches or text correction. Automatic language recognition during the OCR process, as well as the ZyIMAGE software's ability to choose between the best results of multiple OCR engines (i.e. the "voting" algorithm), simplifies the OCR process significantly and offers in the best possible OCR performance in multi-lingual environments.
"We continue to get requests from around the world to support the Hebrew language, including support for searching and retrieving various historical archives in Israel," said Dr. Johannes Scholtes, president of ZyLAB North America LLC. "In addition, as a global solutions provider we are currently focused on expanding our reseller channel in Israel and believe this market offers us a great opportunity."