ScanSoft

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  • 1974

Company Description

In 1974, Raymond Kurzweil founded the Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. to develop the first omni-font optical character recognition system — a computer program capable of recognizing text written in any normal font. In 1980, Kurzweil sold his company to Xerox. The company became known as Xerox Imaging Systems (XIS), and later ScanSoft.

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  • Manufacturer:

    Software

  • Formed:

    1974

  • Founders:

    Raymond Kurzweil

  • Company Website:

    http://www.scansoft.com

  • Company Address:

    1 Wayside Road
    Burlington, MA 01803
    United States

  • CEO:

    • Paul Ricci

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