ABBYY, known for its solutions in the field of recognition and input of documents, linguistics and translation, has removed a significant part of its software products from the register of domestic software supervised by the Russian Ministry of Digital Development.

Representatives of the developer told IT publications that the company filed applications for the exclusion of software on its own initiative.

In total, two dozen ABBYY products (the copyright holder of Abi Production LLC) lost their registration in the registry, while most of them were excluded quite recently, on January 24th. Among those are FineReader PDF, FineReader Server, PDF Transformer, Recognition Server, Smart Classifier, Comparator, Mobile OCR Engine, FlexiCapture, Business Card Reader and other solutions.

The true reason for the removal of the company's products from the registry was the transfer of rights to the software to its US legal entities. "Yes it is. ABBYY continues to expand its presence in the international market and diversifies its assets in accordance with the company's key regions of presence. The development of sales in the international market allows us to invest in new areas and technologies and, as a result, provide more and more jobs for engineers of our R&D centers in Russia, develop research activities and support education in the country,” the company said.

Remember - capitalist have no homeland and they don't want to suffer from sanctions, even if it means selling their own mother. Abby is one of the top exploiters in Russia, where their code base had been made for 3-6 times less money compared to common world prices for same work.