Biorg.Documents

2024: Government's refusal to allocate funds for product creation

In mid-January 2024, it became known that two projects for the development of software with optical document recognition (OCR) functions were excluded from the New System-Wide Software roadmap. We are talking about the creation of analogues of the FineReader series of ABBYY, which left the Russian market due to the current geopolitical situation. The total cost of rejected projects was supposed to exceed 0.5 billion rubles.

According to CNews, the state refused to finance Biorg.Docs and Easydoc products. The first, as expected, Biorg will create by order of Rostelecom. It was planned to develop a cross-platform solution for digitizing documents and recognizing images in the interests of government and corporate customers. In turn, ITFB's Easydoc (iT & B Distribution) was positioned as an intelligent document processing platform that extracts data based on artificial intelligence technologies. The costs of creating Easydoc alone were estimated at 512 million rubles.

Two projects for the development of software with optical document recognition functions are excluded from the roadmap "New system-wide software"

Ilya Verigin, director of interaction with state authorities at Biorg, said that the company, together with Rostelecom, approached the approval of the Biorg.Docs project within the framework of the development competence center (CDC), but then uncertainties arose. The fact is that Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed to prioritize industry information systems that are critical for enterprise management. As a result, the CDC reoriented to industrial software, and Rostelecom withdrew its order for Biorg.Documents.

In such a situation, we decided to get away from the idea of ​ ​ ABBYY replacement and focus on the original concept of our platform, "says Verigin.

At the same time, the ITFB reported that against the background of the state's refusal to finance Easydoc, the company intends to develop this product at its own expense and at the expense of the Innovation Assistance Fund.^[1]

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