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by loumf 4005 days ago
We were an image-processing SDK with OCR add-ons which were us reselling 3rd party SDKs with integration to our codecs and the processing code. It needed to be completely general purpose use in any .NET program (web, service, desktop, console, etc) since we didn't really want to get into usage with our customers (we had no royalties or usage restrictions on our part).

I think we opted for the customer actually obtaining their Abbyy license from Abbyy in the end because of the licensing mis-match. We sold just the wrapper.

Our parent company was a big user of Abbyy, and I think had a totally custom deal. They needed it for all of the language support and similarly wanted the full power to run it at high-speed and inside of .NET programs.