It is not the case. Evernote was created by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Pachikov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Pachikov who also founded Parascr

It is not the case. Evernote was created by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Pachikov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Pachikov who also founded Parascript company http://www.parascript.com http://www.parascript.com, which was doing OCR long before Abbyy and is mostly specialized on handwriting. So both technologies are from Russia, but teams are independent.