History - Vision Objects - About - Vision Objects

1998:

  • Vision Objects is founded by Stefan Knerr - Creation of MyScript technology based on Artificial Intelligence and pattern recognition algorithms.

2000:

      2002:

        • Vision Objects was elected among the Best 40’s Capital IT, a European organization that aims to discover promising projects at an early stage of development in IT and Life Sciences Technologies.
        • Vision Objects wins the development award in Start West 2002.

        2003:

                2005:

                    2006:

                    • Full throttle on language development: Lingo and Letra packs with 16 languages for natural cursive handwriting recognition and 70 languages for isolated characters recognition (today, MyScript Lingo and Letra offer respectively 28 and 86 languages).
                    • Vision Objects wins the first prize in the IWFHR 2006 handwritten character recognition competition for Tamil.

                        2007:

                        • First full screen multimedia message editor shipped on mobile phones: MyScript MMS Editor.

                            2009:

                            • New product for notes management solutions: MyScript Studio Notes Edition.
                            • Vision Objects wins the first Arabic online handwriting recognition competition at the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009) in Barcelona.
                            • DoubleDay Holdings and Vision Objects join forces for innovative growth in digital writing.

                            2010:

                            • Vision Objects develops an entry point solution dedicated to small businesses and individuals for the semi-automatic processing of paper forms: MyScript Studio Forms Edition
                            • The number of languages for natural cursive handwriting recognition reaches 30 languages
                            • MyScript technology is available for Apple iOS and Android, allowing the development of handwriting recognition based applications for iPads, iPhones or Android tablets.

                            2011:

                            • Vision Objects launches new applications  dedicated to tablet devices:
                            • Vision Objects awarded first place in Chinese and Arabic handwriting recognition during the 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011) held in Beijing.
                            • New major technology updates with:
                              • MyScript Shape 1.0: a new SDK for shape recognition
                              • MyScript Builder Standard Edition 4.7, including a set of improvements for better accuracy:
                                • Updated language packs with new lexicons and refined language models resulting in a significant error rate reduction of 20 to 30%.
                                • Japanese vertical writing identification and conversion, a world first in the history of handwriting recognition.
                                • Recognition of cursive English when combined with Asian languages.
                              • MyScript Builder Mobile Edition 1.0: a packaging of MSB SE 4.7 for iOS and Android with linguistic resources specifically adapted to Internet Tablets