Researchers at Smart Engines have been granted a US patent for a key component of smartphone document scanning technology using a video camera. The development is at the heart of the Smart Engines’ range of SDKs used by global corporations and SMEs. Unlike the handheld scanners used in previous generations…

Smart Engines, a leading developer of OCR, bank card and QR code scanning systems, has achieved carbon neutrality. The company has managed to fully offset its carbon footprint by participating in forest restoration projects. In May 2023, Smart Engines planted 3,500 English Oak seedlings in the UNESCO-sponsored Biosphere Reserve. The…

The official hajj operator Muslim Tour has integrated artificial intelligence-based technology for traveling to Mecca and Medina. The company has integrated a secure system for ID document recognition and authentication, using the Smart ID Engine for ID image processing. …

Smart Engines has unveiled a new generation of Smart ID Engine v2.0.0, a system for scanning ID cards, passports, and driving licences. The developers have fundamentally redesigned the AI-based algorithms. This resulted in a 15% reduction in package size and a 30% reduction in RAM consumption in any mode, which…

Smart Engines has launched an AI solution for reading credit card numbers recorded in any format. Banking customers simply point their smartphone camera at a printed or handwritten credit card number to make a transfer or pay for a purchase at a point of sale. The neural network recognises the…

In 2022, Smart Engines employees presented 65 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings, with half of them in major international journals. The scientific results of Smart Engines have formed the basis of its own AI technologies such as high-speed document scanning SDK and new techniques for MRZ recognition. In…

There are a lot of articles dedicated to image recognition by machine learning methods such as neural networks, support vector machines, random trees. All these require a significant number of examples for learning and parameters setting. To create learning and testing datasets of the adequate volume is not quite trivial…

In this article, we give a brief description of the design of our identity document optical character recognition system and the algorithms that are used at different stages of the process. If you’d like to know how the Smart ID Engine system works, please keep reading. The idea of using…

New technologies, as a general rule, build upon not just current developments, but on the extensive analysis of how related technologies have been evolving over time. Thus, if we look at a bank card as a complex piece of technology, which it is, it is interesting to know the history…