Vision Objects - Vision Objects acclaimed by industry experts for the best autography recognition

Nantes (France), November 6th, 2006, Vision Objects (www.visionobjects.com), provider of the industry accepted in autography acceptance and argument ascribe methods for pen-based user interfaces, has been awarded the aboriginal cost in the IWFHR 2006 handwritten appearance acceptance competition.

The International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR - www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2006/IWFHR/) a accurate appointment that brings calm arch advisers and engineers from all over the apple from the fields of on-line and off-line autography recognition, has this year hosted a antagonism for the a lot of accurate appearance acceptance software.

The antagonism organized by Hewlett Packard Labs India and The University of Essex, UK accustomed 18 entries from University and Industry analysis labs abounding of them from able-bodied accepted autography acceptance companies and analysis groups.

Tamil was called as the antagonism accountable as it is one of Asia’s a lot of announced languages. It was aswell the aboriginal acquaintance of Tamil acceptance for a lot of of the participants, including Vision Objects! Each actor had a bound aggregate of time to alternation its recognizer on Tamil autography samples. The allegory was again performed on a altered set of Tamil characters afresh provided by the organizers.

Vision Objects won the antagonism with a 93.53% acceptance score. Handwriting acceptance experts advised it as an accomplished result, accustomed that the Tamil alphabet has abounding characters of actual agnate appearance, which makes it a boxy acceptance problem. The recognizers from the added participants came in with a decidedly lower acceptance score, highlighting the different above of Vision Objects’ MyScript® autography acceptance products.

Vision Objects has developed a different access to assimilate the development of top above acceptance for languages and for all autograph styles from individual belletrist to accustomed chargeless text. Vision Objects currently supports added than 70 altered languages accouterment the better ambit of languages accustomed on the market.

“It is an account to accept this accolade from arch experts in the acreage of autography recognition,” said Stefan Knerr, architect and CEO of Vision Objects. “It rewards our accomplished and advancing investments for accouterment our ally with the a lot of accurate autography acceptance technology in the market, and underlines our charge to acknowledging the better accessible spectrum of languages worldwide”.

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About Vision Objects
Vision Objects provides the industry accepted in Handwriting Recognition Technology and Text Input Methods for pen-based user interfaces. Vision Objects’ ground-breaking MyScript Technology anxiously recognizes and converts autography into smart, admired and searchable agenda information. MyScript is accessible in a advanced ambit of languages acclamation markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. MyScript is chip into abounding absolute systems for top akin anatomy processing, claimed advice management, messaging and edutainment applications. Vision Objects’ mission is to advance and bazaar accurate and top achievement Handwriting Recognition & Understanding software for any belvedere application handwritten abstracts access through pen-based user interfaces such as Digital Pens, PDAs, Tablet PCs and Smartphones.