- NovoDynamics
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NovoDynamics, Inc. 
Type Private Industry Software Development Founded Early 1990s spinoff of ERIM Headquarters Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Key people President & CEO: David Rock Products OCR, Automatic License Plate Recognition, Image Enhancement, Drug Discovery Website www.NovoDynamics.com NovoDynamics is a software development company specializing in image analysis, pattern recognition and data mining.
Though NovoDynamics is perhaps best known for developing Arabic Optical Character Recognition (Arabic OCR) and image enhancement applications for Middle Eastern languages, the company’s data mining and pattern recognition capabilities have also been leveraged to support drug discovery efforts in the pharmaceutical industry and complex pricing analysis in the automotive industry.
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History
Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the company spun out from the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) in the early 1990s, and later became NovoDynamics. In 2003, NovoDynamics became an In-Q-Tel Portfolio company.
Commercial products
VERUS High-performance Optical Character Recognition and image enhancement for Arabic-based scripts, including Persian, Pashto, Dari, Urdu and Arabic OCR. VERUS 2.0 also supports Spanish and Embedded English/French.
ArborPharm - Chemically intelligent mining of large pharmaceutical discovery data sets to support drug discovery.
Use of Middle Eastern OCR technology
OCR is used most often as a component technology of content management. Before scanned documents, faxes, or forms can be automatically managed, translated or searched, they first must be converted into a computer-readable form. Given NovoDynamics' focus on Middle Eastern Languages, several applications for such software exist within the public and private sector, as well as academia.
Libraries
Bibliotecha Alexandrina. After its inauguration in 2002, the library began one of the largest Arabic digitization efforts in the world.
Yale Supporting Yale University's effort to create a scholarly Web-based portal for the study of the Middle East, including its history, culture, development.Content management providers
- Hummingbird provides an enterprise content management platform to thousands of users worldwide, including to the Middle East.
- Captiva/EMC2
Document exploitation
CACI's DOCEX document exploitation system.
External links
Categories:- Optical character recognition
- Software companies of the United States
- Companies established in 2001
- Arabic language
- Companies based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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