Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Anyline, a company that builds mobile data capture and scanning technologies for multiple industries, has raised $20 million. Founded out of Vienna, Austria, in 2013, Anyline has developed a range of data capture products such as barcode scanning, optical character recognition (OCR)-powered document scanning, biometric face authentication, serial number scanning, and even driving licensing scanning which enables retailers to easily verify a person's age and identity at the point-of-sale or curbside pickup. Elsewhere, police forces can integrate Anyline's technology to scan all manner of IDs and vehicle license plates to verify drivers instantly, which not only speeds things up but also reduces the chances of errors through traditional manual processes such as typing or broadcasting data across radio. This, according to Anyline CEO and cofounder Lukas Kinigadner, is perhaps the number one benefit Anyline brings to organizations across the spectrum.

TYROLIT Schleifmittelwerke Swarovski KG is an Austrian family business and member of the Swarovski Group. Since 1919, they have manufactured grinding, cutting, drilling, and dressing tools, as well as machines for the construction industry. Their incoming freight is large in size and it's classified by complex serial numbers. This makes the manual registration of incoming goods difficult for both the delivering and receiving parties. For industrial manufacturers, the receipt of incoming goods is a tricky process.

Austria based ANYLINE, the leading OCR Optical Character Recognition) technology provider for mobile devices, is solely focused on fast and accurate text recognition. Whether reading text across a room, a license plate on a car, or a gas meter in a manufacturing plant, the ANYLINE technology is able to deliver a fast and robust alternative to inputting data via voice recognition, typing, or button scrolling. This type of data import is still difficult to accomplish, as it requires a higher processor power and camera resolution. ANYLINE will now leverage the ... Read more