NovoDynamics

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NovoDynamics, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	Early 1990's spinoff of ERIM
Headquarters	Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Key people	President & CEO: David Rock
Industry	Software Development
Products	OCR, Automatic License Plate Recogntion, 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.

1 History
2 Commercial Products
3 Use of Middle Eastern OCR Technology
4 External Links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Commercial Products

VERUSHigh-performance Optical Character Recognition and image enhancement for Arabic-based scripts, including Farsi, Pashto, Urdu and Arabic OCR.

ArborPharm - Chemically intelligent mining of large pharmaceutical discovery data sets to support drug discovery.

[edit] Use of Middle Eastern OCR Technology

OCR is used most often as a component technology of content management. Before content—whether scanned documents, faxes, or forms—can be automatically managed, translated or searched, it 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.

[edit] 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.