Optical character recognition
Computer recognition of visual text
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| January 16 2024 | Kofax was officially renamed to Tungsten Automation. |
| July 2022 | Clearlake Capital and TA Associates completed their acquisition of the company from Thoma Bravo. |
| April 2022 |
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Flock Safety had implemented ANPR cameras in 1,500 cities across the United States, despite criticism from civil rights organizations.
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| June 2021 | Kofax acquired PSIGEN Software, Inc., a provider of document capture, content management, and workflow automation software. In August, the company also acquired cloud-based print management system provider Printix.net. |
| October 22 2020 |
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The Supreme Court of Virginia overturned the previous injunction, ruling that ALPR data was not considered personal, identifying information.
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| April 2020 |
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that warrantless use of automated license plate readers to surveil a suspected heroin distributor was not a Fourth Amendment violation due to limited time and scope of observations.
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| April 2020 |
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The Register UK, with help from security researchers, discovered nine million ANPR logs were left unprotected on the internet, with the 3M Sheffield Council system having been exposed since 2013-2014.
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| May 2019 | Kofax acquired Top Image Systems (NASDAQ:TISA)(TIS). |
| April 1 2019 |
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In Fairfax County, Virginia, a judge issued an injunction prohibiting the local Police Department from collecting and storing ALPR (Automatic License Plate Reader) data outside of criminal investigations.
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| November 2018 | Kofax acquired the Document Imaging Division of Nuance Communications, gaining Power PDF, PaperPort document management, and OmniPage optical character recognition software applications. |
| April 2018 |
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Researchers from Brazil's Federal University of Paraná and Federal University of Minas Gerais conducted comprehensive ANPR software performance tests, obtaining recognition rates of 93.0% for OpenALPR, 89.8% for Sighthound, and 93.5% for their own YOLO-based system.
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| 2017 |
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Sighthound reported 93.6% accuracy on a private image benchmark for Automatic Number-Plate Recognition (ANPR) software.
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| 2017 |
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OpenALPR reported commercial software accuracy rates between 95-98% on a public image benchmark.
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| July 2017 | Thoma Bravo acquired Lexmark's Enterprise Software business, including Kofax, ReadSoft, and Perceptive Software. Kofax and ReadSoft combined into a single, newly independent Thoma Bravo portfolio company. |
| August 2015 |
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In Boston, it was discovered that license plate records for one million people were left online and unprotected.
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| March 24 2015 | Lexmark International, Inc. entered into a merger agreement with Kofax Inc., acquiring outstanding shares for US$11 per share, or approximately US$1 billion. Kofax combined with Perceptive Software to form an expanded business content and management software unit. |
| September 2014 | Kofax acquired Softpro, an e-signature and signature verification software company in Stuttgart, Germany. |
| 2013 | Kofax added robotic process automation (RPA) developer Kapow Software and was added to the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker KFX. |
| 2013 |
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The ACLU released 26,000 pages of data about ANPR systems obtained through freedom of information laws, revealing widespread location tracking and surveillance practices.
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| 2013 |
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Researchers at Sunflex Zone Ltd created a privacy license plate frame using near-infrared light to make license plates unreadable to ANPR systems.
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| 2013 |
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A Sheffield Council ANPR system was left unprotected online, potentially exposing sensitive data.
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| 2012 |
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for failing to provide records about ANPR programs under the Freedom of Information Act.
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| August 2011 |
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The Associated Press reported that New York Police Department used license plate tracking equipment to spy on Muslims at mosques, automatically cataloging license plate numbers of worshippers parked near mosques.
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| May 2011 | Kofax Inc. acquired Atalasoft Inc., an image software company, and later in December, purchased London IT company Singularity for US$48 million to enable business process management and case management software. |
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