2021 in Review: Smart Engines’ Top-44 breakthrough technologies and business achievements of the year

• The speed of scanning credit cards is now twice as fast. A frame is now recognized in just 0.035 seconds.
• The speed of QR-code scanning increased by 1.6 times, the number of unread codes was reduced by a third.
• Scanning of ID documents speeded up by 40% over the year.
• All neural networks accelerated by 40% due to the new 8-bit inference model.

• Increased document scanning accuracy: in 2021, the error rate was decreased by 15%.
• Card number scanning accuracy reached 99.68%
• Successful deployment of Smart Engines software in e-gates of International Airport Sheremetyevo for contactless border control on international flights.

• The integration of the Smart ID Engine into the mobile application configured for typical IDs increases it by no more than 10 mb.
• The neural network models footprint was reduced by 30%.
• Reduced memory footprint and configuration size for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

• The new version of Smart Code Engine allows scanning credit card data of 21 payment systems in a video stream and photos.
• Added 316 new document types and 513 new templates.
• Scanning 1,856 types of IDs, credit cards, and barcodes from 210 jurisdictions.

• WebAssembly support: document scanning within a web page.
• Debit and credit card scanning from photo and KYC mode for cards (with a partly hidden number).
• Supports scanning and decoding of AAMVA barcodes.
• Scanning of ID cards from both sides in a single session.
• Support of Arabic and Persian ligatures.
• Multiple barcodes scanning mode.
• Three new demo apps for iOS and a new mobile demo app for Android.

Development of 12 integrated AI-based checks to detect digital and physical fraud identity documents in scans, photos, and video streams: Computation Document Forensic AI, Image Fraud AI, Pixel Fraud AI, Font Fraud AI, Text Fraud AI, Template Fraud AI, Photo Fraud AI, Data Fraud AI, Stamp&Seal Fraud AI, Liveness AI, Holo AI, Multispectral Fraud AI.

• 113 million scans and digital native documents processed.
• Company turnover in 2021 is 3.08 million euros.
• The customer base grew by 26% compared to 2020.
• Credit Europe Bank, Raiffeisenbank, Argos KYC, Caribbean Airlines, Emirates NBD, Folio ID, Kaspi, Oman Arab Bank, Royal Caribbean Group, SimplePayMe, SignD, Vodafone Qatar began to use Smart Engines’s software products.
• Continued partnerships with Renaissance Insurance Group, Citibank, Ablera, iDenfy, Tessi, Travizory Border security.

• Smart Engines scanning process made two times more CO₂ neutral.
• One scan leads to an emission of only 0.0001g CO₂.
• It only takes 15 trees to offset CO₂ emissions from 113 million recognitions.

Science First’s approach has provided comprehensive growth within the company:
• Under the direction of Smart Engines’ scientists, ten undergraduate students got bachelor’s degrees, 13 employees got master’s degrees, and two researchers from within the company became Ph.Ds;
• Published 26 scientific articles, including Q1-rated journals;
• Presented 15 papers at international scientific symposiums, including topical conferences such as ICDAR 2021;
• Cooperation with the Italian nanotechnology institute CNR-Nanotec.