Who is Artsyl

Artsyl Technologies, Inc. is a Canadian-born firm that specializes in recognition technologies. To specialize in recognition technologies means to fully understand all the solutions on the market for each technology, how the technologies are used by organizations, and how to improve them for the future.

Recognition technologies are technologies used to convert one format into another, more useful. Examples of recognition technologies include OCR for converting paper documents into machine text, ICR for converting handprinted forms into machine text, barcode recognition for reading barcodes from documents, checkmark recognition for processing fixed paper forms, Data Capture for processing documents like invoices and purchase orders, and speech recognition used to transform human speech into machine text.

Artsyl’s business focuses on selling recognition technologies to organizations, integrating them, and developing products for specific vertical markets that utilize these technologies in the most efficient manner. In conjunction with these day-to-day sales activities, Artsyl possesses an R&D team that focuses on taking today’s recognition technologies to the next level into areas such as Analytics, Data Mining, and Rich Media Indexing.

The company’s structure is designed to provide the solutions for today’s market and develop the solutions for tomorrow’s market, always keeping on the cutting edge of current technology. New, innovative Artsyl products are planned for the upcoming years. The innovative nature of the new products makes it important to assist the market in embracing the new vertical solutions and new, advanced versions of the recognition technologies.

As a specialist in recognition technologies, Artsyl actively promotes market education via key industry organizations such as AIIM International and AIIM’s Toronto chapter. AIIM is an association that connects software and hardware to end-users, specifically in the areas of enterprise content management and recognition technologies. We use the opportunities these organizations provide to educate the market on the evolution of these technologies, future possibilities, and the business needs they address.

Artsyl’s success both in today’s sales and future development is made possible by a close connection between its executives, staff and daily operation.

The founder of Artsyl Technologies is an experienced technology expert. Artur Vassylyev, Artsyl’s founder and CEO, participates directly in current projects and R&D. He is known worldwide for his research in forms processing technology, including structured and unstructured forms. In a previous job, he was one of the core developers of one of the first engines on the market for semi-structured forms processing. He has consulted many companies throughout the world to help implement their forms processing solutions. He presented at the 2004 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, BFMA 2004, ARMA 2005, TAWPI Capture 2005 and 2006, AIIM 2003-2007, and various other forums, seminars and tradeshows in the U.S. and Canada. Artur’s time is equally split between current projects, directing the project development team, and research and development of the solutions listed on Artsyl’s Future Product Roadmap. Artsyl’s sales team also consists of former software developers that have a knack for explaining complex technologies and solutions to the end-user market.

The main direction of Artsyl’s current research and development work is application of artificial intelligence-based approaches, such as rules-based expert systems, neural networks and genetic algorithms, to the tasks of document identification, classification and recognition. The ultimate goal is a technology that will understand the documents and be able to transform the input flow of paper and electronic documents into organized content, retrieve the necessary information and deliver it to the users who require it. To implement this task, Artsyl’s engineers create several layers of solutions. At the core there are so-called “engines” that implement fundamental technological capabilities such as logical rules inference systems, fuzzy logic and incomplete-data analysis systems, GA & NN self-evolving and open-loop feedback systems, and OCR/ICR/IDR engines. On the next level, those are combined into the application logic that is specific for a given subject-matter application, such as document classification or content analysis tasks. And at the highest level, the subject-matter application can be fine-tuned to a specific market where the package is sold. For example, this can include adding an industry-related knowledge base, specific rules tuning and a specific user interface in order to create a solution to process medical claims, to auto-sort and process AP/AR documents, or to extract content from rich media streams based on speech and video recognition technology.

Artsyl is proud to be an organization that is providing cutting-edge technologies today, developing innovative technologies of the future, and working hard to infuse these technologies into our communities for the benefit of growing business and faster-pace markets.