NovoDynamics gets major investment for its translation software

NovoDynamics Inc. has received a multi-million dollar investment for its Venus software from an investment firm associated with the CIA. Venus is regarded as the most sophisticated character recognition software for Middle Eastern languages.

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Verus recognizes Arabic, Persian (Farsi, Dari), and Pashto languages, including embedded English and French. It automatically detects and cleans degraded and skewed documents, automatically identifies a page's primary language, recognizes a page's fonts without manual intervention, determines whether a page contains primarily handwritten or machine printed text, and allows extracted information to be converted into PDF files.

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