Made in China: Invent vs Copy - OCR, PDF, Text … in China: Invent vs Copy Helen Sapronova ABBYY 3A ABBYY 3A PARTNER SUMMIT China: the era of great inventions is over? ABBYY 3A PARTNER

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Made in China: Invent vs CopyHelen Sapronova

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China: the era of great inventions is over?


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The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China

Earthquake detector

132 AD

Rocket228 AD

Alcohol2000 BC－1600 BC

Paper money9th century AD


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CC – Copy to China


• Dockless bike-sharing- pick up and depositbikes anywhere

• More than just a clone of New Yorkand London Citi Bikemodel

• Orange Mobike, yellow Ofo, Bluegogoand green-favoring Forever

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借尸还魂 (Jiè shī huán hún) - Borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul


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WeChat: Disruption of mobile app ecosystem

• 938M monthly active users (600M in China), growing 23% per year

• From messaging to payments

• NEW: mini apps — apps that work within WeChat, allowing users to forgo downloading apps from Apple or Android providers


• Baidu was the 1st Chinese company to open US-based AI lab in 2014, 1300+ engineers. Now going to open the second AI lab in Silicon Valley

• In 2016 Tencent established an AI lab in Shenzhen, employing 50 computer scientists and 200 engineers. Now opening AI lab in Seattle

• March 2017: Didi Chuxing (Chinese Uber) announced the opening of its AI lab in Silicon Valley

• At the 2017 AAAI Conference on AI held in San Francisco nearly equal number of accepted papers came from researchers based in China and the U.S.

China’s artificial intelligence boom

W-3 Hall,

MWC Shanghai 2017


High-speed railway

Online shopping

On-demand biking

Electronic payments

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The Four Great Inventions of modern China


Inventive OCR projects in China


• Unified Content Security System

• UCS technology currently includes data (DLP) security, Web security, email security, mobile security and cloud access security in five areas

Skyguard DLP – Chinese Websence

信息安全就是国家安全


Amazon (China)Verifying advertisements before publishing

ABBYY FineReader Engine for Linux:

automatic filtration of images


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Glodon SoftwareGlodon Tender Series for Bill of Quantities

• AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) IT company: products and services to the whole lifecycle of construction projects

• More than 20 core technologies and over 100 pieces of software copyright

• TBQ is an innovative and collaborative costestimating software for dealing with tendering

• ABBYY FineReader Engine is used in the pluginmodule to identify paper BQ and link summarypages with BQ item pages automatically toprepare e-tender efficiently


• The No.1 ATM supplier in China market and top 4 in theworld

• VTM (Video Teller Machine) i60 is a banking branchautomation solution which combines internet banking,mobile banking and call banking

• Over 95% of counter services are available on VTM i60

• ABBYY FlexiCapture Engine is integrated to recognize IDcards

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GRG-BankingVTM i60


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• The device is installed between POS and printer, no modification of software or hardware is required

• Without any manual intervention, the deviceconnects to the cloud server and automaticallyuploads a receipt

• ABBYY Mobile OCR Engine is used to recognize the image of the receipt

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TranslogicShopping Centre Data Collector


• E-Court is a case management system for processingcases faster and more efficiently by managing theworkflow better

• ABBYY FineReader Engine is used for creating anelectronic archive of court documentation so thatinformation can easily be retrieved and/or attached torelevant cases

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TongdahaiE-Court System


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What’s next?

• 'Legal robots' to help decide sentencing


AI is Everywhere

Thank you!

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Made in China: Invent vs Copy - OCR, PDF, Text … in China: Invent vs Copy Helen Sapronova ABBYY 3A ABBYY 3A PARTNER SUMMIT China: the era of great inventions is over? ABBYY 3A PARTNER