Prime Vision BV

Prime Vision B.V.
Besloten vennootschap
Industry Postal Automation and Recognition Software Development
Founded

1956 (origins)

2003 (standalone company) [1]
Headquarters Delft, Netherlands
Area served
 Worldwide [2]
Key people
 Eddy Thans (CEO) [3]
Services Video coding (postal market) Intelligent character recognition Optical character recognition
Pattern recognition
Revenue €5.0 million (2012) [4]
Owner

60% PostNL

40% First Dutch Innovations
Number of employees
 100 (2017) [5]
Website http://www.primevision.com

Prime Vision BV is a Dutch company which specializes in systems integration, automation, processing and recognition solutions for the international postal, warehousing, logistics and airport markets.

The company has strong shareholders in PostNL - the national mail delivery company in the Netherlands, and First Dutch Innovations.

Headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, Prime Vision operates globally [6]

History

In 1956 what would become Prime Vision starts life as a research department of the PTT.[7]

A few years later, in 1961, The High Yield Character Reader (HYCR™), the core technology of Prime Vision, was invented. The HYCR has been developed for capturing hand written as well as machine printed text and has found a particular niche as the basis for secondary OCR engines. In this role, Prime Vision's HYCR-based systems complement other OCRs that have been principally designed for machine printed text. With the systems working in tandem the net read rate of letters, flats and parcels is boosted significantly. HYCR is now in use throughout the world and includes various language sets, including Hebrew, Chinese and Tamil.[8]

In 2003 KPN Research (formerly known as PTT) was acquired by TNO Companies. Additional investments prepared the company for its first sales outside the Netherlands.[9][10]

One year later, TNT (now known as PostNL) acquired 60% of the shares of Prime Vision from TNO. Additional investment led to an independent entity Prime Vision BV.

The majority of the TNO Companies shares are taken over in 2017 by First Dutch Innovations who became the new shareholder of Prime Vision.[11][12][13][14]

Awards

Postal Technology International Award 2010 in category Automation Technology of the Year for WebCoding solutions.[15]

Postal Technology International Award 2015 in category Last Mile Delivery of the Year for Digital Mail Man.[16]

Postal Technology International Award 2016 in category Sorting Centre Innovation of the Year for MMS Dynamic Mail Processing Solution.[17]

Postal Technology International Award 2017 in category Sorting Centre Innovation of the Year for Projection Sorting.[18]

Postal Technology International Award 2017 in category Supplier of the Year.[19]

Logistica Award 2017 for Autonomous Sorting.[20][21][22][23]

References

  1. ↑ Bloomberg Businessweek. "Company Overview of Prime Vision BV". Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "Prime Vision Awarded First Contract in Mexico". Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  3. ↑ POST-EXPO. "2008 SHOW REVIEW". Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Postal Technology International. "Record year heralds recruitment programme for Prime Vision". Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  5. ↑ InsideView. "Prime Vision BV". Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  6. ↑ PostNL. "Annual Report 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "PTT (Nederland)". Wikipedia (in Dutch). 2017-09-09.
  8. ↑ "Handwriting recognition technology acknowledged in Dutch invention exhibition | Imaging and Machine Vision Europe". www.imveurope.com. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  9. ↑ "TNO neemt KPN Research over". AG Connect (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  10. ↑ "TNO neemt R&D KPN over - Emerce". Emerce (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  11. ↑ "TNO Bedrijven na deal omgedoopt tot First Dutch Innovations". www.consultancy.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  12. ↑ "TNO Bedrijven per vandaag verder als First Dutch Innovations - Emerce". Emerce (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  13. ↑ "Overdracht meerderheid aandelen TNO Bedrijven aan First Dutch afgerond | TNO". TNO (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  14. ↑ "24 TNO-startups verder onder nieuwe naam". www.computable.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-01-09.
  15. ↑ Postal Technology International. "Postal Technology International Awards 2010". Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  16. ↑ "Last mile delivery of the year: digital mail man".
  17. ↑ "Postal Technology International Magazine announces winners of the awards 2016".
  18. ↑ "Sorting Centre of the Year: Prime Vision".
  19. ↑ "Supplier of the year: Prime Vision".
  20. ↑ "Logistica Award prooi voor Prime Vision".
  21. ↑ "Prime Vision wint Logistica Award".
  22. ↑ "Logistica Awards 2017, wie zijn de winnaars?".
  23. ↑ "Prime Vision wint Logistica Award".


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