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CVISION Technologies is a software company headquartered New York City, New York that provides character recognition, document compression, and document capture software for companies worldwide.

History
CVISION Technologies was founded in 1997 and provides client solutions to optimize workflow. According to the company, the key areas of their development and research are data compression and text recognition technologies. CVISION states that the majority of their products, such as document conversion and document capture solutions and technologies, are designed to simplify the transition from paper documents to electronic information, eliminating time-consuming and labour-intensive tasks such as retyping text and manual data entry.

The company is also a member of both TAWPI and AIIM. In addition, the company's software is officially licensed by Adobe Systems.

Awards
In 2009, CVISION was included as part of the Inc. 5000. This group consists of the 5000 fastest growing companies in the United States. CVISION ranked 3,940.

Grants
CVISION received a Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2009. It was awarded with the intention of developing: "real-time algorithms for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) from documents. This real-time recognition (RT/OCR) system, to be fully developed under this SBIR award, performs recognition an order of magnitude faster than current commercial systems..."

Company Name
The company's name 'CVISION' is derived from a combination of the words 'Computer' and 'Vision'.