Is the lead real, large and durable?
30+ years turning pixels into structured knowledge, with exact tables, correct figures and the layout preserved, even for handwriting and poor scans. Deterministic: recognition, not guessing.
1st place at DocVQA 2026
Task 1, General Category, competing with models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Alibaba.
Our terms, briefly explained.
You will come across these names at PLANET AI. From top to bottom: what you use, the technology behind it, what it adds up to, and what connects it all.
What you use
JAIDE
The AI colleagues
A Knowledge Worker that takes over a process and gives back a result.
IDA
Intelligent Document Analysis
Reads and analyses every document.
The technology behind it
PerceptionMatrix
Patented recognition technology · US patent 10,133,965 B2
Reads even difficult and handwritten scripts. It is the patented core inside IDA and the foundation of its recognition quality. Patent · Technology brief (PDF)
DCA
Distributed Cognitive Architecture
Agentic flows with teamwork, memory, convergence and learning.
What it adds up to
AI University
The training ground
Where the AI agents are trained. Every human correction feeds back into a better model.
What connects it all
PLANETBRAIN
The AI ecosystem
PLANET's ecosystem over technology and platforms.
30 years of awards in international competitions.
- 2026 ICDAR · DocVQA 2026Multimodal reasoning over documents in multiple domains, task 1: general category First place
- 2020 CorporateLiveWire Innovation & Excellence AwardsMost Innovative AI Technology Award winner
- 2019 ICDAR · cBADCompetition on baseline detection First place
- 2017 ICDAR · IEHHRInformation extraction in historical handwritten records, task 2: segmented lines First place
- 2017 ICDAR · HisDoc LayoutLayout analysis for challenging medieval manuscripts, task 2: baseline extraction First place
- 2017 ICDAR · HisDoc LayoutLayout analysis for challenging medieval manuscripts, task 3: line segmentation First place
- 2015 ICDAR · Keyword SpottingKeyword spotting for handwritten documents, training-based track First place
- 2015 ICDAR · HTRtSHandwritten text recognition on the tranScriptorium dataset, restricted track First place
- 2014 ICFHR · HTRtSHandwritten text recognition on tranScriptorium datasets, restricted track First place
- 2014 ICFHR · ANWRESHWord recognition from segmented historical documents First place
Plus Best Paper Award ICDAR 2021 and analyst listings (Top 10/20 Solution Provider).
30 years of peer-reviewed work, and the network behind it.
Publications
- DCA P0 · Foundations: biological grounding · Preprint 2026
- DCA P1 · Theory I: convergence framework · Preprint 2026
- DocVQA 2026 Technical Report · first place · Preprint 2026
- Transformer for Handwritten Text Recognition · ICDAR 2021
- Sequence-to-Sequence Models for HTR · ICDAR 2019
- READ-BAD: Baseline Detection · DAS 2018
- Cells in Multidimensional RNNs · JMLR 2016
Research projects
- SPOC-AI 2024 · LLM & multi-agent document workflows
- KI-DERA 2026 · explainable AI for dementia diagnostics
- NewsEye 2019 · historical newspapers & handwriting (EU)
- READ 2016 · European handwritten heritage 1500 to 1800 (EU Horizon 2020)
Research partners
- University of Rostock (CITlab) · Fraunhofer IGD
- Leibniz IOW · DZNE · Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- University Medicine Rostock and Greifswald · Charité · RWTH Aachen University Hospital · University of Lübeck
- Univ. Valencia · Innsbruck · Helsinki · Edinburgh
- National archives FI · NO · SE · national libraries FR · AT
- Conference home: ICDAR · CVC Barcelona
IDA reads. Luna reasons.
IDA · the reading platform: OCR, classification, extraction, understanding. In production for years, and the foundation the AI colleagues stand on.
Luna · the agent and reasoning platform that carries the JAIDE Knowledge Workers.