History

YearMilestone
1992Foundation of Planet GmbH
1993Research project on intelligent image and document analysis using neural networks (BMFT)
1996Market launch of the first radar film evaluation system
1999Relocation of company headquarters to Raben Steinfeld. Inauguration of PLANET’s own company building. Market launch of OCR software for address and label identification on postal items and general cargo.
2001Foundation of a sales office in the USA
2002Market launch of the radar film evaluation system AS_digital
2003Market launch of the microfilm scanning system µSCAN and the video image evaluation system AS_video. Product innovation in the field of logistics.
2004Market launch of the microfilm scanning system µSCAN Archivist. Market launch of the mixed mail processing systems PLANET_IL and PLANET_IS.
2005Market launch of the video-based solution for traffic analysis CheckAndCount. Sales partnership with PIPS Technology Ltd.
2006Agreement on new research with European universities in the field of character recognition
2007Start of a new product development based on ArgusAddressR+ character recognition
2008FedEx: Order for installation of PICS at 14 FedEx Ground locations with a total of 32 read points. Market launch of ArgusParcel.
2009Project “OVIS” (USPS 3P Nashua): Automatic filling line for packages with OCR and VCS connection. AS_digital supports speed and red light violations in Germany.
2010AS_digital: Introduction of a flexible software license protection (HASP-Key) for the AS digital main modules
2011Research partner in FP7 project “Organic” – Self-organizing recurrent neuronal learning in language processes. Further development of ArgusAddressR+.
2012Presentation of the Assistant digital 5 study at the Customer Symposium
2013Market launch of the latest technologies in the field of character recognition, including word spotting and handwriting recognition
2015Opening of a new branch at the city harbour in Rostock (Warnowufer 60)