- Now supports 2,989 (+27) ID document types and 4,715 (+43) templates - Scanning of container seal numbers - Enhanced recognition support for 31 countries - Improved and accelerated recognition of the main pages of Russian national passports - Updated application design - Added recognition of 14 new business document types - Improved recognition of PDM documents - Primary Accounting Documents significant improvement in recognition - Other fixes and improvements

- Now supports 2,989 (+27) ID document types and 4,715 (+43) templates - Scanning of container seal numbers - Enhanced recognition support for 31 countries - Improved and accelerated recognition of the main pages of Russian national passports - Updated application design - Primary Accounting Documents significant improvement in recognition - Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine * Сontainer seals numbers scanning Smart Document Engine * System v3.0.0: total overhaul of document recognition pipeline * New scene analysis, document location, typization, and analysis subsystems. Smart ID Engine * Improved and accelerated recognition of Russian national passport main pages * Better recognition for 31 countries * Now 2989(+27) document types and 4715(+43) templates * Updated application design * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine * VIN numbers and container numbers scanning Smart Document Engine * System v3.0.0: total overhaul of document recognition pipeline * New scene analysis, document location, typization, and analysis subsystems. Smart ID Engine * Mobile Russian passport scanning in any orientation * Video-based simultaneous Russian passport scanning with face matching * Better recognition for 7 countries * Now 2962(+65) document types and 4672(+99) templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine: * Added recognition of VIN and intermodal container numbers Smart Document Engine: * Improved text detection Smart ID Engine: * Russian national passport can now be recognized in any orientation in mobile scenarios * The simultaneous recognition and face-matching mode for the Russian national passport now supports video processing * Enhanced document recognition for 7 countries * Now supports 2962(+65) document types and 4672(+99) templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine: * Added recognition of VIN and intermodal container numbers Smart Document Engine: * Improved text detection Smart ID Engine: * Russian national passport can now be recognized in any orientation in mobile scenarios * The simultaneous recognition and face-matching mode for the Russian national passport now supports video processing * Enhanced document recognition for 7 countries * Now supports 2962(+65) document types and 4672(+99) templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine: * Added recognition of VIN and intermodal container numbers Smart Document Engine: * Improved text detection Smart ID Engine: * Russian national passport can now be recognized in any orientation in mobile scenarios * The simultaneous recognition and face-matching mode for the Russian national passport now supports video processing * Enhanced document recognition for 7 countries * Now supports 2962(+65) document types and 4672(+99) templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine * Added recognition of water, gas, and electric meters. * Added recognition of license plates (Russian, German, French, Italian). Smart Document Engine * New! Smart Text Engine: text-only recognition with a compact size. Smart ID Engine * New mode: Russian passport selfie with recognition and face comparison. * Enhanced document recognition for 10 countries. * Now supports 2897(+110) document types and 4573(+224) templates. * Other fixes and improvements.

Smart Code Engine v2.4.2 * Added the ability to obtain coordinates on an image of undecodable QR codes and Aztec codes. Smart Document Engine v2.4.2 * Minor fixes and improvements Smart ID Engine v2.4.2 * Now 2790 document types and 4472 unique templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine v2.4.1 * Added the ability to obtain coordinates on an image of undecodable QR codes and Aztec codes. Smart Document Engine v2.4.1 * Minor fixes and improvements Smart ID Engine v2.4.1 * Now 2790(+3) document types and 4472(+5) unique templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines 2.4.0: Smart Code Engine 2.4.0: * Added support for mirrored Aztec code reading * Added support for CVC/CVV code recognition for free-form bank cards * Added smart decoding for GOST R 56042-2014 payment barcodes * Improved embossed and free-form bank card recognition quality * Improved codified text lines recognition (phone and card numbers) * Accelerated text detection by 20% * Accelerated real, 8-bit and 4.6-bit convolutional neural networks on x86_64 processors with AVX by 1.8 times * Major speed-up of barcode ROI detection in anywhere mode (up to two times on iPhone XS) Smart Document Engine 2.4.0 * Improved recognition of Urdu, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew languages * Accelerated text detection by 20%, as well as real, 8-bit, and 4.6-bit convolutional neural networks * Improved Extract from the Unified State Register of Real Estate Smart ID Engine 2.4.0 * Improved recognition of Urdu, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew languages * Improved faces comparison quality * Improved Russian national passport registration stamp recognition, as well as Russian handwritten national passports recognition, and stamps detection * Accelerated text detection by 20%, as well as real, 8-bit, and 4.6-bit convolutional neural networks * Improved recognition of documents of over 50 countries * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Iran (Islamic Republic of): Residence permit - Russian Federation: foreigner ID card, stateless person ID, Large family certificate - Türkiye: military ID card - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Seafarers identity document, Voter card - United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo: Driving license, ID Card - United Nations: Passport - UNHCR: Driving license, ID card - United States of America: transportation ID - Uruguay: diplomatic ID card * New document subtypes added for documents of more than 20 countries * Now 2787(+78) document types supported in total with 4467(+162) unique templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine: * Added Personal Account recognition to Payment Details * Universal Pay now can recognize phone and card numbers simultaneously Smart Document Engine: * Russian power of attorney added and recognition of several document types improved Smart ID Engine: * Improved the ‘any’ modes for mobile cases * Improved recognition of documents of 44 countries * Now 2709(+142) document types supported in total with 4305(+258) unique templates * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines 2.2.0 Smart Code Engine: * Added Universal Pay and Payment Details engines * Faster and better barcode detection * Added rMQR symbology decoding Smart Document Engine: * 3 new document types added and several improved Smart ID Engine: * Improved Korean language recognition * Improved face matching * Improved recognition of documents of 58 countries * New documents added, now 2567(+19) types supported with 4047(+40) unique templates * Other minor fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine 2.1.2 * Improved phone and card number recognition * Significantly reduced false detections of the phone numbers * Speeded up bank cards recognition in video stream mode * Slightly speeded up QR scanning Smart Document Engine 2.1.2 * Improved text detection for full text recognition * Improved recognition of various document types Smart ID Engine 2.1.2 * Improved session stopping decision making for cases when all document fields are optional * Improved document detection for ‘any’ modes * Improved recognition of documents of 20 countries * New document types added, now 2548(+17) document types supported in total with 4007(+69) unique templates * Other minor fixes and improvements

Smart ID Engine 2.1.1 * Added ability to invert input image in the SDK * Significantly improved OCR for documents of 36 countries and moderately improved for 16 countries * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: medical card of Kenya, voter card of Liberia, U.S. firearm permit for 9 states * New document subtypes added for 10 document types * Now 2531(+20) document types supported in total with 3938(+31) unique templates Smart Code Engine 2.1.1 * Added recognition of two-line phone numbers and bank card numbers * Increased accuracy (10% fewer potential errors) and speed (5% faster) of barcode detection in focused mode * Significantly improved detection of divided two-dimensional codes in focused mode * Increased accuracy of partially cropped QR codes reading with effortLevel=High option enabled * Minor speed up of DataMatrix symbols reading Smart Document Engine 2.1.1 * Improved recognition accuracy for TORG-12 form (18% fewer potential errors) * Improved recognition accuracy for Invoice Tax (7% fewer potential errors) * Added ability to recognize filled checkboxes * Dictionary-based post-processing speedup * Other minor fixes and improvements

Smart Code Engine: * Improved coverage of mobile phone numbers formats and regions * Reduced false-positive reading of barcodes Smart Document Engine: * Faster full text recognition (5% faster) * Faster recognition of personal tax form on x86 CPUs (1.4 times faster) * Added new fields and improved recognition quality for the real estate registration form * Added support for two-column universal transfer document Smart ID Engine: * Added RFID chip presence info for passports * Improved MRZ recognition on all passports * Faster Russian passport recognition (15% faster on x86, 10% faster on ARM) * Improved and faster document detection for 'any' modes * Improved recognition accuracy for documents of: - Albania - Armenia - Australia - Bangladesh - Brazil - Cameroon - Czechia - Eswatini - France - Kyrgyzstan - Kyrgyzstan - Luxembourg - Moldova - Moldova - Monaco - North - Russia - Singapore - Spain - Sweden - Ukraine - Venezuela * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Bhutan: Voter card - Central African Republic: ID card - Kazakhstan: Birth certificate, Death certificate, Marriage certificate - Kyrgyzstan: Adoption certificate, Birth certificate, Death certificate, Marriage certificate, Divorce certificate, Name change certificate, Paternity certificate - Moldova: Birth certificate, Divorce certificate, Marriage certificate - Mozambique: Voter card - United States of America: Firearm permit (North Dakota) - Vanuatu: Residence permit * New document subtypes added: - Australia: Driving license (Victoria) - Bangladesh: Driving license - Belize: Passport - Switzerland: Driving license - China: Passport - Finland: ID card - Kyrgyzstan: Driving license - Korea: Residence permit - Moldova: Passport - Mongolia: Driving license - United States of America: Driving license (Utah) * Other fixes and improvements

Smart ID Engine: * New system of document templates description that allows to detect the document type faster with higher precision * Package size reduced by 15% * RAM consumption was reduced by 30% in ‘any’ mode, which includes all identity documents * Added delayed initialization that allows to minimize RAM consumption when the target set of documents known in advance, works for lazy and non-lazy initialization. * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Armenia: Birth certificate, Marriage certificate - Azerbaijan: Death certificate, Divorce certificate - Burundi: ID card - Belarus: Death certificate, Marriage certificate - Brazil: police ID card - China: Residence permit - German: military ID card - Georgia: Birth certificate - Israel: military ID card - Mexico: military ID card - Niger: ID card * New document subtypes added: - Belgium: Driving license, Passport - Barbados: ID card - Switzerland: ID card - Costa Rica: Residence permit - Algeria: Driving license, ID card - Ecuador: ID card - Ethiopia: Driving license - Finland: ID card - France: Residence permit - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Driving license - Georgia: Driving license - Hungary: ID card, Passport, Residence permit - Cambodia: Driving license, Passport - Mexico: ID card, Driving license (Guerrero) - Mongolia: Driving license - Mozambique: Driving license - Pakistan: Driving license - Panama: ID card - Philippines: ID card - Romania: Residence permit - Russian Federation: Refugee ID - Sierra Leone: Driving license - San Marino: Passport - Suriname: Driving license - Slovakia: ID card - Tajikistan: Passport - Turkey: Driving license, Passport, Work permit - United States of America: Driving license (California, Washington) - Viet Nam: Driving license * Now 2484(+57) document types supported in total with 3862(+159) unique templates Smart Code Engine: * New independent SDK Smart Code Engine with optimized library size, for instance, barcode library size reduced by 35%. * Added "text in the wild" bank card number recognition * Improved two-dimensional codes recognition: Aztec, DataMatrix, QR * Improved PDF417 recognition * Improved recognition quality and faster performance of barcodes * The default detection mode of codes changed from ‘anywhere’ to ‘focused’ * Improved freeform cards recognition Smart Document Engine: * 2.5 times faster text detection for full text recognition and for flexible forms recognition * Showcase of full text recognition from documents written in 20+ languages * Improved text recognition results post-processing * Added new text fields, attributes and table fields to various types of previously supported documents * Other fixes and improvements

Smart ID Engine: * New system of document templates description that allows to detect the document type faster with higher precision * Package size reduced by 15% * RAM consumption was reduced by 30% in ‘any’ mode, which includes all identity documents * Added delayed initialization that allows to minimize RAM consumption when the target set of documents known in advance, works for lazy and non-lazy initialization. * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Armenia: Birth certificate, Marriage certificate - Azerbaijan: Death certificate, Divorce certificate - Burundi: ID card - Belarus: Death certificate, Marriage certificate - Brazil: police ID card - China: Residence permit - German: military ID card - Georgia: Birth certificate - Israel: military ID card - Mexico: military ID card - Niger: ID card * New document subtypes added: - Belgium: Driving license, Passport - Barbados: ID card - Switzerland: ID card - Costa Rica: Residence permit - Algeria: Driving license, ID card - Ecuador: ID card - Ethiopia: Driving license - Finland: ID card - France: Residence permit - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Driving license - Georgia: Driving license - Hungary: ID card, Passport, Residence permit - Cambodia: Driving license, Passport - Mexico: ID card, Driving license (Guerrero) - Mongolia: Driving license - Mozambique: Driving license - Pakistan: Driving license - Panama: ID card - Philippines: ID card - Romania: Residence permit - Russian Federation: Refugee ID - Sierra Leone: Driving license - San Marino: Passport - Suriname: Driving license - Slovakia: ID card - Tajikistan: Passport - Turkey: Driving license, Passport, Work permit - United States of America: Driving license (California, Washington) - Viet Nam: Driving license * Now 2484(+57) document types supported in total with 3862(+159) unique templates Smart Code Engine: * New independent SDK Smart Code Engine with optimized library size, for instance, barcode library size reduced by 35%. * Added "text in the wild" bank card number recognition * Improved two-dimensional codes recognition: Aztec, DataMatrix, QR * Improved PDF417 recognition * Improved recognition quality and faster performance of barcodes * The default detection mode of codes changed from ‘anywhere’ to ‘focused’ * Improved freeform cards recognition Smart Document Engine: * 2.5 times faster text detection for full text recognition and for flexible forms recognition * Showcase of full text recognition from documents written in 20+ languages * Improved text recognition results post-processing * Added new text fields, attributes and table fields to various types of previously supported documents * Other fixes and improvements

Smart ID Engine: * Improved ID documents detection on a complex background * Improved French and UK residence permit recognition * Faster configuration: 30% faster in lazy mode, 10% faster in non-lazy mode * Improved OCR of Latin-based script languages * Improved OCR of all document fields in general * Improved Russian internal passport recognition, stamp detection * New document types added, now 2427(+125) document types supported in total with 3703(+166) unique templates Smart Code Engine: * Significant acceleration of the worst case recognition scenario of PDF417 and QR codes without quality loss * Improved QR codes detection Smart Document Engine: * Added unfolded documents support * Improved OCR of Latin-based script languages * 17 new document types added * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines v1.12.1 Smart ID Engine: * AnyDoc mode added for automatic selection between any passports, ID cards, driving licences or residence permits of all supported countries * Improved document detection and location accuracy * New document types added Smart Code Engine: * New MRZ scanning technology with x3 accuracy improvement without loss of speed * Improved barcode scanning quality, and detection in focused mode * Added support for MicroQR, as well as expanded, limited, and omnidirectional GS1 DataBar * Improved cardholder's name recognition for debit and credit cards Smart Document Engine: * New text detection and recognition subsystem with improved accuracy * New document types added * Improved recognition accuracy for Latin-based, Cyrillic-based, as well as Georgian, Armenian, Thai and Greek languages * Reduced library size (at least 5% across various platforms) * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines v1.11.1 Smart Code Engine: * Fixed potential problem while loading images from gallery Smart ID Engine: * New document types added Smart Document Engine: * Added document information container with english and local names for document types * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines v1.11.0 Smart Code Engine: * Improved bank cards accuracy for all types of bank cards * Improved MRZ recognition accuracy in video stream and in photos * Improved detection of linear barcodes * Improved reading accuracy for CODE39, CODE93, CODE128 and ITF * Improved DataMatrix scanning speed Smart ID Engine: * Improved recognition accuracy for Sinhala, Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian scripts * Improved recognition of Brazil ID documents * Improved face matching accuracy * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Cook Islands driving licence - Armenia residence permit - Benin residence permit - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba driving licence and ID card - Burkina Faso residence permit - Bahamas residence permit - Bermuda ID card, voter card, and work permit - Bhutan driving licence - Botswana residence permit - Congo (Democratic Republic) residence permit - Congo residence permit - Colombia residence permit - Costa Rica residence permit - Egypt residence permit - Ethiopia driving licence and ID card - Fiji voter card - Saint Martin (French part) driving licence - Sint Maarten (Dutch part) driving licence - Micronesia driving licence - Gabon residence permit - Gambia residence permit - Guinea-Bissau driving licence and ID card - Equatorial Guinea driving licence and residence permit - Honduras residence permit - Indonesia residence permit - Iceland ID card - Kenya driving licence and residence permit - Cambodia residence permit and work permit - Kiribati ID card - Republic of Korea residence permit - Lao driving licence - Liberia driving licence - Liechtenstein residence permit - Lesotho driving licence - Madagascar driving licence - Maldives driving licence and work permit - Namibia driving licence - Niue driving licence - Chad driving licence - Trinidad and Tobago residence permit - Taiwan driving licence - Uganda residence permit - Yemen ID card * New document subtypes added: - Angola residence permit - Australia ID card (Western Australia) - Belgium passport - Brazil ID card - UK driving licence - Iran passport - Kyrgyzstan driving licence - Cambodia driving licence - Kuwait driving licence - Morocco driving licence - Nepal driving licence - Philippines ID card - Saudi Arabia passport - Ukraine driving licence - USA driving licence (Colorado, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands) * Now 1974 document types with 3010 unique templates supported Smart Document Engine: * Added configuration models protection (*.se instead of *.zip) * Multi-page mode added for supporting multi-page flexible documents * Improved recognition accuracy for Sinhala, Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian scripts * Automatic type identification for flexible form is now added * New document types added: - Armenian certificate of public service number - Russian EGRIP certificate, EGRN certificate, general certificate, TORG-12 and consignment notes * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines v1.10.0 Smart Code Engine: * Improved machine-readable zone (MRZ) recognition accuracy Smart ID Engine: * Reduced configuration size (up to 25%) * Improvement of recognition engine initialization and configuration speed * Significant improved recognition of ID documents of Brazil * Improved face matching accuracy * Improvement of recognition accuracy for Latin- and Cyrillic-based fields * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Isle of Man driving licence - Greenland driving licence - Cayman Islands driving licence - Ghana voter card - Grenada residence permit - Madagascar residence permit - Nepal driving licence - Philippines residence permit - Turks and Caicos Islands ID card * New document subtypes added: - Australia ID card - Switzerland residence permit - Democratic Republic of the Congo driving licence - Colombia ID card - Dominican Republic passport - France driving licence - UK driving licence - UK provisional driving licence - Georgia ID card - Greece driving licence - India driving licence - Jamaica ID card - Mexico ID card - Norway driving licence - Portugal residence permit - Thailand passport - USA driving licence (Nebraska) - USA firearm permit (Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Utah) * Now 1887 document types with 2839 unique templates supported Smart Document Engine: * Improved recognition accuracy of Latin- and Cyrillic-based text fields * Improved document identification and recognition speed * New document types added: - USA Form 1099 - USA Form I-9 - USA Form W-2 * Other fixes and improvements

Smart Engines v1.9.0 Smart Code Engine: * Improved QR codes scanning * Improved AZTEC code scanning * New lightweight one-dimensional barcodes scanning engine * Bank cards recognition speed-up with a new 8-bit inference models * Control digit values output for MRZ recognition as fields as well as attributes Smart ID Engine: * Added recognition of page number and passport number on an arbitrary page of Russian national passport * Added support for the recognition of all visible Russian passport registration stamps * Improved recognition accuracy of Russian passport registration stamps * Improved numeric fields recognition accuracy * Improved recognition of the document of CIS countries * Automatic estimation of document DPI * New ID document types added, which were not supported previously: - Hungary address card - Iran ID - Malaysia residence permit - Russian health permit - Russian national passport - arbitrary pages - Taiwan residence permit - Northern Cyprus territory ID * New subtypes added for previously supported documents: - Australia ID (New South Wales) - Brazil ID - EU medical card - Hungary residence permit - Kyrgyzstan passport - Lithuania driving licence - Monaco passport - Montenegro driving licence - Malaysia ID - Romania driving licence - Russian divorce certificate - Senegal passport * Now 1856 document types with 2534 unique templates supported Smart Document Engine: * New modes for arbitrary document cropping and advanced cropping with automatic orientation * Improved numeric fields recognition accuracy * New document types added: - USA W-8BEN 2021 - Russian EGRUL certificate (Выписка ЕГРЮЛ) - Russian Integrated delivery note (УПД) - Russian Tax invoice (Счет-фактура) Global changes: * Extended image input interface (multiplanar YUV, extended pixel buffers) * Other fixes and improvements Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022!