Upstage Launches OCR/Recommendation API Series


4/3/2023
  • UPSTAGE, OCR / RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM BASED ON AI PACK TECHNOLOGY, API SERIES THAT CAN BE EASILY UTILIZED

  • UNVEILS LIGHTWEIGHT RECOMMENDATION API WITH OVERWHELMING ACCURACY OCR API AND LEARNING AND INFERENCE IN ONE

  • “WE WILL STRIVE TO ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF AI TECHNOLOGY IN MORE FIELDS AS WELL AS TOTAL SOLUTIONS THROUGH AI PACKS”


 

(Upstage = 2023/4/6) Now, AI OCR and recommendation technology can be used more easily and conveniently with the Upstage API series.


ON THE 6TH, KOREA’S LEADING AI STARTUP UPSTAGE (CEO KIM SEONG-HOON) LAUNCHED AN API SERIES THAT ALLOWS EASY USE OF UPSTAGE’S AI OCR (OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION) AND RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGY, WHICH IS THE WORLD’S TOP LEVEL, IN VARIOUS FIELDS, AND APPLIED FOR A WEIGHT LIST ON ITS WEBSITE. STARTED TO RECEIVE


WITH THE RELEASE OF THIS SERIES, UPSTAGE PLANS TO PROVIDE APIS TO COMPANIES THAT WANT TO APPLY AI TECHNOLOGY EASILY AND QUICKLY. UPSTAGE'S API SERIES INCLUDES OCR TECHNOLOGY THAT EXTRACTS TEXT FROM IMAGES AND FINDS DESIRED INFORMATION BASED ON THE TECHNOLOGY OF UPSTAGE'S OWN AI PACK, AND RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGY THAT ANALYZES USER BEHAVIOR DATA AND PROVIDES PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS. IT IS LIGHT AND EASY TO PROVIDE.


ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS CAN IMMEDIATELY INTRODUCE THE AI FUNCTION THEY WANT BY SIMPLY INTRODUCING THE API SERIES, AND CAN APPLY THE HIGHEST PERFORMANCE AI TO THEIR WORK WITHOUT COMPLICATED DATA PREPROCESSING OR MODEL LEARNING PROCESS. UPSTAGE ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAS LAUNCHED A SERIES TO ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF AI TECHNOLOGY IN MORE FIELDS IN THE FUTURE BASED ON AI TECHNOLOGY THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN TRUSTED BY A NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS SUCH AS HANWHA LIFE INSURANCE, SAMSUNG SDS, LG U+, AND BRANDY THROUGH AI PACK. .


OCR API IS AN IMAGE CHARACTER RECOGNITION SOLUTION DEVELOPED BY UPSTAGE AS A MODEL OPTIMIZED THROUGH NUMEROUS STATE-OF-THE-ART STRUCTURAL EXPERIMENTS BASED ON A LARGE AMOUNT OF REAL AND INTEGRATED DATA LEARNING STRATEGY. THE OCR API BOASTS OVERWHELMINGLY HIGHER ACCURACY THAN OTHER COMPANIES, AND IT CAN RECOGNIZE VARIOUS FORMS SUCH AS HANDWRITING, CHINESE CHARACTERS, AND ORIGINAL CHECK BOXES THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE, AS WELL AS THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF STAMPS AND SIGNATURES.


IN ADDITION, THE OCR API PROVIDES WORK EFFICIENCY AND REDUCED COSTS ESSENTIAL IN A BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AS INFERENCE RESULTS ARE COMPLETED AT AN AMAZING SPEED WITH FAST REAL-TIME PROCESSING SPEED. THE OCR API CAN READ AND RESPOND ACCURATELY SO THAT THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH THE SERVICE NO MATTER WHAT FORM THE DOCUMENT TO BE PROCESSED IS SUBMITTED, SUCH AS ROTATION, CRUMPLING, HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL READING, AND DOCUMENTS WITH COMPLEX BACKGROUNDS.


RECOMMENDATION API IS A SOLUTION THAT ANALYZES USER BEHAVIORAL DATA AND PROVIDES PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON AI RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED BY UPSTAGE. RECOMMENDATION API IS THE LIGHTEST RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGY THAT COMBINES LEARNING AND INFERENCE INTO ONE API, AND YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY INTRODUCE PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS BY COPYING AND PASTING CODE.


IN ADDITION, THE RECOMMENDATION API PROVIDES REAL-TIME RECOMMENDATION RESULTS IN WHICH THE RECOMMENDATION RESULTS ARE IMMEDIATELY CHANGED ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMER'S ACTIONS, AND PROVIDES REAL-TIME RECOMMENDATION RESULTS WITHOUT COMPLICATED WORK FOR REAL-TIME PROCESSING. THE RECOMMENDATION API CAN BE OPERATED WITH LESS DATA, AND EXISTING SESSION LOGS AND COOKIES CAN BE USED AS THEY ARE WITHOUT SEPARATE DATA ACCESS OR CONVERSION.


Upstage's AI recommendation technology has already been recognized as the best in the industry. Earlier this year, it received the Best Paper Award for being in the top 0.5% at WSDM2023, the world's top data mining society, and last year, it ranked 12th overall in the AI Recommendation Contest hosted by ACM RecSys, one of the most prestigious societies in the field of recommendation systems, recording the highest ranking among domestic companies. . In addition, it is widely known for various awards such as winning two silver medals in the AI recommended Kaggle competition hosted by H&M.


Meanwhile, Upstage is also operating AskUp Biz, the business version of the national representative Chat AI AskUp, along with API series and AI packs as services for companies. AskUp Biz is a service that can be optimized for the business environment to increase the work efficiency and satisfaction of companies. It consists of three parts: , AskUp and Slack, which can be used in Slack, a work tool.


SEONGHOON KIM, CEO OF UPSTAGE, SAID, "OCR AND RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS ARE THE MOST WIDELY USED TECHNOLOGIES IN THE AI/DX FIELD, AND UPSTAGE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR CUSTOMERS' BUSINESS THROUGH API SERIES THAT ENABLE QUICK AND EASY USE OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES."

 
 
 

※ PHOTO DESCRIPTION: KOREA'S REPRESENTATIVE AI STARTUP UPSTAGE (CEO SEONG-HOON KIM) ANNOUNCED ON THE 6TH THAT IT HAS RELEASED AN API SERIES THAT CAN EASILY UTILIZE THE AI OCR (OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION) AND RECOMMENDATION TECHNOLOGY OF UPSTAGE, THE WORLD'S HIGHEST LEVEL, IN VARIOUS FIELDS.

 
 
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  • Upstage, founded in October 2020, offers a no-code/low-code solution called "Upstage AI Pack" to help clients innovate in AI. This solution applies the latest AI technologies to various industries in a customized manner. Upstage AI Pack includes OCR technology that extracts desired information from images, recommendation technology that considers customer information and product/service features, and natural language processing search technology that enables meaning-based search. By using the Upstage AI Pack, companies can easily utilize data processing, AI modeling, and metric management. They can also receive support for continuous updates, allowing them to use the latest AI technologies conveniently. Additionally, Upstage offers practical, AI-experienced training and a strong foundation in AI through an education content business. This helps cultivate differentiated professionals who can immediately contribute to AI business.

    Led by top talents from global tech giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Naver, Upstage has established itself as a unique AI technology leader. The company has presented excellent papers at world-renowned AI conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, WWW, CHI, and WSDM. In addition, Upstage is the only Korean company to have won double-digit gold medals in Kaggle competitions. CEO Sung Kim, an associate professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is a world-class AI guru who has received the ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award four times for his research on bug prediction and automatic source code generation. He is also well-known as a lecturer for "Deep Learning for Everyone," which has recorded over 7 million views on YouTube. Co-founders include CTO Hwal-suk Lee, who led Naver's Visual AI/OCR and achieved global success, and CSO Eun-jeong Park, who led the modelling of the world's best translation tool, Papago.

 
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