Engaging in diverse businesses drawing on our expertise and experience in the paper business.
The OVOL Japan Pulp & Paper Group focuses on developing and marketing systems and artificial intelligence services geared to the paper industry. In these ways, we have diversified our business harnessing the Group’s comprehensive capabilities.
In terms of IT systems for the paper industry, we develop and sell software packages for distributors, paper merchants and logistics companies, which are being used by a large number of customers. In addition, amid the growing trend to explore the use of AI in a variety of industries, we will promote the development of new technologies utilizing low-code development, AI, and provide systems tailored to the IoT era to strengthen our customers' business promotion capabilities.
A solution that uses AIRead, an AI-based image recognition technology, to recognize characters on faxes and other documents using AI and convert them into data (OCR). This solution is able to read handwritten characters, typed print, and characters that are misaligned, and can also support multiple document formats.
At present, companies around the world place importance on the utilization of ICT, such as artificial intelligence (AI), in order to improve productivity. However, those at the forefront of system development are currently facing a number of challenges, such as a chronic shortage of IT engineers and high development and maintenance costs. Low-code development* has attracted attention as a way to dramatically improve such challenges. Wagby is recognized as a highly customizable low-code development tool, achieving development productivity ten times that of conventional methods, and has been adopted by 450 organizations in Japan since it was announced in 2006.