Pioneering a Safer and Smarter Future
with Intelligent Character Recognition
We transform traffic cameras into intelligent eyes, ID scanners into trusted guardians, and everyday codes into valuable data points. Adaptive Recognition tackles complex challenges in traffic management, security, and identity verification with expert solutions, making the complex intuitive, and the impossible achievable.
Our Story:
From Innovation to
Industry Leadership
Traffic Management: Our ANPR cameras and software play a vital role in streamlining traffic flow, improving security, and enforcing regulations.
Identity Document Verification: Our innovative passport readers and ID scanners ensure secure and efficient identification for border control, passenger screening, and various self-service applications.
Industrial Code Recognition: We go beyond traditional OCR, offering solutions for deciphering industrial codes on containers, railways, and other assets.
Our Purpose
Building a Safer, Smarter Future Through the Power of Intelligent Character Recognition
What Matters Tomorrow is Developed Today
Installations based on our OCR products worldwide
300K+
Network of trusted prime partners
30
The number of different license plate types our technology can recognize
38K+
Strategically located offices across three continents
4
Our values
Adaptability:
Embracing change and opportunity
Innovation:
Redefining what is possible
Reliability:
Unwavering performance
Customer Centricity
Success through understanding
An endless evolution
today defines our future milestones.
1991

1991 – The foundation of ARH.
Two brothers, a shared vision, laid the foundation for Adaptive Recognition.
1992

1992 – Releasing our first license plate recognition software
Releasing our first license plate recognition software, known today as Carmen®
1994

1994 – A year of breakthroughs
Breakthrough projects propel ARH to market leadership, including access control system at Budapest Airport Cargo.
1996

1996 – First foreign projects
The ARH brand become recognized.
1998

1998 – First purpose-built ANPR cameras
manufactured, using our in-house designed hardware parts.
2000

2000 – First identity document reader
devices manufactured.
2003

2003 – Introducing FaceIdent,
our face recognition solution later integrated into our passport reader software for verifying face portraits of identity documents.
2005

2005 – Introducing our first software
for container code recognition.
2006

2006 – Introducing our first passport reader
with RFID chip reading capability. In the meantime, our scanners read and verify more and more identity documents globally.
2011

2011 – Creating our first end-user solution: the LetUGo parking system (later redesigned as ParkIT System).
Introducing the Combo Scan and Combo Smart ID scanner product lines, the first scanner series optimized for the commercial sector’s requirements.
2013

2013 – Introducing our traffic database solution (GDS) and our multi-lane traffic monitoring endpoint (TrafficSpot).
Implementing the Hungarian nationwide toll control system (HU-GO) and opening our first office abroad (in Florida, USA).
2015

2015 – Adding CCTV product line to our portfolio
and completing the Hungarian road traffic security system (VÉDA)
2017

2017 – Upgrading the HU-GO project
with the world’s most extensive weigh-in-motion system
2018

2018 – Beginning to build
our worldwide representative partner network
2019

2019 – Launching the test system of our
brand-new robotized manufacturing. Watch the video →
2020

2020 – The ARH brand becomes Adaptive Recognition.
Launching ANPR Cloud, the cloud-based version of the Carmen® plate recognition software. Introducing the Osmond Passport Reader and ID Scanner to the market.
2021

2021 – Going to market with two innovative ANPR
cameras: Einar for parking access control and Vidar for all types of traffic monitoring. The latter features a built-in laser trigger technology, which is unique on the market.
2022

2022 – Three new members are added to the Vidar camera family:
Vidar Side Scanner for Axle Counting, Vidar PAX for passenger counting, and Vidar Container for container code reading. Introducing the AutoFill software to facilitate automatized data entry. Also introducing Carmen® Box and Carmen® Nano, the NVIDIA® JetsonTM platform-based versions of our ANPR intelligence.
Research & Development
products ahead of the constant evolution of the worldwide license plate and
identity document landscape.

Own Manufacturing Plant

Robotized Assembly
Automatized, ISO-certified manufacturing processes ensure the highest quality with minimum impact on the environment

35 Years of In-House Know-How
All our operations are conducted in-house, from R&D, through product design and manufacturing to support
Certification
quality in all of its products and services at all times, including design,
manufacturing, technical support, consultancy, and more.
Adaptive Recognition Hungary is certified by three ISO standards to prove
that the company’s operation conforms to the highest international standards.
Quality Management

ISO 9001
Environmental Management

ISO 14001
Information Security Management

ISO/IEC 27001