The Last Word in Document Automation

Understand all document types

Founded and run by scientists, Applica has created the world’s most advanced solution for understanding documents.

Today we help companies connect the dots between disparate information.

Science at
our core

Research is in our DNA—and we’re constantly publishing our findings.

International offices

We’re based between the United States and Europe, with a research hub in Poland.

Award-Winning Technology

Applica’s solution regularly garners awards and outperforms the competition.

Statistics

An Organization
Built on Science

80%

of Applica works on the Product

Our experts include data scientists, mathematicians, statisticians, computational linguists, and philosophers.

30

People in R&D, Half of Them with a PHD

We regularly publish award-winning papers based on our propietary research.

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Countless Pączki and Incalculable Liters of Coffee

Are consumed each month during the development of Applica’s solution.

Follow Along On Our Journey

Applica’s history stretches all the way from 2013 to today—during which both of our approach and product have changed significantly.

When

What

Description

September 2021

ICDAR 2021

Applica won the 2021 Best Industry Related Paper Award for LAMBERT: Layout-Aware Language Modeling for Information Extraction.

April 2021

EU RECOGNITION

Applica received our sixth EU grant for innovating on a global scale.

April 2021

CRUSHING THE COMPETITION

Our language model TILT, took the top spots for Task 1 – Single Document VQA and Task 3 – Infographics VQA

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February 2021

GOING FULL-TILT BOOGIE

Applica’s released TILT, a generative language model, which can comprehend documents never before seen, as well as graphical elements, colors, and different fonts.

January 2021

THIRD PARTY VALIDATION

Applica won Best Paper at SemEval 2020 and beat all other AI solutions in the Document Visual Question Answering Challenge, including tech industry conglomerates.

January 2020

GARTNER ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Applica was named a Gartner Cool Vendor by Gartner in Natural Language Technology.

January 2020

LAYOUT-AWARE LANGUAGE MODELING

The first iteration of the LAMBERT paper was published, highlighting Applica’s visionary approach into contextual and semantic understanding of documents.

January 2020

FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENT

An initial round of VC funding commenced, with Barclays and Cogito Capital Partners joining in. Two additional EU grants were awarded for Applica’s uniquely promising technology.

February 2019

EYES ON THE PRIZE

After a full year of research, the Applica team began building a neural language model that could understand layout and semantics.

September 2018

TECHSTARS

Applica was one of 10 companies chosen (out of 1,000 applicants from 27 countries) to participate in the Techstars Startup Accelerator in New York.

March 2018

DOUBLING DOWN ON DEEP LEARNING

Applica’s Chief Data Scientist foresaw that deep learning (and neural language modeling in particular) would eventually become the dominant technology approach in the document automation space, allowing for a greater range of document type understanding.

December 2017

BUILDING OUT THE TEAM

Applica received its first grant from the EU Commission and started hiring a significantly larger team of linguists, researchers, and engineers.

October 2016

CHANGE IN FOCUS

Upon thinking about all the paperwork involved in properly managing a business, we knew there had to be a better way to process it. But with no good options available, we decided to solve it ourselves.

December 2014

EARLY DAYS

With only old school NLP approaches available, the Applica team used these methods to gain better psychological insights into customer interactions.

June 2013

HELLO APPLICA

Founded by long-time colleagues Piotr Surma and Adam Dancewicz, the company was officially incorporated.

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The Last Word in Document Automation

Understand all document types

Founded and run by scientists, Applica has created the world’s most advanced solution for understanding documents.Today we help companies connect the dots between disparate information.

Science at our core

International offices

Award-Winning Technology

Statistics

An Organization Built on Science

80%

of Applica works on the Product

30

People in R&D, Half of Them with a PHD

∞

Countless Pączki and Incalculable Liters of Coffee

Follow Along On Our Journey

When

What

Description

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Interested in Joining Us?

Founded and run by scientists, Applica has created the world’s most advanced solution for understanding documents.

Today we help companies connect the dots between disparate information.

Science at
our core

An Organization
Built on Science