Mark A. Walch
“Gannon Technologies Group solves very hard problems. In our world of image-based data capture it's easy to find a lot of hype and rhetoric. The thing that makes us different is that we don't simply surmise—we execute. We're already doing what others only talk about doing. Other companies will throw a lot of people at a problem. GTG puts the right people in the right place at the right time. We deliver results.”
—Mark Walch
Mark A. Walch is the President and Director of Operations for the Gannon Technologies Group, where he brings more than 25 years of technical and managerial experience. In this role, Mr. Walch oversees development of a variety of technologies related to the efficient and effective capture of data from paper documents.
Mr. Walch is the principal architect of Pictographic pattern-matching methods, and has developed innovative Optical Character Recognition techniques that have been used to read hand print and cursive script for the U.S. Postal Service. Derivatives of these techniques have been used successfully to register independent vector data sets for upgrading map data on behalf of the U.S. Census Bureau. Read this article about Mark Walch.
Mr. Walch has also developed several automated techniques for accurate and cost-effective data capture from handwritten and printed forms, and has pioneered the concept of “directed workflow”—a method for streamlining the way human operators review large quantities of data.
Mr. Walch holds advanced degrees from the University of Michigan and Yale University.
