Since its founding in 1985, Mitek Systems has provided security software and intelligent character recognition solutions. It has developed solutions for security, recognition and identity verification challenges, such as verifying the authenticity of a signature, reading the courtesy and legal amounts on checks, and finding specific data on any random form. The company markets and supports recognition software used to test, clean, read and authenticate imaged checks or documents. Its technology is used to process more than 8 billion checks per year. Mitek Systems is located in San Diego.