✨ What We Do
At Mashgin, we build better experiences through visual automation. Using modern deep learning techniques, we perform visual tasks so that humans don’t have to.
🗣 How do I pronounce "Mashgin"?
Mashgin is pronounced "mash" as in mashed potatoes and then "jin" as in ginger ale.
❓ How does Mashgin work?
The Mashgin Visual Checkout Kiosk uses the latest in A.I. image recognition to visually identify items so that your customers don't have to.
No more juggling items trying to find barcodes, then searching through menus for something that doesn’t scan. With Mashgin, customers place their items onto the surface, pay, and go. No assistance required.
👍🏽 What benefits does Mashgin have to offer?
Visual checkout makes it faster for customers and easier for operators. The benefits are:
- Identify non-packaged items, like produce or prepared food, without applying a label
- Recognize multiple items at once.
- Easier for customer to “scan”: no need to find where the barcode is.
- Ability to use countless other label ID methods, from extremely reliable DotCodes to color-distinguishing modifiers.
- Infinitely adaptable to future identification methods, no hardware updates required.
👀 How does Mashgin recognize items without barcodes or RFID?
We use cameras to see items and computer vision to identify them.
Barcodes are currently the most widely used item ID method. Barcode scanning is also a form of visual identification, but only enough to recognize the unique black-and-white bar pattern and output the associated 11-digit code.
By using everyday cameras, it’s possible to read all the visual information an item already contains like the colors, shapes, sizes, and other features. This is more than enough to uniquely identify an item —the same way people do.
🔌 What space and technical requirements do I need in order to have Mashgin at my location?
Two standard 120v outlets or one grounded surge protector; one standard CAT6 connection to local network. Mashgin recommends a countertop footprint of 50” x 30” for each kiosk.