Visual Engines was founded by the researchers of the Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, together with the Inera Srl Company. Visual Engines develops technologies and software products based on automatic visual analysis, searching, and recognition. Products and services offered by Visual Engines rely on two in house developed technologies: VeMIR (Visuale Engines Mobile Image Recognition), which is a SDK to build mobile applications, and VePAIR (Visual Engines Photo Archive Image Retrieval), which is a visual retrieval engine to be used on large visual archives. Both solutions benefit from indexing strategies that are able to deal with a very large amount of images (on the order of hundred millions) with a very limited hardware, which makes it possible to serve visual queries with sub-second response time with a limited budget. Applications that can be realized by using Visual Engines tools include Smart Access to Cultural Heritage, Smart Tourism, Visual Archives Management, Copyright Infringement Detection, Smart Shopping and Smart Ticketing.