Scanning and OCR
Definition of: OCR
(Optical Character Recognition) The machine recognition of printed characters. OCR systems can recognize many different OCR fonts, as well as typewriter and computer-printed characters. Advanced OCR systems can recognize hand printing.
When a text document is scanned into the computer, it is turned into a bitmap, which is a picture of the text. OCR software analyzes the light and dark areas of the bitmap in order to identify each alphabetic letter and numeric digit. When it recognizes a character, it converts it into ASCII text. Hand printing is much more difficult to analyze than machine-printed characters. Old, worn and smudged documents are also difficult. Scanning documents and processing them with OCR is sometimes as much an art as it is a science.
OCR Creates ASCII Text
When text documents are scanned, they are "photographed" and stored as pictures in the computer. OCR software analyzes the symbols in the image and converts each letter and digit into an ASCII character.
OCR recognition software and technology has improved considerably over the past few years. Whatever your organizations needs are, contact us to help convert your paper into electronic format filing and reduce that paper overflow.
We have partnered up with INVU Document Management Software to provide a completely scaleable database that can handle all of your conversion and retrieval needs.
OCR provides an alternative to data entry, or can be part of a mixed data entry/OCR process. Whatever the project, our skill and expertise guarantees the best solution at a highly competitive cost.
We scan paper documents as part of many project requirements prior to OCR, providing a CD-Rom or DVD Rom copy of the images and if required we can make images available on our servers accessible via a web browser for our customers.
Whether your firm is looking for a scaleable database or a Document Imaging Repository, contact us so we can work up the proper solution for your organization.