Optical Character Recognition
Optical Character Recognition is a service offered by Form Process Outsourcing that converts scanned documents into standard text files. In order for you to search for information on imaged documents, information has to be converted to searchable text and convert to full searchable text XML/SGML/HTML format or text searchable PDF format. One conversion process involves the use of an Optical Character Recognition program to read the image and convert the information to text. This important step enables you to search all of your documents for key words or phrases, giving you a more efficient and powerful database.
The potential of Optical Character Recognition systems is enormous because they enable users to harness the power of computers to access printed documents. Optical Character Recognition is already being used widely, where searches that once required hours or days can now be accomplished in a few seconds.
Converting Images to Searchable Text
Optical Character Recognition involves the recognition and conversion of printed characters on an image (picture) to searchable ASCII text (similar to type in a word processing program). Recognition is impacted by the quality of the scanned page. Even on quality pages,Optical Character Recognition output may results only in 80% accuracy and will need to be edited. The OCR'd text files can be linked to the original image and provided to the client with links that provide a useful transition from text to image.
Full Text Clean-up with 99.99% Accuracy
Form Process Outsourcing editors will clean up OCR'd text and run it through a QC process to verify data integrity. Edited documents will achieve 99.99% accuracy in database text retrieval.
ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition)
Intelligent Character Recognition is pattern based character recognition and is also known as Hand-Print Recognition. Handwritten text is more difficult for computers to recognize and results in higher error rates than printed text. Intelligent Character Recognition engines usually do best at recognizing constrained printing, which means block printed letters with one letter in each box. Accurate recognition of unconstrained handwriting, especially cursive handwriting, typically requires that the Intelligent Character Recognition engine be trained to recognize each user's style of writing.
Our Optical Character Recognition/Intelligent Character Recognition processing services can be utilized in a wide range of data capture requirements that include-
- Insurance Forms
- Medical Forms
- Banking Forms
- Bill Remittance Forms
- Survey Forms
- Directories
- Magazines & Periodicals
