OCR
OCR or Optical Character Recognition
is not a new technology but has improved in accuracy and use over recent years. OCR is the process or recognising the text in a scanned image and extracting that where required.
There are now two kinds of OCR that we work with. If there is a need to take a scanned document and make it editable in Word or Excel. This is a full page OCR and very useful for solicitors or accountants or anybody who needs to re-create an original from a scanned copy. The other type of OCR we are commonly asked to provide is Searchable Text. This is when the original scanned documents remains in a non editable format yet the text and content is now searchable within the document and across networks.
Searchable Text
- Make PDF files searchable
- Search for content within files from your Desktop or across your network.
Batch OCR
If you are scanning documents in on a daily basis and have experienced searchable text from your scanning application you will have noticed that the process can be quite slow. If you try and create searchable text while scanning, the scanner will be stopped while the PC processes each file. This isn't a viable when you have to scan a large amount of documents. The solutions is a PDF server that will watch folders or run at a specific time.
There are a number of solutions available. Adobe Acroba Professional Edition has a very good recognition engine that will batch convert a directory of files as does Abbyy FineReader Corporate Edition. The Abbyy solution also allows you to create watch folders so as the documents arrive in a pre-definined folder they are converted to your specification.
The Enterprise solution for this is Abbyy Recognition Server which is robust application that can harness the power of multiple PC's and processors.
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We have a number of OCR applications available at our online store that can be purchased today or please cal us on 0845 873 8600 with any questions you may have.