OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enables the computer to identify written or printed characters.

OCR can be applied to your images, enabling editable text in any format, be it MS Word, Lotus Notes, Adobe or just a text file.

This is ideal for documents such as Office Manuals / Information Pages and Books in need of updating.

OCR can also be applied to non-editable text – as supplied on CDs with their own software – to provide an additional search facility.

The software examines the page and extracts the text from it, storing it in a form that can be edited or processed by normal word processing software.

The ability to scan the characters accurately depends on how clear the text is. Although the process is up to 95% accurate, any text scanned with OCR needs careful checking because some letters can be misread.