Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of transforming an image into editable text. A scanned image is just a picture until it has undergone OCR.

Key Benefits

• Rapid transformation of paper data into computer formats for flexibility in recreating editable text for reformatting, file sharing, and analysis
• Eliminate costly retyping and formatting of information
• Reduce document search and retrieval cost and time over paper

We use several highly sophisticated programs to produce the most accurate results. Most materials printed over the past 50 years can be successfully OCRed. We can provide sample output from your materials.

We provide several levels of checking and editing services to verify accuracy and make corrections as required.

Some examples of common applications of OCR include producing word processing files, spreadsheets and republishing books from hard copy. Index fields can be automatically populated from OCRed images for document management.