OCR & Responsible Electronics Recycling

Optical character recognition, or OCR, is something we associate increasingly with data capture for purposes of safety and convenience. Perhaps most notable is the…

DigitEYE The Fastest Way To Scan Your Documents | Wise Trend

WiseTREND introduces DigitEYE for effective online education at a San Francisco school to bridge the gap between physical whiteboard and online classroom DigitEYE innovative…

ID Scanning and Data Capture Methods using OCR

ID processing includes various techniques for image and data capture from documents like Passports, Driver Licenses, National Cards, government-issued identification cards, military cards, and…

Form Design

Companies using data capture technology don’t always have the option to modify the design of their forms or create new forms. When the opportunity…

On-Demand Verification Services

Do you have an unexpected amount of work coming your way and do not have the resources to meet your SLAs? At WiseTREND we…

Process Automation

In experiences in process automation projects over the years.  As may have worked in the field for a long time can attest to, many…

SBA PPP documents automation and OCR processing solution for lenders

Are you a financial institution suddenly receiving hundreds of thousands or even millions of documents you have not needed to process before?  We can…

Passport Scanning and Processing

The ABBYY Flexicapture Plugin for Passport Scanning The Best OCR Solution To Scan Passports There is no reason for the inefficient processing of passports…

WiseTRANS

The ABBYY FlexiCapture Plugin for Transportation Companies The Best OCR Software Specifically Designed For Transportation Is your company busy making sure that shipments are…

Processing Custom Forms

Almost all companies, to some extent, face the problem of processing various forms. The most common types of forms are: survey forms; event feedback…

Data Capture

Often data capture projects can be complex, this it has to do with the type of data that is collected. Some fields are easy…

WHY TURN TO A MANAGED SERVICES PROVIDER

Businesses have become more familiar with Managed Services and are reaching out to them to help with projects due to, lack of staffing or…

What is OCR?

OCR-Optical mark recognition (also called optical mark reading and OMR) is the process of capturing human-marked data from document forms such as surveys and…

OUTSOURCED DATA VERIFICATION

We provide this service for companies with their own in-house software, or companies with cloud-based accounts where automatic processing needs to be supplemented with…

Overflow Volume Processing

Overflow Volume Processing As an alternative to Outsourced Data Verification, we are also equipped to manage “as-needed” resources to take on your unexpected projects. …

Form Design Best Practices

Companies using data capture technology don’t always have the option to modify the design of their forms or create new forms. When the opportunity…

The Pros of Using Managed Services

Personalized Services Managed Services help determine specific client’s needs and provide the best process. Regardless of the size or complexity of the project Managed…

Survey Data Processing

Does your business rely on feedback via handwritten surveys? Nowadays, business process automation plays a very important role in business success. Companies that use…

Invoice Processing

Using ABBYY FlexiCapture Data Sets for accurate Invoice processing In previous articles, we have already described how ABBYY FlexiCapture for Invoices helps to automate…

Automated Forms Processing

Reduce the costs of manual processing by automating data capture from any kind of forms. ABBYY FlexiCapture solution transforms streams of forms and documents…

Outsource Your Projects To WiseTREND

Outsourcing As companies grow and have higher demands, it is increasingly popular to reach out to outsource to Managed Services for the positions to…

Benefits of Outsourcing to Managed Services

Savings The benefit of using a managed service provider is the cost-effectiveness. By using Managed Services can reduce the cost of your operations, by…

Medical claims capture automation solution from WiseTREND

Medical claims capture automation solution from WiseTREND Automating of the medical claims processing is a complex task that many companies connected with the healthcare…

Keep calm and make a backup

Keep calm and make a backup using ABBYY FlexiCapture I think that everyone will agree with me that the data is one of the…

CMS-1500 scanning and processing using WiseCLAIM & ABBYY FlexiCapture

CMS-1500 scanning and processing using WiseCLAIM ABBYY FlexiCapture If your company is a provider of paid medical services, then you should have experienced the…

Outsourcing Patient Assessment Forms Processing

Many businesses today are implementing wellbeing programs, requiring employee health assessment to be completed. People are a company’s most important asset. So, the healthier…

Have Managed Services Help With Compliance & Reduce The Risk

When opting for Managed Services, we will ensure you are being compliant with processing your projects. We properly maintain sensitive information and are up-to-date…

Time-Savings When Working With Managed Services

You will save time by hiring a local Managed Service Team. For example, in the scenario where you have an unforeseen increase in volume,…

Invoice Processing Automation for Accounts Payable

Nowadays, given the remarkable growth of world markets and the uncertain prospects for a further economic rise, one of the key points in achieving…

Commonly Requested Managed Services

Document Processing If you have the need for fast and accurate document processing, we have the solution for you. Regardless of the size of…

The ROI of Managed Services As Compared to Internal Processing

Let’s discuss Outsourcing ROI. Outsourcing your document processing projects to a managed services provider is more of an investment in your business than a…

Check processing and WiseCHECK & ABBYY FlexiCapture functionality overview (part 2)

In the first part of the article, we began to talk about the features that are in the WiseCHECK & ABBYY FlexiCapture solution by…

Check processing and WiseCHECK functionality overview(part 1)

In one of the articles, we have already talked about the benefits that check processing automation provides the company. It was also discussed why…

Survey Processing Automation using WiseSURVEY & ABBYY FlexiCapture

Nowadays, business process automation plays a very important role in business success. Companies that use this modern and efficient instrument have an important competitive…

Speed up Invoice processing using WiseINVOICE and ABBYY FlexiCapture

Speed up invoice processing with WiseINVOICE & ABBYY FlexiCapture All companies face the need to process incoming invoices. If your company has to process…

ACORD form processing

Previously, we talked about what ACORD forms are, and how WiseTREND’s ABBYY FlexiCapture & WiseACORD solution helps to cope with the task of ACORD…

WISETREND-ABBYY FlexiCapture Field Extraction Training

We have repeatedly talked about how smart and flexible the solution for optical character recognition (OCR) and data capture is WISETREND-ABBYY FlexiCapture. It is…

Available Web Stations in FlexiCapture 12 Distributed Edition and how to access them

ABBYY FlexiCapture Distributed Edition is a very flexible, smart, scalable solution for optical character recognition (OCR) and for the data capture from structured and…

Using ABBYY FlexiCapture Data Sets for accurate Invoice processing

Using ABBYY FlexiCapture Data Sets for accurate Invoice processing In previous articles, we have already described how ABBYY FlexiCapture for Invoices helps to automate…

Document processing workflow

Document processing workflow in ABBYY FlexiCapture It is very important to set up correctly the workflow while automating the document processing that it fully…

Check scanning and processing

With the enacting of The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21 Act), it became possible to process checks in a new…

Scanning of Invoices using mobile camera/phone/tablet

In one of the previous articles, we have already discussed all the advantages of the invoice scanning and processing automatization using ABBYY FlexiCapture for…

Feed your Robots (RPA) with Content Intelligence

Feed your Robots (RPA) with Content Intelligence Nowadays software robots allow you to solve many problems associated with routine operations. RPA usually simply mimics…

Purchase Orders using mobile camera/phone/tablet

Purchase order processing using mobile camera The fastest possible purchase order processing is a very important component of a high-quality customer service, which is…

ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 Image Enhancement tools

ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 has a smart and powerful mechanism that makes it easy to set up special image enhancement profiles. We review the possibilities…

Mobile camera pictures processing and common issues

Emerging of mobile phones has changed the world around us, and those things that 20 years ago seemed fantastic are real today. Nowadays, almost…

Scanning and OCR from paper documents

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that allows you instantly to get data that can be changed, searched and stored from any type…

ACORD forms scanning & processing

Created in 1972, ACORD forms became the de facto standard in the US insurance industry. However, nowadays ACORD forms scanning and processing can be…

Registration card processing

Many companies from different business areas face registration card scanning and processing. In large companies employees spend thousands of working hours per year on…

RPA Invoice Processing

Processing invoices is probably one of the most popular scenarios for using RPA systems, such as UIPath and BluePrism. But, as we have already…

Survey and questionnaire scanning

Many companies face the task of survey scanning and processing. Employees of these companies spend hours and days for manual entry of survey data.…

Purchase Order processing automation

Purchase order (PO) is a simple and convenient mechanism for interaction between the buyer and the seller, which standardizes and simplifies the purchase process.…

RPA solutions using FlexiCapture

Why RPA needs OCR What is RPA? Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the most proven methods to automate business processes, automation of…

5 Tips for Invoice Processing Automation

Five tips for invoice processing automation Any company can face with the need to invoice processing and work with account payable. Invoices can come…

Five questions to be answered before choosing ABBYY data capture solution

Facing the need to automate the document processing in your company, you’ll probably consider a data capture solution. A regular person may find it…

ABBYY FlexiCapture Simple Workflow

What is the ABBYY FlexiCapture? ABBYY FlexiCapture is a powerful data capturing and document processing solution. It is a huge, flexible and customizable system…

WiseMortgage Delivers Results for Modern Lenders

The mortgage industry today has a bottleneck when it comes to extracting key data, as most if the key data they need to process…

About Founder and Senior Projects Architect: Ilya Evdokimov

Ilya Evdokimov is a long-term practitioner and expert in leading Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Data Capture and Document Processing techniques, technologies and solutions such…

Scanning documents into WiseTREND solutions such as ABBYY FlexiCapture and Recognition Server

Panasonic KV-5076H SCANNER Scanning is one of several options to load documents into WiseTREND solutions such as ABBYY FlexiCapture and ABBYY Recognition Server. If…

WiseTREND SMUA program for ABBYY FlexiCapture, Recognition Server

Annual Support/Maintenance/Upgrades (SMUA) for ABBYY FlexiCapture, Recognition Server This plan is designed for customers to receive on-going technical support, answers to questions, subscription to…

How to update FlexiLayout in ABBYY FlexiCapture document definition

This procedure contains instructions how to update your ABBYY FlexiCapture Document Definition template with the updated classification and data capture logic generated in ABBYY…

Scripting in ABBYY FlexiCapture 11

There are several areas in FlexiCapture where API integration with external systems may be beneficial. This interface provides scripting support in several languages: This…

Podiatry Plan Case Study

Automatic Processing of CMS-1500 Claim Forms See how we helped a leading foot care program achieve compliance with EDI claims submission within 60 days – and…

Award by ABBYY at 2015 Technology Summit for 2015 Project of the Year OCR

WiseTREND announces the new award from ABBYY for 2015 Project of the Year Ilya Evdokimov, a Sr. Projects Architect at WiseTREND who has been closely working with…

Detailed Analysis of ABBYY’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ABBYY Recognition Server Performance on Amazon AWS Cloud

WiseTREND technicians performed multi-directional analysis and testing of hardware provided by Amazon EC2 to determine which particular server type and storage technology work better…

What Is OCR Technology And How Does OCR Software Work?

What Is OCR Technology? Let’s say you have a document such as a legal contract or a newspaper article, and you’d like to save…

Document Processing And OCR Services For Businesses

Document Processing And OCR Services For Businesses Are you looking for a professional-grade document processing and OCR software solution? Is your department in need…

OCR-IT Featured as an Exhibitor Sponsor at Apttus Accelerate 2015

Apttus Accelerate 2015 Fremont, CA, 2015 – OCR-IT, a provider of world-class OCR technology for document processing and automation solutions, is being featured as…

“23 Things I Wish I Knew When I First Implemented an OCR / Data Capture / Content Management (ECM) Project”

DATA CAPTURE TIPS According to highly-respected industry expert John Mancini and a group of AIIM experts, who have provided their feedback and after-thoughts about large…

OCR-IT Web OCR API Free Account Setup & Testing in Fiddler Video

How to integrate and test OCR API in two minutes (video) OCR-IT API will provide you with powerful capabilities to convert images to highly…

WiseTREND, distributor and integrator of Advanced ABBYY OCR & Data Capture solutions expand to Southwest USA

WiseTREND is distributor and integrator WiseTREND, an advanced OCR and Data Capture technologies expert focused on implementing the latest ABBYY technologies for advanced document processing…

Recognizing 7-segment LCD display characters using OCR-IT API

OCR recognizing This question has been asked by a developer on Stackoverflow (source link).  OCR-IT API came to the rescue. I’m trying to develop…

Helping in research to extract OCR data from WWII records

Someone asked: “I am working on a research project that deals with American military casualties during WWII. Specifically, I am attempting to construct a…

What’s More Productive: Four 30-ppm (page per minute) Scanners or One 120-ppm Scanner?

What’s scanner more productive? This question is often asked: What’s more productive: Having four 30-ppm (page per minute) scanners or one 120-ppm scanner? Here…

ABBYY Recognition Server 3.x Supported OCR Languages

ABBYY Recognition Server 3.5 Specifications – Recognition (OCR) Languages Below is the list of the recognition languages that are supported in ABBYY Recognition Server 3.5.…

FlexiCapture 9.0/10.0 Distributed backup/recovery/move procedure

Here is the backup/recovery/move procedure for ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 and 10.0 Distributed Edition OCR, document processing and data capture platform. Recovery consists of 2…

Answer on StackOverflow: Detecting text in images

This question was answered on www.StackOverflow.com QUESTION Is there any good way of detecting whether an image contains text or not? I’m not looking…

ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0/10.0: Procedure for moving internal file storage to a different location

FILE STORAGE MOVING PROCEDURE ABBYY FlexiCapture, the advanced data capture and document processing platform, uses a database for metadata and file storage (database or shared…

Analysis of Picture Taking Instructions in various mobile apps

NOTE: This report, with additional screenshots and illustrations, is available in PDF form here. The purpose of this document is a) analyze various approaches mobile…

Tips for recognizing multiple languages and processing documents with mixed languages

OCR recognizing multiple languages OCR-IT API can recognize text in over 180 languages, more than most other OCR systems in or out of Cloud environments.  This powerful…

Transferring/moving ABBYY Recognition Server & ABBYY FlexiCapture licenses

It may become necessary to move installed licenses of ABBYY Recognition Server (v. 2.x, 3.x) or ABBYY FlexiCapture (v. 9.x, 10.x) to a different computer.  Be…

Resources and suggestions for iOS developers

Resources and suggestions for iOS developers OCR-IT Cloud-based OCR API was one of the first high-quality online OCR Optical Character Recognition) services on the…

Explanation of “fixed” and “unstructured” forms

Any form can be classified as “fixed” (aka structured) or “unstructured” (aka semi-structured). FIXED FORM Fixed form – form that contains same type of…

OCR-IT API Speed of processing explained

OCR-IT Cloud OCR API provides access to high-quality OCR from devices and environments where OCR does not reside locally due technical limitations and other constraints.  This enables…

OCR-IT Team attended Apps World 2013 tradeshow in San Francisco – post visit summary

Apps World 2013 If your have attended Apps World 2013 last week, you could not have missed OCR-IT corner booth right in front of ‘Media &…

Guide to better mobile images (from cell phone camera) for higher quality OCR

Guide to better mobile images Mobile images make up large volume of traffic going through OCR-IT OCR Cloud 2.0 API.  Compared to conventional office…

Standard Process for Managed Document Conversion and Outsourcing

Document Conversion and Outsourcing OCR-IT Document Conversion Services Team uses the following methodology and project progress tracking for every Document Conversion task.   Party Stage Task…

User Scenario: Process digital camera pictures and OCR to extract specific numbers

User Scenario In this specific project asked by one of our users, we would like to provide analysis and suggestions how to process photos…

Installation variations and multi-user environment ABBYY FlexiCapture

ABBYY FlexiCapture (9.0 and 10.0) is a powerful form processing and data capture software (OCR, ICR, OMR, Barcode).  FlexiCapture technology comes in two installation…

Why output PDF may decrease in quality and increase in size after OCR

Decrease in quality and increase in size Overall, let’s say your original PDF was a multi-page digital document with text and graphics and had…

Clearing list of old projects in ABBYY FlexiCapture startup dialog

List of last opened projects When starting ABBYY FlexiCapture, a user is presented with a list of last opened projects.  Frequently, once folders have…

Error when installing ABBYY Recognition Server on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008

In some cases, ABBYY Recognition Server installer may produce during an install/uninstall/upgrade on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008. A sharing violation occurred while…

How to make a copy of a project from ABBYY FlexiCapture

Frequently, a System Administrator may want to save a snapshot of the entire project in ABBYY FlexiCapture.  The process is the same for version…

OCR-IT Demonstrates Power of Mobile OCR with Free Demo Android App with Full Source Code for Developers to Add OCR Capabilities

OCR-IT Demo Android App and Source Code for Android OS by the host of OCR Cloud 2.0 API lets developers add the capability to…

Using Scripts for Table Element in ABBYY FlexiCapture 10.0

Table Element in ABBYY FlexiCapture 10.0 Table is a powerful compound element to capture two-dimensional data structured.  When writing rules for a Table element,…

ScanThing Chooses OCR-IT Cloud-Based OCR API Platform to Conquer Mobile Scanning and OCR in New Mobile Productivity App for Android Smart Phones and Tablets

OCR Cloud 2.0 OCR-IT LLC, a fast-growing document conversion and online image recognition company, today announced that its cloud-based OCR Web API, code-named “OCR…

Free New Apple IPad 3 for the first OCR App For IPad

THE FIRST OCR APP FOR IPAD New contest: Free iPad 3 (The New iPad) will be provided to the first person or company to…

What is the difference between PDF and PDF/Ab produced by ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0?

Difference between PDF and PDF/Ab There are numerous resources that define specifications for the long-term preservation format PDF/A.  In general, this format includes less…

What is the best hardware for high-volume OCR?

For all of you out there with theoretical and practical experience, what is the best hardware and server types for large-volume OCR conversion.  What…

OCR for bank statements

OCR FOR BANK STATEMENTS I need to be able to OCR bank statements, including getting all the numbers and description in a form that…

OCR-IT Announces a Powerful Cloud-Based OCR API for Ad-Hoc Integrators and Mobile Developers

CLOUD-BASED OCR API FOR MOBILE DEVELOPERS This press release has been published on August 29, 2011 here: http://www.i-newswire.com/ocr-it-delivers-a-powerful-cloud/126874 August 30, 2011 – OCR-IT LLC, a fast-growing…

Customer feedback about WiseTREND WiseINVOICE 9.0 package for AP/AR

Here is some early stage feedback form recent two implementations of WiseINVOICE for AP data capture automation: Todd Gruff, B & G Manufacturing Inc.’s…

WiseTrend Unveils Effective, Predictable and Profitable Approach to Invoice Processing

We are proud to announce our new method of servicing invoice processing and AP data capture automation needs.  WiseTrend WiseINVOICE implementation combines best modern…

Text Parsing vs. Dynamic Data Capture

Text Parsing vs Dynamic Data Capture I answered this question on StackOverflow, and it was too important not to duplicate here QUESTION: I am…

WiseINVOICE – unveiling a new powerful AP automation process

For years we have been polishing one of the most demanded and demanding areas of data capture and OCR – AP department automation.  Processing…

Online OCR API has a ton of hidden useful indirect features for mobile devices – image cleanup

Online OCR API Admiring the new iPhone 4G with the new and improved camera and a high-definition crystal clear screen, I immediately pop up…

Tricks & Tips: Industry, ABBYY FlexiCapture & Recognition Server, Online API

This month we are starting a Summer 2010 series of Tips & Tricks related to OCR and form processing industry in general, with a…

Print to OCR?

When I talk to people about the unique technique of printing text documents to image just for the purpose of running optical character recognition…

Document Preparation

Document preparation prior to scanning In some organizations, document preparation prior to scanning is the largest time cost in their document entry process. In…

Measuring Document Automation Efficiency

The two most common question when organizations ask when they are seeking document automation technology is “how fast is it?” and “how accurate is…

An On-Ramp to translation

Users of OCR might be surprised to learn that one of the initial and biggest drivers for the technology has yet to be fully…

The trick of the inverted text

The search for greater accuracy when it comes to document automation, never stops. It’s true that with every new release, OCR technology has become…

Rich Media OCR

I often speak of unique uses of OCR, and here is yet another. OCRing video files! But why? Part of the management of rich…

Capture Products, Data Capture Products, confused?

All technology markets are guilty of coming up with at least one or two confusing terms. In the document imaging world, it’s terms with…

It’s not that you don’t want to, it’s that you can’t

Many of us tech heads are quick to give you an answer to your technical needs and propose a solution even if you did…

Expectations bite the dust

Just this morning, I was reminded of why market education is so important. I received an email in the morning from a customer who…

Already digital but still OCRed

I’ve faced unique projects in the last four years and in a few, the best approach even seemed to contradict my better logic. The…

OCRing Magazines

Often times when I receive printed periodicals, my preference is to OCR them to a digital search-able format and read the articles I’m interested…

What you OCR is what you get

Often the purpose of doing Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) for individuals and companies is to get a digital version of a document…

Check-mark accuracy, all or none

Check-mark processing (OMR) is one of the most accurate recognition technologies. Companies who properly utilize OMR are able to process documents quickly and accurately.…

Don’t over think business card scanning

I am amused at the detail of thought and complexity people put into business card scanning, BCR. In my time in the enterprise content…

Why buy what I already own!?

Many people inherit full-page Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology by simply purchasing a scanner or a multi-function (MFP) device. All these pieces of hardware…

Space Age Optical Character Recognition

There are a lot of technologists out there who believe that optical character recognition has its days numbered and is an aged technology. The…

OCR makes old systems new

One of the biggest challenges in the IT space, is migration from legacy systems, often mainframe’s, to modern day operating systems and applications. Legacy…

On the fly OCR – Click-Entry and Rubber-band OCR

If you were to put the degrees of automation on a scale, you would first have no automation, semi-automation, and the varying degrees of…

Re-OCR, Lessons learned

To my surprise, I still receive requests from companies needing to start over on their OCR processes. Companies that have used the technology, did…

OCR and Paste

You probably use the copy and paste functionality on your computer daily. I too use copy and paste on a regular basis, but I…

Turning off the latest technology

Our culture is built on the fact that the newer and more means better. In the advanced technologies that exist, this for the most…

Playing tricks with images, up-sampling

Often organizations have no control over the images they have received. Images can come via fax which has a varied range of resolutions, or…

Multi-Pass document recognition

When accuracy is the primary concern in document recognition, the best technique is multiple passes of the OCR or recognition process. Similar to how…

Clock is ticking

When considering the ROI on a data capture integration, setup time is one of the most important and often miscalculated factors. Not just the…

Remote Deposit Capture

The ability to capture a check and send it to a bank for deposit in a distributed fashion has actually existed for more than…

eDiscovery and OCR

I have touched on this topic a little on one of my previous posts but because of eDiscovery’s popularity I thought it was fitting…

Convert now Export later

It’s not surprising that an organization’s focus of any sort of document automation is the export format and data coming out of the system.…

Hidden value propositions

Document automation has it’s obvious value: to decrease the cost of running a paper base business, but there are some other areas to gain…

Barcodes, time savers, and wasters

Barcodes are a great technology. You can fit a lot of information in a barcode, they can be read at any angle, and they…

Line-Items: Picking the correct field type

Documents containing tables have the majority of information of the document printed thus the demand to collect this data is very high. In data…

Let the OCR do the talking for you

I’ve covered various interesting and non-conventional uses of OCR. I would like to talk about a new one, OCR to Speech. The blind community…

Data Capture – Problem Fields

The difference often between easy data capture projects and more complex ones has to do with the type of data being collected. For both…

Digital Ink – it’s not OCR or ICR

Digital ink is the approach of having a touch screen device that monitors a users movements with a stylus on the screen to determine…

Not quite as fun as the DMV

Understanding the different licensing that is available for data capture and OCR products can sometimes be difficult, but I assure you that the complexities…

Dropout, all or none

Color or Greyscale dropout is a great tool for increasing accuracy of extracting data from forms. But a bad dropout is far worse than…

Path to simple yet robust document routing

When it comes to the input path that documents follow, for many it’s as simple as scan, convert, save, but others require more complex…

Get the “Blank” out of here

One of the challenges of document scanning is pesky blank pages. They are usually an annoyance and a space taker more then a real…

Tax Return OCR

If you are thinking about using data capture to read text from tax returns it’s time now to start thinking about the steps to…

Invisible characters

Exceptions in OCR and data capture are usually thought of as mis-recognized characters only, but in reality there are several other types of exceptions…

Guarantees, Guarantees, Guarantees

One of the most popular questions to ask when organizations purchase data capture or OCR software, “what accuracy can you guarantee?”. If you have…

You can read the fine-print

As fonts get smaller the challenge to read them with OCR software increases, however there are some key things that organizations should be aware…

Fixed, Semi-structured, UNSTRUCTURED!?

I find myself educating even industry peers on the topic of document type structure more and more recently. Often the conversation starts with one…

The little secretes to OCRing large maps and drawings

Occasionally the need to convert large documents such as maps and engineering documents comes along. Many times the OCR requirement is limited to a…

How many keystrokes does it take to get to the center of accuracy?

Often times we are blinded by technology and forget the pain we originally adopted technology to solve. When I first learned accounting, more tenured…

Not all Documents are Equal – OCRing Newspapers

There are several document types out there both for full-page OCR and for data capture that require special attention and configuration. For Full-Page OCR…

Data Type, Dictionary, Database Lookup = First Verification

After viewing the power of data capture technology, I’ve yet to see an organization un-impressed, until the conversation explores quality assurance steps. Though the…

Read signatures maybe not, make sure a doc is signed, easy!

A lot of the documents we encounter require there to be a signature. In data capture, these documents add an additional complexity as an…

Black belt in data capture processes an EOB

Explanation of Benefit’s (EOB) next to student transcripts are without a doubt the most difficult documents to automate. The value to automate these documents…

Whatever happened to OCR-A and OCR-B

In the early days of OCR soon after Kurzweil invented it, the desired approach to increase accuracy was to institute a printing standard. That…

Hand-print or Handwriting, makes a big difference

When it comes to forms processing and data capture, working with documents that have hand-print vs. handwriting is a huge difference in accuracy and…

Is it a document or just pages

There are several aspects of how we talk about documents, scanning, OCR and Data Capture that are the culprits of confusion, misunderstanding, and unfortunately…

Why OCR is for everyone

You may come to this site looking for OCR software, PDF Compression tools, or maybe it was a StumbleUpon. Maybe a friend said they…

Not that you want to pay that invoice any faster

But you can, and you can with a lower cost, and perhaps take advantage of net discounts. With Data Capture and OCR technology you…

Ok Chris, you talk the talk, but what is it?

The constituents of this blog are varied. Some know what OCR and Data Capture is, some do not. Some know they need it but…

Why hot folder’s are so HOT

We are all guilty of over complicating things. In technology products, over complication results in more features then you will ever use and less…

Check your check scanning

Check scanners are fast, and have very accurate MICR reading. The check scanners get the job done, when the only job is to get…

Down and dirty paperless office

In my office, paper comes in, is reviewed for value, gets scanned, and shredded or filed. I have setup a system that allows me…

It learns right? – The misconception about recognition learning

Because of the way the market has come to understand OCR ( typographic recognition ) and ICR ( hand-print recognition ) there is no…

Not even your monitor is safe from OCR

I’ve talked about various uses of OCR that are non-conventional: anti-virus, CAPTCHA ( thought this does not work ), and now it’s time for…

File Format Buffet! – choosing your output format

Anymore OCR and data capture solutions give you a broad selection of what output format you want the result to be in. Until the…

Beefy servers don’t always make faster OCR

IT departments like the new latest and greatest computer technology, why shouldn’t they. Usually when shopping for a machine it’s always true that MORE…

Exceptional exceptions – Key to winning with Data Capture

Exceptions happen! When working with advanced technologies in Data Capture and forms processing, you will always have exceptions. It’s how companies choose to deal…

OCR has your back!

There a few niche uses of OCR technology that many people don’t realize exist, many will never impact the average user. But there are…

“eBooks for Reading” By: OCR

As the popularity of reading eBook’s increases so does the demand and need to convert books to an eBook . Legality aside the promise…

It’s CAPTCHA for a reason – Why you can’t OCR CAPTCHA

I’ve been surprised recently about the number of project requests and Twitter conversation’s insisting that OCR can be used to read CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA…

You gotta spend money to save money

I’ve been surprised about the nature of the economy and it’s impact on technology that saves money. OCR and Data Capture have a clear…

Set it and forget it OCR

My office is a paper monster, paper comes in and never leaves intact. The scary part is how fast this happens. Paper in hand,…

Converting Digital Photos to Text – The Reality

Contrary popular belief it will be many years before a digital photograph of a document will be close to the accuracy of a document…

Don’t over-clean your scanned images

There is always some way to modify a scanned image to improve it’s recognition results if it’s not already perfect. But there are also…

Reality of OCR engine voting

The trend of companies promoting OCR voting has become less common, but you will still occasionally find products that promote their accuracy by saying…

Scanning resolution – the magic 300 dpi

Many users of OCR don’t realize what the impact of resolution and bit-depth is or even what they are. Usually in the case of…

The wrong question – “How accurate are you?”

Organizations seeking full-page or Data Capture technology have a serious need to estimate accuracy before they even deploy a technology, as this is a…

When you got it design it – Form Design

  Not too often to companies using Data Capture technology have the chance to change their forms design or even create new ones. If…

Getting OCR to be 100% – Quality Assurance

Let’s face it OCR is not 100% accurate 100% of the time. Accuracy is highly dependent on document type, quality of scan, and document…

Is Fixed or Semi-Structured, understanding you forms

There are two major classes of Data Capture technology fixed or semi-structured. When processing a form it’s critical that the right class is chosen.…

So you want to process invoices

Invoices are one of the highest demanded documents to automate. Lets talk a little about what it takes to be successful in invoice processing.…

Why oursource document recognition?

It’s common for organizations to outsource their scanning, and document conversion projects. Organizations find sometimes that the skill required, the convince factor, and liability…

Color Scanning and Recognition – “No text left behind”

OCR technology has come a long way since it’s creation. On the 300 DPI ( Scan Resolution ) clean, letter type documents the technology…