OCR for Insurance: Streamlining Claims Processing

The insurance industry is all about managing risks and providing timely assistance when the unexpected happens. In this digital age, insurance companies are constantly…

Best ID Scanning Software of 2023: Digitize IDs in Minutes

In today’s digital age, businesses and organizations are constantly seeking ways to streamline processes and enhance security. One area that has seen remarkable advancements…

OCR in Healthcare: Paperless Productivity

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, staying ahead requires embracing technology that enhances efficiency, accuracy, and patient care. One significant step towards achieving these…

OCR in Finance: Automating Invoice Processing

In the realm of finance, efficiency is paramount. Streamlining processes and reducing manual tasks not only saves time but also reduces the risk of…

OCR in Healthcare: Improving Medical Records Management

In the fast-paced and demanding world of healthcare, efficient management of medical records is crucial for providing quality patient care. With the vast amount…

How OCR Transforms Scanned Texts into Editable Documents

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a groundbreaking technology that has revolutionized the way we interact with printed or handwritten documents. In the past, converting…

No-Code Solution: How to Create Thousands of Invoices in Seconds Without Knowing the Code

Invoicing is an essential part of any business, but for many entrepreneurs and small business owners, creating invoices can be a time-consuming and tedious…

OCR Has Your Back! Simplifying Data Management with Optical Character Recognition

Managing data is an essential aspect of business operations, and efficient handling of documents plays a crucial role in this process. As businesses continue…

Set It and Forget It OCR: Simplifying Document Management with Automated Data Capture

Document management is an integral part of any business, requiring efficient handling, organization, and retrieval of information. One key aspect of document management is…

Аutomated form processing opportunities for your business

Forms are an integral part of many business processes, from customer onboarding and employee management to procurement and compliance. However, manual handling of forms…

Types of document workflow platforms

Introduction: In today’s fast-paced digital age, businesses across various industries are constantly seeking ways to enhance their operational efficiency. One critical aspect of optimizing…

WISETREND-ABBYY FlexiCapture Field Extraction Training

WISETREND and ABBYY FlexiCapture have come together to offer an exceptional field extraction training solution for businesses seeking to optimize their data capture processes.…

The Different Types Of OCR And Their Benefits For Your Business Processes

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology has become increasingly popular and valuable in today’s digital age. By converting scanned or photographed text into editable and…

Invoicing Software with OCR for Startups in 2023

Invoicing is a critical aspect of any business, and for startups, it becomes even more crucial to have efficient and accurate invoicing processes in…

Guide to OCR for Passports

Passports are essential travel documents that contain critical personal information, including name, date of birth, nationality, and other biographical data. To process passports accurately…

Data Capture for Healthcare: Getting More Out of Your Electronic Health Records (EHR) with OCR

In today’s healthcare environment, electronic health records (EHR) are increasingly being used to manage patient information. EHR systems help healthcare providers to maintain accurate…

OCR Trends In The 2023

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology has been rapidly advancing in recent years, and 2023 is expected to bring even more exciting developments. OCR is…

Review of OCR technology exhibitions

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology has come a long way in recent years. OCR is a technology that allows printed text to be scanned…

Best insurance forms processing software of 2023

The insurance industry heavily relies on accurate and efficient processing of forms, from policy applications to claims submissions. To streamline this process and improve…

Preparing for Automated Purchase Order Processing in 2023

In 2023, automated purchase order processing is going to become more commonplace. With the help of advanced OCR and data capture technology, businesses will…

The fastest way to digitize business processes

This article will provide an overview of the fastest ways to digitize business processes. The fastest way to digitize business processes Identify Processes that…

Accelerating digital transformation in practice

  Accelerating digital transformation in practice The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming industries across the globe, and the way we live and do business.…

How to digitize your company documents, manage document workflows and processes in 2022.

This article will tell you how to digitize your business documents in 2022 with the right methodology and document management software and document workflow…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…