Virtual Services - OCR Optical Character Recognition Services Directory

OCR - Optical Character Recognition Services:

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a program by which we can take hard copy and scan the files into text files. Faxed files which come through as images can also be converted into text documents by using OCR.

OCR involves the recognition and conversion of printed characters on an image (picture) to searchable ASCII text (similar to type in a word processing program). Recognition is impacted by the quality of the scanned page. Even on quality pages, OCR output may results only in 80% accuracy and will need to be edited. The OCR'd text files can be linked to the original image and provided to the client with links that provide a useful transition from text to image.

An OCRed text stream works better and more seamlessly with a PDF document than a TIFF or JPEG file. In particular, PDF format supports a hidden OCR text layer and highlighted text search hits, both of which are unsupported by TIFF and JPEG.

Also, in order for you to search for information on imaged documents, information has to be converted to searchable text. One conversion process involves the use of an OCR program to read the image and convert the information to text. 

ePro's staff of editors will clean up OCR'd text and run it through a QC process to verify data integrity. Edited documents will achieve 99.9% accuracy in database text retrieval. If you need to be able to accurately search the text, you will want this service to be performed. 

If you're already storing documents in TIFF or JPEG, you should consider converting them into PDF's to fully utilize the benefits that super-compressed PDFs have to offer.

 

Save Time and Money
Access a particular document on CD or on your server in a matter of seconds! Professionals can spend up to 50% of their time looking for information when they spent only 5% to 15% of their time reading it.
 

Save by no longer wasting valuable office space to store years of backfiles.  Studies prove that on average it requires 1 employee to manage and maintain every 12 filing cabinets in an organization!
 

ePro Services assists your business in operating in the 'paperless' environment by:  
Scanning your most recent documents on an ongoing basis
Converting boxes and cabinets of back files
Installing your own scanning stations customized for your operational needs

 

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Converting hard copies into computer files        Management - condensing files onto CDRom         General scanning - for archival or reference           

Documents         Forms         Books             Manuscripts              

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