![]() ![]() Optical Character Recognition: Interprets typewritten text one character at a time.There are four modes of OCR software for different languages and character sets – all generally referred to as OCR. More recently, developers have enhanced OCR capacities with AI, pattern recognition, and machine learning technologies. Early applications for OCR included data-entry assistance for documents of specific formats such as passports, bank statements, and invoices. OCR uses computer vision technology to recognize characters or words in images and convert them to digital text files. Document scanning software applies optical character recognition (OCR) software to scanned images to identify and convert text. Scanning devices can be desktop hardware with multi-page sheet feeders or a flat glass pane, handheld wand-type devices, or smartphone camera apps. ![]() Document scanning software can automate many repetitive manual tasks and improve overall office efficiency.ĭocument scanning uses an image scanning device to capture a digital image of a paper document or printed image.Document scanning is an integral part of document management and digital document processing.Document scanning software uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to create text files from scanned images of typed text.But if you want a demo, just give us a buzz. Unfortunately these devices are not easily available in South Africa, we had to get ours off ebay. Once done, the C-Pen automatically populates the field highlighted. The software does allow you to capture the text into a database field for example simply by highlighting the field. There is quite a nice SDK kit that allows 3rd party applications to be written if your capturing requirements needed to be more specific than just having the text populate a MS Word document. Names, addresses on forms or invoice information that is paper based with no electronic copy available could easily be captured with this device. In the pharmaceutical market it could be used to scan product names or chemical entities that are difficult to spell and therefore error prone if human coders where to capture such data. It’s a slick little gadget that works well for scanning lines of text but, in my experience not great for scanning articles or paragraphs of text. A tiny camera records the text underneath the pen and using the OCR software, converts the typed words into an electronic format and inserts these into an electronic document such as a MS Word document. Simply a hand-held scanner just larger than a pen with a technology called: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) – a big word for converting text on paper to text that can be saved electronically.Ī user simply presses the pen onto the text, say in a magazine, and pulls the pen across the line of text. But one or two could be suitable and save your company some hard earned cash. Many of the technologies I talk about in this blog may not be suited to your business, in fact most probably won’t be. Why buy a Rolls Royce when what you really need is a Getz – particularly in these uncertain economic times. It’s all about your businesses requirements, getting past the marketing waffel and putting in a solution that fit’s your business need rather than listening to the ‘noise’ in the media. It’s a fantastic operating system that comes with OpenOffice (a free version of MS Office but with differences and limitations) and quite a few Email applications that compete well feature-for-feature with MS’s popular Outlook. Take Ubuntu for example, a community developed, Linux-based operating system managed in part (most part?)by Mark Shuttleworth. Some technologies have been around for quite some time but are not well marketed hence less penetration in the South African market. With the financial crisis firmly upon us and pressure on the SOHO and SME markets to do ‘more with less’, I think it’s important for us at Janus IT to show clients various technologies that can make their companies more efficient.
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