OCR processing

OCR or Optical Character Recognition is a technology that has been around for a number of years but has improved in accuracy as time has passed.

OCR is the process of recognising text in a scanned image and extracting that where required to other applications.

There are two kinds of OCR that Scantronics in the main utilise

Firstly full page OCR which is very useful for solicitors or accountants or anybody who needs to re-create an original from a scanned copy.

Secondly we are commonly asked to provide Searchable Text, this is when the original scanned documents remains in a non editable format yet the text and content is now searchable within the document and across networks.

Please note that using Adobe Acrobat will only allow you to search the OCR 'ed text within the open document you would need some kind of search tool or document management tool to search across the network.