OCR Conversion

PDF Document Conversion Flash Load Failed

The Advantages of OCR Conversion

OCR involves the use of computer software to translate images of type written text into machine-editable text. This conversion is performed after scanning and usually output to Microsoft WordMicrosoft Word
A popular piece of word processing software sometimes abbreviated to MS Word., Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft Excel
A popular spread sheet program., CSVCSV
(Comma Separated Value) File is a file containing information separated by commas or ASCII text filesASCII
American Standard Code for Information Exchange. A text document containing no formatting information..

The advantage of using OCR conversion is to save time and cost by automatically converting paper documents into an editable format.

OCR Conversion - How does it work?

The first step in the OCROCR
Involves the use of computer software to translate images of type written text into machine-editable text. conversion process is to assess the quality of original documents, this is to determine the document layout and formatting. Once we have accessed the documents a careful scanning and OCR processing rule setOCR Processing Rule Set
A customised principle generated for a specific batch of documents to improve recognition. is created. A batch of sample documents are read by the OCR software and the output text is verified for quality and accuracy.

We offer three levels of OCR conversion depending on the quality of the original document and level of accuracy required. OCR accuracy depends on the quality of the original documents, if they are of fairly good quality, we can then achieve up-to 99.99% accuracy.

The following are the three levels of OCR conversion available depending on your requirements:

OCR level 1

This is applied to straight forward plain text documents which are required to be scannedScanned
The process of turning documents into images that can be manipulated on a computer and converted to a Microsoft Word document.

OCR level 2

This is applied to documents with more complex layouts, which can contains data in tables, flow charts or graphics. If the client requires that we keep the existing layout, fonts, page order and graphics this level is recommended.

OCR Level 3

This is our proof-reading service which involves manual correction of any errors that occur during the OCR recognition process.