Conversion of electronic documents with OCR technology

When working with text, it is necessary to convert the scanned images into certain format , which can work with single character or object (typical example is format doc - MS Word). Such document can be created in two ways:

  • manual typing of information
  • automatic conversion with the OCR technology

By automatic conversion with the OCR technology is meant a process, when the input is a batch of pictures, in the middle stands "reading" software and on the output is a batch of text documents ready for further workflow and editing. Current OCR programs are able to achieve an average precision of 99 % (depends on the physical condition of original picture).

OCR process

Advantages of OCR - ABBYY FineReader

  • Precision, preservation of document structure
  • Recognition of tables and cell properties
  • Recognition of fonts, languages
  • Preservation of bullets and numbering
  • Preservation of hyperlinks

For document processing with the OCR technology is used award-winning software ABBYY FineReader. FineReader can automatically recognize basic objects of the document (picture, text, table), language and font, preserve document structure, cell properties in table, properties of bullets and numbering. Furthermore, it can process documents in batches with preset actions and automatically export into specified format.