14 posts tagged with "OCR"

In the course of business you'll often encounter documents that contain text, but are in a format that computer-based word processing does not support. These sorts of files are mostly images from optical input devices, such as scanners, digital cameras and fax receivers, which are produced in the form of raster graphics. Such texts must first be recognized by OCR before these documents can be efficiently utilized. Once that is done, you can edit, copy and search these texts as you normally do. Automatic character recognition saves valuable time and money.

OCR as time goes by: The first machine-readable font was developed for the American government 45 years ago. Much has changed in the world of OCR technology from that time until today.

1968 was a revolutionary year - not just in the sense of political upheaval, but in the history of the computer as well. Douglas C. Engelbart invented the computer mouse, the precursor of the personal computer hit the market, and electronic data processing was slowly gaining in popularity and demand.

Let OCR integrate faxes into your workflow​

OCR stands for optical character recognition and is a technology that allows PDF documents to be converted into text documents that can be searched and edited. Even in the digital age, faxes have not lost all their importance and are still used widely in a number of areas. The problem: Once scanned, these documents are available as either graphics files or as PDFs that contain only reproduced images and no text content, which means they cannot be integrated into your workflows. The solution is to use OCR to convert these graphics documents into editable PDF documents which allow them to be searched for specific terms and thus capable of being integrated into your company's workflows. webPDF provides the means of creating PDF documents from digitally recorded faxes that not only contain the fax image, but the text content as well.