What is OCR?
Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is a technology that enables you to convert different types of documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files or images captured by a digital camera into editable and searchable data.
Imagine you’ve got a paper document - for example, magazine article, brochure, or PDF contract your partner sent to you by email. Obviously, a scanner is not enough to make this information available for editing, say in Microsoft Word. All a scanner can do is create an image or a snapshot of the document that is nothing more than a collection of black and white or colour dots, known as a raster image. In order to extract and repurpose data from scanned documents, camera images or image-only PDFs, you need an OCR software that would single out letters on the image, put them into words and then - words into sentences, thus enabling you to access and edit the content of the original document.
ABBYY Finereader Pro
ABBYY FineReader is an ideal tool for professionals that helps increase the productivity of your business. Whether you need to extract data from a paper document or add a document to a searchable archive, ABBYY FineReader will do it for you quickly and easily, saving your valuable time and staff resources.
ABBYY FlexiCapture Pro
ABBYY FlexiCapture is a significant step forward in the development of data entry and document processing systems. Based on ABBYY's superior data capture and document recognition technologies, it provides a comprehensive solution to process multiple types of paper documents in a single stream and accurately transform them into usable data.
ABBYY FlexiCapture 8.0 Professional is ideally suited for use in corporate departments and small- to medium-sized businesses that require a powerful yet cost-effective program for document processing and data entry. It enables customers to streamline document-based operations across the entire organization and significantly reduce costs associated with manual, time-consuming and labor-intensive data entry.
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