Data Entry through OCR and ICR Services

OCR is a short form of Optical Character Recognition. “A process of reading text from Paper and translating that image into the form that computer can understand.” All OCR systems consist of an optical scanner for reading text, and sophisticated software for analyzing images. Most OCR systems use a combination of hardware and software to recognize characters. Advanced OCR systems can read text in large variety of fonts, but they still have difficulty with handwritten text.

Intelligent Character Recognition is full form of ICR. ICR is a process of translating handwritten text to computer readable text. In ICR, information/data is inserted through Input devices, and then captured data entry is analyzed and translated into machine readable language.


Following are different type of OCR resource utilized in data entry:

• Typewritten OCR
• Hand Print OCR
• Cursive OCR
• Music OCR
• Research Areas
• MICR

Let’s check out some of the benefits that OCR or ICR services bring to you:

• Save Lot of Time: In early stage, there is no ICR and OCR services available, People have to do manually data entry and that wastes to much time in just converting text data into digital data. The process of translating paper text to digital text takes less than a minute!
• Reduces Efforts: By ICR and OCR services, you can reduce efforts in creating, processing and republishing various documents.
• Lessen Costs: Using ICR and OCR services you can lessen your cost of data entry from paper. When you have ICR and OCR services available, you can save the cost of hiring data entry doers.
• Other Benefits: Here are the some of the other benefits mentioned below:
o You can get information in digital format that can be saved for years to years.
o You can access data any point of time.

ICR and OCR services are very useful in today’s world where time and money is precious resource.