Optical Character Recognition
One of the challenges facing most people who are attempting to convert their paper documents to a workable, electronic format is how they can then use, search and manipulate the text found within those scanned documents. The reason this brings a challenge to the process is because paper documents are scanned as image documents (normally TIFF, PDF or, in some cases, even JPG), which means most software only understands that it's being presented with an image file and, as far as the software can tell, that image may contain a family photo, a picture of a butterfly, your 1st grader's most recent art project, your greatest chili recipe or your clients secret tax documents. Unless you have the text extracted from the documents and applied in a way that allows your software to read it, you won't be able to find the recipes or the tax documents amongst all of the other image files.
At New Jersey Legal we are experts at using OCR (the abbreviated version of Optical Character Recognition) techniques to extract the text data from your documents. We make the entire document imaging process simple with our project management services. We can handle the entire workflow of your documents including the scanning, document coding and indexing, OCRing and ongoing storage or hosting of your electronic documents through various means such as our digital document repository and online document hosting. The result is you have fully searchable text documents, allowing them to function and interact as though they had been originally created electronically which benefits you as they seamlessly integrate with your electronic document workflow. Call New Jersey Legal today to find out what the OCR experts can do for you!
