With so many papers and electronic documents accumulating on a daily basis in an organization, there has to be a mechanism that can ease the collection, sourcing, and interpretation of relevant points from them. Electronic data capture is one process that supports the same requirement quite efficiently, and there are several tools and applications that are now available to us to facilitate data capture.
Optical character recognition is a technique that enables data capturing in a seamless manner. Applications that support it are called OCR applications. To learn more about the utility of an OCR application, the working of the software, and the benefits that it provides to the users, let us dive in to explore this technology in detail.