CVISION Technologies

Question: We are looking for an OCR solution. How is the OCR solution within PdfCompressor different from other OCR engines?

Answer: The very accurate OCR engine with PdfCompressor is made with corporate business needs in mind. The OCR engine is designed for large volume, business needs.

Through robust functionality, PdfCompressor provides configurations for speed, volume, and automation. CVISION automates the OCR process with Watch Folder capabilities; through Watch Folders, users can leave the process unattended as documents are processed. In Watch Folder mode, files are OCR’d by simply being dropped into a folder. To accommodate large volume scanning, the Batch OCR feature within PdfCompressor enables scanned documents to be processed fast; PdfCompressor OCR processing rates are about 1 page per second.

PdfCompressor offers a variety of configurable features to make it the perfect fit for industrial strength, corporate OCR:
• Watch Folder for an automated OCR process
• Batch OCR for large volume
• Fast OCR processing rates, about 1 page/second
• Robust Batch OCR functionality including error log files & confidence controls
• Control output generated in 10 different formats
• Supports OCR input of 15 different file formats including TIFF & PDF

To try PdfCompressor with OCR, click the link below:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/pdfpro40_download.html

Question: I am looking for an OCR engine that can perform based on speed and accuracy. Can the OCR be fast and accurate at the same time or can you just have one or the other?

Answer: Typically, is a general tradeoff between OCR speed and accuracy. The accuracy is generally a function of the OCR engine speed. It is usually possible to obtain greater OCR accuracy by running the engine longer, or by deploying more OCR engines.

In any event, even assuming that there are as many as 10 OCR engines, or super-accurate modes, for most companies there is a point of diminishing returns, that is, a point at which it is not worth slowing down the OCR processing rate any more, even if the tradeoff is greater accuracy.

A company needs to ask itself then what degree of accuracy do we need? How accurate is accurate enough? What processing rate is acceptable within a given workflow? Sometimes greater OCR accuracy can be achieved without increasing processing time. This often involves either some form learning or optimizing for a given application domain.

You can try out the PdfCompressor’s OCR below:
http://www.cvisiontech.com/pdfpro40_download.html

Question: We are looking to make our PDFs text searchable, “OCR our documents.” Does PdfCompressor OCR files as well? We have PDFs as well as TIFFs, can you OCR both?

Answer: PdfCompressor compressed files & inputs OCR to make files text-searchable. If you have TIFF files, we can convert TIFFs into compressed, searchable PDFs with OCR.

To try PdfCompressor with OCR for free, click the link below:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: We are currently using another OCR program other than PdfCompressor. We would like to test your OCR engine.

Answer: We offer a free 30-day trial of PdfCompressor. I have attached the link below.

The OCR engine within PdfCompressor features the following benefits:

• Automate the OCR process with Watch Folders
• OCR large volumes with Batch OCR
• Locate a single word with an entire multi-page document
• Take less time rewriting text with super-accurate OCR
• Document Compression combined with OCR accuracy
• OCR supported in 60+ languages
• Process large document volumes fast
• Superior OCR results for color documents
• Perceptually lossless, web-optimized, searchable PDFs
• Multi-directional OCR

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Questions: Does the PdfCompressor have the ability to make files text searchable, even if the files are JPEG or TIFF? Also, what are the advantages of text searchable documents?

Answer: PdfCompressor compressed files & inputs OCR to make files text-searchable. If you have TIFF files or JPEG file, we can convert TIFFs and JPEGs into compressed, searchable PDFs. The OCR engine with PdfCompressor is made with corporate business needs in mind. The OCR engine is designed for large volume, business needs.

Through robust functionality, PdfCompressor provides configurations for speed, volume, and automation. CVISION automates the OCR process with Watch Folder capabilities; through Watch Folders, users can leave the process unattended as documents are processed. In Watch Folder mode, files are OCR’d by simply being dropped into a folder. To accommodate large volume scanning, the Batch OCR feature within PdfCompressor enables scanned documents to be processed fast; PdfCompressor OCR processing rates are about 1 page per second..

To try our OCR free software, click the link below:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/pdfpro31_download.html

Question: My firm scans countless documents daily. At the moment, the output files of our scanners are JPEGs. Will converting company documents to PDFs be more beneficial than keeping our documents in JPEGs?

Answer: We come across companies all the time with similar questions regarding what output to scan to. As document imaging professionals, we find that in most to all cases, it is best to convert company documents to PDFs. Some of the advantages of converting to PDF opposed to JPEG below:

* Text Searchability with text within the document using OCR
* Compression up to 1/100th the size of JPEG for color files
* Editing using readily available tools for PDFs.
* Web optimization allowing downloads to open immediately
* Viewing from any of 500,000,000 computers
* Metadata with info about the document travels with the document
* Portability to any OS/Hardware
* Additional file control using advanced tools.

If you are interested in trying a free 30-day trial, please click the link below.

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: I want to insert OCR into my scanned files to make them test-searchable. Do you offer a free 30-day trial of your OCR software?

Answer: We do offer a free 30-day trial of OCR software; I have attached the link below. PdfCompressor converts scanned files into text-searchable PDFs with super-accurate OCR. In addition to the OCR, PdfCompressor also dramatically compresses the size of scanned files.

To download PdfCompressor with OCR, please click here:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/pdfpro31_download.html

Question: I am currently looking at whether to buy OCR software. Can OCR software make my documents, which have my handwritten notes in the margins and in between lines of the documents, text searchable?

Answer: Yes, our upcoming PdfCompressor 4.0 is the product for you. The product comes out October 2007 and will be capable of ICR, or recognition of handwritten text.

Feel free to download a free 30-day trial of PdfCompressor at the attached link:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: Please provide the link, so I may download your free OCR trial.

Answer: We offer a free 30-day trial download of PdfCompressor with OCR. I have attached the link below.

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: Can I OCR scanned color documents reliably, particularly newspaper and magazine scans?

Answer: Although OCR rates are getting better with each new OCR product release, there is a considerable disparity in recognition rates between bitonal (black & white) documents and color scanned files. It is quite common, even using the latest OmniPage or Abbyy release, that entire blocks of light text, text on textured regions, and reverse video text goes unrecognized. Many OCR methods still rely on basic thresholding of color files, and are mostly calibrated to achieve good performance results on bitonal image scans.

At the heart of good color OCR, is an OCR engine or preprocessing step that very accurately finds and lifts (or segments) all the text regions. The right image preprocessing of color files before OCR is a step in the right direction (e.g., CVISION turbo OCR).

Another important issue in achieving high recognition rates on color scanned documents is not over-compressing these files prior to OCR. Often, companies will use a low quality JPEG setting when capturing color documents directly off the scanner. By the time these files get to the OCR engine, sometime later, they are already considerably degraded and the OCR recognition rates are appreciably lower. It is better to OCR first, using the highest quality scanned files available, and then compress the files.