Question:
Is there a difference between OCR to make a document text-searchable, and OCR that can extract the specific information that you need from a document, grouping it into separate categories?
Answer:
It sounds like you would be interested in document automation software, which does exactly what you describe. General OCR software can take any file and make it text-searchable and editable. Document automation takes this a step further, by allowing you to specify data fields that interest you and extract answers into a database. Trapeze from CVISION provides advanced document automation services. It classifies incoming documents, recognizes data fields, extracts relevant information, and verifies it with existing data.
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