| OCR Scanners Categories: |
| Text Input |
| Data Capture |
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Text Input Scanners: |
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Text input devices scan pages or large portions of documents: the data can be hand fed or automatically fed, read, sorted and stacked. Text input allows data to be edited after it is scanned.
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Data Capture Scanners: |
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Data Capture devices are designed to capture repetitive data and to format the data as it being entered. This data cannot be edited later.
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Why OCR is used ? |
| To reduce data entry errors |
| To consolidate data entry |
| To handle peak loads |
| Human readable |
| Can be used with many printing techniques |
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| Time and Cots Effective: |
OCR can recover valuable info. and format it in reusable form. Information can be gathered from old paper files, resumes and applications, forms, address labels, etc. India has the capability to handle such data entry, thus saving time and money. |
