Automated Forms Processing

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Automated Document Processing involves a three stage process of scanning (capturing) the image of the form to be processed by Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and pre-processing (enhance and clean up) to enable the recognition engine to give best results, then capturing the information using the recognition engine and finally post-processing the results into the required output format.

This application of character recognition engines increased the usefulness of the technology and made it applicable for use with real world forms in normal business applications.