Digital
Documents, LLC Releases dDOptimaOCR© 3.5 Optical Character
Recognition Software to Provide The Highest OCR Accuracy and Most
Flexible Text Formatting Solution
Released on
= August 1, 2005, 11:41 am
Press Release
Author = Digital Documents, LLC
Industry = Software
Press Release
Summary = Digital Documents, LLC--the leader in document scanning
and imaging services to clients globally, announces the latest release
of their Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software application
to complement their dDSpeedScan©
5.0 suite of document scanning and indexing software applications
and solutions.
Press Release
Body = (Vienna, Virginia) August 1, 2005 -- The leader in document
scanning and imaging services to clients globally, Digital Documents
LLC, announces the latest release of its Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) software application to complement their dDSpeedScan©
5.0 suite of document scanning and indexing software applications
and solutions.
Optical Character
Recognition refers to a technology that involves "reading"
words from a scanned image by translating each character on an image
into searchable text.
OCR enables
users to search for and retrieve information within a file or page.
In addition, when a set of files is indexed, users are able to search
for keywords across an entire document library and retrieve each
page with exact precision. OCR
enables users to execute searches in seconds, searches that once
required hours or days to complete.
To provide our
customers with the Optimal OCR Accuracy and Layout Retention, the
Digital Documents, LLC Technology Team has developed dDOptimaOCR©
3.5, the most advanced Optical Character Recognition technologies
and processes in the industry. dDOptimaOCR© utilizes advanced
OCR technologies and processes to enable six-sigma
level character accuracy, and ensures that the highest quality image
possible is presented to the OCR engines for conversion to text.
It is important
to note that the quality and condition of a paper document collection
are key factors in the successful recognition of characters to create
readable text. Therefore, to enhance the quality of each original
page, we start by focusing on the scan quality of each image --
removing noise such as borders, speckles, and skews.
In addition,
we utilize advanced color filter technologies to remove any page
background colors, in conjunction with multi-light image capture
technologies to remove any shadows cast by page creases that could
impact image quality or
recognition accuracy.
Once document
scanning and processing are complete, an OCR text layer is added
behind each image utilizing our dDOptimaOCR© solution. This
solution begins with an additional orientation filter to ensure
that the best image is presented to the OCR
engines.
Next, the characters
in the image are processed utilizing multi-engine OCR voting technologies
that rank each character to determine the best text recognition
fit. Then once a word is generated, it is filtered through a proprietary
lexicon to ensure the highest quality results.
Finally, this
text can be processed utilizing sophisticated layout retention technologies
to represent the image text layout, providing the best possible
text representation for pinpoint search and retrieval accuracy.
Once these processes are
complete, the Quality Control Team generates an OCR Benchmark Report
detailing the accuracy of the OCR process and the quality of the
results.
“As the
average size of our document scanning and indexing projects continues
to increase, we are seeing mixed document collections that contain
a greater variety of document condition, quality, fonts and lay-outs”
stated James M. Eglin, Jr., Executive Vice President Sales &
Marketing in making this announcement. "We wanted to be able
to offer our clients a way to utilize the power and flexibility
of
full-text searching. However, since we realized that there was nothing
currently available in the market that could provide the highest
levels of OCR accuracy we developed this version of dDOptimaOCR©
to respond to this unfulfilled need."
Additional information
about dDOptimaOCR©, as well as Digital Documents, LLC's entire
suite of document scanning and indexing services, may be found by
visiting http://www.DigitalDocumentsLLC.com.
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Web Site = http://www.DigitalDocumentsLLC.com
Contact Details
= 8000 Towers Crescent Drive
Vienna, Virginia 22182
703 288 5555
X 102
jeglin@digitaldocumentsllc.com
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