Scanning
OCR or Optical Character Recognition, is a powerful alternative to data entry by means of automated forms processing. Any company that is interested in a cost-effective approach to capturing data from forms and/or retaining their images, will want to consider the high reliability and production of the OCR process. Our document imaging process can turn your paper-based records into a potent source of information, prevent lost records and save storage space. We can turn your paper documents into a searchable database and/or upload it into your current database. This will eliminate the need for filing cabinets and eliminate the potential for damaged or lost documents.
Consider these facts . . . Data obtained from Coopers & Lybrand - of all the pages that get handled each day in the average office:
- 90% of corporate memory exists on paper
- 85% of the pages are merely shuffled
- The average document gets copied 19 times
- Companies spend $20 in labor to file a document; spend $120 in labor to find a misfiled document; and spend $220 in labor to reproduce a lost document
- 7.5% of all documents get lost
- 3% of the remainder get misfiled
- Professionals spend 5-15% reading information but 50% looking for it!