Basics That You Need to Know About OCR

In this blog you are about to learn:

  • What is OCR
  • How OCR works
  • Why OCR accuracy never is 100%
  • What techniques have been introduced to address the growing need of higher accuracy

What is OCR

Paper to digital – Optical character recognition, or OCR in abbreviation, is the technology developed to convert text-based images into computer-intelligible, edible, and accessible electronic documents. 

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Docs Matter en Français

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Dans les nouveautés apportées à notre application Docs Matter, nous avons ajouté à la gestion de l’interface le français. Vous pouvez maintenant utiliser toutes les fonctions de l’application dans votre langue:

  • Scan de documents
  • Amélioration de l’image du document : recouper, améliorer le contraste, noir et blanc…
  • Reconnaissance Optique de Caractères (OCR) : Français, Anglais, Chinois,…
  • Aide à la correction de résultat OCR : suggestion de caractères ou de mots.
  • Organisation de vos documents en dossiers et sous dossiers
  • Synchronisation de vos documents dans le nuage
  • Export vers fichiers TXT et PDF
  • Échange de documents

L’application est gratuite avec une limitation de 20 export de fichiers PDF et 50 édition de documents. Vous pouvez, depuis l’application, acheter la version PRO pour l’équivalent de $3.99.

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Chinese OCR SDK

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the technology that can extract text from images. The images can be pictures taken from your mobile device or scanned copies of paper document.

The recognition rate of modern OCR engine is reaching more than 90% for well formatted printed fonts. The problems encountered are mostly due to bad image: the image is too skewed, too dark or blurry, or a combination of this problems.

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A quoi correspond OCR?

Qu’est-ce que OCR ?

OCR (Anglais: Optical Character Recognition, Français: Reconnaissance Optique de Caractères) est la technologie permettant d’extraire le texte d’une image. C’est la phase qui intervient dans le processus de digitalisation de documents juste après la capture.

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[2015/01/21] What’s New in “Docs Matter – Document Management” for Android version

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For the latest version of “Docs Matter – Document Management”, we have made some changes on several parts:

1. We did some adjustments on UI and Setting Menu.

2. Added more recognition languages, including: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Turkish.

3. Added Notification Center, you will be hearing from us soon.

4. Now you can export OCR results to txt file.

5. Added function: European languages OCR results are now supported to export to PDF

6. Fixed some bugs including Android 5.0 compatibility issues.

   Wanna give it a try? Go to Google Play and search for “Docs Matter” or click on the link below!

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New Android Application – Docs Matter helps you capture and manage your paper documents on the go.

Docs Matter’s main feature is to scan the document you have, and use the built-in OCR engine to retrieve text from document. You are able to find any document you need by entering few keywords, even more, you can export it to searchable PDF and share it with your co-workers or friends.

Yunmai Technology – December 19th, 2014 – Docs Matter is a new intuitive application which provides you a better way to manage your documents on the go, and never need to worry about missing files any more.

The reason that makes Docs Matter better than common document management application is that Docs Matter has an OCR engine within. The OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology allows you to retrieve the text from your document. Docs Matter can recognize documents in 14 different languages (European Languages + Chinese Traditional/Simplified) with a high accuracy rate.

In order to reduce the time to review the OCR results, we added a new function: Character Suggestion. Whenever a character has been recognized with a low accuracy rate, Docs Matter will recommend a list of 5 characters for you to replace inside the document.

Export to searchable PDF: export your document to double layer PDF, the recognition result are included within the picture of your document, so that you keep the original document layout and also include the text that have been recognized.

Share your documents by Email, social networks, or upload them to your Cloud Storage. In the meantime, you can also keep them synchronized with our cloud, so you don’t have to worry about losing your documents.

You can find Docs Matter on Google Play for your Android devices.

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Docs Matter – Documents Management ANDROID RELEASE

We have released an updated version of our Documents Management Application on Google Play.

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Docs Matter let you scan your paper documents and with the built-in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine, retrieve the text from within the picture. You can then organize and search for any documents by entering a few keywords.

The application auto-crop and enhance the picture so that you have clean documents. Then export them into double layer searchable PDF file.

Share your documents with your coworkers or friends.

Always have all your important documents on the go with you!

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