Definition: An OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system is a computerized scanning system that enables you to scan a text document into an electronic computer file that can then be edited using a word processor on your computer.

Optical Character Recognition is the machine recognition of printed text characters.

OCR systems are able to recognize numerous kinds of text fonts and printed characters from typewriters and computers. Some advanced OCR systems can even identify handwriting.
OCR process diagram
An OCR scanner turns a text document into a bitmap, which is then turned into an ASCII text on your hard drive which can be edited in a word processor

How it works

When you scan a text document (such as an invoice or a page of a book) it is turned into a bitmap (aka a picture of the text.

An OCR system compares the light and dark aspects of this bitmap to determine each alphanumeric character. As the OCR recognizes each character, it turns them into ASCII text (raw text that can be edited in a word processor).

Then you can e.g. edit, search or copy the text as quickly and easily as you would a document in e.g Notepad.

OCR and E-conomic

The E-conomic Scanning add-on module can be fully integrated with the Ibistic Invoice System and easily provide OCR scanning options for paper invoices and other documents that you may need.


Learn more about Scanning and OCR with E-conomic and Ibistic.

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Scanning in E-conomic

The E-conomic Scanning add-on module can be fully integrated with an OCR system to make your invoices and other documents more accessible.

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