Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Use Data Capture Software To Minimize Errors And Delays

Data capture is basically the process of extracting data from paper documents. Earlier, this task was done manually, and the employees would spend good amount of time in going through each and every form and number. Employees would face difficulties in processing these forms such as invoices, as they usually contained more than one field in them. But, nowadays software are available that can easily do data capture and that too, quickly and accurately. The software has optical character recognition (OCR) feature, which can easily identify various fields and characters present on the form. After extraction, the data is automatically digitized, and this results in faster and more detailed data processing. The data can then be saved on electronic mediums and can be easily accessed later, when required.

The OCR technology used in these software is not new. This has been there since the early twentieth century. It was not used at that time due to the lack of accuracy. But with the recent advancements in technology, optical character recognition has become very accurate and is widely used in data capture software.

Nowadays, data capture software are used in most of the offices and business organizations. Use of this software significantly reduces the labor cost that would have been spent in shipping documents from one country to the other. It also saves employees time as they would no more require to input key data manually, from the documents to the system.

Using the software also removes the cost of storing important paper files and various other documents.

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