Paper forms are still the backbone of information gathering and process input. Yet, organizations are slow to replace manual data-entry with automated recognition software. Despite benefits of significant cost savings and improvements in productivity and accuracy, OCR and ICR adoption rates have been lower than expected (32% and 6%, respectively). To learn why, AIIM and Parascript conducted a recent study with surprising results. View the results here.

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Forms Processing
User experiences of text and handwriting recognition
(OCR/ICR)
AIIM White Paper Research

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Paper forms are still
the backbone of
information gathering
and process input

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Organizations are slow
to replace expensive
and error-prone
manual data entry

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despite automated recognition software
 OCR and ICR offer significant
cost savings and improvements
in productivity and accuracy
 It’s an old technology, yet still
not utilized... Why?

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Clearly businesses are still in need
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Technology improvements are here
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Handwriting recognition is crucial
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But it hasn’t been evaluated
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Paper is not going away
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50% productivity improvement available!
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Among other benefits
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Ways to increase productivity
 Evaluate the benefits of paper-free processes –
visibility, accessibility, speed of response, mobilization
 Evaluate savings using OCR in keying costs, speed
improvements, and quality of data
 Take a fresh look at hand-writing recognition and the latest ICR
capabilities
 Collect samples and ask vendors to show how well they can capture
the data
 Make sure your DPO is using up-to-date ICR capabilities

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More info
 Get the AIIM White Paper:
http://info.parascript.com/aiim-forms-
processing-white-paper
 Learn about the latest ICR
technology:
http://info.parascript.com/not-all-icr-
software-is-created-equal
 Follow on Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/ParascriptLLC