Question

Describe three (3) software packages that can be used to capture data?

Answer 1

Answer:

SingleClick

SingleClick is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool that can be used to capture machine produced characters in low volume ad-hoc capture applications and populating a line of business application.

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

OCR as a technology provides the ability to successfully capture machine produced characters in preset zones or, full page. OCR systems can recognise many different OCR fonts, as well as typewriter and computer-printed characters. Dependent upon the capabilities of the particular OCR product, this can be used to capture low to high volumes of data, where the information is in consistent location(s) on the documents. 

ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition)

ICR is the computer translation of hand printed and written characters. Data is entered from hand-printed forms through a scanner, and the image of the captured data is then analysed and translated by sophisticated ICR software. ICR is similar to optical character recognition (OCR) but is a more difficult process since OCR is from printed text, as opposed to handwritten characters.

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