ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) has more nuanced definitions, but in most industry vernacular is used generically to refer to the recognition of handwriting, ranging anywhere from block-print to cursive. Adjacent technologies can even capture signatures that need to be compared and validated. To utilize OCR and ICR technologies, most organizations rely on a deeper capture application, often referred to as IDR (Intelligent Document Recognition). IDR is the business rules and workflow engine around OCR and ICR that provides needed context about a document (identification, classification, separation), and invokes the appropriate OCR or ICR technology to process a job
Because it would not be unheard of for the technology that makes the image look good on the screen, hurts the image for recognition technologies OCR, ICR, etc. The logic is simple
So how do you tell if your form is hand-print, or handwriting, or better yet both! ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) is the algorithm used in the place of OCR for characters generated by a human hand
" “We want to ICR about 100,000 documents, but some of them are 75 years old on rice-paper, and in a language that that no one here speaks
For their specific applications, optical Character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR) demonstrate high levels of accuracy when working with constrained text (i.e., lines, boxes and combs)
· Recognition – using OCR (or Optical Character Recognition) to convert printed characters or machine text into digital files; ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) a step above the former, to read constrained handprint, including printed characters in a form, box or other document limitations, and handprint, including cursive, barcodes, and more. Even one step higher is “advanced” ICR, a more sophisticated technology that interprets the patterns of human writing, unique to each individual and reads unconstrained handprint and any other type of handwriting, including cursive
There are many well-known packages out there that talk about machine print (OCR), ICR, and even unconstrained handwriting, but offer them in different software packages that require additional set-up, configuration, and cost
This works well when considering only a single OCR/ICR engine, but when you are comparing two the story changes...#ScanningandCapture #ICR #OCR #DocumentRecongition #accuracy
Don Dew is with Parascript, a leading recognition solutions provider, online at parascript.com #ElectronicRecordsManagement #ICR #OCR #handwritingrecognition
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