Josef Elliott said: "In my view, no one should ever rely on OCR as the
only tool to be used for mission-critical (or even mildly important)
data retrieval as, even putting aside the accuracy issue, the lack of
context will scupper anything other than a simple word search."

Very true. I think OCR tends to be over hyped and thus user expectations
become somewhat unrealistic.

OCR is a very useful SUPPLEMENT to a well structured document
classification scheme and relevant metadata/tags/keywords "attached" to
each document. 

I wouldn't want to use OCR to try and retrieve a single specific invoice
when it is much easier and more reliable to retrieve said invoice based
on entering the invoice number in a template search field.

However, having said that, I find that OCR can be very useful when you
are not exactly positive what you are looking for and where it might
have been filed.

Gerry

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