Technology is emerging day by day and people are getting obsessed with them. Today, the usage of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) in computers and laptops are much common and useful. Now what are the abbreviations of these two acronyms? What are the differences between these two? And also what’s the usage of these two technologies.
Let’s study difference between OCR and ICR quickly.
What are they?
OCR( Optical Character Recognition)
OCR is a software that scans documents containing texts and further covert them into documents that can be used for editing.
ICR( Intelligent Character Recognition)
ICR is a software that recognize the handwritten documents and patterns of writing.
USAGE of both technologies
It doesn’t recognize hand writing.
It is widely used in to convert books, documents into electronic files.
To computerize a record keeping system in an office.
Or to publish a text from a website.
It is widely used in recognizing handwriting’s.
Its main usage is to learn different hand writings along with different font styles.
To maintain a record in educational institutions like school and college.
For checking examination papers.
IS OCR and ICR in software form a good thing?
Usually flatbed and handheld scanners comes with OCR software.
It mainly used for business purposes
Business OCR software are much expensive.
The program which is running has to be monitored carefully so that the software can identify the unrecognized words and letters as well.
Mainly used in educational purposes as in educational scenario. It comes in software form for hand writing recognition.
They are not that much expensive.
There is no difficulty in reading any kind of hand writing either clear or unclear.
Advantages for using OCR and ICR
It mainly reduces human error
Many organizations and other educational institutions use it to hasten the data entry process.
While running, t is important to monitor it carefully which will give you later on good results.
It is designed for complex purposes.
When you are looking in a document imaging solution, Cr is the best remedy ever.
But mainly it doesn’t read handwriting, the biggest dilemma of it.
Gives you more reliable results.
Mainly in education circle it is rapidly used.
Kofax is an example of a product that can read handwriting from a scanned image and utilize what it reads.
No complexity occur in this kind of processing
While on the other hand, it has the capability of reading hand writing.
Conclusion
Both technologies are at their good and working well. Now, IWR is another technology mainly came to replace these two but working on real world images and documents so that people can get more and more mobilized due to these upcoming softwares.
Leave a Reply