I recently sat-in on a great HIMMS webinar called “Extending Your EMR with Business Intelligence Solutions” that has a lot of great examples of how analytics can be applied to health information stored within electronic medical and health records. Just as I was about to question where scanned or handwritten information played in this healthcare “revolution” […]
What is Really Possible with ICR and Automated Handwriting Recognition
“Can your software read my dad’s diary?” If we only had a penny for each time we were asked that question… Unlike OCR, which is able to recognize entire pages of machine printed text in several different languages with really high accuracy rates, ICR can’t do the same with handwriting, and we don’t foresee this anytime […]
How Accurate is Handwriting Recognition?
Working with good quality machine print, OCR provides recognition accuracy of nearly 100 percent (99.9%). The diversity of human writing styles, spacing variations, irregularities of handwriting – all these factors make handwriting recognition a much more challenging task than reading machine printed or even hand printed characters. Therefore, the recognition systems that read cursive handwriting […]
Automating Handwriting Recognition – Is NOW The Time?
Despite tremendous gains in process efficiency, paper is still a crucial medium for bridging external and internal processes; which could be as simple as taking a new customer application and entering it into a computer. With rising labor costs and competitive pressures for faster customer service, automation of data extraction from paper is becoming crucial […]
What (and what not) to expect with ICR, handwriting recognition
A lot of folks, both technologists and end users, are very familiar with the capabilities of OCR and the technologys ability to convert images of typewritten documents into searchable electronic text. Thanks to incorporation with software packages from companies including Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft consumers and businesspeople alike can take advantage of OCRs capabilities to […]