Paper Documents Conversion
The task of converting scanned paper documents to useful electronic formats is one of the most important applications for document conversion. Documents, scanned to image formats, have lots of limitations such as large file size, impossibility of context search and content reuse. Consideration should be given to conversion to more useful formats, such as:
- Searchable: PDF
- Archive: PDF/A – for the long-term storage
- Compressed: MRC-PDF
- Editable: TXT, RTF, DOC, XLS, PPT
- Structured: XML, HTML
Content extraction from the document image is the task of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) or Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) technologies. Modern OCR applications convert image files to different document formats with saving not just content but also the structure of document (ADRT).
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