The Image Reader is a software system that helps automate today's costly and predominantly manual quality control and error-correction processes for pages converted by OCR from scanned images to text. This system is recommended for applications that require a high degree of accuracy in the converted text, such as medical-practice payments and insurance-claims processing. In addition to the extraction and formatting of structured, forms-based data, the Alta Data Image Reader provides nearly the accuracy of duplicate manual data entry at nearly the cost of plain OCR, useful in litigation support, data mining, business intelligence, and the conversion of paper records to electronic format.

In most cases where information must be transformed from printed to machine-readable formats, the owner's primary concerns are the speed, cost, and accuracy of the transformation. In many applications, it is not yet possible for programs alone to perform a satisfactory conversion from paper to database. Today, algorithmic proofreading and data entry by clerical workers play a major and expensive role in producing converted information that is accurate, useful, and locatable. Working in conjunction with a variety of OCR systems and introducing minimal disruption to existing production processes, the Alta Data Image Reader dramatically reduces the amount of manual review and correction required to produce high-quality output. The Image Reader OCR processing component is available as a DLL to be initiated and controlled by your production-management system.

The output of the Alta Data Image Reader consists of all the desired information extracted from each page, presenting it to your electronic health records, medical billings, litigation support, payments, or other system for further use.

Please contact us for further information and to discuss your company's requirements for improving your high-accuracy page conversion.