OCR/Text Search

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software converts scanned paper (images) into text. The resulting text can be placed into word processing documents or indexed for Text Search.

When used in a document management system, OCR is used primarily to generate text for content searching. Text Search can be either the primary or alternate method for finding and retrieving documents. It can be used in addition to indexing and searching by attributes, or records in a database linked to the original document.

Optix supports OCR via scripting, providing a flexible method of integration with any third-party OCR software. Optix is delivered with built-in scripts that support all popular OCR programs. Optix uses OCR to generate text for content searches and also for “zoned” OCR of forms to generate attribute indexing values.

Optix Text Search supports both boolean and advanced content searching on all your text-based documents.