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The quality issues that are often seen in documents and impact OCR/ICR yield include: |
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Skewed text – OCR systems often cannot read text skewed by more than 10 degrees |
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Offending background or interfering objects |
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Broken text characters |
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Characters with whiskers due to skew or quantization or poor aliasing |
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Color or grayscale images with poor contrast |
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Remove lines from business forms, and rebuild the text where it intersects the lines |
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Where Inlite Research Fits In
ClearImage Repair and ClearImage Tools provides specific functions that improve the quality of documents and especially of text to increase the yield from OCR/ICR processing.
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Content based deskew presents the text at 0 degrees. |
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Advanced binarization extracts the text from the offending background |
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Automatically rotate the images to face right side up with Automatic Rotation |
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Correct the resolution and aliasing of incoming fax documents for better readability |
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Remove the slightly dark background of old, yellowed paper, to provide better contrast |
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Despeckle (Remove Noise) from the image |
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Smooth the text to remove whiskers and nibbles |
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Remove lines from business forms, and rebuild the text where it intersects the lines |
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| Evaluate your image processing requirements and repair strategies. User friendly and comprehensive, the ClearImage Demo shows the results of every operation in sequence. Get started immediately by downloading the ClearImage SDK |
