Data Capture

Using multiple versatile processes in combination, ORDS extracts data into digital archives. Such operations can be applied to existing paper or electronic archives, and also applied to novel capture solutions. We use all of the following:

OCR - Optical Character Recognition to capture machine printed text from scanned paper and electronic documents

ICR - Intelligent Character Recognition to translate hand-printed text into editable data from scanned documents

OMR - Optical Mark Recognition to interpret scanned documents for ticks, crosses and marks

Barcode - Barcode reading to manage documents and transmit data

Web - Customised web forms, accessible from the internet and or intranet, allow instant storage and retrieval of data

Key from screen - Data entry clerks extract information that cannot be digitally captured or verified

Data Mining - to access and analyse existing databases and other software applications

Key from page - the simplest data capture methodology uses data entry clerks to enter data straight from paper records, using either verbatim entry or coding frames.

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