Does RICAR support OCR?
A. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. This is how a computer converts words in an unsearchable scanned image to searchable text. OCR is usually necessary in order to use full-text indexing and searches, RICAR’s FreeOCR software performs an unstructured search and index of all recognizable text and numbers and is used extensively at our customers for EOBs and other documents. FreeOCR is a very inexpensive way of implementing OCR whenever it is beneficial, but not imperative, to have documents (like EOBs) OCR’d. FreeOCR provides an accuracy of less than 100%, but the expense of manually correcting misread characters is eliminated. Freedom can also provide a more robust OCR solution that includes 100% verification of all data and be used to output exact data for posting within disparate systems. If you require OCR that provides 100% accuracy, RICAR is still your provider and you should call a solution specialist to discuss your specific needs and objectives.
