What is Coding?
Since images are not searchable unless we attach some searchable information, finding relevant documents from an image collection is not much more efficient than looking through boxes of paper. Coding is the process whereby a human looks at an image of a document, and types information in the fields of the case database. The term auto-coding refers to a software process of using OCR to populate fields in a database. This technology is improving, and is appropriate for certain document collections where time or budget constraints apply.
