Re: OCR

Posted by Fish'n Jim On 2022/8/24 19:35:20

I worked on a project to convert all the plant batch records to digital files. The need for OCR is if you have non-recognizable text, like hand written, otherwise, it should be able to search the text fields, if it's one of the recognizable ones. You used to have to save with OCR, but not mure that's the case anymore. I'm not up to date anymore and don't care to be which comes with age.
What happened was there wasn't enough manpower to scan all the records, and no one ever accessed the files once they were scanned. It was part of a bigger IT pie in the sky project to automate the plant records, and directly enter data into SAP, but like most pie in the sky, it fell on someone's face.
Make sure you know how much effort and how much use it'll be given and of course the cost. May not be so rosey. Unless you're researching individual systems or something, better to just pull up the file and read it. Most big documents have table of contents.