Optical Character Recognition
Problem
One company had a problem: they received hundreds of faxes every day and didn't know how to distribute them. They explained how the whole process of receiving/distributing is organized: users come to the site, fill in the necessary forms, print them and send by fax; then operator diddles tons of time on sorting these faxes out into the users' folders.
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Our solution
We determined to perfect this system and save his time and nerves. First of all we had to decide whether to use bar codes or character codes. Analyzed every detail we understood that actually there was no need in using bar code scanner, so the decision came by itself - the use of character codes saves a lot of time and efforts on drawing bar codes. As the Optical Character Recognition Module we used a third party with GPL license. The system works as follows:
- gives every paper your customers fill in an individual code
- receives a fax and automatically sends it to the folder for incoming faxes
- identifies the code and sends the fax to the definite user's folder
- original fax comes in TIFF format and reaches the user's folder converted to PDF format
- some faxes come up side down, and we taught our system to identify the code on the opposite site of the paper
