Document Recognition Techniques and the Application to Workflow Management Systems

As businesses seek to automate and digitize an increasing number of workflow tasks, paper and traditional documents can become a hindrance to this goal. Unlike a web-based form, text in a scanned pdf or an image is not easily accessible to most computer systems. This leads to tasks that are tedious, time-consuming, and error-prone, such as retyping a pdf to enter its information into a form or manually reviewing hundreds of applications to see if they are missing any required fields.