OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and can scan documents and transform them into a machine-readable form.
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition and can scan documents and transform them into a machine-readable form. But it doesn't "really" understand your data like IDP does.
For instance, OCR can tell us that certain pixels are the numbers 1 9 8 0 – but it does not understand that it's a year and part of your Date of Birth.
💡 IDP does, though. As humans, we quickly understand the meaning behind certain words, and that's what IDP does for you. It understands text and documents.
Infographic: OCR vs Intelligent Document Processing
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