Optical character recognition is a technology that analyzes the shapes of letters and numbers in a digital image and translates them into standard text data. Systems use pattern recognition and feature extraction algorithms to process scanned documents, photos of signs, or PDF files. IT departments deploy these engines to digitize physical archives, making the resulting files searchable, editable, and significantly smaller in storage size.
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Run those scanned invoices through the OCR engine before uploading them to the database so they're actually searchable.