Why General Purpose OCR Isn't Enough Filestack Blog

Generic OCR programs are adequate for simple text scooping and editing. For example, with Microsoft OneNote, you can import a PDF or JPEG image and use the OCR tool to output text. General purpose OCR lacks the tools for your business to take full advantage of the tremendous labor-saving and machine learning capabilities that full-powered OCR provides. You need OCR that scales to your needs and is specific for your business context. Think of OCR as a data collection tool.