Have you ever found yourself searching and searching for a PDF document but with no luck of finding it OR spending 30 minutes of wasted time? To ensure your entire document repository is text searchable, we recommend the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Why should you OCR documents?
OCR stands for “optical character recognition”, meaning that once a document is OCRed, it is fully text-searchable, making it significantly easier and faster to find. This ensures better search with better results, prevents you from having to recreate the wheel (don’t have to recreate the same things over and over), and improves document retrieval, storage, and sharing efficiency. Imaged documents (PDF/ TIFF) are not text searchable which could be as much as 30 – 40% of your document repository.
Symphony OCR
Symphony OCR enables firms who use Worldox, MetaJure, PracticeMaster, NetDocuments or Windows Folder Tree structures to conduct full text search functionality for all PDF and TIFF documents.
Symphony OCR saves users the hassle of having to wait for each document to be OCRed by the scanner before they can scan their next file. Instead of OCR-ing upon the scan, with Symphony, OCR-ing happens silently in the background after the document has been put in its final resting place. This frees up valuable time for end-users who waste less time waiting on the OCR process.
Another advantage of Symphony OCR is regardless of the document source (email attachment, e-fax, external drives, USB flash drive or scan) saved into the repository; Symphony OCR will make ALL of your documents text-searchable. This is possible since Symphony OCR works silently in the background and constantly monitors for new documents which need to be OCRed.
To learn more about how your firm can benefit from Symphony OCR please contact us at Eastern Legal Systems by phone at: 877-357-0555 or by email at [email protected].
Jack Schaller has been active in the field of law office technology since 1989, and has worked with a variety of commercial accounting, legal billing, practice management, and document management software products during his twenty plus years in the software consulting field. During his tenure as a software consultant he has garnered many sales and service awards for his work with legal software products. Jack is a frequent presenter at legal conferences and seminars, and is a regular contributor to TechnoLawyer and other technology publications.
