What is optical character recognition (OCR)?

What is optical character recognition (OCR)?

eBrief Ready deploys Optical Character Recognition (OCR) — a form of AI technology that allows a computer to recognise and convert different types of text from images, scanned documents or PDFs into machine-readable text. This includes both handwritten and printed text.

In the legal profession, the primary use of OCR is to enhance scans of documents so they are searchable.

How it works

1. Image capture — a document or image is scanned or photographed
2. Preprocessing — the image is cleaned up, with adjustments made for contrast, rotation and noise removal to make the text clearer
3. Character recognition — the OCR software analyses the shapes of characters in the image and matches them to predefined fonts or patterns, effectively reading the text
4. Post-processing — the software corrects errors and outputs the text into a usable format

For further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to our dedicated Support Team via support@legalready.ai or +61 3 9020 4456.

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