Extracting Data

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It's Not Too Late to Automate Your Data Abstraction:

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It's Not Too Late to Automate Your Data Abstraction:

Abstraction is the process of reviewing data sets or documents for information that will be needed in the future for decision making. The crux of the problem is having domain knowledge that allows one to accurately and swiftly sift the important from the unimportant. When done well, the result of data abstraction is the compression of a large amount of information to its essence without loss of meaning or usefulness. Abstraction is used to manage complexity so important decisions can be made quickly and with confidence.

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Data Capture: Solving the Biggest Problems

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Data Capture: Solving the Biggest Problems

As I travel around the country talking to elected officials and government employees one of the most common talking points is the challenge with managing their data.  Many of them still do a lot of manual data entry while others struggle with getting accurate indexing data from submissions using electronic recording/filing.  This often leads to...

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OCR 101... Can You Benefit from OCR?

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OCR 101... Can You Benefit from OCR?

Can you benefit from OCR?

 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is powerful software that transforms images such as faxes and scanned documents into human readable text.  Access to this text is very powerful and can be used for many purposes.  The questions below will help you determine whether or not you could benefit from an OCR solution.