Accurately OCR a scanned form to get input data

Report · Jul 19, 2016

Hi, so I am trying to accurately OCR a populated form in order to get the input data (ideally to do this for multiple forms). When I simply OCR the form Adobe does not recognize accurately where the tables and inputs are. I have a soft copy of the form that I'd like Adobe to somehow use when OCR'ing the populated scanned version of the form.

Please help!

Report · Jul 19, 2016

OCR evaluates the picture (scanner output image) for possible images of characters. If such are recognized the software makes a 'best-guess' as to what the character might be. While OCR can be rather accurate it is not 100%. Many variables can impact recognition accuracy. As well, for "tables", "columns" & such -- these are an arbitrary human interpretive artifact. An image/picture has none of these and OCR only recognizes potential characters of text.

Report · Jul 20, 2016

OCR can recognize only text of table not the tabular view.

If you are facing any issue in text accuracy, please share a sample document. We are trying our best to make the text recognition system better every time. You can use https://cloud.acrobat.com/send for sharing the file.

Thanks.