Why OCR fails? 5 Drawbacks and Limitations of Conventional OCR Engines

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While conventional OCR engine is considered as a mainstay platform and might seem like the end-all, be-all solution for capturing data. It can be frustrating at times when the data is misread or not even be read. Inputting a document into an OCR doesn’t mean that it will actually output something without a hitch- forcing knowledge workers to manually work.

Why does OCR fail?

Many OCR engines fail to support and understand the complexity of the input data in a given document. For example, if the input document is a form then the OCR might identify the text but may not recognize text over a line or the text in blocks. This may result in unexpected output.


Originally published at infrrd.ai 

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