What is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?

OCR is a technology that converts different types of documents—including scanned paper documents, PDF files, or images captured by a digital camera—into editable and searchable data.

In the context of bank statement conversion, OCR is the foundational technology that reads text from PDF documents and images. Advanced OCR engines can handle various fonts, layouts, and even handwritten text. Financial-grade OCR systems like those used in FastStatement Converter are specifically optimized for tabular data, numbers, and date formats commonly found in bank statements, achieving significantly higher accuracy than general-purpose OCR.

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