Introduction

Often we get a lot of information from books, newspapers, and magazines. If we want to extract some paragraphs from an article or some important keynotes from newspapers, magazines or books, we can either use a pen to mark it, or photocopy and file it. To digitize that text, you have to key it in to the computer, which is a tedious and time-consuming task.

The Intelligent Optical Character Recognition Technology developed by Penpower provides effective, efficient, and complete solutions for personal users or enterprise employees who need to save a lot of clippings from documents, newspapers and magazines. These solutions are Penpower document OCR software (that can work with flat-bed scanners), the Penpower's Super ScanEYE, and Mini ScanEYE II. Users can save the document on their computer immediately in an editable format and retrieve it in the same original layout.  Automatic translation and text-to-speech functions are also provided in Penpower's OCR complete solutions.

There is a broad range of OCR applications. Libraries need to digitize large amounts of documents and newspapers. Corporations need to keep and control internal documents which need to be digitized as well. In addition, the automatic recognition of electronic forms, computer cards and customs ID cards are possible applications of Intelligent Optical Character Recognition Technology. This technology can not only perform recognition accurately, but also save plenty of manpower and time on data verification.