No analysis is complete without acknowledging the complexities often glossed over in a standard demo. "Demo-ware" often works with perfect scans and clear handwriting. Real-world implementations face significant challenges.
In the demo, the handwriting is messy but legible. In the real world, you get thermal paper receipts where the ink has faded to invisibility, or sticky notes covering the invoice total. The demo skips these. When I asked a sales engineer about a "pixelated fax," they admitted that while the OCR is great, extreme degradation requires a pre-processing step (deskewing, despeckling) that isn't part of the core extraction module.
No analysis is complete without acknowledging the complexities often glossed over in a standard demo. "Demo-ware" often works with perfect scans and clear handwriting. Real-world implementations face significant challenges.
In the demo, the handwriting is messy but legible. In the real world, you get thermal paper receipts where the ink has faded to invisibility, or sticky notes covering the invoice total. The demo skips these. When I asked a sales engineer about a "pixelated fax," they admitted that while the OCR is great, extreme degradation requires a pre-processing step (deskewing, despeckling) that isn't part of the core extraction module. abbyy flexicapture demo