Document capture software performs these basic functions:
- Processing – Cleaning up, formatting and compressing images
- Viewing – Previewing and marking-up/annotating images
- Automated classification/data extraction – Improving the efficiency of extracting information from images
- Release – Submitting images and data to back-end applications like enterprise content management (ECM) and enterprises resource management (ERM) systems
The payback for a document capture system can be directly related to data extraction and releasing information. Document capture software packages typically utilize Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) or Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) to extract and classify the data from the scanned documents.