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For the first time in the country, a highly advanced technology known as “Intelligence Character Recognition” (ICR) will be used in data processing. The Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Shri Oscar Fernandes who will be launching the technology on Monday will be used for processing the ocean of data generated by the 5th Economic Census, currently underway.
The process also known as “Automated Forms Processing”, enables the users to process the documents from their images or directly from paper and convert them to computer readable data. The Automated Forms are designed to be scanned to a digital format so that the data on the Form can be extracted by software rather than keyed by data-entry personnel. While, Forms processing packages will give recognition capabilities, they also manage the complete life cycle of the document from scanning to extracting and include Image Archive and Retrieval.
Compared to conventional keyed data entry, the Automated Form Processing is more accurate, less expensive, easier to validate, produces an exact compact digital image of the original Form, generates a complete audit trail of the process, opens up a range of new ways to evaluate comment information in a simple and efficient manner and supports a range of new options for filling out Forms, including paper Forms, faxed Forms, web-Forms and e-mail Forms.
Another major advantage of the ICR technology is that it can be easily integrated with other computer applications and provides a far easier way to verify the data from the Form, and most importantly satisfies many new regulatory requirements, relating to certain specific types of surveys.
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