What is a watched folder OCR? Tutorial
Many companies have tons of documents which are scanned images or scanned PDFs. It sits in their computer system without adding any value to the organisation. If you want those documents to be useful, you have to OCR and convert them to searchable PDFs. A folder watch software program or service can monitor a pre-defined folder and convert them to searchable documents after applying the OCR. If you search for the best OCR software available, most of them allow you to do manual OCR. In some cases, you are forced to pay a premium fee to obtain this OCR folder functionality.
But in the case of OCRvision you can add a folder watch aka magic folder, which can help you to OCR entire folder and convert all the pdf filed in a folder to searchable PDFs.The entire procedure is very so easy and anybody can do it. All you have to do is install OCRvsion and configure a folder in your computer as an OCR watch folder.
In order to do this, you open up the UI of the OCR software from the system tray and click the add button. You can select any folder in your computer and it is the windows OCR folder. Any folder in your computer or your network can be OCR folder. You can apply OCR entire folder structure or you can tick a box to include the subfolders. OCRvision is an auto OCR software, which can do the folder watch and transform any new or modified scanned image or PDF to searchable PDF.OCRvision does offline OCR service. ie when you do automatic OCR of pdf files, it is not communicating to any cloud APIs or external services. OCRvision is an on-prem OCR software.
So, if your intention is to do batch OCR pdf, OCRvision is the perfect software solution