An image of a document, i.e., a piece of paper converted into pixels in computer memory, is worthless unless you also electronically capture information about the image’s content. This will allow later electronic retrieval. Ideally you would at least capture all the text that appears on the document. There is tremendous value in electronically capturing the text information of an image. This is evidenced by the fast growth of imaging systems in recent years for automated processing of insurance forms, medical claims, legal documents, and other types of data on paper. 

Manual data entry is an accurate way to capture this data but works out to be fairly expensive because of the cost of labor. OCR is popular because it is usually significantly less expensive than manual data entry.

India has the technology to cost-effectively and efficiently handle OCR based Processing through offshore outsourcing. You can save money by offshore outsourcing bulk data entry to India. The information gathered can be formatted as an easily, retrievable and usable business document, and stored in electronic form of your choice.