Disclosure Ready uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is a form of AI technology that allows a computer to recognise and convert different types of text — such as handwritten or printed text — from images, scanned documents, or PDFs into machine-readable text.
In the legal profession, the primary use of OCR is to make scanned documents searchable.
How OCR works
- Image Capture — a document or image is scanned or photographed
- Preprocessing — the image is cleaned up, with adjustments made for contrast, rotation, and noise removal to make the text clearer
- Character Recognition — the OCR software analyses the shapes of characters in the image and matches them to predefined fonts or patterns, effectively “reading” the text
- Post-processing — the software corrects errors and outputs the text into a usable format
In Disclosure Ready, OCR is applied automatically when documents are uploaded, making them searchable within the platform.
For further information or assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to our dedicated Support Team via support@legalready.ai or +61 3 9020 4456.