Electronic Data Capture, or EDC, is one of the many specialist services that Pearl Scan offers and excels in.

Simply put, data capture is a way to make your working life easier. We can take your physical and digital documents and scan them individually using our unique data capture software (OCR) to gather all the information required from the documents. We can store them digitally for you and make each document text-editable where they will not have been before.

This means that if you have documents that you would like to use but do not have a editable copy available, our data capture service can make your documents fully editable once more.

The other main area of data capture is OMR. This enables forms, questionnaires, surveys and any kind of document that has fields filled out, ticked or crossed to be scanned and the results generated in an easy to read and informative way.

Electronic Data Capture - What are the benefits?

There are numerous advantages to data capture:

• Saves time used by manual data gathering

• Documents will not have to be retyped just to change a single sentence or word.

• Documents are now text-searchable and can be accessed easily at any time.

• OMR saves time by showing you results of surveys and questionnaires in a quick and presentable format.

• Storage saving should you no longer want to keep your original documents.

Data Capture - Where is this service often used?

We get a variety of clients using the data capture service here at Pearl Scan, but a few general examples would be:

• Colleges and Universities for enrolment forms
  
  
• All types of businesses for application forms
  
  
• Building maintenance health and safety files
  
  
• Hotels for feedback forms
  
  
• Health services for patient records

So as you can see it is a widely used service and can be used with forms and documents of any type and any quantity.

Data Capture - How Effective will my results be?

Our data capture services are very effective and efficient and we are constantly improving the accuracy of the service. Right now we proudly offer a 99% accuracy rate but as we say, we are always trying to improve on this.

How much will it cost?

This can obviously depend on the quantity and requirements and type of document you require scanning.

The best way to find out is to give Pearl Scan a call on 0161 832 7991 for further assistance with your data capture needs or try our free online form scanning quote.