We at OfficeDrop at gearing up for the upcoming Olympics at Beijing. One of the three main themes for this Olympics is “Green Olympics”, the goal being to recycle as much as possible. Imagine all those mountains of paper and miscellaneous stuff that gets piled up over the course of the next few weeks.
Thanks to OfficeDrop, it wouldn’t take an olympian effort for our users to go green or to sort through all that clutter. In fact, we hear that they have been experiencing “Eureka” moments over the past three weeks as they get a taste for OfficeDrop. In the interest of sharing the joy, here is a blow-by-blow account of how to use the OfficeDrop Search.
When you login to your OfficeDrop account, the Search bar is front and center. You may enter any word or a combination of words that you are searching for.
Our patent pending Archimedes algorithm (Eureka Creator, get it?) then searches for two broad categories (at this time, anyway). It searches for keyword matches in the actual content of the documents and also searches for labels that match the specified search terms.
Keyword search Results: Each of the individual keywords are searched (so for example, if you search typed the words Invoice Amount, both “Invoice” and “Amount” are searched for. Documents that contain all the search terms will be rated as more relevant. This search is not case sensitive so invoice, Invoice, INVOICE, InVOICE are all the same. I can hear the “pack rats” in us scream A!Ha! just about now.
Label Search Results: For the more organized amongst us, the search is only useful if it finds out how we have organized things. And of course, the search is not only useful, but also powerful in its ability to be able to zero in on what we are searching for. Using the label list on the lift you can quickly select labels and narrow down on documents that contain the label that you searched for AND also have the label that you clicked. What’s even better is that the label search allows for partial matches. So a search for Invoice will also match Invoices. Isn’t that nice, when we know that the time we spent on organizing was well worth it, and available in different contexts?
So what’s next? Our code magicians are furiously working on adding more power to search so that we can search for exact phrases, restrict search to a limited set of documents and much more. Stay tuned for a more cool tips and tricks on Search. Meanwhile, enjoy your Eurekas.
Excellent service guys. What is the OCR accuracy that you guarantee in your service level agreement.
Thanks
@mobajwa: We went through an extensive OCR toolkit evaluation process and have picked the best-of-breed toolkit. There are several factors that dictate OCR accuracy, with the quality of the original, being a key attribute. For example, Older receipts in thermal paper tend to fade over time and reduce accuracy. While we don’t guarantee a specific accuracy rate, our processes are tuned to scan the originals at the most optimal rate (DPI), balancing accuracy, speed and size.
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