Document Processing

OCR, ICR and HTR, tailored pipelines for printed, complex and handwritten documents. On-premise, GDPR-compliant, with measurable recognition rates.

Handwritten forms, scanned legacy contracts, illegible applications, mixed documents combining print and handwriting on a single page, that's daily business in many administrations and companies. Classic OCR tools fail in the face of this reality. We build the pipelines that get it right.

"When personal data is involved, and with forms it almost always is: the solution has to come to the customer, not the data to the cloud."

Three technologies, one integrated approach

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

Recognition of printed standard text. Commodity technology for clean, standardised documents, invoices, letters, contracts in good scan quality.

ICR

Intelligent Character Recognition

AI-powered orchestration with ensemble methods and LLM post-processing. Robust against varying fonts, mixed layouts and degraded scans.

HTR

Handwritten Text Recognition

The supreme discipline: recognising handwriting. Only a handful of specialists master this field, we are one of them.

What we build for you

  • Tailored recognition pipelines, combining OCR, ICR and HTR, fine-tuned to your specific document types
  • Fine-tuning of recognition models on your concrete forms and handwriting
  • End-to-end processing: intake → recognition → validation → structured export
  • Measurable quality with CER/WER metrics and continuous optimisation
  • On-premise deployment: pipelines run entirely on your infrastructure
  • Data management: structuring, cleaning and preparing the extracted data
  • Digitisation consulting for paper-based processes and administrative workflows
OCR ICR HTR Tesseract Model Fine-tuning CER/WER Optimisation On-Premise Pipeline Architecture

Who it's for

Public Administration

Building permits, housing benefit applications, citizen submissions, handwritten statements. OZG-compliant, BFSG-compliant, with Danish and German data centres.

Insurance

Claims notifications, legacy contracts, handwritten supplements to expert reports. Scalable processing of large document inventories.

Healthcare

Handwritten doctors' notes, findings, prescriptions. Strictly GDPR-compliant, without cloud dependency.

Archives & Cultural Institutions

Historical documents, parish registers, old correspondence. HTR makes collections machine-readable and searchable for the first time.

Guide

Want to go deeper? We've put the topic together for you.

In our cornerstone guide we explain in depth how OCR, ICR and HTR differ, what role the legal frameworks in Germany, Austria and Switzerland play, and how modern AI pipelines outperform the recognition rates of traditional vendors.

Read the Guide: OCR, ICR, HTR →

Got a document problem that classic OCR can't solve?

We analyse your actual documents and show you what's achievable with a tailored pipeline. In a no-obligation introductory conversation.

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