Outsourced document processing

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Outsourced Document Processing is a specialised area of Business Process Outsourcing involving the Outsourcing of Document Processing, to a third-party service provider that is a specialist in that area. Document Processing involves the conversion of typed and handwritten text on paper-based & electronic documents (eg. scanned image of a document) into electronic information utilising one of, or a combination of, Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and experienced Data Entry Clerks.