Coffee stains…blurred text…missing sentences…

Anyone who has worked with scanned Regulatory Compliance documents knows they are often not in the greatest shape. Many show their advanced age with smudges, whited-out text due to poor scanning equipment, or copy that slants more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Other times, you may be looking to copy and paste an important requirement sentence from an electronic file, only to discover to your dismay that the document is actually an image, from which no text can be extracted.

It may seem that such compromised documents may pose a problem for ehsAI’s revolutionary EHS regulatory compliance software. Thanks to its advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, however, just about any document can be uploaded into the system and processed, no matter how bad its condition may be.

Let’s see how this is possible.

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