Well it is more complex than it appears. Extracting data from documents requires a solution which uses OCR but is a different product (e.g. ABBYY FlexiCapture)

Well it is more complex than it appears. Extracting data from documents requires a solution which uses OCR but is a different product (e.g. ABBYY FlexiCapture). This is most commonly referred to as zonal OCR and comes with the added functionality of handling multiple templates, defining zones/fields, specifying special rules for fields, verification process for manual inspection (e.g. triggered when the image receives a low confidence recognition score) etc. This is different and more complex than a product that does full page OCR (e.g. ABBYY Finereader). Handwritten OCR is a whole different story. The products that do zonal OCR will fail to recognize handwritten text, unless it's in boxes (PDF forms). I'm working on a prototype that can handle handwritten text outside of boxes too.