[blihp]

The trick is in handling the failures which will be high. So it's a question of whether the application/customer would tolerate something significantly less than 100% (and presumably fix it themselves) and/or your solution would include the manual mop up for when the automation fails. (i.e. there need to be business processes to fill in the gaps since it can't be completely automated end-to-end)

Also, if you have a specific industry/application to target you should be able to achieve better results than these services at a lower operational cost. This is a very common business need with solutions dating back to the early PC days and it doesn't look like they've come up with some unique solution. They've just bundled some rather tedious to develop functionality into convenient frameworks and services and marked it up for their trouble... but there's still quite a bit of assembly required.

[deertick1]

See to me if you had client side employees dedicated to correcting errors then back propogate that error correction to the OCR software youd get pretty damn close to 100%