SS&C Vidado API — AI-powered OCR for robotic process automation. 30 days free.

Hey there Product Hunt, CJ from SS&C Vidado here. Optical Character Recognition – OCR – has been the staple for extracting and digitizing simple information for decades. But it falls short for companies in a major way: it can’t read handwriting. In fact, machine success rates reading handwriting and poor-quality scans are so bad that many businesses won’t even attempt to use traditional OCR. Instead, they turn to human data entry and review – a huge time and money suck. As a result, the big problem keeps getting bigger. So, SS&C Vidado decided to solve it. We’ve spent a decade training our machine learning and computer vision engines to extract handwriting with near-perfect accuracy. Instead of using simple techniques to identify letter shapes, SS&C Vidado uses computer vision to match what it sees on the page against over 1 billion samples of every style of human handwriting and varying quality of machine print. And it does it over 1000x faster than a human could, and with better-than-human accuracy. SS&C Vidado’s API introduces better data at the beginning of your workflows, so you can not only improve your RPA but also create new workflows that were previously impossible to automate. The best part is it works on day 1 for any RPA workflow. Here’s how simple it is: -Register for the SS&C Vidado API to request and receive an API key -Configure the API using the instructions provided -Snip a piece of text with any image capture tool (just make sure it’s a PNG or JPG) -Send us your image through the API and we’ll deliver the accurate, digitized text back to you in seconds We’ve cracked tough cases for financial services, insurance, healthcare and government – really, any business (from physician’s offices to Fortune 500) burdened with massive amounts of information arriving on paper, and under constant pressure to “do more with less”. If you’re interested, we’d love for you to try it out (it’s free for 30 days!). And we’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback even more. Questions about how it works or how to get started? Drop us a comment!