An Introduction to Recruiting Software

By Kent Pinkerton

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about recruiting software. Recruiting software helps companies find suitable employees, and works in a number of ways. It can manage the employment section of a company's website, keep track of any company responses to applicants, and help organize all information on potential employees in a comprehensive database.

A major function of recruiting software programs is that they can make use of the employment part of a company's website. The software can make a list of jobs available with the company. Web surfers can click on jobs they are interested in and immediately be taken to a description of the job. The software can also be used to create electronic applications that can be completed and submitted on the Internet.

Another function of recruiting software is to keep track of any company responses to the applicants. The software allows users to create custom letters acknowledging that the company received the applicant's resume, interview requests and appointment reminders, among others.

Recruiting software is perfect for creating an applicant database. This function lets users keep track of the people who have applied for positions within the company. The database stores information on people who have completed an application or submitted a resume. Many programs assign ID numbers to applicants, making it easier to keep track of the applicants. The software can also be used to check if an applicant has previously applied to work for the company. Recruiting software applicant databases are also able to keep track of what sources the applicants came from, allowing the company to see how its various recruitment tools are working. This lets the company know if newspaper ads, websites, employment agencies, or other sources are supplying a stream of qualified applicants.

Recruiting software can be expensive and complicated, but it usually saves company money in the long run, and the organizational aspects of the software make hiring new employees much easier.

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OCR Software-- Optical Character Recognition or Optical Crud Recognition?

By James M. Eglin

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to a software technology and processes that involve the translation of printed text into computer searchable text.

Done correctly, OCR enables users to search for and retrieve individual words contained within a file or page. In addition, when a set of files is indexed, users are able to search for keywords across an entire document library and retrieve each page with exact precision. OCR enables users to execute searches in seconds, searches that once could take several hours or days to complete.

However, this technology did not work well on older or poor quality documents that contained mixed fonts or combinations of texts and graphics. Until now!!

Due to several recent technology advances, it is now possible to obtain six-sigma level character accuracy from these types of document collections.

Although it is important to keep in mind that the quality and condition of the paper documents are still key factors in the successful OCR conversion, dramatically improved results can be obtained by enhancing the quality of the scanned image prior to processing.

Noise removal of borders, speckles and skews are now common on the more advanced document scanners.

Furthermore, advanced color filter technologies may be used to reduce any page background colors, in conjunction with multi-light image capture technologies to remove any shadows cast by page creases that could impact image quality or recognition accuracy.

Once document scanning and processing are complete, an OCR text layer can actually be added and hidden behind each image. An additional orientation filter can be used to ensure that the best image is presented to the OCR engines.

To achieve the highest conversion accuracy possible, the characters in the image can be processed using multi-engine OCR voting technologies that rank each character to determine the best text recognition fit. Then once a word is generated, it will be filtered through a proprietary lexicon to ensure the highest quality results.

Finally, this text can be processed utilizing sophisticated layout retention technologies to represent the image text layout, to provide the best possible text representation for precise search and retrieval. After all, isn't that why they call it Optical Character Recognition?

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James M. Eglin

Founded in 2001, we have successfully completed over 500 document scanning projects within a variety of industry vertical markets and have provided our services to clients throughout the United States .

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