Clean Earth Day: AI and carbon neutralization: Baidu, Inc. OCR becomes a paperless office weapon

With the improvement of people's awareness of environmental protection, "carbon neutralization" has formed a broad consensus around the world, and the annual "Clean Earth Day" has attracted much attention. At the same time, the wave of intelligence is sweeping in, and the realization of energy saving and emission reduction through AI has achieved results in many scenarios. Among them, OCR character recognition technology has become an important driving force to accelerate the process of carbon neutralization because of its high correlation with "saving paper".

When the demand for "paperless" office is becoming more and more urgent, OCR has quickly penetrated into all business links related to "paper" in government and enterprise organizations, which not only brings new ideas for government and enterprise organizations, but also improves work efficiency, and helps environmental protection, energy saving and emission reduction.

OCR permeates the "full layout" of paperless office

OCR technology is widely used in various industries to promote the government and enterprise business from the inside to the outside "full map" to achieve paperless office. At present, there are many enterprises that provide OCR character recognition services. Here, take Baidu, Inc. 's intelligent cloud OCR technology with leading technology and comprehensive scene coverage as an example.

1. External-promoting the paperless products and services

In the external business of government and enterprise organizations, it is often necessary to use paper to register information, copy / print documents, and collect / store data. these papers carry the value flow of an enterprise. However, the large consumption of paper leads to the trees being cut down indiscriminately, which destroys the ecological balance. These redundant and complicated links and boring manual operations also reduce the efficiency of business development. The OCR technology solves this problem, quickly realizes the electronic paper data, reduces the excess consumption of paper, simplifies the business process, and significantly improves the efficiency of business processing.

For example, in the field of government examination and approval, Suaju Technology is connected with Baidu, Inc. Intelligent Cloud OCR technology to build a government intelligent examination and approval platform to automatically take photos and identify all kinds of paper documents, making "filling out forms" a thing of the past, making 1800 administrative examination and approval items a new mode of government examination and approval: "review online approval by yourself", "do one thing at a time" and "do nothing at a time". In addition, Fuzhou Huizhentong deployed Baidu, Inc. 's brain iOCR custom template character recognition ability locally, realizing the ability to directly take photos to identify paper license information, really achieving "more information runs, but fewer people run errands."

In terms of employee personal learning and data entry, APP such as white sketch and omnipotent scanning treasure are connected to Baidu, Inc. intelligent cloud OCR technology to quickly and accurately identify notes, pictures and text and other kinds of data, realize electronic management of paper data, reduce printing and copying costs, and reduce paper consumption to the maximum extent.

In the medical and health field of "major users of paper", after connecting to Baidu, Inc. 's smart cloud OCR, Zali Baicao has realized the intelligent docking between pharmaceutical companies and hospital business, and the change in prescription input methods and electronic archiving have greatly reduced the amount of paper used. The solution of Tanggu information also uses the relevant interface of Baidu, Inc. OCR, which can be structurally identified and formed electronic prescription by shooting paper prescription, which is convenient for doctors to upload quickly, and the pharmacies do not need to transfer the herbs without paper.

Generally speaking, there are a large number of paper applications in the business between organizations and organizations, organizations and individuals, and the wide use of OCR will greatly reduce the amount of paper used.

2. Internally-assist in making internal business processes paperless

With the popularization of printing technology and the standard demand of internal process, paper has become the most common element in the office scene in the enterprise. different from the external business, the waste of paper in the internal business is more serious. from the point of view of carbon neutralization, it is necessary to use OCR technology to promote paperless office.

Taking reimbursement, one of the most trivial and frequent scenes within the enterprise, as an example, OCR can save a lot of paper costs in filling out forms and photocopying. 51 Social Security has built an electronic processing platform for the original machine-typed invoices through Baidu, Inc. 's smart cloud OCR technology, realizing the fully automatic processing of tens of thousands of machine-typed invoices per month, while the Mobile Design Institute has integrated Baidu, Inc. 's brain iOCR accounting version technology. Employees only need to take photos and upload relevant invoices to generate key reimbursement information for review.

Of course, internal data management, examination and approval and other matters are major users of paper, OCR in which played a "tripod" role, directly saving a lot of paper, office documents, reports / forms and other enterprises need to archive data, are on the road of large-scale electronic.

3. Dynamic development-- achieving better knowledge management and precipitation.

In addition, enterprises or government agencies and units also have a kind of paper-related needs, that is, internal knowledge management and precipitation, such as information statistics related to business decision-making, accumulation of knowledge and experience, report writing, and so on. In the past, a large amount of paper was needed as a carrier for information collection and overall processing.

This is different from the general data archiving, internal knowledge management and precipitation is the foundation of the enterprise to settle down, is the future of the enterprise, need to pay special attention to.

In fact, this coincides with the digital transformation promoted by OCR. With the help of Baidu, Inc. Intelligent Cloud OCR, Beijing Ronghui Jinxin has digitized a large number of paper and picture documents, and combined with NLP technology, finally established an industrial knowledge system, turning knowledge into data, thus helping customers to make more accurate business forecasts. This ever-expanding knowledge will eventually be endowed with robots and intelligent reports to provide more high-quality services for financial institutions.

Knowledge management has become a rigid demand for the development of government and enterprises. now, OCR technology and another rigid demand of government and enterprises, "paperless office" complement each other, go hand in hand.

OCR promotes paperless office, and "carbon neutralization" changes from passive to active.

In order to meet the national requirements for enterprise carbon neutralization level, many enterprises need to pay additional expenditure, so energy saving and emission reduction can easily become a passive behavior that requires additional cost and energy. Compared with large-scale transformation of equipment and huge investment in afforestation, it is much easier to apply OCR technology in office scenes to reduce paper consumption, release labor costs and achieve active cost reduction and efficiency.

1. "non-inductive deployment". OCR has the characteristics of low threshold deployment.

The purchase of a new product or solution is often expensive, especially related to AI, but OCR has the characteristics of affordable price and low threshold deployment, which significantly reduces the cost of use by enterprises or organizations.

For example, Baidu, Inc. 's smart cloud OCR technology can be quickly deployed in the cloud, or you can choose a secure local deployment, or even lightweight deployment to specific scenarios through offline SDK, providing customers with a variety of choices.

Typically, the express order identification offline SDK can be directly integrated into the mobile phone, gun and other hardware equipment. The express delivery guy can use the existing equipment to accurately extract the key information of the package, which can run stably in the netless and weak network environment.

In fact, whether in the cloud or lightweight, the "price" of OCR itself is very user-friendly, and on average, the cost of an identification / storage is much lower than that of using paper. Furthermore, low-cost AI technology not only replaces high-cost manpower, but also improves work efficiency and creates more value for enterprises or organizations.

2. "Business efficiency", OCR promotes business development rather than making additional rules

In the process of promoting paperless office, OCR fits seamlessly with the business-it is part of the business, rather than making additional rules for companies or institutions to comply with, mainly reflected in the optimization of the original business process, which is different from the carbon neutralization model through the formulation of policies.

In fact, carbon neutralization is promoted at the macro level, and it is increasingly advocated to combine carbon neutralization with the development interests of enterprises or institutions.

Whether it is to serve users, customers, or the improvement of internal work efficiency, OCR plays an important role, comprehensively promoting the information and digital construction of enterprises or institutions.

From another point of view, Baidu, Inc., as the exporter of OCR technology, is also regarding OCR as an important technical force in the landing of the intelligent strategy of To B industry. In order to help government and enterprises create a digital application scene, paperless office and carbon neutralization are only incidental results of this process, which will naturally be highly coordinated with the interests of government and enterprises.

3. "common progress of industry", OCR promotes comprehensive change in vertical industry.

OCR's promotion of paperless office will not only not put a burden on enterprises, but will also promote the simplification of business processes in some industries, a change that makes carbon neutralization more meaningful.

The most typical is that OCR has changed the working mode of many traffic scenes, such as driver identification, vehicle inventory, vehicle tax payment, etc., no longer need to manually fill out paper forms, on-site verification and other operation procedures.

For example, Sheng Hexin uses the VIN code recognition technology of Baidu, Inc. Intelligent Cloud OCR in its APP, so that enterprise operators no longer need to use paper inventory to count the vehicles one by one, but only need to take pictures and upload the VIN code to achieve quick inventory, which no longer uses paper.

Aerospace Information integrates a number of Baidu, Inc. smart cloud OCR technologies into APP, users only need to take pictures of ID cards, vehicle certificates and other data originals, the system automatically identifies the information, and carries out data verification, which only takes 3 minutes to handle the relevant tax payment business, which really realizes the paperless tax management.

All these further optimize the business process of the traffic scene, and are also an important embodiment of the rapid change in this field.

The overall acceleration of paperless office requires the OCR platform to do two things.

Carbon neutralization is the task of globalization, which requires the joint efforts of all organizations and individuals in the whole society. therefore, OCR faces two major difficulties in promoting paperless office.

First, the application scenario breakthrough, so that OCR from the novel AI technology into Pratt & Whitney applications. This is consistent with the development direction of Baidu, Inc. 's brain AI open platform. Baidu, Inc. Intelligent Cloud OCR now provides more than 60 technical capabilities, such as general scenarios, card certificates, financial bills, car scenes, education scenes, medical bill text recognition, and so on. Its application scenarios continue to be rich with the landing of Baidu, Inc. 's industrial intelligent strategy.

Second, in terms of the supply of capacity, we should bid farewell to the enabling mode of "taking a la carte from the menu", but through the capacity-building of the platform, so that more government and enterprises can "cook as they please", thus greatly accelerating the speed of government and enterprises landing OCR. Still taking Baidu, Inc. as an example, in order to lower the threshold for independent training of OCR character recognition models by government and enterprises, Baidu, Inc. 's brain launched the industry's first EasyDL OCR self-training platform, providing zero-threshold, customized, and low-cost one-stop OCR model training services. To ensure high accuracy, at the same time, to meet the needs of diversified subdivision scenes, and effectively ensure data security.

Thus it can be seen that carbon neutralization gives more far-reaching significance to paperless office. In this era when technology subverts the traditional mode of work, OCR technology is an export of inclusive concept. It is believed that in the future, more and more government and enterprises will create more paperless application scenarios through the AI technology and services provided by Baidu, Inc. 's brain AI open platform, so that more enterprises can work together to maintain the cleanliness of the earth.

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