DATA SCIENCE INTELLIGENT CAPTURE Intelligent Capture is DataScience If you are only using intelligent capture to convert images into text, then you don’thave tospendtimeon the precision of your data. However, you are also not getting the full benefit of intelligent capture. intelligent capture is not just OCR. It is the domain of technology focused on automating specific document processes including identifying and sorting documents as well as locating specific data elements within documents and reliably extracting them. intelligent capture can be applied to both scanned documents as well as born-digital documents such as Word files or emails, which don’t require OCR at all. Since intelligent capture is all about significantlyremovingmanualwork,thefocus for understanding the value of intelligent captureison answeringonesinglequestion: howmuchworkcanflowstraightthrough without any manual intervention? This question can often be answered with a single number, e.g., “85% flows straight through.” In reality, to arrive at this single number or percentage involves performing many more calculations.