Case Study: Accessibil-IT achieves 98% OCR accuracy and 30x throughput increase with ABBYY Recognition Server

Automated Solution Raises the Bar for Making Electronic Documents Available to Low-Vision Users

Accessibil-IT is a specialist in converting image-only PDFs into accessible, tagged documents for people with print disabilities, but its original OCR tool had only about 40% accuracy. That low recognition rate forced extensive manual remediation, slowing turnaround, raising costs and capping capacity—an urgent problem when a client required the company to ramp from 5,000 to 150,000 pages in weeks to meet accessibility and compliance obligations.

The company deployed ABBYY Recognition Server as a fast, reliable OCR engine, installed and configured in a day, and moved to a largely “set-and-forget” automated workflow. Recognition accuracy improved to roughly 98%, eliminating most manual corrections, cutting turnaround times and costs, and allowing Accessibil-IT to scale output and take on many more customer projects.

Accessibil-IT

Adam Spencer

Head of Document Accessibility Services