Case Study: Cargill Foods achieves faster, 99.5% accurate form processing and improved safety & quality with ABBYY FormReader

Cargill Foods Beefs up Employee Safety and Product Quality with Form Processing Software

Cargill Foods, a leading processor and wholesale distributor of meat and other foods, needed a faster, more reliable way to capture employee safety, quality assurance and HR data. Until recently, staff manually typed paper forms into a database, a time-consuming process that limited analysis and slowed efforts to identify safety hazards and product-quality issues.

Cargill implemented ABBYY FormReader 4.1, completing setup in under seven days and rolling it out in Safety with planned expansion to QA and HR. The automated system integrates with Cargill’s Microsoft Access database, processes 800 safety cards in under an hour, and—per ABBYY tests—is 10× faster than manual entry and 99.5% accurate. The solution cuts labor, speeds analysis to reduce injuries and product returns, and frees administrators for higher‑value work.

Cargill Foods

David Iturri

IT project leader