Case Study: Halarose achieves faster, more accurate electoral registration with ABBYY FormReader

Electoral Registration Speeds Up Thanks to Halarose and ABBYY

Halarose Ltd., a specialist in electoral registration software, partnered with Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council to tackle the borough’s annual canvass — a large-scale data collection covering 108,000 households. The canvass produces over 70,000 pages and up to 25% handwritten changes that previously required extensive manual entry, costing around 1,500 man-hours and risking delays as legal requirements increase response volumes.

Halarose integrated ABBYY FormReader into its EROS-II system so scanned forms are automatically identified, OCR-processed and exported via ODBC to EROS-II staging tables for quick verification. The solution processes thousands of forms per workstation per day, is scalable, and cut batch processing time from 32 to 12 minutes, saving customers labor costs (16 man-days saved in one canvass, with projected savings rising to 31) while improving accuracy and usability.

Halarose

William Quinton

Managing Director