I assume that you can search that individual file but am I correct that you cannot search across files in that chart, or across all patient's charts? If that is the case, what is the utility of the OCR conversion? Can you guys give me some examples of how you would use an AC that included all OCR-pdf's, as opposed to regular ones?
Yes, the individual file is searchable. Like I said it would be impossible to a scanner to know the positions and definitions of every field of a medical chart in existence. You would be able to find text across PDF documents using Finder, but it wouldn't be in a database format.
I don't know how large your PDFs are, but some of ours can end up being 80+ pages. Having to scroll through and find a test result or active diagnoses can take a while scrolling through 80 pages. Or maybe I'm looking for a reference to something specific. That's where it's useful.
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