At this point, scanning the document and using OCR to change the text of the document into actual text is not practical. OCR cannot handle these sections and they would have to be transmitted as images in any eventIf the document is not placed perfectly on the scanner, it is possible for letters or numbers to be changed. This would be unacceptable for documents to be used for patient care. Research by Le, Thoma and Weschler at the National Library of Medicine is aimed at recognizing and correcting the skew angle of scanned documents. Fax quality is much better than it was 5 years ago.
Fax is a good method for transmission of documents.
WEB-EDD gives the added capability of viewing the documents before printing. Attaching the document to e-mail is another possibility. Some Recent Initiatives in Electronic Document Delivery. Towards Further Standardization of Internation Interchange. Automated Page Orientation and Skew Angle Detection for Binary Document Images.