Before we delve into this answer, let us take a side step and understand why OCR solutions struggled to deliver effectiveness for most markets, not just Mortgage. The OCR technology was designed to solve a different problem than extracting data. OCR was a means to convert images with text on them to digitized text that can be read on a computer. If you just look at that side of OCR, then I would argue that it has done a phenomenal job and come a long way since it was originally created. OCR engines of today can read very low-quality images with very high accuracy.